Students will work with Prof. Lucy Wood for a week over winter break. Students will research case law and scholarship to catalogue instances in which educators have been found criminally responsible for the abuse of children with disabilities in special education contexts, and work with Prof. Wood to create a repository of such cases.
Organization
INCLUDE, Mithoff Pro Bono Program
INCLUDE enables students to provide free legal services to persons with disabilities and their families. INCLUDE is an internal project of the Richard and Ginni Mithoff Pro Bono Program, in partnership with the William Wayne Justice Center for Public Interest Law.
Project Details
- Project Start Date
January 2022
- Approximate hours of work requested
- 20-40 hours in January 2022
- Training
- Training and supervision will be provided on an ongoing basis by Prof. Lucy Wood
- Skills used
- Legal research/writing
- Project location
- Virtual
- Address
- 727 E. Dean Keeton Street, Austin, TX 78705
- Number of student volunteers requested
- 2
- Class year preference
- 1L, 2L, 3L
- Required skills
- Strong research skills and interest in prosecution, child protection, and/or special education
- To Apply
- Submit email stating interest and forwarding resume and transcript to Prof. Lucy Wood at lwood@law.utexas.edu; applications received by noon on Tuesday, December 28 will receive priority consideration