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2024 Conference on Clinical Legal Education

Date: May 1 — 5, 2024
Location: Marriott St. Louis Grand

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7:00 AM - 7:00 PM Nursing Parents Room
Type: AALS Programs
12:00 PM - 7:00 PM AALS Registration
Type: AALS Programs
2:00 pm - 2:15 pm Workshop for New Law School Clinical Teachers Welcome
Type: AALS Programs
2:15 pm - 4:30 pm Clinic Design with Critical Theory
Type: AALS Programs
4:30 pm - 5:00 pm Introduction to CSALE, CLEA and Faculty Status
Type: AALS Programs
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm Happy Hour
Type: AALS Programs
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm Optional Self-Funded Group Dinners
Type: AALS Programs
7:00 AM - 7:00 PM AALS Registration
Type: AALS Programs
7:00 AM - 7:00 PM Nursing Parents Room
Type: AALS Programs
8:00 am - 9:00 am Coffee with Colleagues for New Clinicians' Workshop
Type: AALS Programs
9:00 am - 9:45 am Universal Design
Type: AALS Programs
9:45 am - 11:00 am Student Supervision - Clinical
Type: AALS Programs
9:45 am - 11:00 am Successful Strategies for Supervision - Externship
Type: AALS Programs
11:00 am - 11:15 am Coffee with Colleagues Coffee for New Clinicians' Workshop
Type: AALS Programs
11:15 am - 12:00 pm Scholarship
Type: AALS Programs
1:00 pm - 1:15 pm Conference Welcome and Introduction
Type: AALS Programs
1:15 pm - 2:45 pm Keynote / Plenary Session: Unfinished Arcs: Ferguson and Beyond
Type: AALS Programs
2:45 pm - 3:00 pm Coffee with Colleagues
Type: AALS Programs
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm Working Group Discussions
Type: AALS Programs
4:45 PM - 5:45 PM CANCELLED - Soft Funding, Hard Truths: Creating a Sustainable Service Model Within A Soft-Funded Clinic
Type: Concurrent Sessions
4:45 pm - 5:45 pm Critical Theories in Clinical Pedagogy
Type: Concurrent Sessions
4:45 pm - 5:45 pm Educator Authenticity in the Clinical Classroom
Type: Concurrent Sessions
4:45 pm - 5:45 pm Media Engagement and Public Discourse: Navigating the Tightrope of Legal Practice and Media Relations
Type: Concurrent Sessions
4:45 pm - 5:45 pm Navigating the Digital Frontier: AI in Law School Criminal Defense Clinics
Type: Concurrent Sessions
4:45 pm - 5:45 pm Resistance Beyond Borders: Binational Advocacy in the Clinical Setting
Type: Concurrent Sessions
4:45 pm - 5:45 pm Resistance Narrative Theory
Type: Concurrent Sessions
4:45 pm - 5:45 pm Strangers in a Strange Land: Developing Clinics in the Wild
Type: Concurrent Sessions
6:00 pm - 7:15 pm AALS Reception Featuring Clinical Legal Education Posters
Type: Poster Presentation
6:00 pm - 7:15 pm Poster Presentation: ABA 303(b)(2) and the Role of Clinicians
Type: Poster Presentation
6:00 pm - 7:15 pm Poster Presentation: Clinical Collaborations: The New Mexico Center for Housing Law
Type: Poster Presentation
6:00 pm - 7:15 pm Poster Presentation: Equipping Clinical Faculty to Ensure Equitable Access to Bar Accommodations
Type: Poster Presentation
6:00 pm - 7:15 pm Poster Presentation: Everything Everywhere is Happening All at Once – Strategies for Effectively Running High Volume Clinics in These Precedented Times
Type: Poster Presentation
6:00 pm - 7:15 pm Poster Presentation: From Locker Rooms to Livelihoods: Legal Clinic Strategies for Getting College Athletes Justly Paid
Type: Poster Presentation
6:00 pm - 7:15 pm Poster Presentation: Property Law and Partnership with the United States Department of Agriculture
Type: Poster Presentation
6:00 pm - 7:15 pm Poster Presentation: Resilience Through Record Restriction
Type: Poster Presentation
6:00 PM - 7:15 PM Poster Presentation: Supervisor as Teacher, Teacher as Supervisor
Type: Poster Presentation
6:00 pm - 7:15 pm Poster Presentation: Why Should We Care About The Family Dog? Domestic Violence and The Pets
Type: Poster Presentation
