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Program

2022 Conference on Clinical Legal Education

Date: May 9 – May 13, 2022

Location: Virtual Eastern Daylight Time

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Sessions by Date & Time

11:00 am - 11:10 am Welcome - Workshop for New Law School Clinical Teachers

11:10 am - 11:40 am Why Do This Work:? Why Did You Seek This Work?

12:00 pm - 1:30 pm Experiential Course Design & Structure

1:50 pm - 3:20 pm Experiential Faculty Roles and Relations in the Institution

3:40 pm - 5:10 pm Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Experiential Programs

5:10 pm - 5:30 pm Closing Remarks

10:00 am - 11:00 am CLEA Membership Meeting

11:00 am - 11:15 am Welcome and Introduction

11:15 am - 12:30 pm Opening Plenary: Creating for Equity & Access to Justice

1:00 pm - 2:30 pm Community Gathering: Criminal Defense (and related) Clinics

1:00 pm - 2:30 pm Community Gathering: Paper, Westlaw, Netflix

1:00 pm - 2:30 pm Incorporating a Transitional Justice and Anti-Racist Service Project into an International Legal Education Exchange: Lessons from Morocco to Seattle

1:00 pm - 2:30 pm Lessons for Clinicians from the Art of Gathering and Beyond

1:00 pm - 2:30 pm Let’s Get Graphic! Using Visual Art to Support Professional Identity Formation

1:00 pm - 2:30 pm Leveraging the History of Racism in Written and Oral Advocacy

1:00 pm - 2:30 pm Representing Workers Through the NLRB Administrative Process

1:00 pm - 2:30 pm Square Cases and Clients in the Round Hole of “Justice”

1:00 pm - 2:30 pm The Intersection of Clinical Education and Lawyer Licensing

1:00 pm - 2:30 pm Transforming Clinical Experience and Effectiveness Through Community Theater Engagement: : How Collaboration with Creative Arts Empower Vulnerable and Underserved Populations

1:00 pm - 2:30 pm Using Creative Hybrid Approaches to Housing Justice

2:50 pm - 4:05 pm Centering Struggle: Creating Strategies to Meet Students Where They Are

2:50 pm - 4:05 pm Clinic at Night: An Access to Justice Model

2:50 pm - 4:05 pm Community Gatherings: Entrepreneurship Clinics

2:50 pm - 4:05 pm Developing the Professional Identity of Student-Attorneys with Diverse Identities, who Engage in Community- and Movement-Lawyering

2:50 pm - 4:05 pm Heuristic Approaches to Legal Drafting

2:50 pm - 4:05 pm Network and Chill: Technology-Based Approaches to Increasing and Diversifying Access to Legal Professionals for Field Work Programs

2:50 pm - 4:05 pm Racial Capitalism in the Law Clinic

2:50 pm - 4:05 pm Should the Exchange of Feedback be a Learning Outcome?

2:50 pm - 4:05 pm The Case for Teaching Creative Lawyering: Traditional and Contemporary Approaches to Teaching Creativity in Clinical Legal Education

2:50 pm - 4:05 pm The Transformation of Corporate Clients Around New Purposes, Values, Stakeholders, and Work Modes: What Is Happening and What This Means for Our Externships

4:30 pm - 5:45 pm Capitalizing on Pandemic Relief Efforts to Effectuate Legislative, Judicial, and Administrative Changes for Low-Income Tenants

4:30 pm - 5:45 pm Community Gathering: Convening of Florida Clinics

4:30 pm - 5:45 pm Confronting and Teaching About Ableism in your Clinical Pedagogy as a Best Practice

4:30 pm - 5:45 pm Fostering Creativity Through Community: Interdisciplinary Practice to Community Lawyering

4:30 pm - 5:45 pm How White Faculty Can Support Faculty of Color

4:30 pm - 5:45 pm Incorporating Critical Theory into Clinical Courses using Critical Justice: Systemic Advocacy in Law and Society

4:30 pm - 5:45 pm Looking Back: How I Managed the Pandemic as a [Fill in the Blank] Professor

