Clinical Legal Education and Poverty Law Joint Program

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This joint program will consider the roles and responsibilities of law schools and law school clinics in providing training and engaging in advocacy responsive to the new normal of the post-election world. Law schools, especially in the clinical and poverty law contexts, offer pedagogical approaches and experiential opportunities designed to promote conversations between people from diverse perspectives and enable legal advocacy by law students through representation, political action, and pursuit of legislative change. This program will explore the ways that the election has influenced the teaching and advocacy that is happening in law school clinical programs. Both in connection with and beyond clinical education, the program will also consider the various approaches law schools are utilizing to address domestic poverty issues in the post-election world, including, for example, the erosion of government benefits for poor people under the new administration. Panelists will facilitate a discussion about these approaches and the questions they may raise about the roles that advocacy, activism, academic freedom, and scholarship should play in legal education.

Business meeting for Clinical Legal Education to be held during their Luncheon on Friday, January 5 from 12:15-1:30 pm.