Coastal Law Viewbook - (Page 18) CLI NIC A L & P RO F E S S I O N AL PRO G RA M S Under the supervision of fulltime faculty members, students work with real clients in our in-house clinics while gaining the kind of understanding that can’t be found in classrooms or textbooks. Five clinics are currently offered. In the Family and Child advoCaCy CliniC, you will represent families with issues related to the public school system, divorce, custody and adoption. In the Juvenile law CliniC you may assist clients dealing with delinquency, dependency, and record sealings and expungements. Students working in the Consumer law CliniC represent people with issues such as mortgage foreclosure, debt collection harassment, and errors on credit reports. In the ImmIgratIon Law CLInIC, students provide direct legal services to non-citizens as well as oversee legal advocacy projects. Legal services provided include the preparation of asylum petitions, family unity applications and petitions, applications for naturalization and applications for relief under the Violence Against Women Act and the Victim of Trafficking and Violent Crime Prevention Act. In the Caribbean law CliniC, you have the opportunity to learn about and assess legal problems pending in the courts of Caribbean nations. Each semester an Attorney General from one of the participating countries or U.S. states (Jamaica, Bahamas, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Florida or Texas) refers current legal problems to the Clinic and students research and write reports and memoranda. The research typically involves comparing how international law or the law of a particular country addresses the question and offering a variety of possible solutions. 18
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