Reimagining Advocacy - Rhetorical Education in the Legal Clinic

Investigates how students in a clinical legal education program learned to advocate effectively and ethically with clients abused by intimate partners. Demonstrates the importance of valuing clients as experts in their own lives and as equal partners in decision making.

About the author

Elizabeth C. Britt is Associate Professor of English at Northeastern University. She is the author of Conceiving Normalcy: Rhetoric, Law, and the Double Binds of Infertility.

Summary

Investigates how students in a clinical legal education program learned to advocate effectively and ethically with clients abused by intimate partners. Demonstrates the importance of valuing clients as experts in their own lives and as equal partners in decision making.

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth C. Britt, Elizabeth C. (Northeastern University) Britt, Britt Elizabeth C.
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.04.2018
• EAN: 9780271081038
• ISBN: 978-0-271-08103-8
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 295 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss
• Series: Rsa Series in Transdisciplinar; Rsa Series in Transdisciplinary Rhetoric; RSA Series in Transdisciplinary Rhetoric
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Communication science; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sexual Abuse & Harassment, LAW / Family Law / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Work, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric, LAW / Gender & the Law, Social Work, Communication Studies, Family Law, Gender & the law, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics