Intergeneration Change in Clinical Education: Our Work, Our Lives, Our Programs, Our Communities

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Session Type: Concurrent Sessions

Session Capacity: N/A

Location: N/A

Room: Yosemite B

Floor: Ballroom Level

We are at a transitional moment in our work as clinicians. The generations that launched the clinical movement are retiring. Some have already retired, some are moving toward it, some are anticipating this change, and some are beginning to imagine what this transition could be like. Newer clinical colleagues, as well as the institutions we all share, are coming to grips with how to manage this transition in ways that continue the many benefits embedded in our collective enterprise. What do these transitions mean for clinical legal education and for us as individuals, however we are situated regarding retirement? In this session, we will explore the individual and collective meanings of this generational transition through discussion of a set of questions. What do those of us in or imagining retirement find most valuable in what early generations have created? What do we fear could be lost as so many retire? What are the opportunities for change that we see as we manage this transition? We hope that our discussion will engage some of the unsettling, complicated, and exciting issues that these transitions pose for our programs, our movement, our law schools, and ourselves.