CLE17 Program

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40th AALS Conference on Clinical Legal Education
Date: Friday, May 5 – Tuesday, May 9, 2017

Location: Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel

Individual Registration Group Registration

Extended Programs:

» Clinical and Experiential Law Program Directors Workshop - Leadership in Tumultuous Times

Sessions by Date & Time:

3:00 pm - 7:30 pm AALS Registration

6:45 pm - 8:00 pm AALS Reception Featuring Clinical Legal Education Posters

7:30 am - 8:45 am AALS Section on Clinical Legal Education Committees

8:45 am - 9:00 am Welcome and Introduction

9:00 am - 10:30 am Opening Plenary – Pushing On and Pushing Through in Tumultuous Times
Tales from the Edge: The Role of the Lawyer-Client Relationship in Tumultuous Times

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

10:45 am - 12:15 pm Workshop: (Re-)Designing a Clinic Using Backward Design

10:45 am - 12:15 pm Workshop: Making Educational Videos

10:45 am - 12:15 pm Workshop: Navigating the Complexities of the Clinical Teaching Market

10:45 am - 12:15 pm Workshop: Scholarship Support

12:30 pm - 2:00 pm AALS Luncheon

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm “All Roads Lead to Rome”: Paths to Advancing and Teaching “Social Justice”

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm Advocacy on Behalf of Communities in Light of Post-Election Needs

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm Arm Bending vs. Arm Breaking in Counseling Adults and Juveniles Facing Difficult Decisions and Harsh Criminal Punishment

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm Assessing Student Competencies: Externships Deliver on the Course and Institutional Levels

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm Fueling Academic Writing with Social Justice Advocacy

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm Giving Voice to Values: Helping Students Identify and Clarify Their Values and Fulfill Current and Future Responsibilities to Clients, Society, and Themselves

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm Promoting Successful Conversations About Race to Promote Racial Justice

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm Teaching Empathy to Millennials for These Tumultuous Times

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm Transparency Litigation and Advocacy in Clinics: Supporting Activism, Journalism, and Organizing in Tumultuous Times

3:45 pm - 5:15 pm Clinicians and Empirical Research: Exploring Connections with Client Representation and Student Assistance

3:45 pm - 5:15 pm Clinics Promoting Police Accountability

3:45 pm - 5:15 pm Grow-Your-Own Solutions: Developing and Teaching Alternative Paths to Justice Despite Weak Law/Bad Law/No Law

3:45 pm - 5:15 pm Helping Ourselves, Helping Our Students: The Challenges and Benefits of Infusing a Social Justice Perspective into Everyday Clinical Teaching

3:45 pm - 5:15 pm Memory & Trauma-Informed Lawyering: The Classroom, Interview Room, and Courtroom

3:45 pm - 5:15 pm Rural Veterans: Access to Justice Challenges and Initiatives

3:45 pm - 5:15 pm Tacking into the Wind: Incorporating Social Upheaval into Clinics and Podium Teaching as the Country Becomes Increasingly Polarized

3:45 pm - 5:15 pm Thinking Outside of the Box: Externship Seminars as Avenues for Training Students to Advance Social Change

3:45 pm - 5:15 pm Utilizing Supervision Pedagogy to Teach for Transfer: Theory, Planning, and Practice

3:45 pm - 5:15 pm Workplace Justice in Tumultuous Times: Advancing Student Learning and the Commitment to Social Justice Through Employment Law Casework

5:30 pm - 8:00 pm Reception Sponsored by University of Denver Sturm College of Law and University of Colorado Law School

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

7:30 am - 9:00 am Contemplative Session

9:30 am - 10:45 am Working Group Discussions

9:30 am - 10:45 am Workshop: (Re-)Designing a Clinic Using Backward Design

9:30 am - 10:45 am Workshop: Making Educational Videos

9:30 am - 10:45 am Workshop: Navigating the Complexities of the Clinical Teaching Market

9:30 am - 10:45 am Workshop: Scholarship Support

11:00 am - 12:30 pm Plenary Session - Client Relationships in Periods of Significant Legal and Political Change: Flexible Pedagogy to Maximize Skills Transfer
Expecting the Unexpected: Teaching Transferable Client Relationship Skills

12:30 pm - 2:00 pm AALS Luncheon

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm Combatting Wage Theft Collaboratively: It's a Win, Win, Win When the AGO, U.S. DoL, Law Schools, Advocates, and Worker Centers Unite

