SEM-6015: Seminar: Critical Lawyering in Today’s World

This course explores law and lawyering through critical lenses as applied to current legal institutions and questions. We focus this semester on issues of Reproductive Justice – as a microcosm of the systems of White Supremacy and Patriarchy that underlie American Democracy. In so doing, we will consider various lawyering roles and skills, as well as becoming fluent in the basics of class theory, critical race theory, gender theory and intersectionality. In addition, students will learn to use the tools of narrative and critical reflection in their work as lawyers. The seminar will be highly interactive and collaborative; students will lead discussions, present materials, engage in simulations and role-plays, and write a substantive research paper. This course qualifies as a Long Paper offering. Students may take this course for 2 or 3 credits. Students planning to satisfy the long paper requirement in this course, and students who have already satisfied the long paper requirement and plan to write another long paper in this course, should register for three credits.