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Legal Policy Clinic

Unlike other traditional law school clinics that focus on a single substantive area of legal practice, the Legal Policy Clinic offers students the unique opportunity to self-select the legal public policy issues that the student will analyze and advocate in state legislatures, Congress, the California Supreme Court, in the press and in the local community.

Students learn the structural, political, analytical, and strategic methods of legal public policy advocacy by drafting the following policy documents: responses to newspaper articles and commentary, motions and petitions in appellate courts, legislative analyses of pending bills, and community lawyering projects. The Legal Policy Clinic offers students a unique opportunity to learn those skills necessary to advocate for systemic legal change rather than individual client representation.