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2021 Conference on Clinical Legal Education

Date: April 28 — May 1, 2021
Location: Marriott St. Louis Grand

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11:00 am - 11:15 am Conference on Clinical Legal Education Welcome and Introduction
Type: AALS Programs
11:15 am - 12:15 pm Opening Keynote Presentation: A Conversation with a Voting Rights Activist
Type: AALS Programs
12:30 pm - 1:15 pm Beyond Burnout: Teaching Engagement as Self-Care
Type: Concurrent Sessions
12:30 pm - 1:15 pm Incorporating Compassionate Release Advocacy in the Law School Curriculum
Type: Concurrent Sessions
12:30 pm - 1:15 pm Lessons from Learning Theory: How Clinics Can Help With the Bar Exam
Type: Concurrent Sessions
12:30 pm - 1:15 pm Obstacles and Opportunities in Clinical Team-Teaching
Type: Concurrent Sessions
12:30 pm - 1:15 pm Students as Clients: Reflections on Models of University Based Legal Services
Type: Concurrent Sessions
12:30 pm - 1:15 pm The Basics of Conducting Empirical Research to Shape Pedagogy or Promote Policy Change
Type: Concurrent Sessions
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm AALS Section on Clinical Legal Education M. Shanara Gilbert Award and Ellmann Memorial Clinical Scholarship Award Presentations; Recognition of New Clinicians
Type: AALS Programs
2:45 pm - 3:30 pm Building Our Students’ Foundation in Intersectionality
Type: Concurrent Sessions
2:45 pm - 3:30 pm Community Engagement as a Foundational Lawyering Skill
Type: Concurrent Sessions
2:45 pm - 3:30 pm Cultivating Sustained Attention as an Emerging Skill for the New Generation of Digital Natives
Type: Concurrent Sessions
2:45 pm - 3:30 pm Leveraging Successes to Build Our Future Together Across All Law Schools
Type: Concurrent Sessions
2:45 pm - 3:30 pm Navigating New Boundaries in Teaching Lawyering and Supervising Students
Type: Concurrent Sessions
2:45 pm - 3:30 pm Practicing What We Preach: From Theory to Action in Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
Type: Concurrent Sessions
3:45 pm - 4:30 pm “Presentation Principles”: Connecting Core Lawyering Skills to a Contemporary Lawyering Framework in the Digital Age
Type: Concurrent Sessions
3:45 pm - 4:30 pm Believe It or Not: Teaching Credibility and Corroboration Across Clinics
Type: Concurrent Sessions
3:45 pm - 4:30 pm Building Student Capacities During Reflective Supervision
Type: Concurrent Sessions
3:45 pm - 4:30 pm Confronting Emotional Depletion: Making the Case for Rational Compassion
Type: Concurrent Sessions
3:45 pm - 4:30 pm Race, Lawyering & the Experiential Curriculum
Type: Concurrent Sessions
3:45 pm - 4:30 pm Reflecting on Successes and Identifying Roadblocks to Robust Cross-Clinic Collaborations
Type: Concurrent Sessions
3:45 pm - 4:30 pm Same-day Representation Clinics
Type: Concurrent Sessions
4:45 pm - 5:30 pm Directive vs. Non-Directive Supervision: Disagreement or Misunderstanding?
