Dignity, Voice, Story
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January 24, 2011
The following podcast is a recording of Jean Koh Peters’s inaugural lecture as the Sol Goldman Clinical Professor of Law. The lecture, titled “Dignity, Voice, Story,” touches upon Professor Peters’s work representing children and refugees and her approach to clinical law teaching.
An expert in children, families, and the law, Peters joined Yale Law School in 1989 as an associate clinical professor and supervising attorney for The Jerome N. Frank Legal Services Organization. She was named clinical professor in 1993 and was named the Sol Goldman Clinical Professor of Law in October 2009. She previously was an assistant clinical professor at Columbia Law School and associate director of Columbia’s Child Advocacy Clinic. Prior to that, she served as a staff attorney in the Juvenile Rights Division of the Legal Aid Society in New York City, after clerking for the late William P. Gray of the U.S. District Court in Los Angeles.
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