include the meaning of race under the 1866 Civil Rights Act, proving discrimination, discriminatory advertising, sexual harassment, accommodation of persons with disabilities, discrimination to achieve integration, marital status discrimination, and claims that enforcement of certain fair housing provisions violates the free exercise rights of landlords. In addition, the course will include a number of exercises designed to introduce students to common techniques employed in working with statutes (theories of statutory interpretation, drafting, legislative history, implied ratification, canons of construction, etc.).
LAW 651: Public Interest Law and Leadership Seminar Professor: Anthony Alfieri • Course Description: The seminar will address the theory and practice of public interest law, lawyering, and ethics for nonprofit and for-profit law firms, public policy and faith-based social service organizations, and local, national, and international social movements. We will survey the culture, economics, history, and sociology of the public interest law movement, and, moreover, consider the role of legal education, leadership studies, and professional responsibility in public interest practice. To that end, we will examine both litigation and non-litigation advocacy strategies, including community organizing, direct service, impact and test case litigation, law reform in legislative, administrative/regulatory, and institutional contexts, and "cause" lawyering. • Service Learning Description: we will apply these advocacy strategies through community-based projects in partnership with the Ministerial Alliance of Historic Black Churches and other nonprofit groups in the West Grove and in other low-income communities of color in the City of Miami and Miami-Dade County. The projects will focus on antipoverty research and advocacy as well as rights education and community outreach. *LAW 708: Bankruptcy Clinic I Professor: Patricia Redmond • Course Description: The Bankruptcy Assistance Clinic is a two semester (Fall/Spring) or (Spring/Fall) course for a total of six (6) credits for both semesters. Students will represent clients before the U.S. Bankruptcy Court under the supervision of practicing lawyers who will serve as mentors throughout the representation. The students will be evaluated on a pass/fail basis on the following criteria: 1) Classwork and Class participation 2) A journal or fee application depending on the semester detailing their externship activities 3) The mentor's evaluation of the student in connection with their client representations. • Service Learning Description: Under the supervision of practicing lawyers who serve as mentors throughout the representation, students: Interview, counsel and represent clients in Chapter 7 and 13 bankruptcy cases; assist clients who are dealing with unprecedented financial crisis; appear in court for contested matters when the clinic’s assistance is requested by a judge
LAW 709: Bankruptcy Clinic II Professor: Patricia Redmond • Course Description: The Bankruptcy Assistance Clinic is a two semester (Fall/Spring) or (Spring/Fall) course for a total of six (6) credits for both semesters. Students will represent clients before the U.S. Bankruptcy Court under the supervision of practicing lawyers who will serve as mentors throughout the representation. The students will be evaluated on a pass/fail basis on the following criteria: 1) Classwork and Class participation 2) A journal or fee application depending on the semester detailing their externship activities 3) The mentor's evaluation of the student in connection with their client representations. • Service Learning Description: Under the supervision of practicing lawyers who serve as mentors throughout the representation, students: Interview, counsel and represent clients in Chapter 7 and 13 bankruptcy cases; assist clients who are dealing with unprecedented financial crisis; appear in court for contested matters when the clinic’s assistance is requested by a judge
*LAW 711: Death Penalty Clinic Professor: Sarah Mourer
LAW 711: Capital Defense Project Workshop Professor: Sarah Mourer * Course offered Spring 2014