Type: Concurrent Sessions
4:45 pm - 5:30 pm Empathy: More Than a Feeling
Type: Concurrent Sessions
4:45 pm - 5:30 pm Fortifying Experiential Education and Ourselves Through Leadership in the Clinical Community
Type: Concurrent Sessions
4:45 pm - 5:30 pm Harmonizing the Ethical and Legal Responsibilities of Lawyers and Social Workers in Clinical Practice
Type: Concurrent Sessions
4:45 pm - 5:30 pm Navigating Trauma in Clinical Legal Education: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Teaching Trauma Stewardship and Trauma-Informed Lawyering as Practical Legal Skills
Type: Concurrent Sessions
5:45 pm - 6:45 pm Working Group Discussion - Alternative Dispute Resolution
Type: Working Groups
5:45 pm - 6:45 pm Working Group Discussion - Associate Deans of Experiential Learning (Group 1)
Type: Working Groups
5:45 pm - 6:45 pm Working Group Discussion - Associate Deans of Experiential Learning (Group 2)
Type: Working Groups
5:45 pm - 6:45 pm Working Group Discussion - Civil Rights/Discrimination/Race/LGBTQ
Type: Working Groups
5:45 pm - 6:45 pm Working Group Discussion - Clinic Administrators
Type: Working Groups
5:45 pm - 6:45 pm Working Group Discussion - Community Economic Development
Type: Working Groups
5:45 pm - 6:45 pm Working Group Discussions - Community Lawyering
Type: Working Groups
5:45 pm - 6:45 pm Working Group Discussions - Consumer Law & Tax
Type: Working Groups
5:45 pm - 6:45 pm Working Group Discussions - Criminal Law (Group 2)
Type: Working Groups
5:45 pm - 6:45 pm Working Group Discussions - Criminal Law (Group 1)
Type: Working Groups
5:45 pm - 6:45 pm Working Group Discussions - Criminal Law / Reentry
Type: Working Groups
5:45 pm - 6:45 pm Working Group Discussions - Critical Theory
Type: Working Groups
5:45 pm - 6:45 pm Working Group Discussions - Education
Type: Working Groups
5:45 pm - 6:45 pm Working Group Discussions - Elder/Disability/Health
Type: Working Groups
5:45 pm - 6:45 pm Working Group Discussions - Environmental
Type: Working Groups
5:45 pm - 6:45 pm Working Group Discussions - Externships (Group 1)
Type: Working Groups
5:45 pm - 6:45 pm Working Group Discussions - Externships (Group 2)
Type: Working Groups
5:45 pm - 6:45 pm Working Group Discussions - Family/Domestic Violence
Type: Working Groups
5:45 pm - 6:45 pm Working Group Discussions - Housing
Type: Working Groups
5:45 pm - 6:45 pm Working Group Discussions - Immigration (Group 1)
Type: Working Groups
5:45 pm - 6:45 pm Working Group Discussions - Immigration (Group 2)
Type: Working Groups
5:45 pm - 6:45 pm Working Group Discussions - International Human Rights
Type: Working Groups
5:45 pm - 6:45 pm Working Group Discussions - Juvenile Law
Type: Working Groups
5:45 pm - 6:45 pm Working Group Discussions - Legislative/Policy
Type: Working Groups
5:45 pm - 6:45 pm Working Group Discussions - Medical-Legal Partnership/Interdisciplinary Clinics
Type: Working Groups
5:45 pm - 6:45 pm Working Group Discussions - Mindfulness & Self-Care
Type: Working Groups
5:45 pm - 6:45 pm Working Group Discussions - Poverty Law/Public Benefits
Type: Working Groups
5:45 pm - 6:45 pm Working Group Discussions - Transactional Law/Small Business (Group 1)
Type: Working Groups
5:45 pm - 6:45 pm Working Group Discussions - Transactional Law/Small Business (Group 2)
Type: Working Groups
5:45 pm - 6:45 pm Working Group Discussions - Veterans
Type: Working Groups
10:00 am - 10:45 am Mindfulness/Contemplative Session
Type: AALS Programs
10:00 am - 11:00 am Networking Session: Learned Hand - Help Build an AI Legal Issue Spotter
Type: Networking Sessions
10:00 am - 11:00 am New Clinicians Coffee Break with Membership, Outreach and Training (MOT) Committee
Type: AALS Programs
10:00 am - 11:00 am Policy Committee Meeting
Type: AALS Committee Meetings
10:00 am - 11:00 am Scholarship Committee Meeting
Type: AALS Committee Meetings
10:00 am - 11:00 am Transactional Law Committee Meeting
Type: AALS Committee Meetings
