Document Type
Working Paper
Publication Date
12-6-2018
SSRN Discipline
Legal Scholarship Network; Law School Research Papers - Legal Studies; Law & Society eJournals; LSN Subject Matter eJournals
Abstract
This essay argues that transactional legal clinics that serve university urban and rural communities with cultures and ecosystems shaped by the longterm impacts of racial segregation Civil Rights and socioeconomic disenfranchisement can play both a powerful symbolic role and a practical material role in regional economic development by providing direct client representation to historically and economically significant organizations and by training lawyers in transactional methods to use the law to impact the industrial identity and economic vitality of their communities This essay concludes with a design for a transactional law clinic model
Recommended Citation
Casey E. Faucon,
Economic Empowerment in the Alabama Black Belt--A Transactional Law Clinic Theory and Model,
(2018).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.ua.edu/fac_working_papers/494