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Program

2019 Conference on Clinical Legal Education

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

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Extended Programs

» Clinical and Experiential Law Program Directors Workshop

Sessions by Date & Time

4:00 pm - 7:00 pm AALS Registration

6:00 pm - 7:30 pm Reception - Clinical and Experiential Law Program Directors Workshop

7:30 am - 7:30 pm AALS Registration

7:30 am - 9:00 am Refreshment Break - Clinical and Experiential Law Program Directors Workshop

8:45 am - 9:00 am Welcome and Introduction - Clinical and Experiential Law Program 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

10:45 am - 12:15 pm Clinical and Experiential Law Program Directors Workshop Plenary Session: Planning and Responding to Political Interference

12:15 pm - 1:45 pm AALS Luncheon - Clinical and Experiential Law Program Directors Workshop: The View from the Dean's Suite

1:45 pm - 3:15 pm Clinical and Experiential Law Program Directors Workshop Concurrent Session - Exploring the Meaning of Experiential Deaning

1:45 pm - 3:15 pm Clinical and Experiential Law Program Directors Workshop Concurrent Session - Live-Client Clinics

1:45 pm - 3:15 pm Clinical and Experiential Law Program Directors Workshop Concurrent Session - Paid Externships: The Lay of the Land

2:00 pm - 6:00 pm Clinicians of Color Workshop

2:00 pm - 6:00 pm Learning Law Through Experience and by Design Workshop

2:00 pm - 6:00 pm Scholarship Support Workshop

2:00 pm - 6:00 pm Social Dreaming Matrix Project Workshop

6:00 pm - 7:30 pm AALS Reception Featuring Clinical Legal Education Posters

7:30 am - 5:30 pm AALS Registration

7:30 am - 9:00 am AALS Section on Clinical Legal Education Committees

7:30 am - 9:00 am Communications Committee Meeting

7:30 am - 9:00 am Externships Committee Meeting

7:30 am - 9:00 am Membership, Training, and Outreach Committee Meeting

7:30 am - 9:00 am Northeastern University School of Law Clinical Programs Breakfast

7:30 am - 9:00 am Policy Committee Meeting

7:30 am - 9:00 am Refreshment Break

7:30 am - 9:00 am Teaching Methods Committee Meeting

9:15 am - 9:30 am Welcome and Introduction

9:30 am - 10:30 am Opening Plenary: America Polarized: What Drives Us Apart? What Brings Us Together?

10:30 am - 10:45 am Refreshment Break

10:45 am - 12:15 pm Working Group Discussions

12:30 pm - 2:00 pm AALS Luncheon: AALS Section on Clinical Legal Education M. Shanara Gilbert Award Presentation

2:00 pm - 2:45 pm An Ever-Evolving Mission: Coming Together to Function as One

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

2:00 pm - 2:45 pm Competence Challenges vs. Confidence Challenges: Exploring Tools for Combatting Impostor Syndrome

2:00 pm - 2:45pm Lawyering with Technology: Skills and Habits of Mind for Teaching How to Lawyer Effectively for Change

2:00 pm - 2:45pm Melting Polar Icebergs: Teaching Law Students to Access Empathy and Channel Their Passion to Empower Their Clients and Themselves

2:00 pm - 2:45 pm Minority Law Professors: Questions and Reflections on Diverse Faculties in a Time of Polarization

2:00 pm - 2:45 pm Teaching About Racial and Economic Justice in the Age of Trump

2:00 pm - 2:45 pm Teaching Reflective Practice to Increase Equity and Inclusion

2:00 pm - 2:45 pm The Harms of the 'Millennial' Label in an Era of Us vs. Them

2:00 pm - 2:45 pm Tools for Addressing Implicit Bias with the Next Gen

2:45 pm - 3:00 pm Break

3:00pm - 3:45 pm Creating Safe Spaces for Learning Through Disorienting Moments in Unsafe, Polarizing Times: Developing a Toolbox

3:00 pm - 3:45 pm Cultivating Empathy as a Crucial Lawyering Skill

3:00 pm - 3:45 pm Feedback Bias in Experiential Learning

3:00 pm - 3:45 pm Learning About the Forest by Examining the Trees: Discussing Systemic Concerns in the Context of Direct Client Representation

3:00 pm - 3:45 pm Overspecialized and Underprepared: A Critique of Clinical Legal Education and a Model for Change

3:00 pm - 3:45 pm Polarization in the Legal Academy: A Conversation on Looking Inward to Break New Ground

3:00 pm - 3:45 pm Technical Tools for Reaching Clients and Students: Practical and Ethical Dimensions

