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Civil Practice Clinic - Health Law
Class Term:
Fall Term 2015-2016
Catalog Number:
5393
Class Number:
28947
Class Schedule:
Tuesday, Thursday
2:00 pm -
4:20 pm
Room:
LAW G18
Professor
Clinic
Credits:
7 (5 Contact, 0 Field)
Graduation Requirements:
Professional Skills
Priority:
3rd Year Priority when offered in the Fall, 2nd Year Priority when offered in the Spring
Full Year Course:
No
Category:
Standard Courses
Grading Details
Students will be graded based on the quality of their involvement in both field hours and classroom hours, in the following proportions: (max raw score in parenthesis)
Oral Communication-10; Written Communication-10; Case Planning/Investigation-20; Hearings/Court Appearances – 20; Legal Analysis, Research and Writing-20; Class Participation-10; Supervision-10
Description
The Civil Practice Clinics offer students who have completed three semesters of law school an opportunity to represent clients and develop practical lawyering skills. Students enrolled in the Clinics are certified to practice law and take primary responsibility for client representation under the supervision of their faculty/supervising attorneys.
Students in the Children’s Health Rights Clinic represent clients seeking disability benefits through the Social Security Administration. Students also represent clients in Orphans’ Court in guardianship cases. Further, students will represent parents in special education cases. Student advocates interview clients initially; and if the case is accepted, proceed to gather and interpret evidence, develop case theory, prepare hearing memoranda, and represent clients at hearings or in court. Students may work in teams of two. Classroom simulations incorporated into the clinic program ready students for client work.
Clinic lectures and coursework are organized with a systemic justice focus. Specifically, students will evaluate their advocacy experience in comparison to what they will learn about the prevalence of school push-out and system involvement among students with disabilities. Students will identify the ways in which a lack of access to health care and social determinants of health can create/reinforce systemic phenomena. By increasing access to legal advocacy for children whose health needs put them at risk, the clinic will provide an impactful experiential learning experience.