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Transformative Immigration Law

Transformative Immigration Law - Professor Stephen Manning

Course Number: LAW-465
Course Type: Highly Specialized and Experiential
Credits: 2
Enrollment Limit: 8
Description: This course engages students in studying how law changes and the role of lawyers and other actors and institutions in initiating, motivating, supporting, and resisting that change. The course is fundamentally experiential, providing real-world experience in immigration law and policy in the context of instruction about legal change. It connects students with the work of the Equity Corps of Oregon (ECO), Oregon’s universal representation program for Oregonians in removal proceedings. Students will work with an experienced immigration law practitioner on removal defense cases through ECO. Although the course revolves around an immigration law topic, it will be useful to any student interested in legal transformation. The course will take a comprehensive approach to the issue, encouraging students to think in novel ways about how law evolves and what role lawyers can play in its evolution.
Prerequisite: none. Immigration Law is recommended.
Evaluation Method: The course will require significant preparation outside of class, intensive writing, and a commitment to attendance and full participation in the work with clients. Client-related work will take place in downtown Portland.
Capstone: no
WIE: Yes

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