3:00 pm - 3:45 pm The Death of a Clinic

3:00 pm - 3:45 pm What’s Economic Inequality Got to Do with It? Everything! Strategies for Teaching Economic Inequality in Clinics

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

3:45 pm - 4:00 pm Refreshment Break

4:00 pm - 4:20 pm #EnvironmentalRacismIsKillingUs: Teaching About Environmental Racism in Clinical Legal Education

4:00 pm - 4:20 pm Designing an Award Winning Academic Component to a Semester-in-Practice Program Focused on Professional Identity and Civility

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

4:00 pm - 4:20 pm Learning about Social Justice Lawyering from Teaching in Part-Time Evening Clinics

4:00 pm - 4:20 pm Lights, Camera, Write! Producing Video Modules Teaching Effective Business Writing

4:00 pm - 4:20 pm Stories for the Non-Believer: Credibility, Bias, and Persuasion

4:00 pm - 4:20 pm Training Leading Lawyers and Lawyers Who Lead

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

4:40 pm - 5:00 pm Building the Whole Lawyer: Preparing Students for Entry-Level Success

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

4:40 pm - 5:00 pm Implementation Negotiation: A Transactional Skill That Builds on and Transforms Classic Negotiation Theory

4:40 pm - 5:00 pm Quickly! Society has Lost its Filter, Should We Teach with One?

4:40 pm - 5:00 pm Rediscovering Judicial Independence and the Rule of Law in Judicial Externship Clinics and Classes

4:40 pm - 5:00 pm Toughening Them Up: Class Exercises to Help Students Become More Open to Criticism and Feedback About Their Writing

4:40 pm - 5:00 pm Untangling Fear in Lawyering to Lift Up New Leaders

4:40 pm - 5:00 pm Using Rappaport’s Rules to Enhance Listening as Practice Skill and Civic Virtue

4:40 pm - 5:00 pm When Students Go to Work for the “Other Side”

5:30 pm - 7:00 pm Reception Sponsored by Northern California Law Schools
Univ of California, Berkeley; Univ of California, Davis; Univ of California, Hastings; Golden Gate Univ; Univ of the Pacific, McGeorge; Univ of San Francisco, Stanford

7:30 am - 5:00 pm AALS Registration

7:30 am - 9:00 am AALS Section on Clinical Legal Education Clinicians of Color Committee

7:30 am - 9:00 am Contemplative Practice Circle

7:30 am - 9:00 am Refreshment Break

8:00 am - 9:00 am Columbia Law School Alum Reception

9:15 am - 10:30 am Keynote: Bridging Divisions (Cancelled)

10:30 am - 10:45 am Refreshment Break

10:45 am - 12:15 pm Working Group Discussions

12:30 pm - 2:00 pm 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

2:00 pm - 2:45 pm Advancing Social Justice Through Interdisciplinary Collaboration: Working with and Through Tech and IP Clinics

2:00 pm - 2:45 pm Breaking the Hierarchy: Empowering Students in the Field

2:00 pm - 2:45 pm Concurrent Sessions

2:00 pm - 2:45 pm Direct Client Services and Law Reform – Clinics Tackling Two Big Jobs

2:00 pm - 2:45 pm Forging Clinic Collaborations with Non-Legal Partners: How Working Alongside Non-Lawyers Advances Student Learning

2:00 pm - 2:45 pm Learning Skills by Teaching: Community Engagement in “Small Case” Clinics

2:00 pm - 2:45 pm Moving Beyond the Traditional Big Case versus Small Case Debate: Embracing Opportunities to Engage Students in Transformational Advocacy

2:00 pm - 2:45 pm Prioritizing Learning Outcomes Using Deliberate Immigration Clinic Design

2:00 pm - 2:45 pm Prosecution Clinics: Unlocking Their Potential to Unite

2:00 pm - 2:45 pm Rebellious Transactional Lawyering: Innovative Pedagogical Tools to Advance Economic Justice in a Time of Political Polarization

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

3:00 pm - 3:45 pm Access to Law and Justice

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)

3:00 pm - 3:45 pm Concurrent Sessions

3:00 pm - 3:45 pm Creative Expression and Other Visual Tools for Bridging Divides

3:00 pm - 3:45 pm Drawing from Other Disciplines to Create a Pedagogy of Inclusion and Empowerment

3:00 pm - 3:45 pm Friday Night Fights: Addressing Clinical Team Dynamics and Teaching Collaboration Skills in an Age of Polarization

3:00 pm - 3:45 pm Gumming Up the Wheels of Injustice

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

3:00 pm - 3:45 pm Teaching Law Students to Address Issues of Race and Privilege as Part of Professional Competence

3:00 pm - 3:45 pm Using Clinic Case Management Database Systems to Support Access to Justice and Individual Student Learning Outcomes