7:15 pm - 8:15 pm International Colleague Welcome Reception hosted by International Clinical Legal Education Committee
Type: Affiliate Events
7:00 AM - 5:00 PM AALS Registration
Type: AALS Programs
7:00 AM - 7:00 PM Nursing Parents Room
Type: AALS Programs
7:30 am - 9:00 am Coffee with Colleagues
Type: AALS Programs
7:30 am - 9:00 am Section Executive Committee Meeting
Type: Committee Meeting
8:00 am - 9:00 am A New Clinicians Coffee Hour hosted by the Membership, Outreach & Training (MOT) Committee
Type: AALS Programs
8:00 am - 9:00 am AALS Section on Clinical Legal Education Committee Meetings
Type: AALS Programs
8:00 am - 9:00 am ADR Committee Meeting
Type: Committee Meeting
8:00 am - 9:00 am CLEA Board and Membership Meeting
Type: AALS Programs
8:00 am - 9:00 am Externships Committee Meeting
Type: Committee Meeting
8:00 am - 9:00 am International Committee Meeting
Type: Committee Meeting
8:00 am - 9:00 am Morning Mindfulness led by Freedom Community Center
Type: AALS Programs
8:00 am - 9:00 am Transactional Committee Meeting
Type: Committee Meeting
9:00 am - 10:00 am Bias in the Legal Profession: Helping Students Cope, Confront, and be Agents of Change
Type: Concurrent Sessions
9:00 am - 10:00 am Building a Unified Clinical Program
Type: Concurrent Sessions
9:00 am - 10:00 am Following the Border: Law School Clinical Programs in the Era of Externalized and Internalized Migration Policies
Type: Concurrent Sessions
9:00 am - 10:00 am Let’s Give Them Something to Talk About: Classroom Exercises and Activities that Promote Open Discussion of Race, Class, Gender, and Power
Type: Concurrent Sessions
9:00 am - 10:00 am Pillars or Walls? Reimagining Externships to Foster Student-Centeredness and Empowerment
Type: Concurrent Sessions
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Race and Transactional Law Clinics: Conversations with St. Louis Community Organizations
Type: Concurrent Sessions
9:00 am - 10:00 am Tech Support: Our Ethical Duties to Students, Clients, and Society
Type: Concurrent Sessions
9:00 am - 10:00 am U Got the [Second] Look: Challenging Excessive Sentences through Second Look Advocacy
Type: Concurrent Sessions
10:00 am - 10:15 am Coffee with Colleagues
Type: AALS Programs
10:15 am - 11:45 am Working Group Discussions
Type: AALS Programs
12:00 pm - 1:45 pm AALS Luncheon featuring the Section on Clinical Legal Education M. Shanara Gilbert Award, Ellmann Memorial Clinical Scholarship Award, William Pincus Award, and CLEA Award Presentations
Type: AALS Programs
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Collaborating to Advance Narratives of Resistance through Documentary Film
Type: Concurrent Sessions
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Fostering Resistance to the Status Quo in Family Law: Harms of and Alternatives to Litigation
Type: Concurrent Sessions
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Lessons from the Past: Using History & Field Study to Inform Interdisciplinary Health Equity Advocacy
Type: Concurrent Sessions
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Navigating Bar Admission Reform as Clinicians: The NextGen Bar Exam and Alternative Paths to Licensure
Type: Concurrent Sessions
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Privilege, Self-Care, and Criminal Clinics
Type: Concurrent Sessions
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Reimagining Access to Clinical and Experiential Legal Education: Supporting Disabled Students with a Disability Justice Framework
Type: Concurrent Sessions
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Round and Round We Go: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Case Rounds
Type: Concurrent Sessions
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Stand in the Place Where You Live: Moral Courage and the Lawyer's Role as Public Citizen
Type: Concurrent Sessions
2:00 pm - 5:15 pm Clinicians of Color Workshop
Type: Workshop
3:00 pm - 3:15 pm Coffee with Colleagues
