Leveraging Best Practices from the Clinical Teaching Market to Further Clinical Legal Education

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Session Type: Concurrent Sessions

Session Capacity: N/A

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Room: Franciscan C

Floor: Ballroom Level

This concurrent session will reflect on the myriad ways in which the clinical teaching market has changed in the last ten years with a focus on the best practices for hiring committees to consider in search processes for clinical and clinic-adjacent faculty that further the diversity, status, and impact of clinicians and clinic-adjacent faculty. The panelists will discuss changes and trends in the clinical job market and hope to start a conversation with clinicians who are on hiring committees about the ways in which we can leverage our positions to further clinical legal education. We will explore the following questions: • What have clinicians serving on hiring committees learned about the hiring process? How can we use what we’ve learned to further clinical legal education? • What are best practices in clinical hiring that will further clinical legal education? • What practices might clinicians replicate from the doctrinal market to further clinical legal education? What practices are unique to clinical hiring that enhance clinical legal education? • As some faculties continue to develop unitary tenure systems, will clinical candidates with both clinical and non-clinical experience have additional opportunities for career advancement? • What ways can hiring committees and candidates negotiate scholarship and service obligations in light of clinical teaching load requirements? • What is the role of clinical fellowships? How should hiring committees value them while valuing diversity and equity? How should institutions develop fellowship programs that best serve future clinical faculty candidates? Depending on the size of the audience, the panelists will place audience members in small groups to discuss these questions and report back to the larger group. The hope is to create a set of best practices in clinical hiring that speak to furthering the diversity, status, and impact of clinicians and clinic-adjacent faculty.