LAW 634: Community and Economic Development Clinic
The Community and Economic Development Clinic represents low income communities in forming entities and finding creative legal solutions to economic and legal issues. Students provide transactional legal services that help an individual, group, or organization to initiate operation, continue operation, or address a particular legal problem. The Clinic does not provide any legal assistance in initiating or defending litigation. The Community and Economic Development Clinic provides transactional legal services for client groups engaged in different kinds of neighborhood-based community development. It represents and helps organize small non-profits and businesses, and tenants’ associations in the public and private sectors, all of whom share the goal of developing different kinds of resources for greatly underserved urban communities. Through participation in the Clinic, students enhance their understanding of business concepts through the representation of traditionally underserved clients. Students also have the opportunity to examine the ethical and social change issues involved in group transactional representation as an innovative approach to poverty law practice. Pre-requisite: Corporations or Corporations and Business Entities. Pass/Fail. Enrollment limited. [3 credit hours]
LAW 726: Community and Economic Development Clinic - Advanced
An optional second semester is available. Maximum credit of five Clinic credits. Pass/Fail. Faculty approval required. [2 credit hours]
