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Teaching Lawyering With Heart In The George Washington University Law School Domestic Violence Project, Joan S. Meier
Teaching Lawyering With Heart In The George Washington University Law School Domestic Violence Project, Joan S. Meier
GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works
The Domestic Violence Project (DVP) began as an experiment and has become my favorite model for teaching law students about domestic violence work. The heart of the course is its emphasis on developing awareness of and compassion for the personally and emotionally challenging dimensions of this work. I achieve this (i) through a dialogue between students’ journals and my written responses, (ii) by inviting students to produce a creative project, and (iii) by teaching reflexively about vicarious trauma. Many students experience this course as an oasis of holistic professional and personal growth within the often dispiriting experience of law school.
The False Promise Of Custody In Domestic Violence Protection Orders, Laurie S. Kohn
The False Promise Of Custody In Domestic Violence Protection Orders, Laurie S. Kohn
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This Article reveals the disconnect between the power and the will to enforce the custody and parenting time provisions of protection orders through criminal mechanisms and explores the further infirmity of civil enforcement by illustrating the shortcomings of available relief. Together, these barriers to effective enforcement threaten to render this court-granted protection meaningless and dangerously misleading. The barriers also undermine the many years of advocacy invested to secure these protections in the first place - reforms aimed at protecting victims and children from abusive parents.
This Article explores ways to bring together the will and the power to enforce all …