Students in a Policy Clinic - Seeing the Big Picture

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Here is Sara Upton, a student in Professor Elizabeth Cooper's Urban Policy Clinic,  describing one of her projects in the clinic. Sara does a fine job describing her work and communicating how much the experience meant to her, so I need not belabor that. But I will say that as I listened to Sara, I was struck by how brave she and her colleagues must be to take on such unstructured problems and work through the process of creating useful solutions.

It seems to me that the policy lawyer faces the awesome blank-sheet-of-paper-problem: what is the best, or least a better way, to deal with this issue? In my work, criminal defense, the stakes can be high and creativity is always required, if not always found, but we know we will defend our clients in court and the case will turn on law of some sort or historical facts. The policy lawyer's choices, however, can range across many kinds of institutions and modes of analysis. From my perspective, it seems daunting and I admire Sara and all the students who take on these challenges. 

-- Ian Weinstein 

Fordham, Law School, Clinical Legal Education, Law Clinic, Pro Bono Work, Legal Education, Legal Pedagogy, Teaching Law, Student Lawyers, Law Student, Urban Policy

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