Type: AALS Programs
3:15 pm - 4:15 pm Addressing Community Concerns about School Violence and the Harsh Consequences for Marginalized Kids
Type: Concurrent Sessions
3:15 pm - 4:15 pm Beyond Buzzwords: Lessons Learned About How Clinics Can Support Social Movements
Type: Concurrent Sessions
3:15 pm - 4:15 pm Driving Law Students into Poverty as a Means of Undermining Resistance and Perpetuating Public Interest Drift
Type: Concurrent Sessions
3:15 pm - 4:15 pm Fighting for the Future While Living in the Present
Type: Concurrent Sessions
3:15 pm - 4:15 pm Realizing Miranda: Ensuring Access to Counsel in Municipal Police Stations and Interrogation Rooms
Type: Concurrent Sessions
3:15 pm - 4:15 pm The Silver Lining: The Use of Generative AI in Legal Writing For First Generation Professional Writers
Type: Concurrent Sessions
3:15 pm - 4:15 pm When Transparency Harms: Helping Immigrant Worker-Owners Navigate the Federal Corporate Transparency Act
Type: Concurrent Sessions
4:30 pm - 5:00 pm Exploring Lawyering Process Maps as a Tool to Promote Professional Identity Formation and Integrate Clinical Lessons
Type: Lightning Sessions
4:30 pm - 5:00 pm From Today to Tomorrow - Increasing Access to Gender Affirming Care through an Innovative Advocacy Partnership
Type: Lightning Sessions
4:30 pm - 5:00 pm Heirs' Property and Clinical Pedagogy: Perspectives From A New Project
Type: Lightning Sessions
4:30 pm - 5:00 pm Paving Their Own Way: What’s Needed to Help First-Generation Students Thrive in Legal Externships and Clinics
Type: Lightning Sessions
4:30 pm - 5:00 pm Shortcomings of Legal Ethics for Community Lawyering
Type: Lightning Sessions
4:30 pm - 5:00 pm Teaching Representation Across the Line
Type: Lightning Sessions
4:30 pm - 5:00 pm Two Human Rights at Home Clinics Build Community in Troubled Times
Type: Lightning Sessions
4:30 pm - 5:00 pm Wide Ranging Litigation and Advocacy as Resistance and Resilience in a Law School Clinic?
Type: Lightning Sessions
5:15 PM - 6:30 PM Community Conversation: Protest, Policing, and Speech on our Campuses
Type: AALS Programs
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM CANCELLED: Reception Sponsored by Washington University in St. Louis School of Law
Type: AALS Programs
7:00 AM - 5:00 PM AALS Registration
Type: AALS Programs
7:00 AM - 7:00 PM Nursing Parents Room
Type: AALS Programs
7:30 am - 9:00 am Coffee with Colleagues
Type: AALS Programs
9:00 am - 10:00 am “It’s the Hard Knock Life”: Leveraging the Self while Navigating the Fellowship and Teaching Market Process as a WOC (Womxn of Color)
Type: Concurrent Sessions
9:00 am - 10:00 am Creating Community Through Connection: Enhancing the Externship Experience/Virtual Externships, Four Years Later: Where We Are, Where We're Going
Type: Concurrent Sessions
9:00 am - 10:00 am Decolonizing Clinical Pedagogy: Supervision Sessions
Type: Concurrent Sessions
9:00 am - 10:00 am Empirical Research as Resistance
Type: Concurrent Sessions
9:00 am - 10:00 am Imagination, Joy, and Abolition: Self-Care and Professional Growth in Anti-racist Clinics
Type: Concurrent Sessions
9:00 am - 10:00 am Navigating Backlash & Geographic Disparities: Inter-clinic and Interdisciplinary Efforts to Implement Sentencing Reform in New York State
Type: Concurrent Sessions
9:00 am - 10:00 am Solidarity, Resistance, and Narrative Change After Setbacks
Type: Concurrent Sessions
9:00 am - 10:00 am The Privacy Paradox: Balancing Transparency and Privacy in the Quest for Justice
Type: Concurrent Sessions
10:00 am - 10:15 am Coffee with Colleagues
Type: AALS Programs
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM Morning Mindfulness led by Freedom Community Center
Type: AALS Programs
10:15 am - 10:45 am Beyond Self-Care: Better Tools for Public Interest Lawyers
Type: Lightning Sessions
10:15 am - 10:45 am Centering Student Voices in the Clinic Seminar
Type: Lightning Sessions
