Classroom Component

The EJP seminar provides intensive instruction in social welfare law, administrative law and related doctrines that bear on the project’s practice. We connect this rigorous legal training to broader perspectives through exploration of the historical, ideological and constitutional roots of social welfare policies and institutions in the United States, the politics of welfare reform, class, race and gender critiques of welfare policy, and comparative analyses of U.S. policies with those in other industrialized nations. We teach lawyering skills with special attention to multi-cultural lawyering, lawyering for subordinated groups and theories of social change.