This course has been offered at Georgetown Law School for several years and we are stealing their format and information. It is an extremely exciting opportunity for which we are grateful to Professor Roe. The law does not exist apart from those whom it serves. In a very real, sense law itself comes from those whom it serves, and in particular from their ability to articulate their preferences and grievances and to voice their values and concerns. In our society, many people have this ability, whether as the result of education, or affluence, or some other condition, but many others, and too often the disadvantaged, do not.
Literacy is at the heart of that meaningful social intercourse which is in turn at the heart of law.
Indeed, it is literacy, as much as anything, which feeds the roots of law, so that the ability to read and speak, and above all to do so critically, matters crucially in the discharge of an individual citizen's rights and responsibilities. The course involves both classroom and practicum components. The practicum involves working with an emerging English reader once a week for the semester. The classroom component focuses on assigned readings and discussion of the tutoring experiences. The course requirements, in addition to participation in class and in the practicum, are to keep a journal and write a paper.