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LAW SCHOOL (W74)  (Dept. Info)Law  (Policies)SP2025
W74 LAW 769ECivil Rights, Community Justice and Mediation ClinicVar. Units (max = 8.0)
Description:Open to 3L and 2L J.D. and MSW students. The Civil Rights, Community Justice & Mediation Clinic introduces students to civil rights and dispute resolution law, policy, and practice from a community-based perspective. The Clinic focuses on housing, health, and education discrimination; economic instability; and related civil rights and community issues. For decades, the Clinic has worked closely with Legal Services of Eastern Mo (Neighborhood Advocacy Program, Consumer Program, Education Justice Program, and Youth & Family Advocacy Program), a major St. Louis legal services provider that protects the civil rights of individuals in these client communities. The Clinic also collaborates with US Arbitration & Mediation, other legal services providers, and local government offices. Clinic students engage in individual representation, interviewing, counseling, and representing a minimum of five clients/community projects each during the semester. Clinic students also provide class representation on behalf of these client groups through multiple community lawyering strategies, including impact litigation, legislative drafting and advocacy, media advocacy, policy development, court reform, and community legal education ("street law"). Clinic students also assist with a minimum of five eviction mediations each in St. Louis County Pro-Se Housing Court and in the community, in conjunction with the St. Louis Mediation Project, coordinated by the Clinic for 15 years. [Note: Students are prohibited from taking more than one clinic/externship/supervised practicum in the same semester. Students who are not in good standing (for either academic or disciplinary reasons) are not eligible to participate in a clinic/externship. The clinics/externships have a different drop deadline than other law school courses. Students will not be allowed to drop any law clinic/externship without good cause and the instructor's permission after May 10, 2024.] Students earn 6 credits for the clinic, although a student may earn up to 8 credits with permission of the professor. For 6 credits, students must work a minimum of 255 hours over the course of the semester. For 8 credits, students must work a minimum of 340 hours over the course of the semester. A course from the ethics curriculum is a pre- or co-requisite (unless waived by the instructor). The Civil Rights, Community Justice and Mediation Clinic Seminar is on Mondays from 3:00 pm - 4:52 pm. The course is graded on a modified pass/fail basis: HP (3.94), P, LP (2.98) and F (2.50).
Attributes:Law: BCCCR, CLN EXT, COIFGR, EXP, LCU, NDRLLM
Instruction Type:Internship/Practicum Grade Options:P Fees:
Course Type:HomeSame As:N/AFrequency:Every Semester / History
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Q=ME Q (Medical School)

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