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2015 Conference on Clinical Legal Education

Date: May 3 — 7, 2015
Location: Westin Mission Hills

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6:00 pm - 7:30 pm AALS Reception - Law Clinic Directors Workshop
Type: AALS Programs
7:00 am - 8:30 am Section on Clinical Legal Education Committees
Type: AALS Programs
8:45 am - 9:00 am Welcome and Introduction
Type: AALS Programs
9:00 am - 10:30 am Plenary Session: Leading Experiential Learning
Type: AALS Programs
10:30 am - 10:45 am Refreshment Break
Type: AALS Programs
10:45 am - 12:15 pm Plenary Session: Who Does the Work in the New Normal?
Type: AALS Programs
12:15 pm - 1:45 pm AALS Luncheon - The Costs and Value of Clinical Legal Education: A Data Driven Assessment
Type: AALS Programs
1:45 pm - 3:15 pm Small Group Discussions
Type: AALS Programs
6:00 pm - 6:15 pm Welcome and Introduction - Conference on Clinical Legal Education
Type: AALS Programs
6:15 pm - 6:45 pm Can We Really Burn the Building Down and Start Again?
Type: AALS Programs
6:45 pm - 8:00 pm AALS Reception Featuring Clinical Legal Education Posters
Type: AALS Programs
7:00 am - 8:30 am AALS Section on Clinical Legal Education Committees
Type: AALS Programs
8:30 am - 9:30 am Track One: The Faces of the New Normal
Type: AALS Programs
8:30 am - 9:30 am Track Three: Technology and Legal Education
Type: AALS Programs
8:30 am - 9:30 am Track Two: The New Normal and Our Pedagogical Mission
Type: AALS Programs
9:30 am - 9:45 am Transition to Concurrent Sessions
Type: AALS Programs
9:45 am - 11:00 am Creatively Embracing Change Using an Eco-System Model
Type: AALS Programs
9:45 am - 11:00 am Implicit Bias
Type: AALS Programs
9:45 am - 11:00 am Track 1: ABA Standards, Clinical Legal Education, and the New Normal: Has Anything Changed?
Type: AALS Programs
9:45 am - 11:00 am Track 1: Funding the Law School Clinic Through “Soft Money” – Restraints and Possibilities for Pedagogy and Social Justice
Type: AALS Programs
9:45 am - 11:00 am Track 2: 1L Curricular Reform and Faculty Integration
Type: AALS Programs
9:45 am - 11:00 am Track 2: Birds of a Feather Teach Together: Collaborations between Law Clinic and Externship Faculty to Educate a New Generation of Reflective Practitioners
Type: AALS Programs
9:45 am - 11:00 am Track 2: Change Pedagogy for Social Justice
Type: AALS Programs
9:45 am - 11:00 am Track 2: Social Justice Lawyering in the “New Normal” of Reduced Judicial Resources
Type: AALS Programs
9:45 am - 11:00 am Track 3: Exploring Strategies for Accountability, Democracy, and Transparency in Community-Clinic Collaborations
Type: AALS Programs
9:45 am - 11:00 am Track 3: Future of the New Normal: Incorporating the Roots of Critical Pedagogy into Multi-Disciplinary Approaches to Clinics – From Roots to New Blooms
Type: AALS Programs
9:45 am - 11:00 am Track 3: Should We Change too? Re-envisioning Clinical Pedagogy to Include Law Practice Management and Technology: Teaching Students Marketable Practice Skills While Widening Access to Justice.
