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Publications | Presentations | Professional Affiliations
Steven Schwinn came to John Marshall from the University of Maryland School of Law, where he joined the faculty in 2001. In 2005, he received the Clinical Legal Education Association Award for Excellence for his work as a faculty co-supervisor on a post-conviction case involving a petitioner's claim of innocence, and has been recognized for his pro bono work. Previously, he taught at George Washington University Law School for two years.
Professor Schwinn also was assistant general counsel for the Peace Corps from 1996 to 1999. In law school, he was a member of the editorial board of the American University Journal of Gender & Law. He has written and lectured on a variety of legal topics. Professor Schwinn's specialty areas include constitutional law, negotiation, client interviewing, appellate advocacy, legal analysis, and writing.
Professor Schwinn joined the faculty in 2007. He teaches Lawyering Skills and Constitutional Law II.
Professor Schwinn's Constitutional Law Page
Full Curriculum Vitae
Publications
Displaced Workers and Their Search for Support in a Broken Bureaucracy, 40 Clearinghouse Rev. J. of Poverty L. & Pol'y 107 (2008), available on ssrn at http://ssrn.com/abstract=1236122
Reconstructing the Constitutional Case Against Mandatory Welfare Home Visits, 42 Clearinghouse Rev. J. of Poverty L. & Pol'y 42 (2008), available on ssrn at http://ssrn.com/abstract=1153128
Developmental Learning Theory in the First Year: From Regression to Progression (2008), available on ssrn at http://ssrn.com/abstract=1137047
Welfare Reform in a Global Economy, 11 U. Iowa J. Gender, Race & Justice 209 (2008), available on ssrn at http://ssrn.com/abstract=1117046
The Faces of Open Courts and the Civil Right to Counsel, 37 U. Balt. L. Rev. 21 (2007), available on ssrn at http://ssrn.com/abstract=1108892
The Right to Counsel on Appeal: Civil Douglas, 15 Temple Pol. & Civ. Rights L. Rev. 603 (2006), available on ssrn at http://ssrn.com/abstract=1010755
Sidestepping Lassiter on the Path to Civil Gideon: Civil Douglas, 40 Clearinghouse Rev. J. of Poverty L. & Pol'y 217 (2006), available on ssrn at http://ssrn.com/abstract=923579
Teaching Legal Research and Writing with Actual Legal Work: Extending Clinical Education into the First Year, 12 Clinical L. Rev. 441 (2006) (with Michael A. Millemann), available on ssrn at http://ssrn.com/abstract=897554
Toward a More Expansive Welfare Devolution Debate, 9 Lewis & Clark L. Rev. 311 (2005), available on ssrn at http://ssrn.com/abstract=659341
Presentations
Actual Legal Work in the First Year, International Future of Legal Education Conference, Atlanta, GA (February 2008) (invited)
Connecting Global and Domestic Poverty in Theory and Practice, AALS Workshop on Clinical Legal Education, New Orleans, LA (June 2007)
Strategies to Achieve a Civil Right to Counsel, U. Balt. L. Rev. Symposium, Civil Gideon in Maryland and Beyond, Baltimore, MD (April 2007)
Welfare Reform in a Global Economy, U. Iowa J. Gender, Race & Justice Symposium, One Act, Ten Years, and Thousands of Families: Welfare Reform in Contemporary America, Iowa City, Iowa (October 2006)
Theory and Models of Actual Legal Work in the First Year, AALS Teaching Intentionally Conference, Vancouver, BC (June 2006)
Civil Douglas, Edward V. Sparer Symposium on Civil Gideon, Philadelphia, PA (March 2006)
Extending Clinic into the First Year, Expanding the Clinical Experience Panel, Sixth International Clinical Conference, Los Angeles, CA (October 2005)
Theory and Practice of Live Client Problems, Legal Writing Institute Biennial Conference, Seattle, WA (July 2004)
Bridging the Gap Between Clinic and Legal Writing, AALS Section on Clinical Education Annual
Conference, San Diego, CA (May 2004)
Adjunct Quality Control, Association of Legal Writing Directors Conference, Windsor, ON (July 2003)
Bringing the Courts to School and Taking the Schools to Court: Court Visits in the Law Curriculum, Association of Legal Writing Directors Conference, Windsor, ON (July 2003) (with Susan Hankin)
Teaching Advocacy with the Court of Appeals: Incorporating Real Arguments into the Curriculum, Rocky Mountain Legal Writing Conference, March 2003
Incorporating Social Justice Issues into Research and Writing Classes, Rocky Mountain Legal Writing Conference, March 2002 (with Susan Hankin)
Using Live-Client Problems in Legal Writing Classes, Midwestern Regional Legal Writing Conference, Chicago, IL (December 2001)
Enhancing Law Classes with Pro Bono, Association of American Law Schools Annual Conference, San Francisco, CA (January 2001)
Working in the Public Interest, Panel Facilitator, Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless and Kirkland & Ellis, Washington, DC (June 2000)
Professional Affiliations
Board of Advisors, Maryland Public Interest Law Project (student-managed non-profit designed to support law student public interest work), Fall 2005 - Spring 2007
Board Member (2003 - Fall 2007) and Treasurer (2003 - 2007), Community Law in Action (youth empowerment and advocacy non-profit), 2003 - Fall 2007
Association of Legal Writing Directors, Web-Site Committee Chair and Webmaster, 2002 - 2006
Chair, Newsletter Committee, Association of American Law Schools Section on Pro Bono and Public Service, 2001 - 2005
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