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2019 Conference on Clinical Legal Education

Date: May 3 — 7, 2019
Location: Hilton San Francisco Union Square

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4:00 pm - 7:00 pm AALS Registration
Type: AALS Programs
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm Reception - Clinical and Experiential Law Program Directors Workshop
Type: Directors Workshop
7:30 am - 9:00 am Refreshment Break - Clinical and Experiential Law Program Directors Workshop
Type: AALS Programs
7:30 am - 7:30 pm AALS Registration
Type: AALS Programs
8:45 am - 9:00 am Welcome and Introduction - Clinical and Experiential Law Program Directors Workshop
Type: Directors Workshop
9:00 am - 10:30 am Clinical and Experiential Law Program Directors Workshop Plenary Session: Reflecting on Recent Expansions and Experimentations in Experiential Learning
Type: Directors Workshop
10:45 am - 12:15 pm Clinical and Experiential Law Program Directors Workshop Plenary Session: Planning and Responding to Political Interference
Type: Directors Workshop
12:15 pm - 1:45 pm AALS Luncheon - Clinical and Experiential Law Program Directors Workshop: The View from the Dean's Suite
Type: Directors Workshop
1:45 pm - 3:15 pm Clinical and Experiential Law Program Directors Workshop Concurrent Session - Exploring the Meaning of Experiential Deaning
Type: Directors Workshop
1:45 pm - 3:15 pm Clinical and Experiential Law Program Directors Workshop Concurrent Session - Live-Client Clinics
Type: Directors Workshop
1:45 pm - 3:15 pm Clinical and Experiential Law Program Directors Workshop Concurrent Session - Paid Externships: The Lay of the Land
Type: Directors Workshop
2:00 pm - 6:00 pm Clinicians of Color Workshop
Type: Workshop
2:00 pm - 6:00 pm Learning Law Through Experience and by Design Workshop
Type: Workshop
2:00 pm - 6:00 pm Scholarship Support Workshop
Type: Workshop
2:00 pm - 6:00 pm Social Dreaming Matrix Project Workshop
Type: Workshop
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm AALS Reception Featuring Clinical Legal Education Posters
Type: AALS Programs
7:30 am - 9:00 am AALS Section on Clinical Legal Education Committees
Type: AALS Programs
7:30 am - 9:00 am Communications Committee Meeting
Type: AALS Programs
7:30 am - 9:00 am Externships Committee Meeting
Type: AALS Programs
7:30 am - 9:00 am Membership, Training, and Outreach Committee Meeting
Type: AALS Programs
7:30 am - 9:00 am Northeastern University School of Law Clinical Programs Breakfast
Type: Affiliate Events
7:30 am - 9:00 am Policy Committee Meeting
Type: AALS Programs
7:30 am - 9:00 am Refreshment Break
Type: AALS Programs
7:30 am - 9:00 am Teaching Methods Committee Meeting
Type: AALS Registration
7:30 am - 5:30 pm AALS Registration
Type: AALS Registration
9:15 am - 9:30 am Welcome and Introduction
Type: AALS Programs
9:30 am - 10:30 am Opening Plenary: America Polarized: What Drives Us Apart? What Brings Us Together?
