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<div class="field-item even">From fighting Jim Crow
segregation to challenging the recent Muslim travel ban,
judicial review has historically been used as a strategy
to reign-in executive and legislative over-reach and
protect Constitutional rights. This course will examine
how lawyers, social movements, and everyday people have
used litigation to advocate for social justice in the
United States. Through reading in-depth studies of
important civil and criminal cases, we will explore such
questions as: What is the history of social justice
lawyering in the United States and how, why and when
have social movements turned to litigation to advance
their causes? What are the pros and cons of using
litigation to achieve social justice, versus other tools
like direct action, lobbying for political change, and
community organizing? How effective is litigation in
achieving the goals originally envisioned by lawyers,
activists, and litigants? How have lawyers constrained
or expanded the vision of social justice movements? What
dilemmas do lawyers?who are ethically bound to zealously
advocate for the interests of individual clients?face
when they are additionally interested in advancing "a
cause"? Cases explored may include issues such as civil
rights, women's rights, free speech, LGBT/Queer rights,
disability rights, environmental justice, criminal
justice, poverty and people's lawyering, immigration
rights, and the rise of conservative social movement
lawyering. Prior law-related coursework helpful, but not
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<td class="views-field
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