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283Q sec. 001 - Domestic Violence Field Placement Seminar: Ethics in Practice (Spring 2025)
Instructor: Mallika Kaur (view instructor's teaching evaluations - degree students only | profile)
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Units: 2
Grading Designation: Graded
Mode of Instruction: In-Person
Meeting:
Tu 3:35 PM - 5:25 PM
Location: Law 123
From January 14, 2025
To April 22, 2025
Course End: April 22, 2025
Enrollment info:
Enrolled: 0
Waitlisted: 0
Enroll Limit: 12
As of: 11/23 11:55 PM
The Domestic Violence (DV) Field Placement classroom component is the 2-unit required companion course to the Domestic Violence Field Placement, where students work in non-profit and government agencies (PDs/DAs/legislative/judicial) under the supervision of attorneys to receive academic credit.
Taught by DV Field Placement Program Director Mallika Kaur, this course provides students an opportunity to reflect on their field placement experience in the “lab” of the classroom, exchanging ideas and experimenting with approaches with fellow students working on DV issues in other diverse DV field placements. Students also develop a deeper understanding of the correlation between emotional responses & effective lawyering as they develop their capacity to work with trauma-exposure responses, without compassion fatigue. This course meets the law school's Professional Responsibility requirement.
For more information about the DV Field Placement Program including a partial list of placements, visit:
https://www.law.berkeley.edu/experiential/field-placement-program/domestic-violence-law-field-placement/.
Domestic violence does not only appear in the caseload for family law attorneys or immigration attorneys or criminal attorneys or estate attorneys or personal injury attorneys. Rather, given the ubiquity of domestic violence, all attorneys, knowingly and unknowingly, serve clients impacted by domestic violence. The Field Placement and this companion course are thus open to any student, regardless of past or future goals and experiences.
The placements provide a rewarding opportunity to engage with victim-survivors of DV, to witness the laws around DV in action, to learn important legal skills, to experience negotiating trauma and emotions of legal work, and to build a collaborative network of contacts in the legal community.
See, partial listing of possible 2025 placements at: https://www.law.berkeley.edu/experiential/domestic-violence-law-field-placement/
For questions contact mallikakaur@law.berkeley.edu.
Attendance at the first class is mandatory for all currently enrolled and waitlisted students; any currently enrolled or waitlisted students who are not present on the first day of class (without prior permission of the instructor) will be dropped. The instructor will continue to take attendance throughout the add/drop period and anyone who moves off the waitlist into the class must continue to attend or have prior permission of the instructor in order not to be dropped.
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Exam Notes: (None) Class requires a series of papers, assignments, or presentations throughout the semester
(Subject to change by faculty member only through the first two weeks of instruction)
Course Category: Field Placements
This course is listed in the following sub-categories:
Race and Law
Social Justice and Public Interest
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