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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Takeaways
- 1. Expand online, flexibly-paced competency-based education to new fields – training non-lawyers to provide limited legal services to immigrants
- 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. Create and scale an innovative new educational program within an existing institution, when you are not the university president
Speakers
- Michele Pistone, Professor of Law, Villanova University
- Michael Horn, Head of Strategy and Senior Partner, Entangled Solutions
- Jane Brady, student, Villanova University
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Michele Pistone, Prof Of Law, Villanova University
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