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Nov 10, 2024
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LAW 5813 - Law Reform Advocacy Clinic
In this program, students handle a wide variety of housing, community development, and public interest cases for low-income individuals and community organizations in areas such as fair housing and exclusionary zoning, housing rehabilitation, predatory lending, and rent gouging. The Clinic may also work with the other clinical programs on law reform issues that arise out of their caseloads and affect the community. The Clinic selects cases that will have an impact for low-income individuals on Long Island, especially new immigrants. Each student will have two or three cases and will prepare and present their cases in state and federal courts, administrative agencies, and local legislatures.
The course develops lawyering skills in traditional litigation as well as administrative and legislative advocacy. In their representation of clients in actual cases, students have the opportunity to engage in interviewing and counseling, fact investigation and analysis, legal and policy analysis, negotiation, strategic-decision-making, arguments before different forums, and hearings and trials in courts and before administrative and legislative bodies. Special attention is placed on working with community organizations in developing alternative law reform strategies to address problems in their neighborhoods.
Prerequisites & Notes
Evidence (Recommended: Housing and Community Development; Legislation, Administrative Law).
Credits: 6
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