Death Penalty Litigation Seminar
Professor
Stephen Bright
J.D. Seminar 120
| 2 credit hours
Students will work with attorneys involved in the representation of people facing the death penalty throughout the spring semester and will complete a substantial writing assignment for a brief, petition for certiorari, or other pleading. Students are required to report regularly to the instructor during the term via e-mail and to meet with the instructor during the spring. There will be one meeting of the class each month during the term.
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Spring
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LAWJ-120-05
(CRN #: 10905)
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Bright S |
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Mutually Excluded Courses:
Students may not concurrently enroll in an externship or a clinic, except Street Law. Students may not receive credit for this course and Animal Protection Litigation Seminar or Community Lawyering Seminar: Dismantling Structural Racism and Creating Social Change or Cosmetic Safety Regulation: Lawyering in the Public Interest or Dietary Supplements Regulation: Lawyering in the Public Interest or Human Rights Advocacy Seminar: U.S. Resettlement Policy and the Iraqi Refugee Crisis or Human Rights Fact-Finding Seminar: Access to Essential Medicines in the Dominican Republic or Local Dynamics of Immigration Law and Policy or Motherhood and Criminality or Rule of Law Promotion and Civil Society in China: Implications for Women and Girls or State and Local Government Lawyering or U.S. Voting Rights: A Practical Perspective or Wrongful Convictions.
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Notes:
This is an experiential course. Students will work with attorneys at the Southern Center for Human Rights on death penalty cases. The supervised work will be approximately 10 hours per week and there will be one class meeting each month in the Spring 2010 semester.
Note: This course is enrolled by professor permission. Only students enrolled in the Fall 2009 course, Advanced Criminal Procedure: Race and Poverty Law, with Professor Stephen Bright, will be eligible to apply for permission to take this seminar. After the Fall 2009 add/drop period ends, interested students should email Professor Bright (sbright@schr.org) with a letter expressing their interest in the course and their resume. Students will be notified in mid-September if they are granted permission to enroll in this course. Students should not include this course in their April 2009 preregistration requests.
Note: The 2 credits of supervised work are mandatory pass/fail and count toward the 6 credit pass/fail limit. Students will be allowed to take another course pass/fail in the same semester.
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