Author: Meris Bray
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Susan Bryant, “The Five Habits: Building Cross-Culture Competence in Lawyers”
This article demonstrates how developing the Five Habits increases cross-cultural competence and the methods clinical teachers can use to have more inclusive conversations while building cross-cultural skills. The Habits can be used to avoid cultural blinders and recover from cultural blunders. The Five Habits are: Teachers can develop these habits and cross-cultural competence in students…
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Mary Lynch, “Importance of Experiential Learning for Development of Essential Skills in Cross-Cultural and Intercultural Effectiveness”
This article examines the importance of cross-cultural misunderstandings within the lawyer-client relationship, a relationship which requires trust. Intercultural effectiveness is critical for law students to learn because of the significant consequences that flow from cross-cultural misunderstandings in relationships within law practice. It may result in interference with rapport, problem-solving, and peacemaking. Cross-cultural misunderstandings may unintentionally…
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Mary Lee Nelson et al, “A Feminist Multicultural Perspective on Supervision”
This article discusses how gender and race interact with each other within the context of supervision. The authors suggest that in order to be open to multicultural supervision and the perspectives therein, supervisors must have the courage to be anxious, grapple with the uncertainty with respect to the silence that occurs in relation to feminism…
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Linden Thomas & Nick Johnson, The Clinical Legal Education Handbook
This handbook is a practical guide for clinicians written by a group of clinicians, clinic professors, and lawyers in the United Kingdom. The handbook consists of seven parts: information regarding legal clinics, regulatory frameworks, assessments, and research on clinical legal education, including the emotional well-beingof clinic members, skill development, and other topics, including supervision. The…
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Gerald Corey et al, Clinical Supervision in the Helping Professions
This chapter, entitled “Becoming a Multiculturally Competent Supervisor”, explores the importance of ensuring that supervisors incorporate diversity perspectives into their supervision through a multicultural supervisory practice. This chapter goes on to provide practical suggestions for incorporating multicultural strategies into supervision. Culture, as applicable to supervision, has been described as such: “By defining culture broadly, to…
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Bill Ong Hing, “Raising Personal Identification Issues of Class, Race, Ethnicity, Gender, Sexual Orientation, Physical Disability, and Age in Lawyering Courses”
This paper describes how personal identification issues are raised in three different lawyering classes, one of which is an immigration clinic, and how issues of identity difference can be raised more effectively. In this immigration clinic course, students meet weekly in a group and with supervising attorneys to discuss their work. The group meeting consists…
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Antoinette Sedillo Lopez, “Making and Breaking Habits: Teaching (and Learning) Cultural Context, Self-Awareness, and Intercultural Communication through Case Supervision in a Client-Service Legal Clinic”
This article discusses the teaching and learning of cultural knowledge, awareness, and skills in clinical programs through a variety of methods, including research, reading, roleplay, case rounds, observation, and group discussion. The article offers teaching objectives that can be used to focus supervision and education on effective representation of clients from a variety of cultures.…