Type: AALS Programs
9:45 am - 11:00 am Track 3: Small Business Entrepreneur Brief Advice Clinic Design: The New Normal in Teaching Microenterprise Representation involving Students, Pro Bono Attorneys, and Faculty
Type: AALS Programs
9:45 am - 11:00 am Track 3: The Start Up of Who? – Disrupting the Marketplace by Teaching Entrepreneurial Thinking in Law Schools
Type: AALS Programs
11:00 am - 11:15 am Refreshment Break
Type: AALS Programs
11:15 am - 12:30 pm Workshop: Teaching About Race to Improve Racial Justice
Type: AALS Programs
11:15 am - 12:30 pm Workshop: Teaching Justice
Type: AALS Programs
11:15 am - 12:30 pm Workshop: (Re-)Designing a Clinic Using Backwards Design
Type: AALS Programs
11:15 am - 12:30 pm Workshop: Creating Online Educational Videos
Type: AALS Programs
11:15 am - 12:30 pm Workshop: Feedback and Supervision
Type: AALS Programs
11:15 am - 12:30 pm Workshop: Navigating the Complexities of the Clinical Teaching Market
Type: AALS Programs
11:15 am - 12:30 pm Workshop: Scholarship Support
Type: AALS Programs
11:15 am - 12:30 pm Workshop: Teaching and Evaluating Reflection
Type: AALS Programs
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm AALS Luncheon
Type: AALS Programs
2:00 pm - 2:30 pm Keynote
Type: AALS Programs
2:30 pm - 2:45 pm Transition to Concurrent Sessions
Type: AALS Programs
2:45 pm - 4:00 pm “Newish Clinicians” Navigating the (New) Normal – Experiences, Strategies, and Opportunities
Type: AALS Programs
2:45 pm - 4:00 pm Engaging Students in Organizational Representation
Type: AALS Programs
2:45 pm - 4:00 pm Representing Enterprises
Type: AALS Programs
2:45 pm - 4:00 pm Responding to the New Normal in Field Placement Clinics: Teaching Students to Work in and Manage the Small Firm
Type: AALS Programs
2:45 pm - 4:00 pm Subversive Outcome Assessment: Learning Taxonomies and Pop Up Workshops
Type: AALS Programs
2:45 pm - 4:00 pm Track 1: Establishing and Improving Clinical Teaching Fellowship Programs
Type: AALS Programs
2:45 pm - 4:00 pm Track 1: Responding to the New ABA Standard 314 – Assessment in the Law School and in the Field: What We’re Doing and How We Can Do It Better
Type: AALS Programs
2:45 pm - 4:00 pm Track 2: Clinical Education at the Intersection of Immigration Law and Criminal Law
Type: AALS Programs
2:45 pm - 4:00 pm Track 2: Facing Our Fears in Changing Times: Critically Examining the Benefits and Opportunities of Clinical Legal Education Models in Order to Lead Within Our Institutions
Type: AALS Programs
2:45 pm - 4:00 pm Track 2: The New Normal in Public Interest Lawyering: Small Business and Transactional Clinics at the Forefront of Change
Type: AALS Programs
2:45 pm - 4:00 pm Track 3: Plugged In or Tuned Out? Teaching a New Generation of Tech-Savvy Clinical Students
Type: AALS Programs
2:45 pm - 4:00 pm Track 3: Where the Jobs Are Now and What They Require: Preparing Law Students for an Interprofessional World
Type: AALS Programs
4:00 pm - 4:15 pm Refreshment Break
Type: AALS Programs
4:15 pm - 5:30 pm Workshop: Teaching About Race to Improve Racial Justice
Type: AALS Programs
4:15 pm - 5:30 pm Workshop: Teaching Justice
Type: AALS Programs
4:15 pm - 5:30 pm Workshop: (Re-)Designing a Clinic Using Backwards Design
Type: AALS Programs
4:15 pm - 5:30 pm Workshop: Creating Online Educational Videos
Type: AALS Programs
4:15 pm - 5:30 pm Workshop: Feedback and Supervision
Type: AALS Programs
4:15 pm - 5:30 pm Workshop: Navigating the Complexities of the Clinical Teaching Market
Type: AALS Programs
4:15 pm - 5:30 pm Workshop: Scholarship Support
Type: AALS Programs
4:15 pm - 5:30 pm Workshop: Teaching and Evaluating Reflection
Type: AALS Programs
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm #BlackLivesMatter: Law Clinic, Field Placements and Clinician Responses in Sanford, Ferguson, Staten Island, Cleveland and Our Communities
Type: AALS Programs
7:00 am - 8:30 am AALS Section on Clinical Legal Education Clinician of Color Committee
Type: AALS Programs
9:00 am - 10:15 am Collaboration: Unpacking the “Old Normal” in Light of the New Normal
Type: AALS Programs
9:00 am - 10:15 am Fact-finding in the Human Rights Context and Beyond: Strategies for Teaching Fact-finding in Clinics
Type: AALS Programs
9:00 am - 10:15 am Track 1: Competencies and Rubrics, What are they Good For?! Law, Social Work and Psychology Standards in an Interdisciplinary Context
Type: AALS Programs
9:00 am - 10:15 am Track 1: Maximizing What Law Students Learn From Experience: Building Effective Reflective/Classroom Components for Law Students in Field Placements under the new ABA Standard 305(e)7
Type: AALS Programs
9:00 am - 10:15 am Track 2: Is there Room for Racial Justice, Truth and Equality in the New Normal?
