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Clinical programs "Suppose a clinic were attached to a university law school...It would be possible then to take a number of students and to have them assist in the preparation of cases. . . This clinic would be run by the university so that its work would be brought into direct contact with the faculty, and so that the projects would be research as well as service projects. The clinic would be headed by outstanding trial lawyers who have joined the . . . university for this purpose. . . this kind of clinic could operate in three areas: first, legal aid cases . . .; second, the representation of defendants in criminal cases; and, third, civil liberties cases. The clinic of course would not supplant the agencies now in the field. It would be a much needed supplement to them and to the work of various committees of the Bar Association . . . If the work of the clinic were of high quality, there seems little doubt that it would fill a public need while at the same time it would provide an opportunity for research and training." Dean Edward H. Levi in an address before the Legal Club of Chicago, 1951
The University of Chicago Law School is home to four highly-regarded legal clinics: the Edwin F. Mandel Legal Aid Clinic, the Immigrant Childrens Advocacy Project, the Exoneration Project and the Institute for Justice Clinic on Entrepreneurship. These clinical programs are located in the School's Arthur O. Kane Center for Clinical Legal Education. The Law School was a pioneer in clinical legal education, having opened the very first legal clinic associated with a law school. That clinic, the Mandel Legal Aid Clinic, continues to serve the people of the city of Chicago to this day, and the Law School is proud to have grown to seven projects within that clinic and added additional clinics to ensure both the growth of community service and in practical education at the Law School. In the second and third years, students have the opportunity to learn litigation, legislative advocacy and transactional skills through the School's clinical education program. Students learn through classroom instruction, simulation and representation of clients under the close supervision of the clinical teachers. Students represent clients through all three of the clinics. Participation in the School's clinical education program requires enrollment in one of the clinical courses. Currently these courses include Appellate Advocacy, the Civil Rights Police Accountability Project, the Criminal and Juvenile Justice Project, the Employment Discrimination Project, the Housing Initiative, and Mental Health Advocacy (within the Mandel Clinic); Immigrant Childrens Advocacy; and Entrepreneurship (associated with the Institute for Justice). |
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