11:00 am - 11:45 am Flying a Plane While Building It: Adapting to New Clinic Realities in a COVID-19 World
Type: Concurrent Sessions
11:00 am - 11:45 am Gender in Jail, Prison, & Coming Home: Intersectional & Innovative Approaches to Advocacy
Type: Concurrent Sessions
11:00 am - 11:45 am Planning for Resilience
Type: Concurrent Sessions
11:00 am - 11:45 am Teaching Family Separation Across Practice Areas
Type: Concurrent Sessions
11:00 am - 11:45 am The Shadow Muslim Ban: Situs of Clinical Practice
Type: Concurrent Sessions
11:00 am - 11:45 pm Building for the Future and Advancing Social Justice in the Community Through Collaborative Impact Litigation and Systemic Reform
Type: Concurrent Sessions
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm Delivering Water Justice: Case Studies In Respectful, Sustainable, Multi-Semester, Nontraditional Lawyering
Type: Lightning Sessions
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm Developing an Open Records Act Strategy at a Public University Clinic
Type: Lightning Sessions
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm Introducing Students to a Science-Focused Model of Self Care & Mindfulness
Type: Lightning Sessions
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm Making a House a Home: Professional Development of Clinical Adjunct Faculty
Type: Lightning Sessions
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm Who’s Teaching Who? Using Collaborative Inter-Clinic Rounds for Student and Faculty Development
Type: Lightning Sessions
12:45 pm - 1:30 pm “Stop, Collaborate, and Listen”: The Art of Teaching Student Collaboration
Type: Concurrent Sessions
12:45 pm - 1:30 pm Law Students and Incarcerated Students Re-Imagining the Criminal Legal System from the Inside-Out
Type: Concurrent Sessions
12:45 pm - 1:30 pm Starting from Scratch: Collaboratively Designing a New Online Educational Program for Immigrant Advocates
Type: Concurrent Sessions
1:45 pm - 2:30 pm Advising Social Enterprise Clients in a Transactional Clinic
Type: Concurrent Sessions
1:45 pm - 2:30 pm Clinical Attachment: Collaborations Among the Samuelson/Glushko Family of IP Law & Technology Clinics
Type: Concurrent Sessions
1:45 pm - 2:30 pm From the Clinic to the Community: Leveraging Empirical Analysis to Advance Social Justice
Type: Concurrent Sessions
1:45 pm - 2:30 pm Increasing Equity and Diversity in Clinical Faculty Ranks
Type: Concurrent Sessions
1:45 pm - 2:30 pm Teaching 1619: The Legacy of the First Landing as a Frame for Clinical Teaching
Type: Concurrent Sessions
2:45 pm - 3:15 pm Clinics and Community – Engaging in Local Politics as a Way to Further Clinic Reach and Depth
Type: Lightning Sessions
2:45 pm - 3:15 pm Critically Examining and Countering Reliance on Criminal Convictions in Family Court and Domestic Violence Proceedings
Type: Lightning Sessions
2:45 pm - 3:15 pm Leveraging Artificial Intelligence to Foster Improved Student Understanding and Scale Clinical Assistance for Underserved Populations
Type: Lightning Sessions
2:45 pm - 3:15 pm Teaching Students the Art of Giving (and Receiving) Feedback
Type: Lightning Sessions
2:45 pm - 3:15 pm Timekeeping Lightning Session: .5 Well-Spent
Type: Lightning Sessions
3:30 pm - 4:15 pm Poster Presentation: Collaboration at the Border and Across Disciplines
Type: Poster Presentation
3:30 pm - 4:15 pm Poster Presentation: First Year Lab at University of New Mexico
Type: Poster Presentation
3:30 pm - 4:15 pm Poster Presentation: Incorporating Mindfulness Makes One a Better Negotiator
Type: Poster Presentation
3:30 pm - 4:15 pm Poster Presentation: Pro Bono with 1Ls as a Wellness Practice
Type: Poster Presentation
3:30 pm - 4:15 pm Poster Presentation: Sources of Tribal Law
Type: Poster Presentation
3:30 pm - 4:15 pm Poster Presentation: Why UI? A Case To Take On Another Case
Type: Poster Presentation
