The Civil Rights Clinic is a 6-credit, one-semester course offered once each semester that allows students to work on important, interesting civil rights issues pending before state and federal appeals courts.
Clinic students have the opportunity to engage in both amicus curiae and direct representation on a variety of important equal justice issues. Clinic students have drafted briefs challenging the racially arbitrary application of the death penalty and advocating for changed legal standards to account for implicit bias in the criminal trial process as well as at sentencing. The clinic is taught by Professor Melissa Lee and Professor Jessica Levin, who co-direct the Center for Civil Rights and Critical Justice.
Prerequisites: Constitutional Law (CNLW-200 or CNLW-205) and Legal Writing II (WRIT-200).
Restrictions: Students must be available to complete 15 office hours per week, at least 10 of which should occur during regular business hours.
Experiential Learning: This course counts toward the experiential learning requirement.
