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Program

2024 Conference on Clinical Legal Education

Date: May 1 – May 5, 2024

Location: Marriott St. Louis Grand

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» Workshop for New Law School Clinical Teachers

Sessions by Date & Time

12:00 PM - 7:00 PM AALS Registration

2:00 pm - 2:15 pm Workshop for New Law School Clinical Teachers Welcome

2:15 pm - 4:30 pm Clinic Design with Critical Theory

4:30 pm - 5:00 pm Introduction to CSALE, CLEA and Faculty Status

5:00 pm - 6:00 pm Happy Hour

6:30 pm - 8:00 pm Optional Self-Funded Group Dinners

7:00 AM - 7:00 PM AALS Registration

8:00 am - 9:00 am Coffee with Colleagues for New Clinicians' Workshop

9:00 am - 9:45 am Universal Design

9:45 am - 11:00 am Student Supervision - Clinical

9:45 am - 11:00 am Successful Strategies for Supervision - Externship

11:00 am - 11:15 am Coffee with Colleagues Coffee for New Clinicians' Workshop

11:15 am - 12:00 pm Scholarship

1:00 pm - 1:15 pm Conference Welcome and Introduction

1:15 pm - 2:45 pm Keynote / Plenary Session: Unfinished Arcs: Ferguson and Beyond

2:45 pm - 3:00 pm Coffee with Colleagues

3:00 pm - 4:30 pm Working Group Discussions

4:45 PM - 5:45 PM CANCELLED - Soft Funding, Hard Truths: Creating a Sustainable Service Model Within A Soft-Funded Clinic

4:45 pm - 5:45 pm Critical Theories in Clinical Pedagogy

4:45 pm - 5:45 pm Educator Authenticity in the Clinical Classroom

4:45 pm - 5:45 pm Media Engagement and Public Discourse: Navigating the Tightrope of Legal Practice and Media Relations

4:45 pm - 5:45 pm Navigating the Digital Frontier: AI in Law School Criminal Defense Clinics

4:45 pm - 5:45 pm Resistance Beyond Borders: Binational Advocacy in the Clinical Setting

4:45 pm - 5:45 pm Resistance Narrative Theory

4:45 pm - 5:45 pm Strangers in a Strange Land: Developing Clinics in the Wild

6:00 pm - 7:15 pm AALS Reception Featuring Clinical Legal Education Posters

6:00 pm - 7:15 pm Poster Presentation: ABA 303(b)(2) and the Role of Clinicians

6:00 pm - 7:15 pm Poster Presentation: Clinical Collaborations: The New Mexico Center for Housing Law

6:00 pm - 7:15 pm Poster Presentation: Equipping Clinical Faculty to Ensure Equitable Access to Bar Accommodations

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

6:00 pm - 7:15 pm Poster Presentation: From Locker Rooms to Livelihoods: Legal Clinic Strategies for Getting College Athletes Justly Paid

6:00 pm - 7:15 pm Poster Presentation: Property Law and Partnership with the United States Department of Agriculture

6:00 pm - 7:15 pm Poster Presentation: Resilience Through Record Restriction

6:00 PM - 7:15 PM Poster Presentation: Supervisor as Teacher, Teacher as Supervisor

6:00 pm - 7:15 pm Poster Presentation: Why Should We Care About The Family Dog? Domestic Violence and The Pets

7:15 pm - 8:15 pm International Colleague Welcome Reception hosted by International Clinical Legal Education Committee

7:00 AM - 7:00 PM AALS Registration

7:30 am - 9:00 am Coffee with Colleagues

7:30 am - 9:00 am Section Executive Committee Meeting

8:00 am - 9:00 am A New Clinicians Coffee Hour hosted by the Membership, Outreach & Training (MOT) Committee

8:00 am - 9:00 am AALS Section on Clinical Legal Education Committee Meetings

8:00 am - 9:00 am ADR Committee Meeting

8:00 am - 9:00 am CLEA Board and Membership Meeting

8:00 am - 9:00 am Externships Committee Meeting

8:00 am - 9:00 am International Committee Meeting

8:00 am - 9:00 am Morning Mindfulness led by Freedom Community Center

8:00 am - 9:00 am Transactional Committee Meeting

9:00 am - 10:00 am Bias in the Legal Profession: Helping Students Cope, Confront, and be Agents of Change

9:00 am - 10:00 am Building a Unified Clinical Program

9:00 am - 10:00 am Following the Border: Law School Clinical Programs in the Era of Externalized and Internalized Migration Policies

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

9:00 am - 10:00 am Pillars or Walls? Reimagining Externships to Foster Student-Centeredness and Empowerment