3:45 pm - 4:00 pm Refreshment Break

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)

4:00 pm - 4:45 pm Bridging Divides: Fostering Students’ Abilities to Overcome Difference and Create Connection

4:00 pm - 4:45 pm Coalition Building: An Essential Lawyering Skill for a Polarized World

4:00 pm - 4:45 pm Fostering Resilience and a Growth Mindset in Students: A Strengths-Based Approach

4:00 pm - 4:45 pm Harnessing the Collective Capacity of Clinics, Pro Bono, Alumni, Courts, and Our Rural Communities

4:00 pm - 4:45 pm Intergeneration Change in Clinical Education: Our Work, Our Lives, Our Programs, Our Communities

4:00 pm - 4:45 pm Media Advocacy in Clinical Teaching: Reclaiming Client Narratives in a Time of Polarization

4:00 pm - 4:45 pm Preparing Students to be Interdisciplinary Collaborators for Change

4:00 pm - 4:45 pm Red–Bottom Shoe Activism: Privilege, Power, and Pedagogy

4:00 pm - 4:45 pm The Learning Legal Interviewing & Language Access Film Project

9:00 pm - 11:00 pm Case Western Reserve University School of Law Alum Reception

7:30 am - 11:30 am AALS Registration

7:30 am - 9:00 am AALS Section on Clinical Legal Education Committees

7:30 am - 9:00 am Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee Meeting

7:30 am - 9:00 am CLEA Board and Membership Meeting

7:30 am - 8:45 am Contemplative Practice Circle

7:30 am - 9:00 am Externships Committee Meeting

7:30 am - 9:00 am Interdisciplinary Committee Meeting

7:30 am - 9:00 am International Clinical Education Committee Meeting

7:30 am - 9:00 am Membership, Outreach, and Training Committee Meeting

7:30 am - 9:00 am Refreshment Break

7:30 am - 9:00 am Technology Committee Meeting

9:00 am - 10:15 am AALS Section on Clinical Legal Education Works in Progress and Intensive Paper Feedback Sessions

9:00 am - 10:15 am Bellow Scholars Program Report on Projects: Empirical Methodologies

9:00 am - 10:15 am Works in Progress - Group #1: Community and Economic Development

9:00 am - 10:15 am Works in Progress - Group #10: Lawyering

9:00 am - 10:15 am Works in Progress - Group #11: Pedagogy and Clinic Diversity

9:00 am - 10:15 am Works in Progress - Group #12: Civil Rights (Title IX and LGBTQ)

9:00 am - 10:15 am Works in Progress - Group #13: Law & Society (Employment/Health & Entrepreneurship)

9:00 am - 10:15 am Works in Progress - Group #14: Children's Rights & Disability Rights

9:00 am - 10:15 am Works in Progress - Group #15: Access to Justice

9:00 am - 10:15 am Works in Progress - Group #16: Law & Society

9:00 am - 10:15 am Works in Progress - Group #17: Externships

9:00 am - 10:15 am Works in Progress - Group #2: Criminal Law

9:00 am - 10:15 am Works in Progress - Group #3: Criminal/Juvenile Justice

9:00 am - 10:15 am Works in Progress - Group #4: Education/Special Education

9:00 am - 10:15 am Works in Progress - Group #5: Health/Homelessness

9:00 am - 10:15 am Works in Progress - Group #6: Family & Health

9:00 am - 10:15 am Works in Progress - Group #7: Civil Rights (Housing Discrimination & Racial Justice)

9:00 am - 10:15 am Works in Progress - Group #8: Immigration

9:00 am - 10:15 am Works in Progress - Group #9: Immigration & Trafficking

10:15 am - 10:30 am Refreshment Break

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

10:30 am - 11:15 am Lawyer as Truth Teller? Narrative and Fact Investigation in the Shadow of Alternative Facts

10:30 am - 11:15 am Learning in Baby Jail: Lessons from Law Student Engagement in Immigration Detention Centers

10:30 am - 11:15 am Meeting at the Intersection of Scholarship and Clinical Practice

10:30 am - 11:15 am Race, Identity, Competency? Expanding Our Understanding

10:30 am - 11:15 am Stimulating Simulations: Framing and Debriefing Provocative In-Class Roleplays

10:30 am - 11:15 am Strategies for Incorporating Leadership into Legal Clinics and Externships

10:30 am - 11:15 am The Time Traveling Lawyer

10:30 am - 11:15 am What If It’s Always Been a Time of Polarization?

10:30 am - 11:15 am When They Go Low, We Go Local

11:30 am - 11:50 am Grand Finale: Karaoke Sing-a-long and Clinical Community Unity Flag Art Project Celebration + Cake