Community Health Justice Partnerships Practicum

3 credits · Professional

Community Health Justice Partnerships are community-centric initiatives bringing together health care professionals, community justice workers, lawyers and students for cross-sectoral collaboration and problem-solving to address health inequities arising from unequal access to the social determinants of health (e.g., income, housing, employment) and related denials of rights and agency in health, justice and community services. This course will bring together law students and students from Dalhousie’s Faculty of Health for classroom-based learning and community service responsive to the needs of persons affected by intersecting grounds of discrimination (ableism, colonialism, racism, heteropatriarchal oppression) which operate to create and perpetuate poverty, criminalization, institutionalization and other health-harming injustices. This is a full-year course - students must register for the fall term (LAWS 2392) and the winter term (LAWS 2492). Interested students are also encouraged to complete one or more of the following: LAWS 2132 – Health Law LAWS 2235 / LAWS 2236 – Mental Disability Law: Criminal LAWS 2217 / LAWS 2218 – Mental Disability Law: Civil LAWS 2223 / LAWS 224 – Elder Law LAWS 2276 – Imprisonment and Penal Policy LAWS 2076 – Poverty Law and Human Rights LAWS 2221 – Public Health Law LAWS 2280 – Aboriginal Peoples and the Law LAWS 2270 – Indigenous Governance LAWS 2287 – Revitalizing Indigenous Feminist Governance LAWS 2194 – Critical Race & Legal Theory LAWS 2251 – African Nova Scotians and the Law LAWS 2098 – Refugee and Forced Human Migration Law LAWS 2310 – Child Protection Law LAWS 2188 – Restorative Justice: Theory and Practice LAWS 2207 – Genders, Sexualities and Laws LAWS 2253 Class Action Law and Procedure in Canada CALENDAR NOTES: This is an “apply separately” course; instructions will be circulated prior to course registration. Instructor permission required. Assessment Method: Students are evaluated on a pass/fail/honours basis, based on a series of individual and group assignments. PREREQUISITES: LAWS 2062 – Constitutional Law (or the full-year version). LAWS 2000 – Administrative Law is an asset. RESTRICTIONS: Open to 3L students only, subject to exceptional circumstances.