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Framing Supervisory Relationships In Clinical Law: The Role Of Critical Pedagogy, Gemma Smyth, Marion Overholt

Journal of Law and Social Policy

Clinical work in law offers important opportunities for students to learn critical, reflective and politicized approaches to legal identity and practice. Such an approach is most meaningful when it is engaged by supervising lawyers and social workers in a clinical placement. The authors of this article, the Academic Clinic Director and Executive Director of two Windsor-based clinic programs, offer context, perspective and examples of how critical pedagogy (influenced by, but distinct from, critical legal studies) provides a roadmap for supervising lawyers and the programs in which they work. The paper briefly sets the context of the authors' teaching and practice. …

Law Student, Heal Thyself: The Role And Responsibility Of Clinical Education Programs In Promoting Self-Care, Christine E. Doucet

Journal of Law and Social Policy

The purpose of this paper is to examine the importance of self-care and stress management in the legal profession, specifically within the context of clinical legal education. Studies have shown that the legal profession exhibits one of the highest rates of mental health and addiction issues. In proactively addressing the importance of self-care and stress management amongst students, clinical legal educational programs can become a part of the solution. Using the student experience at Parkdale Community Legal Services, and drawing from other student legal clinics across Canada and the United States, several recommendations around self-care and stress management training in …

Not So Dangerous Liaisons: A Clinical Perspective On Interdisciplinarity, Judith Mccormack

Journal of Law and Social Policy

Clinical education represents a site where conflicting accounts of law are at maximum tension, in part because the clinical experience tends to highlight the startling contrast between the narratives and social realities of law. While this contrast provides some of the fodder for the critical exploration that characterizes clinical education, the idiosyncratic shape of law as a discipline means that much of what students require to handle that fodder in a rigorous, analytical way is located elsewhere. A clinical lens indicates that exposing students to interdisciplinary perspectives is crucial if students are to be able to understand and engage with …

Teaching Cultural Competency In Legal Clinics, Cynthia Pay

Journal of Law and Social Policy

Aims to identify various models of cultural competency training, and to reflect on ways to appropriately and effectively address this subject in a clinical legal education setting.

Understanding The Relevance Of Drug User And Sex Worker Community-Based Organizations And Their Interactions With Government Officials And Health Care Providers In Vietnam: A Qualitative Study, Leah Thi Le

Public Health Theses

Background & Objective: To address the HIV epidemic in Vietnam, groups of former drug users and sex workers established grassroots organizations throughout Vietnam in the early 2000s, called community-based organizations (CBOs). The objectives of this study are to understand the purpose of the CBOs, the government-CBO interactions, the perceived stigma toward drugs users and sex workers, and the attitudes of government officials about the purpose of the CBOs. Thereafter, we aspire to recommend changes to promote collaboration between the CBOs and the government programs. Methods: Thirty-two individuals from the drug user and sex worker CBOs and relevant government programs participated …

Building Responsive Library Collections With The Getting It System Toolkit, Tim Bowersox, Cyril Oberlander, Kate Pitcher, Mark Sullivan

IDS Project Press

The Getting It System Toolkit (GIST), a suite of free and open source tools & software, leverages systems to optimize library acquisitions and deselection workflow, reducing the staff time necessary to make informed decisions and process materials. The Toolkit is divided into two functions:

GIST for ILLiad consists of three components that enhance the ILLiad® interlibrary loan request management software: addons, webpage customizations, and the acquisitions manager. All three components may be selectively utilized in ILLiad, for instance, ILLiad web pages may be applied to enhance the end-user request interface to add full-text discovery, or an ILLiad Addon can help …

Conceptualizing Reflective Practice For Legal Professionals, Michele Leering

Journal of Law and Social Policy

This article examines the meaning, purpose, and promise of reflective practice in the context of the legal profession and at this critical juncture in the profession’s history. The imperatives for enhancing the reflective capacity of the profession are explored and the benefits of endorsing reflective practice as a core professional competency are reviewed. Reporting on a portion of an action research project designed to encourage reflective practice in a Canadian law school, the author synthesizes the results of a review of reflective practice literature, largely drawn from other professions, with the results of qualitative interviews with eight professors from the …

