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The E-Team Project: A Teamwork Approach To Clinical Legal Education, Hilary Evans Cameron
The E-Team Project: A Teamwork Approach To Clinical Legal Education, Hilary Evans Cameron
Journal of Law and Social Policy
In this article the author argues that the University of Toronto’s Emergency Team (E-Team)—a student pilot project created to assist people facing deportation on short notice—provided a critical service to its clients and gave its student members a unique opportunity to learn real-world legal skills. The first part of this article reviews the project’s outcomes and concludes that it was a success: the E-Team won nine of its ten cases, and its members credit the project both with teaching them crucial legal competencies that they did not encounter elsewhere and with fostering their passion for social justice law. The second …