COURSE DESCRIPTION 2012 2013

Battered Women's Advocacy Project

Ms. Christine Butler,

4 credits day; 4 credits evening.

Battered Women's Advocacy Project BWAP is a one-semester clinical course offered to students in their last or next-to-last year of law school. It provides for each student to be placed in a courthouse, Legal Services Office or legal advocacy office one day weekly to assist on an as- needed basis with cases involving orders of protection and criminal harassments complaints by any individual being abused by a family member or intimate partner. Students must also attend class once weekly (1 hour, 50 minutes) and the class combines some lectures and guest speaker presentations with open discussions, viewing and discussing documentary work on domestic violence issues and case-related discussions arising from the students‘ various placements. This is a pass-fail course, with some written assignments, including journals relating to placements.

Elective Course

Meets Civil Litigation Concentration Requirements

Biomedical Law and Public Policy