Type: AALS Programs
10:30 am - 10:45 am Refreshment Break
Type: AALS Programs
10:45 am - 12:15 pm Working Group Discussions
Type: AALS Programs
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm AALS Luncheon: AALS Section on Clinical Legal Education M. Shanara Gilbert Award Presentation
Type: AALS Programs
2:00 pm - 2:45 pm An Ever-Evolving Mission: Coming Together to Function as One
Type: Concurrent Sessions
2:00 pm - 2:45 pm Can State Bar Associations Overcome Polarization in the Academy and Improve Legal Education by Reforming Admissions Standards? Lessons from California
Type: Concurrent Sessions
2:00 pm - 2:45 pm Competence Challenges vs. Confidence Challenges: Exploring Tools for Combatting Impostor Syndrome
Type: Concurrent Sessions
2:00 pm - 2:45pm Lawyering with Technology: Skills and Habits of Mind for Teaching How to Lawyer Effectively for Change
Type: Concurrent Sessions
2:00 pm - 2:45pm Melting Polar Icebergs: Teaching Law Students to Access Empathy and Channel Their Passion to Empower Their Clients and Themselves
Type: Concurrent Sessions
2:00 pm - 2:45 pm Minority Law Professors: Questions and Reflections on Diverse Faculties in a Time of Polarization
Type: Concurrent Sessions
2:00 pm - 2:45 pm Teaching About Racial and Economic Justice in the Age of Trump
Type: Concurrent Sessions
2:00 pm - 2:45 pm Teaching Reflective Practice to Increase Equity and Inclusion
Type: Concurrent Sessions
2:00 pm - 2:45 pm The Harms of the 'Millennial' Label in an Era of Us vs. Them
Type: Concurrent Sessions
2:00 pm - 2:45 pm Tools for Addressing Implicit Bias with the Next Gen
Type: Concurrent Sessions
2:45 pm - 3:00 pm Break
Type: AALS Programs
3:00pm - 3:45 pm Creating Safe Spaces for Learning Through Disorienting Moments in Unsafe, Polarizing Times: Developing a Toolbox
Type: Concurrent Sessions
3:00 pm - 3:45 pm Cultivating Empathy as a Crucial Lawyering Skill
Type: Concurrent Sessions
3:00 pm - 3:45 pm Feedback Bias in Experiential Learning
Type: Concurrent Sessions
3:00 pm - 3:45 pm Learning About the Forest by Examining the Trees: Discussing Systemic Concerns in the Context of Direct Client Representation
Type: Concurrent Sessions
3:00 pm - 3:45 pm Overspecialized and Underprepared: A Critique of Clinical Legal Education and a Model for Change
Type: Concurrent Sessions
3:00 pm - 3:45 pm Polarization in the Legal Academy: A Conversation on Looking Inward to Break New Ground
Type: Concurrent Sessions
3:00 pm - 3:45 pm Technical Tools for Reaching Clients and Students: Practical and Ethical Dimensions
Type: Concurrent Sessions
3:00 pm - 3:45 pm The Death of a Clinic
Type: Concurrent Sessions
3:00 pm - 3:45 pm What’s Economic Inequality Got to Do with It? Everything! Strategies for Teaching Economic Inequality in Clinics
Type: Concurrent Sessions
3:00 pm - 3:45 pm Will Bar Admission Standards Promote Adequate Legal Education in Practice Skills, Professionalism and Values for Tomorrow’s Lawyers? Lessons from New York
Type: Concurrent Sessions
3:45 pm - 4:00 pm Refreshment Break
Type: AALS Programs
4:00 pm - 4:20 pm #EnvironmentalRacismIsKillingUs: Teaching About Environmental Racism in Clinical Legal Education
Type: Lightning Sessions
4:00 pm - 4:20 pm Designing an Award Winning Academic Component to a Semester-in-Practice Program Focused on Professional Identity and Civility
Type: Lightning Sessions
4:00 pm - 4:20 pm Engaging Law Students in Sexual Violence Prevention and Intervention in Urban Public Middle Schools Using Proactive and Responsive Restorative Circles
Type: Lightning Sessions
4:00 pm - 4:20 pm Learning about Social Justice Lawyering from Teaching in Part-Time Evening Clinics
Type: Lightning Sessions
4:00 pm - 4:20 pm Lights, Camera, Write! Producing Video Modules Teaching Effective Business Writing
Type: Lightning Sessions
4:00 pm - 4:20 pm Stories for the Non-Believer: Credibility, Bias, and Persuasion
Type: Lightning Sessions
4:00 pm - 4:20 pm Training Leading Lawyers and Lawyers Who Lead
Type: Lightning Sessions
4:00 pm - 4:20 pm What We Talk About When We Talk Empathy: The Power and Limitations of Empathy in the Battle for Justice
Type: Lightning Sessions
4:40 pm - 5:00 pm Building the Whole Lawyer: Preparing Students for Entry-Level Success
Type: Lightning Sessions
4:40 pm - 5:00 pm Fostering Initiative: A Look at the Psychology of Why Some Students Lack Initiative and How to Help Them Develop This Skill
Type: Lightning Sessions
4:40 pm - 5:00 pm Implementation Negotiation: A Transactional Skill That Builds on and Transforms Classic Negotiation Theory
Type: Lightning Sessions
4:40 pm - 5:00 pm Quickly! Society has Lost its Filter, Should We Teach with One?