9:00 am - 10:00 am Race and Transactional Law Clinics: Conversations and Shared Learning between Transactional Law Clinicians and St. Louis Community Organizations

9:00 am - 10:00 am Tech Support: Our Ethical Duties to Students, Clients, and Society

9:00 am - 10:00 am U Got the [Second] Look: Challenging Excessive Sentences through Second Look Advocacy

10:00 am - 10:15 am Coffee with Colleagues

10:15 am - 11:45 am Working Group Discussions

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

2:00 pm - 5:15 pm Clinicians of Color Workshop

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Collaborating to Advance Narratives of Resistance through Documentary Film

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Expanding Access to Clinical and Experiential Legal Education and Supporting Students with Disabilities

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Fostering Resistance to the Status Quo in Family Law: Harms of and Alternatives to Litigation

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Lessons from the Past: Using History & Field Study to Inform Interdisciplinary Health Equity Advocacy

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Navigating Bar Admission Reform as Clinicians: The NextGen Bar Exam and Alternative Paths to Licensure

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Privilege, Self-Care, and Criminal Clinics

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Round and Round We Go: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Case Rounds

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Stand in the Place Where You Live: Moral Courage and the Lawyer's Role as Public Citizen

3:00 pm - 3:15 pm Coffee with Colleagues

3:15 pm - 4:15 pm Addressing Community Concerns about School Violence and the Harsh Consequences for Marginalized Kids

3:15 pm - 4:15 pm Beyond Buzzwords: Lessons Learned About How Clinics Can Support Social Movements

3:15 pm - 4:15 pm Driving Law Students into Poverty as a Means of Undermining Resistance and Perpetuating Public Interest Drift

3:15 pm - 4:15 pm Fighting for the Future While Living in the Present

3:15 pm - 4:15 pm Realizing Miranda: Ensuring Access to Counsel in Municipal Police Stations and Interrogation Rooms

3:15 pm - 4:15 pm The Silver Lining: The Use of Generative AI in Legal Writing For First Generation Professional Writers

3:15 pm - 4:15 pm When Transparency Harms: Helping Immigrant Worker-Owners Navigate the Federal Corporate Transparency Act

4:30 pm - 5:00 pm Exploring Lawyering Process Maps as a Tool to Promote Professional Identity Formation and Integrate Clinical Lessons

4:30 pm - 5:00 pm From Today to Tomorrow - Increasing Access to Gender Affirming Care through an Innovative Advocacy Partnership

4:30 pm - 5:00 pm Heirs' Property and Clinical Pedagogy: Perspectives From A New Project

4:30 pm - 5:00 pm Paving Their Own Way: What’s Needed to Help First-Generation Students Thrive in Legal Externships and Clinics

4:30 pm - 5:00 pm Shortcomings of Legal Ethics for Community Lawyering

4:30 pm - 5:00 pm Teaching Representation Across the Line

4:30 pm - 5:00 pm Two Human Rights at Home Clinics Build Community in Troubled Times

4:30 pm - 5:00 pm Wide Ranging Litigation and Advocacy as Resistance and Resilience in a Law School Clinic?

6:00 PM Reception Sponsored by Washington University in St. Louis School of Law

7:00 AM - 7:00 PM AALS Registration

7:30 am - 9:00 am Coffee with Colleagues

8:00 am - 9:00 am Morning Mindfulness led by Freedom Community Center

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)

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

9:00 am - 10:00 am Decolonizing Clinical Pedagogy: Supervision Sessions

9:00 am - 10:00 am Empirical Research as Resistance

9:00 am - 10:00 am Imagination, Joy, and Abolition: Self-Care and Professional Growth in Anti-racist Clinics

9:00 am - 10:00 am Navigating Backlash & Geographic Disparities: Inter-clinic and Interdisciplinary Efforts to Implement Sentencing Reform in New York State

9:00 am - 10:00 am Solidarity, Resistance, and Narrative Change After Setbacks

9:00 am - 10:00 am The Privacy Paradox: Balancing Transparency and Privacy in the Quest for Justice

10:00 am - 10:15 am Coffee with Colleagues

10:15 am - 10:45 am Beyond Self-Care: Better Tools for Public Interest Lawyers

10:15 am - 10:45 am Centering Student Voices in the Clinic Seminar

10:15 am - 10:45 am Fighting Backlash and Retrenchment Through Relationship Building (and Teaching Our Students How)

10:15 am - 10:45 am Reflecting on Law School Clinics’ Role in Changing Their Academic Institutions

10:15 am - 10:45 am Refreshing Recollections on Reflection: Old and New Ideas on a Signature Clinical Pedagogy

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

10:15 am - 10:45 am The Tribal Appellate Clerk Project: A Study in Tribal/University Collaboration through Clinical Education

