Robin Runge publishes on Domestic Violence

Professor Robin Runge published a chapter titled, “Increasing Awareness and Understanding of Representing Vulnerable Populations and Their Economic Realities by Integrating Domestic Violence into Law School Curricula,” in the 2011 book Vulnerable Populations and Transformative Law Teaching: A Critical Reader, edited by the Society of American Law Teachers. The book is published by Carolina Academic Press and is available through their website.

The essays included in this volume began as presentations at the March 19–20, 2010 “Vulnerable Populations and Economic Realities” teaching conference organized and hosted by Golden Gate University School of Law and co-sponsored by the Society of American Law Teachers (SALT). That conference, generously funded by a grant from The Elfenworks Foundation, brought together law faculty, practitioners, and students to reexamine how issues of race, gender, sexual identity, nationality, disability, and generally—outsider status—are linked to poverty. Contributors have transformed their presentations into essays, offering a variety of roadmaps for incorporating these issues into the law school curriculum, both inside the classroom as well as in clinical and externship settings, study abroad, and social activism. These essays provide glimpses into “teaching moments,” both intentional and organic, to help trigger opportunities for students and faculty to question their own perceptions and experiences about who creates and interprets law, and who has access to power and the force of law.

This book expands the parameters of law teaching so that this next generation of attorneys will be dedicated to their roles as public citizens, broadening the availability of justice.