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Teaching Justice-Connectivity, Michael Pinard Jan 2019

Teaching Justice-Connectivity, Michael Pinard

Faculty Scholarship

This Essay conveys the importance of building in law students the foundation to recognize the various systems, institutions, and conditions that often crash into the lives of their clients, as well as the residents of the communities that are just outside law schools’ doors. It does so through proposing a teaching model that I call Justice-Connectivity. This model aims for students to understand and be humbled by the ways in which different institutions, systems, and strands of law converge upon, oppress, isolate, and shun individuals, families, and communities. The ultimate teaching lesson is that individuals, families, and communities are often …


Digging Them Out Alive, Michael Millemann, Rebecca Bowman Rivas, Elizabeth Smith Sep 2018

Digging Them Out Alive, Michael Millemann, Rebecca Bowman Rivas, Elizabeth Smith

Faculty Scholarship

From 2013-2018, we taught a collection of interrelated law and social work clinical courses, which we call “the Unger clinic.” This clinic was part of a major, multi-year criminal justice project, led by the Maryland Office of the Public Defender. The clinic and project responded to a need created by a 2012 Maryland Court of Appeals decision, Unger v. State. It, as later clarified, required that all Maryland prisoners who were convicted by juries before 1981—237 older, long-incarcerated prisoners—be given new trials. This was because prior to 1981 Maryland judges in criminal trials were required to instruct the jury …


Expanding Our Vision: Integrating Clinical Experience And Insights Into The Larger Curriculum, Deborah Weimer Jan 2004

Expanding Our Vision: Integrating Clinical Experience And Insights Into The Larger Curriculum, Deborah Weimer

University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class

No abstract provided.


To Forge New Hammers Of Justice: Deep-Six The Doing-Teaching Dichotomy And Embrace The Dialectic Of "Doing Theory", Barbara L. Bezdek Jan 2004

To Forge New Hammers Of Justice: Deep-Six The Doing-Teaching Dichotomy And Embrace The Dialectic Of "Doing Theory", Barbara L. Bezdek

University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class

No abstract provided.


Walking The Clinical Tightrope: Between Teaching And Doing, Stephen Wizner Jan 2004

Walking The Clinical Tightrope: Between Teaching And Doing, Stephen Wizner

University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class

No abstract provided.


Finding Your Balance On The Tightrope: Reflections From A Clinical Life, Brenda Bratton Blom Jan 2004

Finding Your Balance On The Tightrope: Reflections From A Clinical Life, Brenda Bratton Blom

University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class

No abstract provided.


Teaching To Encourage More To Do, Ellen Weber Jan 2004

Teaching To Encourage More To Do, Ellen Weber

University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class

No abstract provided.


A Brief Reflection On The Multiple Identities And Roles Of The Twenty-First Century Clinician, Michael Pinard Jan 2004

A Brief Reflection On The Multiple Identities And Roles Of The Twenty-First Century Clinician, Michael Pinard

University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class

No abstract provided.


Coming Off The Bench: Observations Of A Rookie Clinician, Renée Mcdonald Hutchins Jan 2004

Coming Off The Bench: Observations Of A Rookie Clinician, Renée Mcdonald Hutchins

University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class

No abstract provided.


Walking The Clinical Tightrope: Embracing The Role Of Teacher, Jane H. Aiken Jan 2004

Walking The Clinical Tightrope: Embracing The Role Of Teacher, Jane H. Aiken

University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class

No abstract provided.