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm Defining the Work? Teaching Boundaries Across Clinic Contexts

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm Here and There: Creating a Core "Cultural Competency" Curriculum for Global Lawyering in Clinics and Externships

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm Lawyers, Clients & Narrative: A Framework for Law Students and Practitioners

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm Responding to the Needs of Evening Students: The Night Owl Clinician

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm The Role of Clinical Education in Transitioning Students to Law Practice in Tumultuous Times: A Data-Driven Assessment

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm The Role of Clinics in Pursuing Systemic Change in the Criminal Justice System

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm Tumultuous Ten Years and Beyond: Experiences and Prospects of Clinical Legal Education in Japan

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm Using Cross-Clinic Collaboration to Benefit Students, Clients, and Communities

3:45 pm - 5:15 pm A Pedagogy of Intervention: Student Autonomy and Zealous Advocacy

3:45 pm - 5:15 pm Building Excellence with BUILDING ON BEST PRACTICES: A Resource and Advocacy Tool to Inform Your Teaching, Your Law School, and Broader Legal Education Reform

3:45 pm - 5:15 pm Client as Subject: Individuals, Organizations, Communities, and Social Movements in the Trump Era

3:45 pm - 5:15 pm Clinics as Change Agents in Challenging Times: Expanding Clinical Models for Teaching and Organizing

3:45 pm - 5:15 pm For Love Nor Money: Are We Teaching Transferable Skills by Representing Clients for Free?

3:45 pm - 5:15 pm Privilege, Implicit Bias, and Microagressions: Tools for Discussing and Facilitating Contextual Conversations with Students

3:45 pm - 5:15 pm Teaching Social Justice Lawyering: Pedagogical Tools to Sharpen Student Engagement with Marginalized Communities

3:45 pm - 5:15 pm Using Technology in Teaching and Practice to Enrich the Student Experience

3:45 pm - 5:15 pm We Have to Get Out More: Expanding Experiential Learning and Conceptions of "Client" and Leveraging Student Interests: Extra- and Non-Traditional Clinical and Interdisciplinary Learning Opportunities

5:30 pm - 6:30 pm Clinical Community Town Hall: Building Our Collective Response and Vision of Social Justice in Tumultuous Times

6:30 pm - 7:30 pm Town Hall Breakout - Backyard Lawyering: Agitating and Educating in (New) Local Spaces

6:30 pm - 7:30 pm Town Hall Breakout - Building Community Capacity through Organizing and Coalition-Building

6:30 pm - 7:30 pm Town Hall Breakout - Empowering Immigrant Entrepreneurs and Businesses that Employ Immigrants in Response to Changing Immigration Enforcement Priorities

6:30 pm - 7:30 pm Town Hall Breakout - Internationalizing our Work in Response to Administration Attacks on Foreigners and Immigrants Within our Borders

6:30 pm - 7:30 pm Town Hall Breakout - Lawyering and Social Movements in the Clinical Context

6:30 pm - 7:30 pm Town Hall Breakout - The Warrior/Hero Lawyer? Reality Check from Immigration Clinicians

7:30 am - 8:45 am AALS Section on Clinical Legal Education Committees

7:30 am - 8:45 am Contemplative Session

9:00 am - 10:15 am AALS Section on Clinical Legal Education Bellow Scholars Presentations

9:00 am - 10:15 am Works in Progress - Group #1: Immigrant Rights

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

9:00 am - 10:15 am Works in Progress - Group #3: Domestic Violence

9:00 am - 10:15 am Works in Progress - Group #4: Veterans Advocacy

9:00 am - 10:15 am Works in Progress - Group #5: Corporations

9:00 am - 10:15 am Works in Progress - Group #6: Law & Society

9:00 am - 10:15 am Works in Progress - Group #7: Family/Education Law

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

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

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

9:00 am - 10:15 am Works in Progress - Group #11: Constitutional Law

9:00 am - 10:15 am Works in Progress - Group #12: Agency Rulemaking and Models of Practice

9:00 am - 10:15 am Works in Progress - Group #13: Consumer

9:00am - 10:15 am Works in Progress - Group #14: Education/Disability

10:30 am - 11:45 am Working Group Discussions

10:30 am - 11:45 am Workshop: (Re-)Designing a Clinic Using Backward Design

10:30 am - 11:45 am Workshop: Making Educational Videos

10:30 am - 11:45 am Workshop: Navigating the Complexities of the Clinical Teaching Market

10:30 am - 11:45 am Workshop: Scholarship Support