The
Street Law Clinic is directed by Professor Richard L. Roe. In addition
to directing the Street Law Clinic, Professor Roe established and
directs the D.C. Family Literacy Project, which helps incarcerated
parents of young children to build their capacities to develop their
children's literacy, and the Georgetown Even Start Project which works
with homeless families.
Professor
Roe received his J.D. degree in 1977 from the University of Maine
School of Law and is a 1969 graduate of Yale College. After law school,
from August 1977 to August 1983, Professor Roe was a Program Director
for the National Institute for Citizen Education in the Law, which
promotes law-related education by publishing curriculum, training
teachers and lawyers, and providing assistance in program implementation
in law schools, public and private school districts, and community
and other settings. His responsibilities included: instructing teachers,
attorneys and other persons in substantive law and educational methodology;
planning and writing curricula in practical law and law in American
history; the development of a practical law curriculum for adult basic
education and English as a second language; and training correctional
administrators.
Professor
Roe's professional activities include:
- presentations at the American Association of Law Schools workshops
on teaching theory and practice;
- presentations on "Children's Literature and the Law," "Family
Literacy for Incarcerated Parents," and "Family Literacy in Correctional
and Homeless Settings: Using Children's Books to Teach Parenting
Skills" at the National Conference on Family Literacy;
- numerous training sessions and workshops at law schools, correctional
programs, and national and local conferences on a wide variety of
legal topics and educational methods regarding teaching about the
law to laypersons.
- numerous presentations to international visitors about Street
Law, family literacy and Georgetown clinical programs and methodology.
Professor
Roe has written an article "Valuing Student Speech: The Work for the
Schools as Conceptual Development," 79 Cal. L. Rev. 1269 (1991). This
publication examines recent cognitive research and applies it to the
learning environment of schools and the role of students' expression
in schools. He is editor and co-author of Great Trials in American
History, Text and Teacher's Manual, West Publishing Company, 1985.
His present research focuses on how children develop their legal culture.
Sarah Medway graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 2004 with a B.A. in Government, and she received a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center in 2008. During law school, Sarah participated in the Georgetown Street Law Clinic, taught legal research and writing at the Costa Rican Bar Association, and volunteered with the Legal Counsel for the Elderly. After graduation, Sarah practiced at the law firm Seyfarth Shaw in New York, where she specialized in employment litigation. Following this, she worked in Kenya as the Country Director for Flying Kites, a non-profit organization dedicated to raising the standards of care for orphaned and vulnerable children.
Sean graduated from the University of Notre Dame and was a member of the inaugural class of the Alliance for Catholic Education, a two-year volunteer program that places teachers in economically disadvantaged schools in the United States. Sean earned a Masters of Arts in Teaching from the University of Portland and spent six years teaching in middle and high schools in Louisiana and Maryland. During this time, Sean was awarded Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities to study the Irish Famine and the Middle Passage, earned a grant from the National Archives, and presented at teacher development programs operated by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Sean also participated in the Fulbright Teacher Exchange Program and spent one year teaching in an inner-city school on special measures in London, England.
Immediately prior to attending law school, Sean worked as a human rights volunteer in Bogotá, Colombia with Peace Brigades International. Sean attended the University of Cincinnati College of Law as an Arthur Russell Morgan Fellow and graduated summa cum laude from the College of Law. During law school, Sean co-founded the Immigrant Community Legal Advocacy Center, served as a Teaching Assistant in Civil Procedure II, and was Managing Editor of the Law Review.
After law school, Sean worked as a Skadden Fellow and staff attorney at the Legal Aid Society for Greater Cincinnati and organized the region’s first bilingual Legal Fair. Sean then clerked for Judge Henry H. Kennedy, Jr. on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Before joining the Street Law Clinic, Sean spent three years in the litigation department of Shearman & Sterling LLP where he worked on complex, international civil litigation, edited the FCPA Digest, and was awarded the Tahirih Justice Center’s first Pro Bono Attorney of the Year Award.
Last Updated: November 1, 2011 (LdL)
