Journal article
Etta & Dan: Seeking a Prelude to a Transformative Journey
Clinical Law Review, Vol.23(1), pp.251-281
2016
Abstract
This article focuses on the complex and inspiring relationship depicted by Gerald López in Rebellious Lawyering between Dan, a young lawyer, and his mentor, Etta, a community organizer (lay lawyer). Dan’s journal entries show us one model of rebellious lawyering (and living), a quiet rebellion, in which he identifies and includes his feelings, recognizes and challenges assumptions and biases, redefines productivity and success, and embraces vulnerability and uncomfortable risks. This article poses the question of what role legal pedagogy might play in creating, sustaining or preserving Dan’s rebellious core and leading him, and other students, to mentors like Etta. It uses Dan’s experience to formulate both an internal path to rebellion, in which legal educators teach rebelliously by modeling Dan’s vulnerabilities, as well as his strengths, and an external path involving teachers ceding their position at the front of the classroom to organizers and other lay lawyers. The article concludes by proposing greater inclusion of, and support for, organizing and activism in law schools and considers the incorporation of integrative medicine into the traditional, western medical curriculum as one potential model for challenging entrenched notions of authority and values about what is worth teaching and who is a teacher.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Etta & Dan: Seeking a Prelude to a Transformative Journey
- Creators
- Daria Fisher Page
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Clinical Law Review, Vol.23(1), pp.251-281
- ISSN
- 1079-1159
- Date published
- 2016
- Academic Unit
- Law Faculty; Central Admin Facilities
- Record Identifier
- 9984648860102771
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