Britt gets a handle on civil litigation with a co-op in Boston.
“I am really looking forward to the experience!”-Britt
Givelber Distinguished Lecturers on Public Interest Law
Named in honor of Professor Daniel J. Givelber, a renowned expert on the death penalty and a former dean of the School of Law, this program brings distinguished public service practitioners to the school as visiting faculty so they may share with students and faculty the challenges and satisfactions of public service practice. Each year, two leading practitioners teach a course in an area of speciality related to the public interest. The courses are designed to fall on weekends or in short sessions so that lecturers can be solicited from throughout the country.
Givelber Lecturers
Summer 2011
Monique Harden
Co-Director and Co-Founder, Advocates for Environmental Human Rights
“Environmental
Justice and Human Rights Law”
This course is designed for
students interested in the intersection of human rights and environmental
protection. The course will explore the environmental justice movement in
the United States and its global linkages to environmental human rights law. Course materials focus on the similarities and differences of statutory,
administrative, and judicial responses to toxic and hazardous environmental
conditions in the United States and select foreign countries. Students
will be evaluated on a course project involving environmental human rights
litigation.
Fall 2010
Stuart Rossman
Staff
Attorney and Director of Litigation, National Consumer Law
Center
“Predatory Lending on
Trial: Consumer Advocacy Impact Litigation in the Fringe Financing
Marketplace”
Students can expect to gain or improve their consumer advocacy
and civil litigation skills, as well as deepen their substantive
understanding of state and federal consumer laws and procedure in this brief course.
Summer 2010
Cynthia Chandler
Executive Director, Justice Now (Oakland, California)
“Social Change vs. Appropriation; Abolition vs. Reform”
The course will examine the role and limits of the law in effecting radical social change as seen through critical examination of the current work of the prison reform movement and the counter modern resurgence of the prison industrial complex abolition movement. Emphasis will be placed on evaluation of legal tools for effecting gender liberation, racial justice, and anti-violence strategies (including anti-state violence). In addition to critiquing the role of law, students will be asked to explore the viability and possibility of combining the law with communications, human rights, organizing, and other tools to impact social change: generally asking who should use the law and how, toward what end, and how do you know when you get there. The course is intended to prepare students for on-the-ground problem-solving as practitioners and activists surrounding lawyering, coalition building, evaluating one's impact, ethical use of one's power, and what to do if your strategies "fail."
Fall 2009
Howard Friedman ’77
Law Offices of Howard Friedman, P.C.
“Section 1983 Litigation: Liability of Law Enforcement Officers and Local Government Entities”
Summer 2009
Julie Su
Litigation Director, Asian Pacific American Legal Center of Southern California
“Strategies for Social Change Lawyering: Litigation and Beyond in the Fight for Worker Justice”
Fall 2008
Eugene Benson
Legal Counsel and Services Program Director, Alternatives for Community and Environment
“Environmental Justice: Using Law and Advocacy for Social Change”
Nina Perales
Regional Counsel, San Antonia Office, Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund
“Latino Civil Rights Litigation: Contemporary Responses to Voting Discrimination”
