Community Education and Access to Justice in a Time of Scarcity: Notes from the West Grove Trolley Garage Case

24 Pages Posted: 19 Mar 2013

Abstract

This Essay is part of an ongoing series of case studies on the progress of law school-affiliated public service projects conducted in partnership with faith based, nonprofit groups for the purposes of educating and training law students in community lawyering. Housed in the Historic Black Church Program at the University of Miami School of Law’s Center for Ethics and Public Service, the projects seek to build a pedagogy of civic professionalism and community engagement within a hybrid classical and clinical model of legal education. Still inchoate, the curricular model draws on multiple university disciplines, diverse law school pedagogies, and varied legal-political reform practices to fashion innovative advocacy, organizing, and policy approaches to alleviating concentrated inner-city poverty. Briefly sketched, the Essay outlines this evolving model in terms of its core components (community education, community research, and historic preservation) and its street-level application (the West Grove Trolley Garage case), noting its broader relevance to faith-based community outreach and interfaith coalition building in a time of public and private resource scarcity.

Suggested Citation

Alfieri, Anthony Victor, Community Education and Access to Justice in a Time of Scarcity: Notes from the West Grove Trolley Garage Case. Wisconsin Law Review, Forthcoming, University of Miami Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2013-03, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2235684

Anthony Victor Alfieri (Contact Author)

University of Miami School of Law ( email )

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