10:15 am - 10:45 am Fighting Backlash and Retrenchment Through Relationship Building (and Teaching Our Students How)
Type: Lightning Sessions
10:15 am - 10:45 am Reflecting on Law School Clinics’ Role in Changing Their Academic Institutions
Type: Lightning Sessions
10:15 am - 10:45 am Refreshing Recollections on Reflection: Old and New Ideas on a Signature Clinical Pedagogy
Type: Lightning Sessions
10:15 am - 10:45 am Scholarship is Resistance: The Mid-Atlantic Clinical Writers Workshop as a Model for Fostering Collaboration and Community among Clinical Scholars
Type: Lightning Sessions
10:15 am - 10:45 am The Tribal Appellate Clerk Project: A Study in Tribal/University Collaboration through Clinical Education
Type: Lightning Sessions
10:15 am - 10:45 am Unifying Forces for Social Justice: Fusing Law and Social Work in Pursuit of Positive Social Change
Type: Lightning Sessions
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Working Group Discussions
Type: AALS Programs
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm Lunch on Your Own
Type: AALS Programs
12:45 PM - 1:30 PM Community Conversation: Protest, Policing, and Speech on our Campuses
Type: AALS Programs
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics: Teaching Students to Read, Recognize, Understand, and Present Data in Client Representations
Type: Concurrent Sessions
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Meeting the Moment: The Pedagogy and Practice of Transformative Lawyering
Type: Concurrent Sessions
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Rapid-Response Legal Support for Movements: Seeking Immigration Protections for Organizing Workers
Type: Concurrent Sessions
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm The Resilient Clinical Teacher
Type: Concurrent Sessions
2:00 pm - 5:15 pm AAPI Clinicians Workshop: Unfinished Stories about Asian American Identity
Type: Workshop
2:00 pm - 5:15 pm Clinical Professors in Law School Leadership
Type: Workshop
2:00 pm - 5:15 pm Navigating the Complexities of the Clinical Teaching Market
Type: Workshop
3:00 pm - 3:15 pm Coffee with Colleagues
Type: AALS Programs
3:15 PM - 4:15 PM CANCELLED: Participatory Action Research at law school clinic projects: “To the oppressed, and to those who suffer with them and fight at their side” by Paulo Freire
Type: Concurrent Sessions
3:15 pm - 4:15 pm Combating Interference in Clinical Programs
Type: Concurrent Sessions
3:15 PM - 4:15 PM I Get Knocked Down, But I Get Up Again: Failing Our Way to Success
Type: Concurrent Sessions
3:15 pm - 4:15 pm If Not Us, Who?: Shaping the Future of Ethical, Criminal Prosecution Through Prosecutorial Clinics
Type: Concurrent Sessions
3:15 pm - 4:15 pm Out of the Comfort Zone and into the Fire: Aspirations and Challenges as Family Defense Clinicians and Students Break Ground Together
Type: Concurrent Sessions
3:15 pm - 4:15 pm Rethinking Criminal Defense Advocacy Tools Through an Anti-oppression Lens
Type: Concurrent Sessions
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm Community Gathering: Asaase III Griot Museum of Black History
Type: Community Gatherings
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm Community Gathering: Clinicians and Licensing
Type: Community Gatherings
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm Community Gathering: Interdisciplinary Law Clinics: What Works and What Doesn't
Type: Community Gatherings
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm Community Gathering: LGBTQIA+ attendees
Type: Community Gatherings
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm Community Gathering: Right to Counsel in Evictions (RTC)
Type: Community Gatherings
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM Reception Sponsored by St. Louis University School of Law
Type: AALS Programs
7:00 AM - 1:00 PM AALS Registration
Type: AALS Programs
7:00 AM - 7:00 PM Nursing Parents Room
Type: AALS Programs
