Law student volunteers will conduct legal research and draft short memos on reproductive justice issues. The project requires access to and familiarity with common legal databases, like Westlaw and Lexis. Students will be assigned a research question to be answered in 1-3 page memo. The session will allow students to begin working on answering their assigned research questions in a supportive environment. As needed, students may continue working on their memos after the session, including during winter break. The goal of the project is to provide technical and legal assistance to reproductive justice organizations, and give to students legal research and writing experience.
Organization
If/When/How Texas Law
If/When/How Texas Law is the Texas Law chapter of If/When/How, a national non-profit
Project Details
- Project Date
Wednesday, November 16
- Project Time
- 5:45-8:00pm
- Approximate hours of work requested
- 1.5 hours including training
- Training
- Students will be trained during the first 30 minutes of the session
- Skills used
- legal research and writing
- Project location
- Goodwin Conference Room (CCJ 1.312)
- Number of student volunteers requested
- 5
- Class year preference
- 1L, 2L, 3L, LLM
- Required skills
- elementary proficiency with legal research; basic legal writing skills
- To Apply
- Submit email stating interest to Sarah Sedgwick at ssedgwick@law.utexas.edu