Clinical Practice Areas
The Clinical Law Program comprises six advanced legal education courses: the Business Law Clinic, the Trusts and Estates Clinic, the Sustainability Law Clinic, the Child and Family Advocacy Clinic, the Law and Government Clinic, and the International Human Rights Clinic. The clinical program offerings provide Willamette law students with hands-on, professional experience in the actual law practice.
International Human Rights Clinic
The International Human Rights Clinic enables students to represent clients in a variety of dynamic cases and projects that incorporate international human rights law, such as customary international law or treaty law, or are before international human rights bodies. Read more
Sustainability Law Clinic
The Sustainability Law Clinic provides students with an opportunity to work on emerging issues at the intersection of environmental law and policy and civil rights law. With a focus on environmental justice issues, clinical law students approach case work from a client empowerment perspective. Read more
Trusts and Estates Clinic
Students enrolled in the Trusts and Estates Clinic represent clients who need non-tax estate planning. Most clinic clients, whether single or married, have children who are too young to manage property themselves. Other clients have adult children, are childless, or are terminally ill or elderly. Read more