Moderator

Chris Carlson, Esq., President of NarrativePros

Panelists

Michele Garnett McKenzie, Director of Advocacy at The Advocates for Human Rights

Stephen Meili, Professor of Clinical Instruction University of Minnesota

Thomas A. Saenz, President and General Counsel of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund

Actors

Stephen Cartmell
Emile Herrera
Stephen Yoakam

This course takes recently enacted controversial laws as end points and explores their historical, psychological, and political origins. How does prejudicial thought and behavior shape our laws? What can we as officers of the court do to affect change? Is change in our legal system even necessary or appropriate?

Focusing on the policy origins of law, this course will employ staged readings of both theatrical selections as well as actual transcripts to provide insight into a facilitated panel discussion of the issues.

Selected scenes will be read from the The Great Game, an ambitious, award winning collection of theater written by multiple playwrights exploring the culture, history, and politics of Afghanistan.

This course has been previously accredited in multiple jurisdictions.  We are adding more jurisdictions every day. If you are interested in us accrediting in your state let us know and we will get on it.

The moderated webcast of this course has been accredited multiple times–jurisdictions such as Minnesota require resubmission of paperwork for all moderated webcasts each time they are held, so these credits are considered “applied for credits”.

If you are from the state of Minnesota please be reminded of the reporting policies:

The Minnesota State Board of Continuing Legal Education approves courses for credit and is the office to which you must report your credits. You may obtain an Affidavit of Compliance form by contacting them at 651-297-7100 or visiting the Minnesota State Board of CLE website.

ShowCourse keeps a record of the moderated webinars you have registered for, but does not report credits to the State Board.

Remember, you must report your credits to the Minnesota State Board of Continuing Legal Education.

Any questions relating to your attorney license requirements should be directed to the State Board of Continuing Legal Education. Visit the State Board’s frequently asked questions for more information.

I really enjoyed this different format and way of educating folks about bias; I too believe art can be more effective in ‘changing our hearts’ regarding our biases than can any court case.