LAWU-530 Working With Domestic Violence Survivors
This course is intended not only to instruct students about the law of domestic violence but also as a practical, hands-on experience in assisting clients in obtaining and enforcing 209A restraining orders and/or addressing these issues within Family Law proceedings in cooperation with the FAC, specifically Christine Butler and Maritza Karmely. Guest speakers will provide further insight from the perspectives of criminal proceedings involving domestic violence, batterers' intervention programs and shelters for survivors and their children. In addition, students will be required to analyze the causes and patterns of domestic violence and multi-disciplinary responses to these as set forth in the opinions of various writers.