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Disability Human Rights Clinics as a model for teaching Participatory International Human Rights lawyering
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Maker, Y and Offergeld, J and Arstein-Kerslake, A, Disability Human Rights Clinics as a model for teaching Participatory International Human Rights lawyering, International Journal of Clinical Legal Education, 25, (3) pp. 23-52. ISSN 2056-3930 (2020) [Refereed Article]
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DOI: doi:10.19164/ijcle.v25i3.767
Abstract
The Disability Human Rights Clinic (DHRC) was established at Melbourne Law School, the University of Melbourne, in 2015. Its supervisors and students conduct legislative and policy reform projects as well as strategic litigation. The DHRC was created by Anna Arstein-Kerslake to address a significant lack of resources in community-based organisations to undertake in-depth legal analysis. It uses an innovative model of clinical legal education to harness the skills of law students to fill that gap and to expose a new generation of lawyers to the emerging field of disability human rights law. In this article, we draw on our experiences running the DHRC to argue that the model it establishes can create significant scholarly output in the human rights field, direct engagement with the community, and rich doctrinal and experiential learning for students.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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| Keywords: | clinical legal education, student law clinic, disability, human rights |
| Research Division: | Law and Legal Studies |
| Research Group: | Law in context |
| Research Field: | Legal education |
| Objective Division: | Law, Politics and Community Services |
| Objective Group: | Community services |
| Objective Field: | Ability and disability |
| UTAS Author: | Maker, Y (Dr Yvette Maker) |
| ID Code: | 151028 |
| Year Published: | 2020 (online first 2018) |
| Deposited By: | Law |
| Deposited On: | 2022-07-13 |
| Last Modified: | 2022-09-20 |
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