Community Lawyering to End Mass Incarceration (Holbrook/Rashatwar/Holston)
Faculty
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| Robert Saleem Holbrookexec@alcenter.org |
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| Rupalee Rashatwarrupalee@alcenter.org |
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| Nia Holstonnia@alcenter.org |
Additional Information
Satisfies Senior Writing RequirementNo
Class meets in person.
Course Continuity
Students are encouraged to stay home if you are ill or experience flu-like symptoms. If you miss a class for any reason, it is still your responsibility to make up the work missed.
I offer the following to students who miss class due to illness:
- I will make PowerPoint slides or other class materials routinely available on the course site to everyone in the class.
Meeting Times/Location
R 4:30PM - 6:20PM
Gittis Hall 1
Category
Upper-Level
Credits
2.0
The challenges faced by individuals and communities that are disproportionately impacted by the criminal legal and incarceration systems of this country present complex practical, strategic, and ethical questions for lawyers. Since conventional client representation models that exclusively focus on application of established law in criminal or civil litigation are all too often inadequate to remedy deeply entrenched structural injustices, this course offers students a more expansive, alternative mode of legal practice that situates client representation within the context of movements for social change. By exploring the social and political roots of the racialized mass incarceration system, exploring the role of family and advocacy support for strengthening and improving attorney-client relationships and case outcomes, recognizing the role – and sometimes the priority – of non-litigation strategies for change, and through course work involving persuasive writing and oral advocacy students will get an in-depth, practical experience in developing a multi-strategy, community-oriented approach to lawyering that aims to enhance their professional creativity and effectiveness while serving to end the movement to end mass incarceration.