Rapid Response and Triage in Times of Upheaval: Rebalancing and Innovating our Practice, Pedagogy, and Scholarship

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Session Type: AALS Programs

Session Capacity: N/A

Location: N/A

Room: Salon 12

Floor: Third Floor

Clinics and professors across legal education face remarkable upheavals in programs, communities, and politics. We face acute challenges to adjust our teaching, practices, and scholarship to address an onslaught of disruptions. Austere budgets amidst rising demand for student experience and community needs provoke us to innovate new, thrifty programs with local partners. Unprecedented natural disasters create massive client needs and emergency demands for pro bono services. Radical shifts in politics and public policy impose urgent needs to shift clinical practices and priorities. These shocks challenge our roles as lawyers, scholars, public voices, and advocates. This panel of clinical and traditional professors will discuss their projects, innovations, and initiatives in response to dramatic shifts and emergent needs. They will emphasize the processes of evaluation, triage, design, and critique within projects and programs in flux. Panelists will engage participants in critical discussions to improve our strategic responses in an era of extremity and uncertainty.