Meeting the Challenge of the Pro Bono Declaration: Contributions of Law Schools and Their Clinics
- Organization: IBA
- Author: Robin Westbrook
- Document Type: Program materials
- Creation Date: Thursday, November 06, 2008
- Submitted: Thursday, November 06, 2008
- Attachment: PDF
IBA Conference Session Materials.
IBA Annual Conference, Buenos Aires 2008.
Meeting the Challenge of the Pro Bono Declaration: Contributions of Law Schools and Their Clinics.
To varying degrees in different communities, law schools and their academic clinics assist in the legal empowerment of the underserved. Law schools acquaint students with lawyers' professional obligations to underserved communities in many ways. This article focuses on how the curricular, extracurricular and clinical programs at the American University Washington College of Law in Washington, D.C. work toward this objective.