Grieving, Dafna Yosef

Senior Honors Theses and Projects

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Ending Bullying At A Price?: Why Social Conservatives Fear Legislatively Mandated Lgbt Indoctrination In Schools, Lauren Vanga

Chapman Law Review

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Pre-Saccadic Modulation Of The Visually Evoked Potential, Leslie Guadron

Dissertations and Theses

Saccades are rapid eye movements that allow us to focus the fovea on different parts of our visual environment. Many psychophysical studies have shown that subjects can discriminate stimuli presented at the saccadic target better than at any other location before an eye movement is made. It is believed that covert attention allotted to the intended destination of a saccade, called pre-saccadic attention, accounts for the improved discrimination of stimuli. Covert top-down attention, which consists of orienting your attention, and not your gaze, to an object in your visual periphery, is known to facilitate behavioral performance in a manner similar …

The Rhino Horn Group, Adam Zucker

Dissertations and Theses

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The Struggles Within A Society Where Black Women Suffer Racism, Sexism, And Violence, Karen D. Emmanuel

Dissertations and Theses

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The Dogs Of Dickens; The Canine Presence In The Author's Works, Christopher Koestner

Dissertations and Theses

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Aspects Of Allegory In Medieval Literature: Monstrous Punishments And Monstrous Women As Symptoms Of A Decaying Society / Social Structure In Tristan, Beowulf, And Piers Plowman, Samantha M. Valcarcel

Dissertations and Theses

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Blasé Speakers; The Tones Of Speakers In Carpe Diem Poetry, Iliana Luciano

Dissertations and Theses

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Educative Metafiction; The Interplay Of Learning, Literacy And Language In Shakespearean Drama And Modern Metafiction, Stacie Burrough

Dissertations and Theses

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Atomic Education: The Cold War Effect On College Students’ Education, Jonathan Smith

Dissertations and Theses

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Dissidence Is Bliss: The Ecstasy Of Rebellion In The Works Of Jean Genet, Shane Fallon

Dissertations and Theses

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The Short Stories Of Jhumpa Lahiri, Stuart Waterman

Dissertations and Theses

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Young-Adult Gay Literature: Coming Of Age For Lgbtq Teenagers, Armand V. Zeppa

Dissertations and Theses

My Master's Thesis is an analysis and overview that will explore the evolution of Young Adult (YA) Gay literature from 1969 to the present. It will explore the impact this genre has had on the LGBTQ community, the gradual societal shifts in attitudes towards homosexuals, the reciprocal influence within the scope of Queer Theory, and the importance as a relevant literary genre.

YA gay literature has influenced many segments of American mainstream society through heartrending stories dealing with themes about coming out, acceptance, bullying, violence, isolation, guilt, shame, and countless other negative experiences gay people have lived through on a …

Writing Fanny's Room & Reading Emma's House Jane Austen's Spatial Construction Of A Subjective, Social Self, Brent Chamberlain

Dissertations and Theses

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Questioning Our Moral, Ethical, Aesthetic Convictions And Social Conventions, Dieuveuille Amilus

Dissertations and Theses

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The Mismeasure Of Marlowe: Reading In The Past, Christopher Holmes

Dissertations and Theses

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The Writing Process Of Donald Barthelme, John Miller

Dissertations and Theses

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The Public And Private Dichotomy In Coetzee's Disgrace, Carolee Ramsay

Dissertations and Theses

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Humor, Romance, Horror And Epic In Text And Film Of Arthurian Legend Adaptations, Khanh Le

Dissertations and Theses

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The Yellow House, Chris Dielschnieder

Dissertations and Theses

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Inhibitory Control Deficits And Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: Evidence From Eye Blink Rate, Mikael Rubin

Dissertations and Theses

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Soft Still Voices: A Collection Of Short Stories And Poems, Tejumade Adeyeye

Dissertations and Theses

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Coda, James Boyle

Dissertations and Theses

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