3:30 pm - 4:15 pm Poster Presentation: Two Takes on the Border: How Cross-Clinic Collaborations Can Support the Work of Nonprofits Representing Migrants along the Southern U.S. Border While Enhancing the Student Learning Experience
Type: Poster Presentation
4:30 pm - 5:15 pm 2020 Vision(aries)
Type: Concurrent Sessions
4:30 pm - 5:15 pm Fostering Wholehearted Lawyers through Clinical Legal Education
Type: Concurrent Sessions
4:30 pm - 5:15 pm Human Rights Basics for Clinicians
Type: Concurrent Sessions
4:30 pm - 5:15 pm Observing (In)justice: Court Observation Projects in Clinical Practice
Type: Concurrent Sessions
4:30 pm - 5:15 pm Racism, Racial Trauma, and Clinics: Reimagining Clinical Work Through a Racial Justice Lens
Type: Concurrent Sessions
4:30 pm - 5:15 pm The Clinic’s Role in Building Resilience: Preparing Students for Failure
Type: Concurrent Sessions
5:15 pm - 6:15 pm Externships Committee Meeting
Type: AALS Committee Meetings
10:00 am - 10:45 am Mindfulness/Contemplative Session
Type: AALS Programs
10:00 am - 11:00 am AALS Section on Clinical Legal Education Clinicians of Color Committee Meeting
Type: AALS Programs
10:00 am - 11:00 am Networking Session: Challenging White Supremacy for Non-BIPOC Clinicians
Type: Networking Sessions
11:00 am - 11:45 am Building the Future Through Development of Leadership and Professional Identity in Clinical Programs
Type: Concurrent Sessions
11:00 am - 11:45 am Clinical Legal Education For All, Not For The Few: One UK Law School’s Approach To Legal Pedagogy
Type: Concurrent Sessions
11:00 am - 11:45 am From #MeToo to #RealChange: Addressing Gender Violence at the Community Level
Type: Concurrent Sessions
11:00 am - 11:45 am Large-Scale Litigation in Law School Clinics
Type: Concurrent Sessions
11:00 am - 11:45 am Onward and Upward? Moves Between Status Tracks In the Academy
Type: Concurrent Sessions
11:00 am - 11:45 am Turning Down the Static: Fine-tuning Feedback, Supervision and Difficult Conversations
Type: Concurrent Sessions
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm CLEA Awards (Outstanding Advocate for Clinical Teachers and Excellence in a Public Interest Case or Project Awards)
Type: AALS Programs
1:15 pm - 2:15 pm Working Group Discussions - Alternative Dispute Resolution
Type: Working Groups
1:15 pm - 2:15 pm Working Group Discussions - Associate Deans of Experiential Education (Group 1)
Type: Working Groups
1:15 pm - 2:15 pm Working Group Discussions - Associate Deans of Experiential Education (Group 2)
Type: Working Groups
1:15 pm - 2:15 pm Working Group Discussions - Civil Rights/Discrimination/Race/LGBTQ
Type: Working Groups
1:15 pm - 2:15 pm Working Group Discussions - Clinic Administrators
Type: Working Groups
1:15 pm - 2:15 pm Working Group Discussions - Community Economic Development
Type: Working Groups
1:15 pm - 2:15 pm Working Group Discussions - Community Lawyering
Type: Working Groups
1:15 pm - 2:15 pm Working Group Discussions - Consumer Law & Tax
Type: Working Groups
1:15 pm - 2:15 pm Working Group Discussions - Criminal Law (Group 1)
Type: Working Groups
1:15 pm - 2:15 pm Working Group Discussions - Criminal Law (Group 2)
Type: Working Groups
1:15 pm - 2:15 pm Working Group Discussions - Criminal Law / Reentry
Type: Working Groups
1:15 pm - 2:15 pm Working Group Discussions - Critical Theory
Type: Working Groups
1:15 pm - 2:15 pm Working Group Discussions - Education
Type: Working Groups
1:15 pm - 2:15 pm Working Group Discussions - Elder/Disability/Health
Type: Working Groups
1:15 pm - 2:15 pm Working Group Discussions - Environmental
Type: Working Groups
1:15 pm - 2:15 pm Working Group Discussions - Externships (Group 1)
Type: Working Groups
1:15 pm - 2:15 pm Working Group Discussions - Externships (Group 2)
Type: Working Groups
1:15 pm - 2:15 pm Working Group Discussions - Family/Domestic Violence
Type: Working Groups
1:15 pm - 2:15 pm Working Group Discussions - Housing
Type: Working Groups
1:15 pm - 2:15 pm Working Group Discussions - Immigration (Group 1)
