Fall 2012 Course Schedule

Immigrant Women: Law & Policy (LAW-795T-001)
Orloff

Meets: 10:00 AM - 11:50 AM (M) - Room 527

Enrolled: 7 / Limit: 12

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Description

This new practicum examines the role of legislative/administrative lawyering in developing and implementing laws, regulation and public policies. This course will review the legislative, administrative and policy gains in legal rights under US laws that have been made on behalf of immigrant women, children and particularly immigrant victims of violence against women (domestic violence, sexual assault and human trafficking). Students will learn about the role lawyers played in these accomplishments: drafting legislation, negotiating bipartisan agreements, drafting implementing regulations and policy guidance, collecting stories, documenting emerging unaddressed needs, and crafting public policy solutions that would work for immigrant victims, women and children. Students will have the opportunity to develop the skills and talents required of a good legislative/administrative lawyer who works in and/or with state, local and federal government agency personnel and will be assigned a project that responds to unmet needs of immigrant crime victims, women and children. Projects assigned will address the legal rights of immigrant women in one of the following subject matter areas: family law, public benefits, immigration options, and/or language access.

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