4:30 pm - 5:45 pm Participation in Litigation as Situated Learning of Procedure

4:30 pm - 5:45 pm The Law Firm of Siskel and Ebert: Bringing Cinematic Storytelling Techniques into the Classroom and the Courtroom

4:30 pm - 5:45 pm Virtual Externships, Two Years Later: Where We Are, Where We're Going

4:30 pm - 5:45 pm Whose Pedagogy Is It Anyway?: Synthesizing Interdisciplinary Teaching Perspectives in a Law/Social Work Clinic and Course

6:05 pm - 7:00 pm Poetry Reading

10:00 am - 11:00 am New Clinicians Coffee Break with Membership, Outreach and Training (MOT) Committee

10:00 am - 11:00 am Wellness Talk and Group Meditation

11:00 am - 12:30 pm Adopting Basic Needs Policies in Law School Syllabi and Meeting the Demand

11:00 am - 12:30 pm Advancing Advocacy, Access to Justice, and Learning Objectives Through Technology

11:00 am - 12:30 pm Advocating with Creativity for Equitable Menstrual Bar Exam Policies

11:00 am - 12:30 pm Community and Movement Lawyering Against Eviction in the New Normal: Moratorium? Diversion? Civil Gideon? Rent Cancellation? Abolition?

11:00 am - 12:30 pm Community Gathering: Externship Collaborative 2022

11:00 am - 12:30 pm Debating the Creation of a New Entrepreneurship or IP Clinic

11:00 am - 12:30 pm Navigating Along the Intersection of Ethics, Client/Community Relationships, and Professional Identity

11:00 am - 12:30 pm Realizing Anti-Racist Goals: A Self-Assessment Model for Clinical Programs

11:00 am - 12:30 pm The AALS Conference on Clinical Legal Education StorySlam: My Most Creative Moment as a Lawyer

11:00 am - 12:30 pm Use the Force, Clinicians: Incorporating JEDI Throughout your Curriculum

11:00 am - 12:30 pm Using Second Grade Lessons to Enhance Cultural Competency

1:00 pm - 2:15 pm Approaching Decarceration Through Post-Conviction Representation

1:00 pm - 2:15 pm Assessing the Yearlong Clinic

1:00 pm - 2:15 pm Building an Antiracist Clinical Program with Freedom Pedagogy

1:00 pm - 2:15 pm Community Gathering: NPOs and Racial Justice

1:00 pm - 2:15 pm Creativity in Response to Crisis

1:00 pm - 2:15 pm Decentralizing Domestic Violence

1:00 pm - 2:15 pm Let Your Light Shine Through: Empowering Students to Harness their Unique Personalities in their Clinical Legal Work

1:00 pm - 2:15 pm Multidisciplinary Collaboration to Enhance Student Learning & Advance Equity

1:00 pm - 2:15 pm Re-instilling Wonder: Developing our Students’ Capacity for Curiosity

1:00 pm - 2:15 pm Remote Site Visits: A New Plus Thanks to the Pandemic

1:00 pm - 2:15 pm Teaching the Technology of Lawyering in Clinical Programs

2:35 pm - 3:35 pm AALS Section on Clinical Legal Education Works in Progress

2:35 pm - 3:35 pm Works in Progress Group #1 Pedagogy - Teaching Justice

2:35 pm - 3:35 pm Works in Progress Group #2 Legal Practice

2:35 pm - 3:35 pm Works in Progress Group #3 Immigration - Children & DACA

2:35 pm - 3:35 pm Works in Progress Group #4 Criminal Law & Procedure

2:35 pm - 3:35 pm Works in Progress Group #5 Evidentiary Standards and Domestic Violence

2:35 pm - 3:35 pm Works in Progress Group #6 Civil Litigation

2:35 pm - 3:35 pm Works in Progress Group #7 Civil Consequences of Criminal Cases

