Document Type
Article
Publication Title
Denver Law Review
Abstract
Legal education purports to prepare the next generation of lawyers capable of tackling the urgent and complex social justice challenges of our time. But law schools are failing in that public promise. Clinical education offers the best opportunity to overcome those failings by teaching the skills lawyers need to tackle systemic and interlocking legal and social problems. But too often even clinical education falls short: it adheres to conventional pedagogical methodologies that are overly narrow and, in the end, limit students’ abilities to manage today’s complex racial and social justice issues. This Article contends that clinical education needs to embrace and reimagine political lawyering for the twenty-first century to prepare aspiring lawyers to tackle both new and chronic issues of injustice through a broad array of advocacy strategies.
First Page
399
Volume
96
Publication Date
2019
Recommended Citation
Deborah N. Archer,
Political Lawyering for the 21st Century,
96
Denver Law Review
399
(2019).
Available at:
https://gretchen.law.nyu.edu/fac-articles/1298
