Document Type
Video Recording
Publication Date
10-21-1999
Abstract
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Regina Austin (L '73), William A. Schnader Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania, pursues her interest in the overlapping burdens of race, gender, and class oppression in traditional legal scholarship, as well as in her work on documentary films. She is the director of the Penn Program on Documentaries & the Law, which holds an annual Visual Legal Advocacy Roundtable for public interest lawyers, hosts screenings of law-genre documentary films throughout the year, and maintains a national repository of dozens of clemency videos as a resource for attorneys representing capital defendants. In addition to making extensive use of documentaries in her traditional courses, Austin teaches a visual legal advocacy seminar in which the students make videos on behalf of actual public interest clients and causes that premiere at the annual Rough Cut Video Festival.
Repository Citation
Lee, Randy; Austin, Regina; and Legal Oral History Project, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, "Interview with Regina Austin" (1999). Legal Oral History Project. 3.
https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/lohp/3
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