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- Title
BBEYOND RESPONSE: REIMAGINING THE LEGAL ACADEMY'S ROLE IN DISASTER RECOVERY AND PREPAREDNESS.
- Authors
NIXON-JONES, LATISHA
- Abstract
This Article proposes expanding the legal academy's role in responding to disasters and emergencies, specifically through creating disaster clinics that take a community-based lawyering approach. The Article is one of the first to identify the need for community-based disaster legal clinical education that goes beyond the immediate response phase. It also proposes creating a disaster legal pipeline from the clinic through post-graduation employment. The Article furthers the literature's discussion of the need for sustained disaster legal education. As the global pandemic caused by COVID-19 coronavirus continues to impact vulnerable populations and the frequency of natural disasters continues to increase, this Article provides a blueprint to law school faculty and administrators on the process of starting a new clinic or redesigning an existing clinic into a long-term disaster-related clinic. Additionally, the Article provides a timeline of disaster legislation that has evolved to provide a robust background for seminar courses. The Article draws from the author's expertise in creating two disaster clinics and multiple disaster and environmental justice courses.
- Subjects
EMERGENCY management education; DISASTER relief; LEGAL education; ENVIRONMENTAL justice; LAW schools
- Publication
Cleveland State Law Review, 2023, Vol 71, Issue 3, p571
- ISSN
0009-8876
- Publication type
Article