Students should plan to devote 16 to 20 hours per week to this course. Open to third-year students with permission of the instructor. Students may enroll concurrently in this course and Law 668 only with permission of both instructors. Dutton A joint project of the Law School and the School of Medicine and Health Sciences in which law students are trained to respond to emergency room patients who have experienced domestic violence. Students assist patients with risk assessment and safety planning, and they provide information about legal options and legal and other community resources.
Students are on call by pager on a schedule that includes some overnight periods.
The seminar portion of the course includes some seminar meetings of Law 628 on legal and psychosocial aspects of domestic violence, along with interviewing and counseling skills. Additional seminar meetings are scheduled to cover topics such as the national health care response to domestic violence and interdisciplinary approaches to systemic reforms. The grade of H , P , LP , or NC is given for this course. Students may also write editorials, newspaper articles, and comments to federal regulations. Under faculty supervision, students represent their clients in immigration court, in administrative appeals to the Board of Immigration Appeals, and at judicial review in federal court.