Madhloom, Omar (2021) Public interest lawyering and cosmopolitanism: a model for teaching immigration law. In, Grimes, Richard, Honuskova, Věra and Stege, Ulrich (eds.) Teaching Migration and Asylum Law : Theory and Practice. 1 ed. Routledge. (doi:10.4324/9781003167617-6).
Abstract
This chapter incorporates cosmopolitan values into legal education to enable students to become more than simply transactional lawyers. The following questions are addressed in this chapter: is there a moral duty on law schools in general and law clinics in particular to engage in policy reform? Can and should law clinics engage in immigration law despite, as in some jurisdictions like the United Kingdom, being restricted from advising or otherwise acting for immigration clients? This chapter identifies how and why clinics can engage students with immigration law and also take part in policy reform. It will integrate cosmopolitan values into clinical legal education to provide students with a normative framework for critiquing immigration law. The central aim is to inculcate future lawyers with a moral concept that draws attention to duties towards third parties namely non-citizens. A cosmopolitan approach is examined in this chapter with the intention of showing how students can be encouraged and even empowered to engage in public interest lawyering.
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