10:15 am - 10:45 am Unifying Forces for Social Justice: Fusing Law and Social Work in Pursuit of Positive Social Change

12:30 pm - 1:30 pm Lunch on Your Own

2:00 pm - 5:15 pm AAPI Clinicians Workshop: Unfinished Stories about Asian American Identity

2:00 pm - 5:15 pm Clinical Professors in Law School Leadership

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics: Teaching Students to Read, Recognize, Understand, and Present Data in Client Representations

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Meeting the Moment: The Pedagogy and Practice of Transformative Lawyering

2:00 pm - 5:15 pm Navigating the Complexities of the Clinical Teaching Market

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Rapid-Response Legal Support for Movements: Seeking Immigration Protections for Organizing Workers

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm The Resilient Clinical Teacher

3:00 pm - 3:15 pm Coffee with Colleagues

3:15 pm - 4:15 pm Combating Interference in Clinical Programs

3:15 PM - 4:15 PM I Get Knocked Down, But I Get Up Again: Failing Our Way to Success

3:15 pm - 4:15 pm If Not Us, Who?: Shaping the Future of Ethical, Criminal Prosecution Through Prosecutorial Clinics

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

3:15 PM - 4:15 PM 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

3:15 pm - 4:15 pm Rethinking Criminal Defense Advocacy Tools Through an Anti-oppression Lens

4:30 pm - 6:00 pm Community Gathering: Asaase III Griot Museum of Black History

4:30 pm - 6:00 pm Community Gathering: Clinicians and Licensing

4:30 pm - 6:00 pm Community Gathering: Interdisciplinary Law Clinics: What Works and What Doesn't

4:30 pm - 6:00 pm Community Gathering: LGBTQIA+ attendees

4:30 pm - 6:00 pm Community Gathering: Right to Counsel in Evictions (RTC)

4:30 pm - 6:00 pm Community Gatherings

6:30 pm Reception Sponsored by St. Louis University School of Law

7:00 AM - 1:00 PM AALS Registration

7:30 am - 9:00 am Coffee with Colleagues

8:00 am - 9:00 am Morning Mindfulness led by Freedom Community Center

8:00 am - 9:00 am Scholarship Committee Meeting

9:00 am - 10:30 am AALS Section on Clinical Legal Education Works in Progress

9:00 am - 10:30 am Bellow Scholars Program Report on Projects

9:00 am - 10:30 am Works in Progress Group 1: Procedural Fairness & Identity

9:00 am - 10:30 am Works in Progress Group 10: Futures of Work

9:00 am - 10:30 am Works in Progress Group 11: Climate Solutions

9:00 am - 10:30 am Works in Progress Group 12: Immigration and Regulation

9:00 am - 10:30 am Works in Progress Group 13: Immigration Enforcement

9:00 am - 10:30 am Works in Progress Group 14: Housing Challenges

9:00 am - 10:30 am Works in Progress Group 2: Collectives

9:00 am - 10:30 am Works in Progress Group 3: Regulating Families

9:00 am - 10:30 am Works in Progress Group 4: Communication and Pedagogy

9:00 am - 10:30 am Works in Progress Group 5: Employment Discrimination

9:00 am - 10:30 am Works in Progress Group 6: Building Community Power

9:00 am - 10:30 am Works in Progress Group 7: Racing and E-Racing

9:00 am - 10:30 am Works in Progress Group 8: Process in Practice

9:00 am - 10:30 am Works in Progress Group 9: Professional Responsibility & Pedagogy

10:30 am - 10:45 am Coffee with Colleagues

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

10:45 am - 11:45 am Beyond Trauma-Informed Lawyering: Clinics as First Responders and Institutional Reformers in the Law Student Mental Health Crisis

10:45 am - 11:45 am Creating Communities of Care: Law & Social Work Collaborations to Benefit Clients, Students, and Clinicians

10:45 am - 11:45 am Exploring Intellectual Humility as a Key Component of Professional Identity

10:45 am - 11:45 am The Shifting Tide of Paid Externships

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Do They Really Ask That? Criminal History Questions on Law School Applications

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Educating Nonlawyers–Will Barriers to Experiential Education Perpetuate Unequal Access to Justice?

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

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Inclusive Language in Clinical Practice

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Lessons Learned from “Divisive Concept” States: Teaching Across a Spectrum of Resistance and Resilience.

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Non-Urban Rather than Rural - Successfully Developing Rural Opportunities for Students to Serve Rural Communities

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Resisting the Socratic Method in Clinical Settings: Uplifting Marginalized Voices, and Creating More Resilient Advocates/Learners Through Discussion