At Rutgers Law School-Newark, students not only learn the law, they
help make the law. For the past forty years, students enrolled in the
school's extensive clinical program have helped shape the law on the
cutting edge of the legal system under the guidance of faculty members
who train future lawyers not just to make money but to make social
change. This book describes the diverse activities of the law school
clinics, which range from challenging the constitutionality of the war
in Iraq to providing equal funding for inner city schools. It
describes how eager students have helped invalidate zoning laws that
screened out affordable housing in upscale suburbs; successfully
challenged inhumane conditions of confinement of immigrant asylum
seekers by the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service;
guaranteed fair hearings for persons denied Social Security and
disability benefits; protected citizens who verbally protested parking
tickets from the wrath of authoritarian judges; aided families with
special-needs children to navigate the institutional bureaucracy and
obtain their rights; forced municipalities to open their public parks
to residents from neighboring communities; secured free elections and
free speech for residents of common-interest communities governed by
tyrannical trustees; won hiring and promotional rights for non-whites
in police and fire departments; and helped change the way the pubic
views non-human sensient beings. In 26 essays, Rutgers Law School
faculty members explain how clinics in constitutional litigation,
environmental law, child advocacy, special education, urban justice
and animal rights used live clients and current issues to train
students to represent the public interest and reform the law while
learning the tools of their trade. Editor Frank Askin is Distinguished
Professor of Law and founding director of the Rutgers School of
Law-Newark's pioneering Constitutional Litigation Clinic. For the past
forty years, he has been litigating high-profile civil rights cases
and training new generations of public interest lawyers. Back in the
McCarthy/J. Edgar Hoover Era, he brought the first cases challenging
the right of government agencies to engage in surveillance of
law-abiding political protesters and challenged highway profiling by
state troopers. Ever since, he has been on the forefront of issues
involving free speech, racial discrimination, police practices and
election reform. One of his current cases challenges the legality of
the war in Iraq absent a Congressional Declaration. He is listed in
Woodward & White's "Best Lawyers in America."
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ISBN
9781600423666
Publisert
2019
Utgave
1. utgave
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Vendor
Vandeplas Publishing
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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