Type: Working Groups
1:15 pm - 2:15 pm Working Group Discussions - Immigration (Group 2)
Type: Working Groups
1:15 pm - 2:15 pm Working Group Discussions - International Human Rights
Type: Working Groups
1:15 pm - 2:15 pm Working Group Discussions - Juvenile Law
Type: Working Groups
1:15 pm - 2:15 pm Working Group Discussions - Legislative/Policy
Type: Working Groups
1:15 pm - 2:15 pm Working Group Discussions - Medical-Legal Partnership/Interdisciplinary Clinics
Type: Working Groups
1:15 pm - 2:15 pm Working Group Discussions - Mindfulness & Self-Care
Type: Working Groups
1:15 pm - 2:15 pm Working Group Discussions - Poverty Law/Public Benefits
Type: Working Groups
1:15 pm - 2:15 pm Working Group Discussions - Transactional Law/Small Business (Group 1)
Type: Working Groups
1:15 pm - 2:15 pm Working Group Discussions - Transactional Law/Small Business (Group 2)
Type: Working Groups
1:15 pm - 2:15 pm Working Group Discussions - Veterans
Type: Working Groups
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm Lawyering over the Line
Type: Lightning Sessions
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm NLSVCC: Taking Collaboration to the Next Level
Type: Lightning Sessions
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm Round and Round We Go: Options for How to Structure & Facilitate Rounds
Type: Lightning Sessions
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm Striking the Balance: Teaching Social Justice in Higher-Volume Clinics
Type: Lightning Sessions
3:15 pm - 4:15 pm Plenary Session: Are We (Almost) There Yet? Clinical Programs and the Academy as Anti-Racist Institutions
Type: AALS Programs
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm AALS Section on Clinical Legal Education Works in Progress
Type: Works-in-Progress
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm Bellow Scholars Reports on Projects
Type: Bellow Scholars
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm Works in Progress Group # 1 Fair Housing & Affordable Housing
Type: Works-in-Progress
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm Works in Progress Group # 2 Housing Conditions and Pre-trial Detention
Type: Works-in-Progress
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm Works in Progress Group # 3 Family Law: Termination of Parental Rights & Family Separation
Type: Works-in-Progress
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm Works in Progress Group # 4 Family Law: Children's Rights & Child Advocacy
Type: Works-in-Progress
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm Works in Progress Group # 5 Criminal Justice: Decarceration
Type: Works-in-Progress
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm Works in Progress Group # 6 Criminal Justice: Rights & Ethics
Type: Works-in-Progress
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm Works in Progress Group # 7 Criminal Law & National Security
Type: Works-in-Progress
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm Works in Progress Group # 8 Immigration
Type: Works-in-Progress
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm Works in Progress Group # 9 Immigration and Human Trafficking
Type: Works-in-Progress
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm Works in Progress Group #10 Racial Justice: Policing & Political Community
Type: Works-in-Progress
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm Works in Progress Group #11 Experiential Education
Type: Works-in-Progress
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm Works in Progress Group #12 Disability Rights
Type: Works-in-Progress
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm Works in Progress Group #13 Access to Justice
Type: Works-in-Progress
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm Works in Progress Group #14 Racial Justice & Health Law
Type: Works-in-Progress
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm Works in Progress Group #15 IPV & Title IX
