Raven Lidman
Clinical Professor
Room 115, Seattle University School of Law
Phone: (206) 398-4147
E-mail: rlidman@seattleu.edu
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Raven Lidman | |
Teaches Youth Advocacy Clinic, International Human Rights Clinic
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B.A., Cornell University, 1967; J.D., Seattle University School of Law, 1977.
Raven Lidman has been a Clinical Professor of Law at Seattle University since 1987. She currently teaches in the Youth Advocacy Clinic and the International Human Rights Clinic. Her work in the Youth Advocacy Clinic focuses on juvenile criminal defense with an emphasis on teen prostitution and right to counsel in truancy cases. For the IHRC, she has written human rights reports, drafted treaty language and filed or participated in cases in the European Court of Human Rights, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, state, federal and immigration fora. Professor Lidman’s scholarship has included two articles and an amicus brief on the scope under international law and foreign domestic law of a right to publicly funded legal aid for indigent parties in civil matters, commonly referred to as “civil Gideon”. She has been an active participant in the Coalition for Indigent Representation and Civil Legal Equality (CIRCLE) and the National Center for a Civil Right to Counsel (NCCRC).
Professor Lidman’s other primary interest is collaborating with clinics in Latin America, sharing pedagogy, pro bono/social justice visions and projects. As part of the university wide commitment to Nicaragua and ties with the Universidad Centroamericana (UCA), she works with the UCA’s law clinic. Each summer , two SU law students are selected to work alongside their peers in that clinic. Since 2000, she has been collaborating with the law clinic at Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru. She is currently the newsletter editor for the Global Alliance for Justice Education (GAJE).
Professor Lidman was managing attorney in the Olympia office of the Puget Sound Legal Assistance Foundation and in private practice in Olympia. When she first taught in the clinic at SU/UPS she supervised students handling family law cases, focusing on custody and domestic violence, and special education representation.