Type: Lightning Sessions
4:40 pm - 5:00 pm Rediscovering Judicial Independence and the Rule of Law in Judicial Externship Clinics and Classes
Type: Lightning Sessions
4:40 pm - 5:00 pm Toughening Them Up: Class Exercises to Help Students Become More Open to Criticism and Feedback About Their Writing
Type: Lightning Sessions
4:40 pm - 5:00 pm Untangling Fear in Lawyering to Lift Up New Leaders
Type: Lightning Sessions
4:40 pm - 5:00 pm Using Rappaport’s Rules to Enhance Listening as Practice Skill and Civic Virtue
Type: Lightning Sessions
4:40 pm - 5:00 pm When Students Go to Work for the “Other Side”
Type: Lightning Sessions
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm Reception Sponsored by Northern California Law Schools
Type: AALS Programs
7:30 am - 9:00 am AALS Section on Clinical Legal Education Clinicians of Color Committee
Type: AALS Programs
7:30 am - 9:00 am Contemplative Practice Circle
Type: AALS Programs
7:30 am - 9:00 am Refreshment Break
Type: AALS Programs
7:30 am - 5:00 pm AALS Registration
Type: AALS Registration
8:00 am - 9:00 am Columbia Law School Alum Reception
Type: Affiliate Events
9:15 am - 10:30 am Keynote: Bridging Divisions (Cancelled)
Type: AALS Programs
10:30 am - 10:45 am Refreshment Break
Type: AALS Programs
10:45 am - 12:15 pm Working Group Discussions
Type: AALS Programs
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm AALS Luncheon
Type: AALS Luncheon
2:00 pm - 2:45 pm Access to Justice (and) Opportunities in Rural Areas and Small Towns – Educating Young Law Students to be Local Lawyer Leaders
Type: Concurrent Sessions
2:00 pm - 2:45 pm Advancing Social Justice Through Interdisciplinary Collaboration: Working with and Through Tech and IP Clinics
Type: Concurrent Sessions
2:00 pm - 2:45 pm Breaking the Hierarchy: Empowering Students in the Field
Type: Concurrent Sessions
2:00 pm - 2:45 pm Concurrent Sessions
Type: AALS Programs
2:00 pm - 2:45 pm Direct Client Services and Law Reform – Clinics Tackling Two Big Jobs
Type: Concurrent Sessions
2:00 pm - 2:45 pm Forging Clinic Collaborations with Non-Legal Partners: How Working Alongside Non-Lawyers Advances Student Learning
Type: Concurrent Sessions
2:00 pm - 2:45 pm Learning Skills by Teaching: Community Engagement in “Small Case” Clinics
Type: Concurrent Sessions
2:00 pm - 2:45 pm Moving Beyond the Traditional Big Case versus Small Case Debate: Embracing Opportunities to Engage Students in Transformational Advocacy
Type: Concurrent Sessions
2:00 pm - 2:45 pm Prioritizing Learning Outcomes Using Deliberate Immigration Clinic Design
Type: Concurrent Sessions
2:00 pm - 2:45 pm Prosecution Clinics: Unlocking Their Potential to Unite
Type: Concurrent Sessions
2:00 pm - 2:45 pm Rebellious Transactional Lawyering: Innovative Pedagogical Tools to Advance Economic Justice in a Time of Political Polarization
Type: Concurrent Sessions
3:00 pm - 3:45 pm “Lying” Clients and the Students Who Represent Them: Helping Students Understand Why Clients May Mislead, Provide Mistruths, or Otherwise Fabricate
Type: Concurrent Sessions
3:00 pm - 3:45 pm Access to Law and Justice
Type: Concurrent Sessions
3:00 pm - 3:45 pm Anti-Bias Teaching and Supervision: Practices That Foster Respect and Belonging for Students in Clinics and Externships (Part I)
Type: Concurrent Sessions
