CFCC Student Fellows: A Re-affirming Experiential Law Class

*During weekly seminars, Student Fellows undertake an in-depth examination of the policies and theories surrounding court reform in family law.*

CFCC’s Student Fellows Program I is an experiential course that combines a weekly two-hour classroom component and students taking an active role in research and writing associated with CFCC’s projects, including the Truancy Court Program. Three credits are earned.

In the course, Student Fellows undertake an in-depth examination of the policies and theories surrounding court reform in family law, including unified family courts, therapeutic jurisprudence, and the ecology of human development. They then apply what they have learned to their research, writings, or work in the Truancy Court Program.

CFCC’s Student Fellows Program II is a continuation of the Student Fellows experience and is open only to students who have successfully completed the first semester and by permission of the instructor. Credits will vary from 1 to 2 credits per student.

CFCC Student Fellows consistently say how much the experience reminds them about the passion that brought them to law school and how it has helped them clarify how they want to practice law when they leave. By looking at the family justice system through a lens of therapeutic jurisprudence and the ecology of human development, law students refocus on how the law can help rather than harm the clients they will serve.

CFCC’s Student Fellows Program provides law students with a rich range of experiences: lively classroom discussions, with an inspiring professor (top few photos), selected readings and classroom instructional activities, real-life experience in our Truancy Court Program, and working closely with sitting judges (third row, right), often for the first time.