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Enriching The Legal Ethics Curriculum: From Requirement To Desire, Heidi Li Feldman

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

The problem has become all too familiar: Acting at least in part from noble motives, the American Bar Association ("ABA") requires all law students at ABA-accredited law schools to take a course in "professional responsibility." Every accredited school offers a course or courses that enable students to fulfill this requirement. Under these circumstances, the professional responsibility course can easily assume the character of high school drivers' education or health classes: It often becomes an obligatory exercise, in which students think they must woodenly learn the maxims of the ABA Code of Conduct or Rules of Professional Responsibility. Faced with this …

Environmental Justice Clinics: Visible Models Of Justice, Hope M. Babcock

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

This article examines and evaluates the contributions of environmental justice law clinics to pedagogy, law reform and legal services. The author bases her observations and conclusions on her experiences at Georgetown University Law Center where she teaches a course in environmental equity and supervises students in an environmental justice clinic.

Part II summarizes current knowledge about the incidences and causes of environmental inequity and the legal barriers to achieving environmental justice. This discussion highlights the distinctive aspects of environmental justice issues which influence the design of environmental justice clinical programs. Part III presents general information on legal clinical programs and …