3:00 pm - 3:45 pm Concurrent Sessions
Type: AALS Programs
3:00 pm - 3:45 pm Creative Expression and Other Visual Tools for Bridging Divides
Type: Concurrent Sessions
3:00 pm - 3:45 pm Drawing from Other Disciplines to Create a Pedagogy of Inclusion and Empowerment
Type: Concurrent Sessions
3:00 pm - 3:45 pm Friday Night Fights: Addressing Clinical Team Dynamics and Teaching Collaboration Skills in an Age of Polarization
Type: Concurrent Sessions
3:00 pm - 3:45 pm Gumming Up the Wheels of Injustice
Type: Concurrent Sessions
3:00 pm - 3:45 pm Healing and Reconciliation: The Clinic’s Role in Re-Imagining Power and Fostering Dignity in a Time of Polarization
Type: Concurrent Sessions
3:00 pm - 3:45 pm Teaching Law Students to Address Issues of Race and Privilege as Part of Professional Competence
Type: Concurrent Sessions
3:00 pm - 3:45 pm Using Clinic Case Management Database Systems to Support Access to Justice and Individual Student Learning Outcomes
Type: Concurrent Sessions
3:45 pm - 4:00 pm Refreshment Break
Type: AALS Programs
4:00 pm - 4:45 pm Anti-Bias Teaching and Supervision: Practices That Foster Respect and Belonging for Students in Clinics and Externships (Part II)
Type: Concurrent Sessions
4:00 pm - 4:45 pm Bridging Divides: Fostering Students’ Abilities to Overcome Difference and Create Connection
Type: Concurrent Sessions
4:00 pm - 4:45 pm Coalition Building: An Essential Lawyering Skill for a Polarized World
Type: Concurrent Sessions
4:00 pm - 4:45 pm Fostering Resilience and a Growth Mindset in Students: A Strengths-Based Approach
Type: Concurrent Sessions
4:00 pm - 4:45 pm Harnessing the Collective Capacity of Clinics, Pro Bono, Alumni, Courts, and Our Rural Communities
Type: Concurrent Sessions
4:00 pm - 4:45 pm Intergeneration Change in Clinical Education: Our Work, Our Lives, Our Programs, Our Communities
Type: Concurrent Sessions
4:00 pm - 4:45 pm Media Advocacy in Clinical Teaching: Reclaiming Client Narratives in a Time of Polarization
Type: Concurrent Sessions
4:00 pm - 4:45 pm Preparing Students to be Interdisciplinary Collaborators for Change
Type: Concurrent Sessions
4:00 pm - 4:45 pm Red–Bottom Shoe Activism: Privilege, Power, and Pedagogy
Type: Concurrent Sessions
4:00 pm - 4:45 pm The Learning Legal Interviewing & Language Access Film Project
Type: Concurrent Sessions
9:00 pm - 11:00 pm Case Western Reserve University School of Law Alum Reception
Type: Affiliate Events
7:30 am - 8:45 am Contemplative Practice Circle
Type: AALS Programs
7:30 am - 9:00 am AALS Section on Clinical Legal Education Committees
Type: AALS Programs
7:30 am - 9:00 am Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee Meeting
Type: AALS Programs
7:30 am - 9:00 am CLEA Board and Membership Meeting
Type: Affiliate Events
7:30 am - 9:00 am Externships Committee Meeting
Type: AALS Programs
7:30 am - 9:00 am Interdisciplinary Committee Meeting
Type: AALS Programs
7:30 am - 9:00 am International Clinical Education Committee Meeting
Type: AALS Programs
7:30 am - 9:00 am Membership, Outreach, and Training Committee Meeting
Type: AALS Programs
7:30 am - 9:00 am Refreshment Break
Type: AALS Programs
7:30 am - 9:00 am Technology Committee Meeting
Type: AALS Programs
7:30 am - 11:30 am AALS Registration
Type: AALS Registration
