Civil Litigation & Access to Justice Prgm: Appellate Clinic

THIS CLASS IS RESTRICTED to students who have taken the Appellate Clinic fall course. In the spring, Appellate Clinic students continue to represent their clients who are individuals and entities otherwise unlikely to obtain quality representation including civil-rights plaintiffs, employees, consumers, tenants, immigrants, and criminal defendants. The clinic occasionally represent amici as well. As in the fall, students collaborate on brief writing and oral argument projects with a team comprised of other clinic students and the clinic’s director. The clinic’s director prepares students for their cases through weekly team supervision meetings, individual meetings, case rounds, moots, and workshops as appropriate. The spring seminar builds on the work students have done in the fall to learn the mechanics of written and oral appellate advocacy and the substantive areas of law the clinic is currently litigating. That means that typically the spring seminar will focus on reply briefs, oral argument prep, petitions for en banc relief, supreme court practice, and other critical appellate litigation skills. PRE/CO-REQUISITES: All first-year courses and the Appellate Clinic Fall course. Federal Courts and Professional Responsibility are highly recommended as pre-requisites or co-requisites, but not required. NOTE: The Appellate Clinic counts towards the 6 credit Experiential Learning requirement. GRADING NOTICE: This course does not offer the CR/NC/H option.