Education
Sep. 28, 2011
Just do it: The importance of training law students in public advocacy
We need to teach our students to be "lawyers," not just students of the law. By Laurie L. Levenson of Loyola Law School
Last month, The New York Times published an editorial calling on law schools to help fill the "justice gap" by training all law students in public advocacy. See N.Y. Times, "Addressing the Justice Gap" (Aug. 23). The "justice gap" represents America's failure to provide meaningful access to justice for low-income litigants. According to a report by the Carnegie Foundation, four-fifths of...
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