Illinois Litigation Racism, Injustice & Poverty

Catalog description

This course will explore why well over fifty percent of the cases pending in Illinois courts involve taking liberty, money, or homes from poor people and how race factors into this reality. While the course will explore the interrelationship of racism, injustice, and poverty, the course will be focused on training students to try cases is these courts and win cases for poor people. The objectives of this course are to (1) to prepare Loyola students to represent poor people in Illinois courts and (2) excite their imagination about social and legal change, while empowering them to see the law as a vehicle for change.