Jailhouse Lawyering Course

Seminar L-707
Fall Semester
1999 Professor Teresa A. Miller
Course meets on dates & at times TBA

The goal of the seminar is to convey a meaningful understanding of the procedural and substantive legal issues unique to incarcerated litigants, and to develop instructional materials for the teaching of legal research and writing to incarcerated litigants. This seminar will culminate in the production of a new, revised manual for the teaching of legal research and writing to prisoners. Along the way, students will study the historic creation, expansion and more recent retrenchment of prisoners' access to courts. They will also generate academic materials that will be used to teach research and writing to prisoners.