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LAW 6335 - Aging and the Law Practicum

Credits: 3

Introduces the physiological, psychological, sociological, and legal realities that shape the experience of aging in society today. This experiential course focuses on ways lawyers act collaboratively to solve problems, including contextualizing and expanding basic doctrinal analysis of applicable law and how it can be used to constrain or facilitate human action. Includes solving problems, using law as a tool of advocacy, collaborating with firm members, developing fact-based expertise, using cognitive capacity assessment tools, and exploring varied paradigms of legal thinking. Students work with federal and state laws and judicial processes that impact aging individuals. Special projects and exercises, including collaborative work in small firms and fieldwork in the Dallas area, exposes students to the legal systems addressing competency and independence, such as consumer protection and guardianship, aging in place, and the array of income and health benefits programs. Provides a foundation to pursue a legal practice incorporating the special concerns of the aging.


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