Clinical and Experiential Law Program Directors Workshop Plenary Session: Planning and Responding to Political Interference

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Session Type: Directors Workshop

Session Capacity: N/A

Location: N/A

Room: Imperial A

Floor: Ballroom Level

This plenary session will explore the role of experiential deans and directors in planning for and responding to political interference with clinics and externship programs.  Topics addressed will include the various forms that political interference has taken and is likely to take in this time of intense polarization; whether and how to design clinics and externship programs to reduce the likelihood of political interference; how to support experiential faculty and staff who are facing or might face political interference; how to respond when political interference occurs; and how to build relationships over time that will help your program overcome efforts at political interference when they occur.