Courses 2009 - 2010

Offered: [Autumn] [Winter] [Spring]
Credits: 2

Covington, William

This seminar is designed primarily for students undertaking an externship earning 10 or more credits. The seminar provides a framework for evaluating and analyzing externships from an educational and philosophical perspective. The seminar facilitates dialogue among students engaged in different kinds of externships and encourages consideration of the ways rules, policies, and standard business practices affect different organizations, populations, and practitioners. The seminar uses a team approach, relying upon the collaborative efforts of several faculty members, judges, and practitioners, and includes supplemental reading from a variety of sources. A final paper analyzing material presented in the course is required. The following areas may be addressed: practical lawyering considerations, practical professional responsibility and ethics issues, the adversary system and other ways to resolve disputes, judicial administration, politics and the law, excluded and suppressed voices in the legal system, the pro bono obligation, and quality of life considerations. Offered on a credit/no credit basis only.