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Clinical Teaching Practicum. Jean Koh Peters is the Sol Goldman Clinical Professor Emeritus of Law at Yale Law School. An expert in children, families, and the law, as well as asylum law, she joined Yale Law School in 1989 as an associate clinical professor and supervising attorney for The Jerome N. Frank Legal Services Organization. She was ...
- Introduction to The Habits
Jean Koh Peters, Representing the Child-in-Context: Five...
- Celebrating the Teaching and Advocacy
Peters, the Sol Goldman Clinical Professor of Law at Yale...
- Habit 4: Red Flags and Correctives
There are three main parts to Habit Four: anticipating and...
- Five Habits of Cross-Cultural Lawyering
Five Habits of Cross-Cultural Lawyering. Introduction to the...
- Introduction to The Habits
JEAN KOH PETERS. Yale Law School P. O. Box 209090 New Haven, CT 06520-9090 (203) 432-4800. jean.peters@yale.edu. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE. YALE LAW SCHOOL. Sol Goldman Clinical Professor Emeritus of Law 1989-present. 2019-present.
- Brief Introduction
- The Four Threes
- The Three Steps
- The Three Ghosts of Diversity Trainings Past
- The Three Dynamics
- Howell’s Four Stages of Cultural Competency
- Conclusion
- Beyond The Four Threes: Teaching Culture Generally
- Resources For Class Assignments
- Useful For Teachers
We developed five Habits of Cross-Cultural Lawyering in 1999 to provide teaching and practice materials about cross-cultural lawyering in clinical legal education. We believe that all lawyering is cross-cultural, so teaching about cross-cultural lawyering is necessary if clinical students are to provide quality representation to their clients. We a...
We often introduce the Habits in a short lecture identifying four groups of underlying assumptions, known as the Four Threes. The goal for this introduction is to enable students to answer the following three questions: What questions are the Habits asking? Where do the Habits come from? And lastly, how can the Habits help improve the lawyer’s cros...
The first set of three are the Three Steps, which describe the essential elements of cross-cultural lawyering: 1. Identify assumptions in daily practice, which lawyers often make about clients and other participants in the legal system in order to fill gaps of information. 2. Challenge those assumptions with facts.These facts should be gathered fro...
The Three Ghosts attempt to avoid common pitfalls that often plague discussions of diversity and difference generally. The first ghost is fear of being judged by self or others. Our willingness to engage honestly and meaningfully in discussions of diversity and difference is often hindered by an immobilizing fear of judgment–people are afraid to sp...
The Three Dynamics were formulated to banish the Three Ghosts. The Three Dynamics are nonjudgment, isomorphic attribution, and daily habit and learnable skill. Nonjudgment responds to the first ghost, fear of being judged by self or others, by attempting to strip away the branding and labeling that have often been sources of guilt and shame when en...
A useful scheme to introduce here is the learning model developed by William S. Howell. Howell introduced four stages of cultural competency: 1. unconscious incompetence, 2. conscious incompetence, 3. conscious competence, 4. and unconscious competence. W.S. Howell. The Empathic Communicator 30–35 (1982). In other words, many of us begin not knowin...
This introductory presentation of the Four Threes should aid students’ understanding of the Habits’ origins and purposes and about the ways the Habits can help them improve their cross-cultural practice as lawyers. The introduction provides background as they endeavor to learn and practice the habits. Depending on how much time we have allocated to...
Students will more successfully learn the Habits if they have a general understanding of culture and its influence on a lawyer’s thoughts and actions. We usually introduce students to important cultural concept by assigning one of our writings on the Habits. (See Resources below). In addition to learning about the role of culture to the lawyer, her...
Susan Bryant & Jean Koh Peters Chapter 4, The Five Habits of Cross Cultural Lawyering, in RACE, CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY, AND LAW, edited by Kimberly Barrett and William George, Sage Publications(2004) For use in Teaching Habits in all clinical programs. Jean Koh Peters, Representing the Child-in-Context: Five Habits of Cross-Cultural Lawyering, useful ...
Susan Bryant, The Five Habits: Building Cross-Cultural Competence in Lawyers, 8 Clinical L. Rev. 33 (2001), 64 – 67, 81- 82, 88 Susan Bryant & Jean Koh Peters, Reflecting on the Habits: Teaching about Identity, Culture, Language, and Difference, Transforming the Education of Lawyers: the Theory and Practice of Clinical Pedagogy(Carolina 2014) 355 –...
Jan 29, 2019 · Peters, the Sol Goldman Clinical Professor of Law at Yale Law School, is retiring in the summer of 2019 after 30 years at Yale Law School and 36 years in the legal profession. Peters is an expert in children, families, and the law, as well as asylum law.
There are three main parts to Habit Four: anticipating and planning correctives for red flags before a client interaction, noticing red flags and attempting correctives as they occur, and reflecting on red flags and planning new correctives after the fact.
Apr 21, 2022 · Jean Koh Peters** I. INTRODUCTION When the state seeks to intervene into a family on behalf of a child who may have been abused or neglected, how can a child'sviews be made known to the important decision makers in the child's case? This question is at once logistically complex and desperately important to the child. The logistical
Five Habits of Cross-Cultural Lawyering. Introduction to the Habits. Habit 1: Degrees of Separation and Connection. Habit 2: Three Rings: The Worlds of Client, Law, and Lawyer. Habit 3: Parallel Universe Thinking. Habit 4: Red Flags and Correctives. Habit 5: The Camel’s Back. Talking About Race.
