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Policy Practicum: Justice By Design

Past Offerings

Policy Practicum: Justice By Design (806Y): Legal aid groups, government agencies, and state courts offer free help to people experiencing housing, debt, family, and other major life problems. This policy lab will examine how to make this legal help more accessible, trusted, and impactful. How can more people be aware and empowered to use legal help, especially in a more equitable way? Students in this policy lab will research and design national strategies for making legal help and government services more discoverable, user-friendly, and trustworthy. Students will conduct user research, technology experiments, and legal research to identify what specific initiatives might make legal help more engaging and impactful. The students will be able to explore a range of new kinds of innovations from technology, to community partnerships, to service design--and help justice organizations make a coherent strategy for increasing uptake and engagement with their public services. This class is open to Stanford Law students, and available for cross-registration for graduate and undergraduate students from across campus. We encourage students from outside the Law School to apply. Students will be working together in small teams. Grading will be based on presentations, written assignments, class participation, and group work. CONSENT APPLICATION: To access the consent application for this course, go to link SLS Registrar https://registrar.law.stanford.edu/ and then click SUNetID Login in the top right corner of the page. See application for deadline and instructions. Cross-listed with Design (DESIGN 271).

Sections

Policy Practicum: Justice By Design | LAW 806Y Section 01 Class #34956

  • 3 Units
  • Grading: Satisfactory/No Credit
  • 2022-2023 Spring
    Schedule No Longer Available
  • Enrollment Limitations: Consent 30
  • Learning Outcomes Addressed:
    • LO2 - Legal Analysis and Reasoning
    • LO3 - Ability to Conduct Legal Research
    • LO4 - Ability to Communicate Effectively in Writing
    • LO5 - Ability to Communicate Orally
    • LO6 - Law Governing Lawyers/Ethical Responsibilities
    • LO7 - Professional Skills

Notes: Cross-listed with Design (DESIGN 271).

  • 2022-2023 Spring
    Schedule No Longer Available

Policy Practicum: Justice By Design: Eviction (806Y): Client: NAACP, https://naacp.org/. Three out of five people in civil cases have no lawyer, but are often navigating issues with profound legal importance to their lives. At the same time, the courts are trying to manage a massive volume of cases, with particularly large numbers of cases concerning housing and eviction. What are the new policies & services that can prevent evictions effectively, and promote housing stability? This policy practicum will partner students with the NAACP, which is developing new eviction prevention pilots. Students will work on designing and evaluating new eviction pilots, including on how to get more community education around housing law, housing navigators to support people through the court process, and collaborative housing court models to promote better outcomes. We will work with interviews, observations, data-gathering, and workshops to understand how eviction cases work and what outcomes result. Students will map out opportunities for pilots and plan for how they can be evaluated. This class is part of a multi-year partnership to redesign the civil justice system so that it works better for all litigants, especially those without a lawyer. Students will learn how to do design research, facilitate multi-stakeholder system redesign, and envision a government innovation process. Their work will directly feed into future classes, pilots, and studies into how to make housing court more efficient, accessible, and just. Elements used in grading: Attendance, Performance, Class Participation, Written Assignments, Final Paper. CONSENT APPLICATION: To apply for this course, students must complete and submit a Consent Application Form available at https://law.stanford.edu/education/courses/consent-of-instructor-forms/. See Consent Application Form for instructions and submission deadline.

Sections

Policy Practicum: Justice By Design: Eviction | LAW 806Y Section 01 Class #32945

  • 3 Units
  • Grading: Satisfactory/No Credit
  • 2021-2022 Winter
    Schedule No Longer Available
  • Enrollment Limitations: Consent 16
    • 1L: Winter Elective (Open to First-Year JD Students)
  • Graduation Requirements:
    • PW-Professional Writing Requirement for Law Degree
  • Learning Outcomes Addressed:
    • LO1 - Substantive and Procedural Law
    • LO3 - Ability to Conduct Legal Research
    • LO4 - Ability to Communicate Effectively in Writing
    • LO5 - Ability to Communicate Orally
    • LO6 - Law Governing Lawyers/Ethical Responsibilities
    • LO7 - Professional Skills

  • 2021-2022 Winter
    Schedule No Longer Available

Policy Practicum: Justice By Design: Eviction (806Y): Client: NAACP, https://naacp.org/. Three out of five people in civil cases have no lawyer, but are often navigating issues with profound legal importance to their lives. At the same time, the courts are trying to manage a massive volume of cases, with particularly large numbers of cases concerning housing and eviction. What are the new policies & services that can prevent evictions effectively, and promote housing stability? This policy practicum will partner students with the NAACP, which is developing new eviction prevention pilots. Students will work on designing and evaluating new eviction pilots, including on how to get more community education around housing law, housing navigators to support people through the court process, and collaborative housing court models to promote better outcomes. We will work with interviews, observations, data-gathering, and workshops to understand how eviction cases work and what outcomes result. Students will map out opportunities for pilots and plan for how they can be evaluated. This class is part of a multi-year partnership to redesign the civil justice system so that it works better for all litigants, especially those without a lawyer. Students will learn how to do design research, facilitate multi-stakeholder system redesign, and envision a government innovation process. Their work will directly feed into future classes, pilots, and studies into how to make housing court more efficient, accessible, and just. Elements used in grading: Attendance, Performance, Class Participation, Written Assignments, Final Paper. CONSENT APPLICATION: To apply for this course, students must complete and submit a Consent Application Form available at https://law.stanford.edu/education/courses/consent-of-instructor-forms/. See Consent Application Form for instructions and submission deadline.

Sections

Policy Practicum: Justice By Design: Eviction | LAW 806Y Section 01 Class #42636

  • 3 Units
  • Grading: Satisfactory/No Credit
  • 2021-2022 Autumn
    Schedule No Longer Available
  • Enrollment Limitations: Consent 16
  • Graduation Requirements:
    • PW-Professional Writing Requirement for Law Degree
  • Learning Outcomes Addressed:
    • LO1 - Substantive and Procedural Law
    • LO3 - Ability to Conduct Legal Research
    • LO4 - Ability to Communicate Effectively in Writing
    • LO5 - Ability to Communicate Orally
    • LO6 - Law Governing Lawyers/Ethical Responsibilities
    • LO7 - Professional Skills

  • 2021-2022 Autumn
    Schedule No Longer Available
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