Type: AALS Programs
9:00 am - 10:15 am Track 2: Erasing Boundaries Across the Curriculum
Type: AALS Programs
9:00 am - 10:15 am Track 2: Integrating a Clinical Experience into the First-Year Curriculum: Beyond the Legal Writing Course into the Doctrinal Curriculum
Type: AALS Programs
9:00 am - 10:15 am Track 2: Readiness for the Profession: Enriching Law School Pedagogy
Type: AALS Programs
9:00 am - 10:15 am Track 3: Clinics in the Cloud: Ensuring the “New Normal” is Heavenly
Type: AALS Programs
9:00 am - 10:15 am Track 3: Globalization of Legal Practice: A Comparative Exploration of the Benefits, Challenges, and Pitfalls of Preparing Lawyers for Practice in the Global Community through Clinics and Internationa
Type: AALS Programs
9:00 am - 10:15 am Track 3: Just What the Doctor Ordered: Multi-Disciplinary Clinics at the Forefront of Change
Type: AALS Programs
9:00 am - 10:15 am Track 3: The Future in the New Normal: Integrating Emerging Technology in the Classroom and the Importance of Technology Fluency
Type: AALS Programs
9:00 am - 10:15 am Track 3: The New Normal: How the University of Richmond School of Law is Using iPads and other Technology to Facilitate the Practice of Law
Type: AALS Programs
10:15 am - 10:30 am Refreshment Break
Type: AALS Programs
10:30 am - 11:45 am Workshop: (Re-)Designing a Clinic Using Backwards Design
Type: AALS Programs
10:30 am - 11:45 am Workshop: Creating Online Educational Videos
Type: AALS Programs
10:30 am - 11:45 am Workshop: Navigating the Complexities of the Clinical Teaching Market
Type: AALS Programs
10:30 am - 11:45 am Workshop: Scholarship Support
Type: AALS Programs
10:30 am - 11:45 am Workshop: Supervision: Theory, Planning, Problem Solving and Practices
Type: AALS Programs
10:30 am - 11:45 am Workshop: Teaching and Evaluating Reflection
Type: AALS Programs
10:30 am - 11:45 am Workshop: Teaching Justice
Type: AALS Programs
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm AALS Luncheon
Type: AALS Programs
1:30 pm - 2:45 pm Bellow Scholars Project Presentations
Type: AALS Programs
1:30 pm - 2:45 pm Works-In-Progress
Type: AALS Programs
2:45 pm - 3:00 pm Refreshment Break
Type: AALS Programs
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Track One: Counseling Students in the New Normal
Type: AALS Programs
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Track Three: Exploring New Possibilities Through Technology: Preparing Students to Practice in the New Normal
Type: AALS Programs
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Track Two: The New Normal and Our Social Justice Mission
Type: AALS Programs
4:00 pm - 4:15 pm Transition to Workshops and Working Sessions (A)
Type: AALS Programs
4:15 pm - 5:30 pm Workshop: (Re-)Designing a Clinic Using Backwards Design
Type: AALS Programs
4:15 pm - 5:30 pm Workshop: Creating Online Educational Videos
Type: AALS Programs
4:15 pm - 5:30 pm Workshop: Navigating the Complexities of the Clinical Teaching Market
Type: AALS Programs
4:15 pm - 5:30 pm Workshop: Scholarship Support
Type: AALS Programs
4:15 pm - 5:30 pm Workshop: Teaching and Evaluating Reflection
Type: AALS Programs
4:15 pm - 5:30 pm Workshop: Teaching Justice
Type: AALS Programs
7:00 am - 8:30 am AALS Section on Clinical Legal Education Committees
Type: AALS Programs
8:30 am - 9:45 am Discussion of Disruptive Innovation and the Future of Legal Education
Type: AALS Programs
8:30 am - 9:45 am Documenting Unprofessional Conduct in Clinics and Externships
Type: AALS Programs
