CHAMPs Clinic Director
Emily Suski
Associate Dean for Clinics and Externships
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The CHAMPS Clinic is a collaboration of the University of South Carolina Joseph F. Rice School of Law, the USC School of Medicine, and Prisma Health. CHAMPS offers law students the opportunity to work on legal cases that impact children’s health. Students work in collaboration with doctors, social workers, and other health professionals on their cases.
The CHAMPS Clinic provides students with the opportunity to engage in interdisciplinary learning in the context of live-client legal cases. Students take legal cases on behalf of low-income children and families referred from Prisma Health. These cases address the social determinants of clients’ health and include SSI, Medicaid, housing conditions, SNAP, and end of life planning matters. Law students work collaboratively on their legal cases with doctors, social workers, and other health professionals. Students also have opportunities to go to Prisma Children’s Hospital to learn from doctors how to understand clients’ patient records, attend patient rounds, discharge planning, and ethics conferences. In addition to case work, the course includes seminar component during which students will learn the doctrine, theory, lawyering skills, and policy relevant to their case work.
Emily Suski
Associate Dean for Clinics and Externships
Learn more about Emily