2:35 pm - 3:35 pm Works in Progress Group #8 Community Development

2:35 pm - 3:35 pm Works in Progress Group #9 Disability Rights

3:55 pm - 5:10 pm Clinics Telling Client Stories (With Pictures)

3:55 pm - 5:10 pm Community Gathering: Tenant Right to Counsel: Building the Pipeline

3:55 pm - 5:10 pm Designing Courses: Developing Experiential Learning Opportunities in the Clinic and Beyond

3:55 pm - 5:10 pm Fee-Shifting Claims: A Model for Teaching Students Law Practice Management and Legal Technology Skills While Promoting Access to Justice

3:55 pm - 5:10 pm Here and There: Clinics and Clients in Geographically Remote Spaces

3:55 pm - 5:10 pm Integrating Critical Race Theory into Clinical Practice

3:55 pm - 5:10 pm Nurse Practitioners, but for Law Clinics?

3:55 pm - 5:10 pm Perspectives from Clinical Fellowships: Best Practices and Troubleshooting in Clinical Fellowship Programs

3:55 pm - 5:10 pm Reinventing Structures: Working Across Schools to Teach the Seminar Component

3:55 pm - 5:10 pm Sharing and Overcoming Challenges to Racial-Justice Efforts at Law Schools

3:55 pm - 5:10 pm What Role Can Clinics Play in Assisting Student Athletes in the Attempt to Monetize Their Name, Likeness and Image

5:30 pm - 6:45 pm AALS Section on Clinical Legal Education Shanara Gilbert and William Pincus Award Presentation

10:00 am - 10:45 am AALS Section on Clinical Legal Education Clinicians of Color Committee Meeting

10:00 am - 10:45 am Interdisciplinary Committee Meeting

10:00 am - 10:45 am Yoga and Mindfulness

11:00 am - 12:30 pm Community Gathering: Appellate Clinics: Challenges and Achievements

11:00 am - 12:30 pm Connecting the Dots: Why Meaning Matters and How Externships Can Help Students Find It

11:00 am - 12:30 pm Externship Teaching: Lessons from Tetris

11:00 am - 12:30 pm How Can Legal Clinics Support Student Organizing?: A Case Study on Legal Ethics and the End the Westlaw and LexisNexis Contracts Campaigns

11:00 am - 12:30 pm Law Students and Faculty Rising to the Challenge: Lawyering in Response to Humanitarian Immigration Crisis

11:00 am - 12:30 pm Measuring Outcomes in Transactional Clinics

11:00 am - 12:30 pm Movement Lawyering in Partnership with Law for Black Lives: Principles and Opportunities

11:00 am - 12:30 pm Navigating the Complexities of the Clinical Teaching Market

11:00 am - 12:30 pm NextGen Full Send: Institutional and Course-Based Tools to Prepare for the NextGen Bar Exam

11:00 am - 12:30 pm Promoting Mindful Communication in Classroom Discussions of Race and Privilege in Training Ourselves and Students to be Anti-Racist Lawyers

11:00 am - 12:30 pm Rounds on Race

1:00 pm - 2:15 pm Community Gathering: Anti-Racism Discussion with Externship Community

1:00 pm - 2:15 pm Delivering Clinical Services in Rural Communities

1:00 pm - 2:15 pm Engaging Field Placement Supervisors in Training; Challenges, Opportunities, and ABA Requirements

1:00 pm - 2:15 pm Equitable Engagement: Supporting the Silent Student

1:00 pm - 2:15 pm Finding a Spark: How Integrating Social Work Students into Clinics Inspires Better Lawyering

1:00 pm - 2:15 pm Incorporating Clinical Lessons in the Broader Law School Curriculum

1:00 pm - 2:15 pm Incorporating Racial Trauma and Trauma-Informed Practice into Legal Advocacy and Clinical Education

1:00 pm - 2:15 pm Reimagining Clinical Work through a Racial Justice Listening Project

1:00 pm - 2:15 pm Restorative Justice, Listening with Empathy, and Incorporating Poetry

1:00 pm - 2:15 pm Teaching Racial Justice in the Clinical Curriculum

1:00 pm - 2:15 pm Thinking Outside the Carceral System in Clinics Addressing Gender-Based Violence