9:00 am - 10:15 am AALS Section on Clinical Legal Education Works in Progress and Intensive Paper Feedback Sessions
Type: AALS Programs
9:00 am - 10:15 am Bellow Scholars Program Report on Projects: Empirical Methodologies
Type: Bellow Scholars
9:00 am - 10:15 am Works in Progress - Group #1: Community and Economic Development
Type: Works-in-Progress
9:00 am - 10:15 am Works in Progress - Group #10: Lawyering
Type: Works-in-Progress
9:00 am - 10:15 am Works in Progress - Group #11: Pedagogy and Clinic Diversity
Type: Works-in-Progress
9:00 am - 10:15 am Works in Progress - Group #12: Civil Rights (Title IX and LGBTQ)
Type: Works-in-Progress
9:00 am - 10:15 am Works in Progress - Group #13: Law & Society (Employment/Health & Entrepreneurship)
Type: Works-in-Progress
9:00 am - 10:15 am Works in Progress - Group #14: Children's Rights & Disability Rights
Type: Works-in-Progress
9:00 am - 10:15 am Works in Progress - Group #15: Access to Justice
Type: Works-in-Progress
9:00 am - 10:15 am Works in Progress - Group #16: Law & Society
Type: Works-in-Progress
9:00 am - 10:15 am Works in Progress - Group #17: Externships
Type: Works-in-Progress
9:00 am - 10:15 am Works in Progress - Group #2: Criminal Law
Type: Works-in-Progress
9:00 am - 10:15 am Works in Progress - Group #3: Criminal/Juvenile Justice
Type: Works-in-Progress
9:00 am - 10:15 am Works in Progress - Group #4: Education/Special Education
Type: Works-in-Progress
9:00 am - 10:15 am Works in Progress - Group #5: Health/Homelessness
Type: Works-in-Progress
9:00 am - 10:15 am Works in Progress - Group #6: Family & Health
Type: Works-in-Progress
9:00 am - 10:15 am Works in Progress - Group #7: Civil Rights (Housing Discrimination & Racial Justice)
Type: Works-in-Progress
9:00 am - 10:15 am Works in Progress - Group #8: Immigration
Type: Works-in-Progress
9:00 am - 10:15 am Works in Progress - Group #9: Immigration & Trafficking
Type: Works-in-Progress
10:15 am - 10:30 am Refreshment Break
Type: AALS Programs
10:30 am - 11:15 am I Just Met You, And This is Crazy, But Here’s My Number, So Call Me Maybe: Developing Student Attorney-Client Relationships and Communication from Afar
Type: Concurrent Sessions
10:30 am - 11:15 am Lawyer as Truth Teller? Narrative and Fact Investigation in the Shadow of Alternative Facts
Type: Concurrent Sessions
10:30 am - 11:15 am Learning in Baby Jail: Lessons from Law Student Engagement in Immigration Detention Centers
Type: Concurrent Sessions
10:30 am - 11:15 am Meeting at the Intersection of Scholarship and Clinical Practice
Type: Concurrent Sessions
10:30 am - 11:15 am Race, Identity, Competency? Expanding Our Understanding
Type: Concurrent Sessions
10:30 am - 11:15 am Stimulating Simulations: Framing and Debriefing Provocative In-Class Roleplays
Type: Concurrent Sessions
10:30 am - 11:15 am Strategies for Incorporating Leadership into Legal Clinics and Externships
Type: Concurrent Sessions
10:30 am - 11:15 am The Time Traveling Lawyer
Type: Concurrent Sessions
10:30 am - 11:15 am What If It’s Always Been a Time of Polarization?
Type: Concurrent Sessions
10:30 am - 11:15 am When They Go Low, We Go Local
Type: Concurrent Sessions
11:30 am - 11:50 am Grand Finale: Karaoke Sing-a-long and Clinical Community Unity Flag Art Project Celebration + Cake
Type: AALS Programs

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