Leveraging Clinical Community Collaboration to Provide a Robust Hybrid Model of Clinical Education

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Session Type: Concurrent Sessions

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Room: Harborside Ballroom D

Floor: Fourth Floor

By partnering with nonprofit organizations that are embedded in the local community or doing cutting edge creative lawyering, law schools may better prepare law students for a legal practice that disrupts the existing power dynamics of our legal system and instead centers community involvement, action, creativity, and empowerment in the resolution of legal problems. Moreover, and especially in this political moment, there is an incentive, particularly for public institutions, to develop clinics that are housed by a legal entity external to the academic institution. In this session, you’ll hear from clinicians from three institutions who will discuss how they partnered with community nonprofit organizations to provide an academically rigorous hybrid model of clinical education. Using a panel presentation, this session will focus on three central themes: The pros and cons of the hybrid, community-based model of clinical education, the pedagogical structure of each clinical program represented on the panel, and the arrangement between the law school and the nonprofit organization.