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Critical Theory And Clinical Stance, Wendy A. Bach
Critical Theory And Clinical Stance, Wendy A. Bach
Scholarly Works
Clinicians, unlike their peers in the legal academy, are embedded in their clients’ experiences of the legal system. Because of their location in the academy, “they have the potential to transform the study of law into the study of a culture that deploys law for various purposes,” in the words of Phyllis Goldfarb. In this short essay, we highlight a thread of clinical scholarship which we identify as growing from clinicians’ unique and embedded stance. We seek to convince, using a few examples of clinical scholarship, that our collective critical stance has yielded, over the last several decades, a growing …
Clinical Scholarship And The Justice Mission, Robert D. Dinerstein
Clinical Scholarship And The Justice Mission, Robert D. Dinerstein
Cleveland State Law Review
To many people, the relationship between clinical programs and the justice mission of American law schools is so clear as to be self-evident. These programs may pursue justice on behalf of individual clients or for groups of clients through class-action or other impact litigation. Moreover, clinical teachers frequently discuss with their students the need for the latter to serve justice in their legal careers, whether as the principal focus of their legal work or through pro bono publico activities. Indeed, for many law students, the law clinic may be the only place in which concerns about justice are discussed and, …
The Politics Of Clinical Knowledge, Anthony V. Alfieri