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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

Civil Rights Organizations or Groups

Blogs

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