LAWS 8267 Community Enterprise Clinic
Students provide transactional legal services to community-based small businesses and nonprofit clients in Massachusetts. Clients in the clinic include worker-owned cooperatives, community land trusts, other grassroots organizations, and social entrepreneurs from immigrant communities and communities of color. The clinic is appropriate for students interested in any practice of law, but may be of particular interest to students who want to work with community-based organizational clients and/or are interested in alternative economic structures.
Course overview
- Department
- Law
- School
- LAW
- Credits
- 7
- Level
- Graduate
- Offered
- Every Fall, Every Spring
Catalog details
- Prerequisites
- Permission of Department
- Corequisites
- LAWS7750
Course evaluations
- Course rating
- 4.52 / 5 · Excellent
- Instructor rating
- 4.55 / 5 · Excellent
- Terms evaluated
- 10
| Term | Instructor | Course overall | Instructor overall | Well organized | Clear learning objectives | Intellectually challenging | Helpful assignments | Applicable beyond course | Attendance necessary | Weekly effort | Responses |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spring 2026 | Carlos Teuscher | 5.0 | 5.0 | 4.8 | 4.8 | 4.7 | 4.2 | 5.0 | 4.8 | 10+ hrs/week | 6 of 6 |
| Fall 2025 | Carlos Teuscher | 5.0 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 4.9 | 4.6 | 4.9 | 4.4 | 10+ hrs/week | 7 of 8 |
| Spring 2025 | Carlos Teuscher | 4.9 | 5.0 | 4.7 | 4.9 | 4.9 | 4.6 | 4.9 | 4.6 | 10+ hrs/week | 7 of 8 |
| Fall 2024 | Carlos Teuscher | 4.1 | 4.3 | 4.1 | 3.6 | 4.6 | 3.7 | 4.7 | 4.0 | 10+ hrs/week | 7 of 8 |
| Spring 2024 | Jordan Engelhart | 3.1 | 2.9 | 3.5 | 3.8 | 4.8 | 3.7 | 4.6 | 3.4 | 10+ hrs/week | 8 of 8 |
| Spring 2024 | Paul Tremblay | 5.0 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 4.8 | 5.0 | 4.8 | 10+ hrs/week | 6 of 6 |
| Fall 2023 | Jordan Engelhart | 4.0 | 4.3 | 4.3 | 4.3 | 4.6 | 4.0 | 4.9 | 4.1 | 10+ hrs/week | 7 of 8 |
| Spring 2023 | Paul Tremblay | 4.7 | 4.7 | 4.4 | 4.4 | 4.8 | 4.6 | 4.8 | 4.0 | 10+ hrs/week | 12 of 14 |
| Fall 2022 | Jordan Engelhart | 4.4 | 4.4 | 4.1 | 4.6 | 4.8 | 4.7 | 4.8 | 4.0 | 10+ hrs/week | 8 of 8 |
| Spring 2022 | Paul Tremblay | 5.0 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 4.5 | 5.0 | 4.5 | 10+ hrs/week | 4 of 6 |
| Fall 2021 | Paul Tremblay | 5.0 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 4.9 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 4.5 | 10+ hrs/week | 7 of 8 |