Advanced Criminal Defense Clinic

The Advanced Criminal Defense Clinic will be an opportunity for students who have already completed the Criminal Defense Clinic to continue developing their skills and experience in direct and systemic advocacy. Advanced clinic students will have different options for participation, depending on client docket, client interest, student interest, the state of advocacy, and faculty and staff capacity. Criminal Defense Clinic students engage in innovative applications of criminal defense lawyering. They work as holistic, collaborative defense attorneys to people facing misdemeanor charges in New York criminal courts. The clinic also partners with organizations in communities that experience intensive criminal law regulation. Students serve as attorney-consultants to grassroots organizations engaged in systemic and transformative change in criminal law and adjacent fields. Students will think expansively and critically about the role of defense attorneys and organizations in seminar, through reflection exercises, simulations, rounds, and collaborations with experts.