DCSIMG

Administrative Adjudication Clinic

When Offered

Offered during the Fall semster 2011.

Goal of Clinic

The Administrative Adjudication Clinic is designed to train students to be administrative judges using a variety of instructional approaches including classroom instruction, observations, simulations and research assignments. Once students are prepared to act as administrative judges, they will be assigned to hear and decide a number of administrative disputes for local cities and other public agencies who have contracted with McGeorge's Institute for Administrative Justice (IAJ) for hearing services.

Structure of Clinic

This one-semester Clinic consists of weekly class sessions to prepare the student to be an administrative judge and includes a number of sessions concerning the law as it relates to parking citations. Students will be required to observe an actual administrative hearing and prepare a short paper concerning the observation. The student will also be given a research assignment concerning administrative procedure. All students will participate in simulated administrative hearings, using actual disputes that have been heard by IAJ. Each student will ultimately be assigned to conduct a number of parking ticket hearings for a local city or the UC Davis Medical Center.

Prerequisites for Enrollment

There is no written application required for this clinic, and there are no prerequisites.

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Instructor

The primary teacher for the Administrative Adjudication Clinic is Associate Dean Glenn Fait. As Director of the Institute for Administrative Justice, Dean Fait has supervised the training of more than 4,000 federal and state administrative hearing officers. Oversight of the actual hearings and training in the law of parking citation law will be provided by Vincent Pastorino, assistant director of IAJ. For more information, contact Glenn Fait.

Unit Credit and Limit on Enrollment

This is a two-unit, honors/pass/no-credit/fail course. There is no limit on enrollment.

Why This Clinic Is Valuable

This course teaches the importance of administrative procedure in the legal system and teaches a student from the perspective of the judge rather than that of the advocate. Many students in this course have gone on to important positions within the government and some have become administrative law judges.