730-475 Public Interest Lawyering

Legal Method and Reasoning; Torts; Constitutional Law; Administrative Law; Dispute Resolution or in each case their equivalents.

This subject will introduce students to how law is used and practiced in the public interest and seek to build the knowledge and competencies required of students who wish to work in this area. The seminars are based around 3 broad themes: (1) the relationship between the public interest and lawyering; (2) the various models available for the delivery of public interest lawyering services and their underlying theories such as a rights based approach to service delivery and (3) public interest lawyering skills and strategies such as communicating with clients, interviewing skills, general advocacy skills, submission writing and litigation in both domestic and international forums. Students will have the opportunity to interact with and to learn from a variety of lawyers and advocates who practice in the public interest arena.

This subject will have an enrolment cap of 24 students

A written assignment 1000 words 20% (due week 6) and a second written assignment 4000 words 80% (due end of semester).

Printed materials will be issued by the Faculty of Law.