2:30 pm - 3:30 pm Bellow Scholars Reports on Projects

2:35 pm - 3:35 pm AALS Section on Clinical Legal Education Works in Progress

2:35 pm - 3:35 pm Works in Progress Group #1 Pedagogy - Externships & Simulations

2:35 pm - 3:35 pm Works in Progress Group #2 Immigration - Deportation & Detention

2:35 pm - 3:35 pm Works in Progress Group #3 Start-ups

2:35 pm - 3:35 pm Works in Progress Group #4 Access to Justice

2:35 pm - 3:35 pm Works in Progress Group #5 Criminal Law & Procedure

2:35 pm - 3:35 pm Works in Progress Group #6 Criminal Law & Procedure

2:35 pm - 3:35 pm Works in Progress Group #7 Housing

2:35 pm - 3:35 pm Works in Progress Group #8 Federal Court Procedure

2:35 pm - 3:35 pm Works in Progress Group #9 Children & Youth

3:45 pm - 5:00 pm Plenary: Seizing the Moment

5:15 pm - 6:15 pm Awards: CLEA Awards (Outstanding Advocate for Clinical Teachers and Excellence in a Public Interest Case or Project Awards)

6:45 pm - 7:30 pm Drawing & Guessing Games

8:00 pm - 9:00 pm CLEA Trivia Night

10:00 am - 11:00 am Policy Committee Meeting

10:00 am - 11:00 am Section Executive Committee Meeting

10:00 am - 11:00 am Sparking Joy

10:30 am - 10:40 am Clinicians of Color Workshop - Welcome

10:40 am - 11:40 am Clinicians of Color Workshop - Leading While Black in White Spaces

11:00 am - 12:30 pm Leaning Out as an Integrated Reflective Practice

11:00 am - 12:30 pm Using Creative Games in the Clinic Classroom

11:00 am - 12:30 pm Clinic Advocacy During and Post COVID: Collaboration Across Clinics

11:00 am - 12:30 pm Community Gathering: Community Lawyering Clinics

11:00 am - 12:30 pm Community Gathering: Looking at Us: Student Evaluations

11:00 am - 12:30 pm Creating Anti-Racist Spaces Across our Clinics and Institutions

11:00 am - 12:30 pm From the Clinic to the Community: Leveraging Empirical Analysis to Advance Social Justice

11:00 am - 12:30 pm Implementing a Mandatory Course on Race & the Law in the Law School Curriculum

11:00 am - 12:30 pm Multidisciplinary Education in Furtherance of the UN Sustainable Development Goals

11:00 am - 12:30 pm Special Immigrant Juvenile Status Actions in Family Court Clinics and Immigration Clinics

11:00 am - 12:30 pm Using Design Thinking in Transactional Clinics

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Clinicians of Color Workshop - Intentional Partnerships: A Clinic Emergency Response to Community Need

1:00 pm - 2:30 pm Choose Your Own Misadventure: Thrilling Tales of Student Disengagement, and How We Got Creative to Save the Day

1:00 pm - 2:30 pm Clinical Teaching By Design

1:00 pm - 1:10 pm Clinicians of Color Workshop -Closing

1:00 pm - 2:30 pm Community Gathering to Discuss Response to Global Crises in Ukraine and Other Regions.

1:00 pm - 2:30 pm Community Gathering: Adult Guardianship Reform

1:00 pm - 2:30 pm Community Gathering: Education Law

1:00 pm - 2:30 pm Community Gathering: Scholarship in Triage Mode

1:00 pm - 2:30 pm It Takes a Village: Promoting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Through Strategic Collaboration

1:00 pm - 2:30 pm Local Anti-Surveillance Advocacy

1:00 pm - 2:30 pm Teaching in the Service of Community

1:00 pm - 2:30 pm Teaching Reflection: How and Why

1:00 pm - 2:30 pm The Clinical Porch: A Moth-Inspired Storytelling Session