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Home > Prospective Students > Curriculum > Course Guide > Course Details Course DetailsChild Advocacy and Juvenile Justice
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Description:The Child Advocacy Clinic is a two-semester clinic offered annually since 1995. The clinic gives students practical experience in handling family law and juvenile law cases with an emphasis on children's rights. Weekly classroom sessions cover such topics as interviewing, negotiation, and motion practice. Students earn a total of four credits to be allocated between the semesters. Beginning in the fall semester, students handle three to four cases over the academic year. The cases are selected to provide students with a variety of experience in pretrial procedure, negotiation, discovery, and courtroom practice. The Child Advocacy Clinic also has a project with the Hennepin County Public Defender's Office to provide representation to juveniles in CHIPS (Children in Need of Protection and Services) matters in juvenile court. Additional cases involve family court custody and Guardian ad Litem representation for the Hennepin County Guardian ad Litem program. The clinic is designed with a classroom component, a simulation component and an actual case-handling component in family and juvenile court. The classroom and simulation portions of the course occur during the first semester. The classroom component consists of topics specifically relating to children's issues including child development and interviewing children. The simulation component revolves around mock cases designed to familiarize students with family and juvenile court procedure. The actual case component of the course stretches over both semesters. |
Sections
Fall 2012–Spring 2013: Child Advocacy and Juvenile Justice
show details- Professor Perry Moriearty (URL pmoriear@umn.edu),
- Professor Jean Sanderson (URL jsanders@umn.edu)
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Details:(see course description, above)
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