Immigrants' Rights Clinic: Core Lawyering Skills (C)

LAW JD 882

In the seminar portions of the Immigrants' Rights Clinic, the traditional law school classroom is flipped. Students take a leadership role in the weekly seminar through performing simulations, presenting case rounds issues, and participating in facilitated discussion. In additional to an "immigration law bootcamp" class focused on asylum law and representing migrant children, students will develop competencies with classes covering the following topics: Client interviewing and counseling; Oral advocacy, including preparing opening and closing statements, conducing direct examinations and cross examinations, evidentiary foundations, responding to and making objections; Case planning; Legal research; Language access and working with interpreters; Legal storytelling and developing a theory of the case; Affidavit writing; and Professional responsibility.