8:30 am - 9:45 am Exploring the 5 Intelligences of Effective Lawyers
Type: AALS Programs
8:30 am - 9:45 am Helping Strangers in a Strange Land: Teaching Students Professional Behavior
Type: AALS Programs
8:30 am - 9:45 am Track 1: New York’s New Pro Bono Scholars Program: A Report on the First Year of Implementation and Reflections for the Future
Type: AALS Programs
8:30 am - 9:45 am Track 1: Persuasive Presentations in Informal Settings: Helping Students Recognize What Matters to Them and Their Audience
Type: AALS Programs
8:30 am - 9:45 am Track 2: A Commitment to Inner Development: Connecting the “New Normal” with Clinics’ Social Justice Mission
Type: AALS Programs
8:30 am - 9:45 am Track 2: Maintaining the Gold Standard: Preserving Live-Client Clinics in the New Normal
Type: AALS Programs
8:30 am - 9:45 am Track 3: Clinical Community 2.0: Online Tools to Build, Expand, and Strengthen Clinician Support Networks
Type: AALS Programs
8:30 am - 9:45 am Track 3: Harnessing the Power of a New Database Application to Improve Clinical Student Assessment
Type: AALS Programs
8:30 am - 9:45 am Track 3: Mind Mapping: A Tool for Training the 21st Century Attorney in a Clinical Setting
Type: Member School Events
8:30 am - 9:45 am Track 3: The “New Normal” of Dispute Resolution: Pedagogical Lessons and Secrets from Mediation Clinics
Type: AALS Programs
9:45 am - 10:00 am Refreshment Break
Type: AALS Programs
10:00 am - 10:35 am Popular Media, Fear Appeals, and a Sense of Humor: Three Approaches to Engaging Students in Justice Learning, Teaching Substantive Law and Lawyering Skills, and Preparing Students for the “Real World"
Type: AALS Programs
10:00 am - 11:15 am Redesigning Clinics to Creatively Integrate J.D. and LL.M. Students
Type: AALS Programs
10:00 am - 11:15 am Representing Clients and Educating Students Amid Risk Management, Background Checks, and Compliance Regimes
Type: AALS Programs
10:00 am - 11:15 am Track 1: Making the Best of the New Normal: Integrating Adjunct Professors in Clinical Design
Type: AALS Programs
10:00 am - 11:15 am Track 1: New to the "New Normal": Externship Professor Edition
Type: AALS Programs
10:00 am - 11:15 am Track 2: From the Ivory Tower to the Courtroom: Academic Writing for Social Justice in the “New Normal”
Type: AALS Programs
10:00 am - 11:15 am Track 2: Integrating Non-Clinical Faculty Into Clinic and Experiential Courses: What’s the Recipe(s) for Success?
Type: AALS Programs
10:00 am - 11:15 am Track 2: Challenges of International Human Rights Clinics in the “New Normal”
Type: AALS Programs
10:00 am - 11:15 am Track 2: Pedagogical Responses to Humanitarian Crisis on the Border: Clinical Work in Family Detention Facilities
Type: AALS Programs
10:00 am - 11:15 am Track 3: Start-Up Success in Clinic Projects: Generating Project Ideas, Choosing Clients, and Planning for the Unexpected
Type: AALS Programs
10:00 am - 11:15 am What Can We Learn from Leadership Coaching? Insights from Transactional Clinics
Type: AALS Programs
11:15 am - 11:30 am Transition to Closing Plenary Session
Type: AALS Programs
11:30 am - 12:00 pm Disruptive Innovation and the Future of Legal Education
Type: AALS Programs
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm AALS Luncheon – AALS Section on Clinical Legal Education Committees, AALS Conference Affinity Groups
Type: AALS Programs
1:30pm - 6:30pm [6050] Joshua Tree National Park Visit and Hike
Type: Section Field Trips

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