"YOU CAN TELL IT TO THE JUDGE" AND OTHER TRUE TALES OF LAW SCHOOL LAWYERING

By Frank Askin, editor At Rutgers Law School-Newark, students not only learn the law, they help make the law. For the past forty years, students enrolled in the school's extensive clinical program have helped shape the law on the cutting edge of the legal system under the guidance of faculty members who train future lawyers not just to make money but to make social change. This book describes the diverse activities of the law school clinics, which range from challenging the constitutionality of the war in Iraq to providing equal funding for inner city schools. It describes how eager students have helped invalidate zoning laws that screened out affordable housing in upscale suburbs; successfully challenged inhumane conditions of confinement of immigrant asylum seekers by the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service; guaranteed fair hearings for persons denied Social Security and disability benefits; protected citizens who verbally protested parking tickets from the wrath of