7:30 am - 9:00 am Coffee with Colleagues
Type: AALS Programs
8:00 am - 9:00 am Morning Mindfulness led by Freedom Community Center
Type: AALS Programs
8:00 am - 9:00 am Scholarship Committee Meeting
Type: Committee Meeting
9:00 am - 10:30 am AALS Section on Clinical Legal Education Works in Progress
Type: Works-in-Progress
9:00 am - 10:30 am Bellow Scholars Program Report on Projects
Type: AALS Programs
9:00 am - 10:30 am Works in Progress Group 1: Procedural Fairness & Identity
Type: Works-in-Progress
9:00 am - 10:30 am Works in Progress Group 10: Futures of Work
Type: Works-in-Progress
9:00 am - 10:30 am Works in Progress Group 11: Climate Solutions
Type: Works-in-Progress
9:00 am - 10:30 am Works in Progress Group 12: Immigration and Regulation
Type: Works-in-Progress
9:00 am - 10:30 am Works in Progress Group 13: Immigration Enforcement
Type: Works-in-Progress
9:00 am - 10:30 am Works in Progress Group 14: Housing Challenges
Type: Works-in-Progress
9:00 am - 10:30 am Works in Progress Group 2: Collectives
Type: Works-in-Progress
9:00 am - 10:30 am Works in Progress Group 3: Regulating Families
Type: Works-in-Progress
9:00 am - 10:30 am Works in Progress Group 4: Communication and Pedagogy
Type: Works-in-Progress
9:00 am - 10:30 am Works in Progress Group 5: Employment Discrimination
Type: Works-in-Progress
9:00 am - 10:30 am Works in Progress Group 6: Building Community Power
Type: Works-in-Progress
9:00 am - 10:30 am Works in Progress Group 7: Racing and E-Racing
Type: Works-in-Progress
9:00 am - 10:30 am Works in Progress Group 8: Process in Practice
Type: Works-in-Progress
9:00 am - 10:30 am Works in Progress Group 9: Professional Responsibility & Pedagogy
Type: Works-in-Progress
10:30 am - 10:45 am Coffee with Colleagues
Type: AALS Programs
10:45 am - 11:45 am A Change Will Do You Good: Balancing Pedagogical, Community, and Institutional Pressures When Joining, Designing, or Redesigning a Clinic
Type: Concurrent Sessions
10:45 am - 11:45 am Beyond Trauma-Informed Lawyering: Clinics as First Responders and Institutional Reformers in the Law Student Mental Health Crisis
Type: Concurrent Sessions
10:45 am - 11:45 am Creating Communities of Care: Law & Social Work Collaborations to Benefit Clients, Students, and Clinicians
Type: Concurrent Sessions
10:45 am - 11:45 am Exploring Intellectual Humility as a Key Component of Professional Identity
Type: Concurrent Sessions
10:45 am - 11:45 am The Shifting Tide of Paid Externships
Type: Concurrent Sessions
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Do They Really Ask That? Criminal History Questions on Law School Applications
Type: Concurrent Sessions
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Educating Nonlawyers–Will Barriers to Experiential Education Perpetuate Unequal Access to Justice?
Type: Concurrent Sessions
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Encouraging Mutual Support for Improved Pedagogy and Professional Resilience in Clinics and Externships from Beginning to End - Ideas for Intraschool and Interschool Collaborations, Mentoring Programs, Co-Teaching, and Transition Planning
Type: Concurrent Sessions
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Inclusive Language in Clinical Practice
Type: Concurrent Sessions
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Lessons Learned from “Divisive Concept” States: Teaching Across a Spectrum of Resistance and Resilience.
Type: Concurrent Sessions
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Non-Urban Rather than Rural - Successfully Developing Rural Opportunities for Students to Serve Rural Communities
Type: Concurrent Sessions
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Resisting the Socratic Method in Clinical Settings: Uplifting Marginalized Voices, and Creating More Resilient Advocates/Learners Through Discussion
Type: Concurrent Sessions

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