SXSW EDU 2020

Disrupting Law: Expand Migrant Access to Justice

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Building on Disrupting Law School: How disruptive technologies will revolutionize the legal world, a whitepaper published by the Christensen Institute, co-authors Michael B. Horn and Michele R. Pistone share an innovative new online certificate program to train non-lawyer immigrant advocates to provide access to justice for poor migrants, just as lawyers do. A student in the pilot will share her experiences in this disruptive model for learning to practice immigration law without a JD degree.


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  1. 1. Expand online, flexibly-paced competency-based education to new fields – training non-lawyers to provide limited legal services to immigrants
  2. 2. Partner with funders, non-profits, and other institutions so students across the country can be trained to fill the gap in immigrant access to just
  3. 3. Create and scale an innovative new educational program within an existing institution, when you are not the university president

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Michele Pistone, Prof Of Law, Villanova University


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