Beyond Checking the Box: Delivering Meaningful Instruction on “Bias, Cross Cultural Competency, and Racism” Under ABA Standard 303(c)

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Session Type: Concurrent Sessions

Session Capacity: N/A

Location: N/A

Room: Franciscan A

Floor: Ballroom Level

For several years, clinicians have been incorporating content about race and bias into our seminars. The new ABA Standard 303 (c) now makes this imperative and places clinicians at the center of this critical conversation. We need to dream big about how we might maximize this teaching in our experiential programs. Let’s come together to have a conversation. What are you doing? What do you want to be doing? What can we do better? This session will include presenters from California, the District of Columbia, Michigan, North Carolina, and Rhode Island who are trying a variety of approaches. One of us is a Dean of DEI who co-teaches a justice seminar that features several in-house clinicians; the rest of us direct externship programs and teach other law school courses. This session will focus on teaching ideas that panelists have tried that have worked, or not, and ways to improve these exercises. After a brief presentation by panelists, we will break into groups so participants can brainstorm their teaching ideas, and come back together to share our ideas. Our hope is that clinicians and the legal academy will maximize the opportunities presented by ABA Standard 303(c) rather than view the standard as a box to be checked.