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Public Interest Law and Policy
For the first day of class (January 19), please read the following excerpts, which can be downloaded from Westlaw, Lexis, or HeinOnLine. Or you can find links to the excerpts by clicking on the title of each article.
The New Public Interest Lawyers, 79 Yale L. J. 1069, 1069-1072 (1970). (Please be sure to read Footnotes 1 and 3.)
Robert L. Rabin, Lawyers for Social Change: Perspectives on Public Interest Law, 28 Stan. L. Rev. 207 224-231 (1976).
Ann Southworth, Conservative Lawyers and the Contest Over the Meaning of "Public Interest Law," 52 U.C.L.A. L. Rev. 1223, 1234-1245 (2005)
In addition, for the first day of class, please write 1-2 pages about why you are taking the class and/or why you are in the public interest certificate program (if you are), and about the type of work you would ideally like to be doing 5-10 years after law school and why. (If you don't have a clear idea of the work you want to be doing, that is fine, but give it some thought.) These mini-essays will not be graded or shared with the class (although I will ask you to turn them in), but we will have some discussion in class about those topics.
Public Interest Law and Policy Website
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