Class Oultine used this year - Chicago

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Public Interest Law & Policy

Recap and Review

Ronald W. Staudt

April 30, 2013

Public Interest Law & Policy

What is Public Interest Law?

New Lawyers- - Student Note - -1970

Process v. preferred interests

Rabin’s article– 1976

Change through litigation—not OEO or PDunderrepresented but selective about interests…

Southworth’s study of the right—2005

Right to work, right to life, Midamerica…

Courts and social change

“American courts are not all-powerful institutions.

They were designed with severe limitations and placed in a political system of divided powers. To ask them to produce significant social reform is to forget their history and ignore their constraints. It is to cloud our vision with a naive and romantic belief in the triumph of right over politics. And while romance and even naivete have their charms, they are not best exhibited in courtrooms.”

Gerald N. Rosenberg, The Hollow Hope, Can Court Bring About Social

Change? 2d Edition. U of C Press, 2008

Career satisfaction

“…alienation and anxiety about the nature of lawyering work do not affect all lawyers equally. For those whose idea and practice of lawyering involves service to a cause, many of the symptoms of alienation and anxiety are absent.”

Scheingold and Sarat, Something to Believe In, Stanford U. Press,

2004

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Waiting for Gautreaux

---Alexander Polikoff

“What would I say to the law students today…”

Your questions about public interest law and lawyering--

Substantive law and public interest:

What do you think of the Hope VI program and the current direction of public housing in Chicago, and nationally?

Client Autonomy and Cause Lawyering

Can you talk about your current thoughts about the fact that

Dorothy Gautreaux and the other class representatives and

Chicago’s black community groups did not get involved in the decisions you describe in the case, like the Model Cities issue or the decision to appeal or not to appeal major rulings?

Your questions about public interest law and lawyering--

Litigation as a tool for social change -

Can it work? Can judges administer major transformations without administrative resources?

Problems facing us today: how would you try to address the problem of gun violence in the city .

In light of the Sandy Hook School shooting and other mass shootings that have occurred recently in the United States, do you think that an increase in mental health care benefits might alleviate some of the crime/violence in the United States or even further rehabilitate Chicago's ghettos?

Perspectives on careers and tactics

Gendered Lives of Legal Aid: Law, Social Work and the Poor

Professor Felice Batlan

Create Your Own Public Interest Career

Chris Williams and Sarah Kaplan

Fee Shifting

Josh Karsh

Qualified Immunity, Longterm Strategies, and Partial Victories

Professor Carolyn Shapiro and Diane Redleaf

Public Interest and Government Lawyering

Benjamin C. Weinberg

Public Interest and Collaboration: Medical/Legal Partnerships in Illinois

Professor Alexander Boni-Saenz

Perspectives on

Public Interest law and tactics

Arthur LaFrance

Public interest law and lawyering

Patrick Murphy

Social Change and litigation

Josh Karsh

Tactics in discrimination class actions

John Bowman

Lobbying and legislative advocacy

William Birdthistle

Legal theory and social change

Your Case Studies

Goldberg v. Kelly due process, welfare benefit termination

Boddie v. Connecticut due process, access to justice, filing fee waiver

Lewis v. City of Chicago racial discrimination in hiring, firefighters

Hobby Lobby Stores v. Sebelius

1st Amendment -Free exercise, ACA, access to contraception

Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission

1st Amendment and campaign finance

Legal Services Corporation v. Velazquez

1st Amendment and federal legal aid funding restrictions

Final task- the exam

Enrich the website with a web of annotated links.

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