Community Law Clinic
Students participating in the Community Law Clinic help low-income clients work through civil controversies. In addition to integrating legal theory and practice, students in the Community Law Clinic are required to perform some sort of community outreach in order to better understand the clients whom they serve. Recent cases have included housing discrimination, eviction defense, civil protection orders, and wage and hour claims.
The model of the Community Law Clinic is based on student self-direction and community outreach. Because of this focus, students have a great deal of input into and ability to shape their clinical experience. With this focus, students are able to obtain a variety of learning experiences and target their expressed areas of interest.
In order to meet the community outreach goal of the civil clinic, students and faculty created community projects. The projects have varied through the years as the needs of our client community has changed and the interest of students shifted. Below is a description of the civil clinic projects.
- Predatory Lending
- Welfare Litigation Task Force
- Warranty of Habitability Legislation
- Preservation of Affordable Housing Project