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71 Clev. St. L. Rev. 571 (2022-2023)
Beyond Response: Reimagining the Legal Academy's Role in Disaster Recovery and Preparedness

handle is hein.journals/clevslr71 and id is 583 raw text is: BEYOND RESPONSE: REIMAGINING THE LEGAL ACADEMY'S ROLE IN DISASTER RECOVERY AND PREPAREDNESS LATISHA NIXON-JONES* ABSTRACT This Article proposes expanding the legal academy's role in responding to disasters and emergencies, specifically through creating disaster clinics that take a community- based lawyering approach. The Article is one of the first to identify the need for community-based disaster legal clinical education that goes beyond the immediate response phase. It also proposes creating a disaster legal pipeline from the clinic through post-graduation employment. The Article furthers the literature's discussion of the need for sustained disaster legal education. As the global pandemic caused by COVID-19 coronavirus continues to impact vulnerable populations and the frequency of natural disasters continues to increase, this Article provides a blueprint to law school faculty and administrators on the process of starting a new clinic or redesigning an existing clinic into a long-term disaster-related clinic. Additionally, the Article provides a timeline of disaster legislation that has evolved to provide a robust background for seminar courses. The Article draws from the author's expertise in creating two disaster clinics and multiple disaster and environmental justice courses. * Latisha Nixon-Jones, an Assistant Professor of Law, and I am honored to present this Article, which would not have been possible without the support and contributions of so many individuals and organizations. I initially presented this work-in-progress during the Southeastern Association of Law School conference in the summer of 2021, where I received valuable feedback. Professor Kenneth Klein provided invaluable feedback on my abstract. I am also grateful to Professors Suzanne Rowe and Adele Amos at the University of Oregon, who generously assisted with editing, polishing, and providing general support. Furthermore, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Chancellor John Pierre and the clinical faculty at Southern University Law Center for affording me the opportunity to create this vital clinic. The ongoing support from Equal Justice Works and Americorps for disaster research and practice is also greatly appreciated. To the editorial board at Cleveland State Law Review, thank you for all of you feedback and consistency, your hard work truly made this Article better. Lastly, I would like to thank my family and village for their unwavering support. To my husband, Christopher Jones, and my children, Jordyn, Sidney, and Christopher Jr., I am grateful for your love and understanding. To my grandmothers, Iceola, Charlene, and Cathy, who helped watch my children so I could complete this Article, your sacrifice has helped shape the scholar I am and will become. 571