Course ID: | JURI 4800/6800. 1-6 hours. Repeatable for maximum 16 hours credit. |
Course Title: | Land Use Clinic |
Course Description: | Law students will work under the supervision of a clinician to
provide advice, consultation, and drafting assistance to
individuals, towns, and the State of Georgia on land uses.
Students will research, investigate, analyze, and draft proposed
transactions, and will study the policy and practical dimensions
of land use practice. |
Oasis Title: | LAND USE CLINIC |
Semester Course Offered: | Offered fall, spring and summer semester every year. |
Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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Course Objectives: | 1. To provide law students an advanced substantive course in
land use law focusing on growth management.
2. To provide these students an opportunity to develop their
research, analytical, drafting, and communication skills by
working for specific clients to address pressing growth
management issues.
3. To provide state, regional, and local governments/agencies
and others assistance in researching unresolved legal issues
surrounding growth management and drafting laws and policies to
promote quality growth. |
Topical Outline: | Students will work between 10 and 20 hours per week in the
clinic office to gain practical experience in land use planning
and land use law. The weekly class meetings will combine
substantive instruction with staff law and in materials on
planning, environmental design and ecology. It will also use
materials on transactional practice and develop student
understanding of common practice challenges. During staff
meetings, students will review the status of pending cases, and
discuss the use and development of lawyering approaches to their
cases.
In their clinic work, students will work on comprehensive growth
management issues identified at the beginning of each semester
by clients and by the clinic's supervisors. Students will
engage in at least one substantial piece of research and
writing, either as client work or through clinical development.
Finally, students will engage in traditional clinical
reflection, through periodic journals and focused personal
interviews with clinicians. |