Type: Works-in-Progress
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm Works in Progress Group #16 Contracts
Type: Works-in-Progress
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm Works in Progress Group #17 Entrepreneurship, Small Business & Local Government
Type: Works-in-Progress
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm Works in Progress Group #18 Criminal Justice & Resentencing
Type: Works-in-Progress
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm Works in Progress Group #19 Lawyering & Elder Care
Type: Works-in-Progress
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm Works in Progress Group #20 Restorative Justice & Racial Justice Transportation Gap
Type: Works-in-Progress
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm Works in Progress Group #21 Family Law Reentry & Clinical Pedagogy
Type: Works-in-Progress
10:00 am - 10:45 am Mindfulness/Contemplative Session
Type: AALS Programs
10:00 am - 11:00 am ADR Committee Meeting
Type: AALS Committee Meetings
10:00 am - 11:00 am Bellow Scholars Committee Meeting
Type: AALS Committee Meetings
10:00 am - 11:00 am Interdisciplinary Committee Meeting
Type: AALS Committee Meetings
10:00 am - 11:00 am Networking Session: Listening Session for 2022 Planning Committee
Type: Networking Sessions
10:00 am - 11:00 am Teaching Methodologies Committee Meeting
Type: AALS Committee Meetings
11:00 am - 11:45 am Designing Student-Based Language Interpreter Programs to Ensure Language Accessible Clinics
Type: Concurrent Sessions
11:00 am - 11:45 am Enhancing Empathy and Resilience by Combining Doctrinal Teaching, Process Drama, and Live Client Work
Type: Concurrent Sessions
11:00 am - 11:45 am How Global Clinical Education Collaboration Can Benefit Our Students, Our Clients, and Ourselves
Type: Concurrent Sessions
11:00 am - 11:45 am Implicit Bias 201: Strategies for Incorporating Implicit Bias Training Throughout a Course
Type: Concurrent Sessions
11:00 am - 11:45 am Preventing and Responding to Vicarious Trauma in Law School Clinics
Type: Concurrent Sessions
11:00 am - 11:45 am Training the Next Generation of RURAL Lawyer Leaders - Where have we been and where are we going with rural practice opportunities?
Type: Concurrent Sessions
12:00 pm - 12:45 pm Cultivating Professional Identity in the First Year of Law School
Type: Concurrent Sessions
12:00 pm - 12:45 pm Fostering Healthy Lawyers: Implementing Well-Being as a Learning Outcome for Ourselves and Our Students
Type: Concurrent Sessions
12:00 pm - 12:45 pm Seizing the Moment and Supporting the Movement: Defund the Police & Feminist Theory and Practice
Type: Concurrent Sessions
12:00 pm - 12:45 pm Taking Experiential Learning on the Road: The Benefits of Service Learning Projects
Type: Concurrent Sessions
12:00 pm - 12:45 pm The Stories that Built Us: Using a Clinic Produced Podcast to Develop Skills, Collaboration, and Community Impact
Type: Concurrent Sessions
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm What's Love Got to Do With It? Injecting Health and Happiness into a Clinic or Externship Part 1 & Part 2
Type: Concurrent Sessions
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm Workshop: Learning Law through Experience and By Design
Type: Workshop
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm Scholarship Support Workshop
Type: Workshop
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm Workshop: Clinicians of Color Workshop
Type: Workshop
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm Workshop: Navigating the Complexities of the Clinical Teaching Market
Type: Workshop
3:50 pm - 4:35 pm Clinicians of Color Workshop: Navigating the Transition from Clinician to Administration
Type: Workshop
3:50 pm - 4:35 pm Clinicians of Color Workshop: What I Wish I had Known When I was Starting Out
Type: Workshop

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