Legal Research Guides by Course - Civil Rights Clinic
Course Description
The Civil Rights Clinic will operate as a year-long in-house clinic that engages in civil rights litigation and advocacy. Students will participate in weekly training sessions addressing the applicable substantive and procedural law. Beyond the classroom, students will be trained in case intake and interviewing, client counseling, fact investigation, case analysis, negotiation, research, and drafting of motions and other pleadings and documents. Qualified students may be certified and may have the opportunity to argue motions and appear at hearings. Co-requisite: Constitutional Law and Evidence. (6 credits - 3 classroom credits, 3 non-classroom credits)
Faculty Who Teach This Course
- Tracey McCants-Lewis, Esq. (Acting Director of Clinical Legal Education and adjunct clinical professor)
- Adrian N. Roe (adjunct professor)
Subject Covered Presently in Collection by:
Print Collection
KF311 Client Counseling
KF697.D5 Discrimination in Mortgage Loans
KF1262-KF1263 Violation of Privacy (Tort Law)
KF3464 Employment Discrimination
KF4741-KF4786 Civil and Political Rights and Liberties
KF8210.C5 Indians - Civil Rights
KF8900-KF8902 Pretrial Procedure (Civil Procedure)
KF8925.C5 Trial Practice - Civil Rights
KFP130.5.D58 Pennsylvania - Discrimination in Mortgage Loans
KFP411-KFP412 Pennsylvania Civil and Political Rights
Legal Research Databases
- Bloomberg BNA
- Bloomberg Law
- Hein Online
- Legal Scholarship Network
- Lexis Advance
- LoisLaw Treatises - General Litigation Library & Mauet Trial Practice Library
- ProQuest Congressional
- Westlaw Next
- Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse - http://www.clearinghouse.net/
- Civil Rights Law (hg.org) - http://www.hg.org/civilrgt.html
- Civil Rights (LII) - http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/Civil_rights
- Civil Rights (Lawyers.com) - http://civil-rights.lawyers.com/
- Civil Rights (Justia Virtual Chase) - http://virtualchase.justia.com/wiki/civil-rights
- Civil Rights (Findlaw) - http://civilrights.findlaw.com/
Civil Rights Organizations or Groups
- American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) - http://www.aclu.org/
- American Civil Rights Union (ACRU) - http://www.theacru.org/
- The Leadership Conference - http://www.civilrights.org/
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) - http://www.naacp.org/
- National Youth Rights Association (NYRA) - http://www.youthrights.org/
- Southern Poverty Law Center - http://www.splcenter.org/
- Women's Law Project - www.womenslawproject.org
Blogs
- The New Civil Rights Movement - http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/
- Civil Rights Law Blog (Lawyers.com) - http://civil-rights.lawyers.com/blogs/categories/731-Civil-Rights
DCLI Webpage Links:
- Primary Legal Research: Case Law, Statutory Law, Administrative Law, Constitutions (contains quick links to our statutes, our administrative codes, federal and state case law and our constitutions)
- Legal Research Guides: Constitutional Law
Course Listed Under the following Law School Concentrations
Course Satisfies: Professional Skills Course
Created by Patricia Horvath
rev. 2/20/2013
