CLEAR Clinic Plenary

LAW

861P

CLEAR Clinic Plenary

Students in CLEAR are required to attend and participate in “Plenary” seminars as well as separate supervision meetings with their colleagues and supervising attorneys, client meetings, formal appearances before courts and agencies, workshops, and organizing meetings. Plenary is devoted to clinical rounds and lawyering simulations, with critical discussion of doctrine, legislation, regulations, policy, and trends on many of the following topics, among others:- Law enforcement policies and practices in relation to security and “counterterrorism;”- Movement lawyering;- Over-policing of communities of color;- Surveillance and its societal effects;- Federal watch lists;- Material support statutes and predatory prosecutions;- Interrogating “terrorism,” “radicalization,” and other criminalizing concepts;- Delays, denials, and other actions taken on purported security grounds in the immigration system; and- Exporting the U.S. security state.

Fall

Law

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