Community Action for Social and Economic Rights
Fall/Spring term, Block M
T 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Professor Lucie E. White
5 classroom credits LAW-32370A (3 Fall + 2 Spring)
Optional clinical credits LAW-32370C (2 Winter or 2, 3, 4 Spring)
This course will address theories and methods for promoting social and economic rights through community-based advocacy. It will include hands-on training in grassroots advocacy methods, such as human rights education and strategic action planning. We will situate these practices within theoretical debates about development, democracy, race, community, and power. Course requirements include weekly reflection memos, a short theory paper, a community-based project, and, with other students, facilitating a class session. The course will continue to meet in the spring semester on Wednesdays from 5-7pm.
Both the course and clinical are well suited for foreign students without a US law degree.
Students who would like to participate in the optional winter or spring clinical must enroll through clinical registration (if interested in a fall clinical, please contact the instructor). Please refer to the Office of Clinical and Pro Bono Programs (http://www.law.harvard.edu/academics/clinical) for clinical registration dates, add/drop deadlines, and other clinical information.