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ThE CommuNITy JuSTICE PRoJECT
The Community Justice Project provides students with an appreciation for the complexity of
working for social justice, an understanding of the variety of skills and strategies that lawyers
can use to seek justice, and the faith that they have the capacity to make a difference as a
lawyer. Students in The Community Justice Project represent clients across a broad range of
subject matters using a variety of tactics to further the Project’s goal of seeking social justice
for communities. Students directly represent clients who are challenging the denial of their
unemployment benefits. In addition, students engage in broader community advocacy through
a project that begins and ends during the semester. Students use a wide range of strategies,
including impact litigation, policy initiatives, legislative advocacy, international law, the media,
public education, and transactional activities. Students have full responsibility for their cases
and projects and receive training in trial skills, oral advocacy, writing, media relations, and
interviewing and counseling clients. The Project enhances students’ abilities to think critically
and creatively, to communicate effectively and exercise good judgment, to represent diverse
clients and communities, to act responsibly and with integrity, to learn from experience, and to
articulate the reasons for and consequences of their choices.
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Professor Jane Aiken