clients

Written by:  Jeff Pokorak The Carnegie report exhorts us to “put the client back into legal education.” I know many have done great work surfacing the biographies of clients and litigants in cases before our students.  From a fuller contextualization of the litigants Jesse Pierson and  Lodowick Post to the sad path of Ernesto Miranda's life, there is a wealth of information available to help us reanimate our classes with the (ghosts) of the case clients. But what I want to address here is the casual way in which we forget to name or humanize in our efforts to diminish or aggrandize.  Not only the common use of the words "defendant" or "victim" in criminal courts....  But recent writings of others made me wonder: Do slaves or former slaves actually have real names?  Do those executed exist outsideof a description of their status?  Follow me after the jump for examples of each....