Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Spring 2024
Journal
Clinical Law Review
Volume
30
First Page
227
Last Page
288
Abstract
This Article provides educators with a roadmap for incorporating Critical Legal Research into Clinical Pedagogy. Critical Legal Research is a social justice-oriented critical intervention that provides a theoretical framework and practical application. Critical Legal Research provides lawyers with tools to deconstruct but also reconstruct legal research and analysis modes to engender more just, client-focused outcomes that fall outside dominant legal narratives. The problematic advent of ChatGPT and the broader incorporation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) within the legal research regime has made the Critical Legal Research project more urgent than ever. Ultimately, introducing Critical Legal Research in the clinic seminar is both a necessity and an opportunity: It liberates the minds of our students and challenges them to think creatively in the greater fight against injustice.
Recommended Citation
Priya Baskaran,
Searching for Justice: Incorporating Critical Legal Research Into Clinic Seminar,
30
Clinical Law Review
227
(2024).
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/facsch_lawrev/2246
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