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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. 10 www.law.georgetown.edu/clinics/cjp/ Professor Jane Aiken
CRImINAL dEfENSE & PRISoNER AdvoCACy CLINIC CliniCs Students in the Criminal Defense & Prisoner Advocacy Clinic represent indigent criminal defendants in misdemeanor cases in the DC Superior Court, DC parolees facing revocation before the U.S. Parole Commission, and long-serving prisoners from several states seeking clemency or parole. Our clients in the DC Superior Court are charged with offenses such as assault, threats, destruction of property, possession (and occasionally distribution) of drugs, theft, unlawful entry, and possession of weapons. Parolees and prisoners have been generally convicted of serious felonies. In addition to taking on the role of practicing criminal defense lawyer, students are given an opportunity to reflect on that role in the broader context of law and society. Working closely with supervising attorneys, Clinic students accept full responsibility for their cases. Students learn to interview and counsel clients, investigate cases, conduct discovery, draft and argue pretrial motions, examine witnesses and make arguments at trial, and engage in sentencing advocacy. The Clinic’s advocacy on behalf of prisoners gives students an opportunity to collaborate creatively on a range of projects. www.law.georgetown.edu/clinics/CriminaldefenseprisoneradvocacyClinic.html 11
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