After issues are identified, students will begin writing sections of the brief. The writings will be edited by the professor and other students. By the end of the term, each student will have written and re-written a complete brief in the pending case. The professor will then write a brief which each student will edit. This clinic will provide an intensive experience in analysis of an appellate record, research, writing, editing, and trial and appellate advocacy all in the context of briefwriting for a real appeal.
Enrollment is limited.
Students may be interviewed or asked to write a statement of interest before being admitted into the clinic. This course explores sympathetically and critically conflicting accounts of what causes crime, and how to punish criminals. Taped interviews with inner city street criminals drawn from the instructor's ongoing study illuminate or challenge standard criminological explanations. We tackle head-on sensitive questions of race and racism, sex and class bias. Although of general interest to students concerned about crime and punishment, the course should help prepare anyone who expects to work in the criminal justice system.