Teaching Clinic Through Narrative

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Session Type: AALS Programs

Session Capacity: N/A

Location: N/A

Room: Salon 5 and 8

Floor: Third Floor

Do you teach narrative in your clinic and want to share ideas with others who do, too? Have you never taught narrative explicitly in your clinic and want to brainstorm how to do so? This session is for you! Margaret and Carolyn have recently published a clinical text on this subject, Lawyers, Clients & Narrative: A Framework for Law Students and Practitioners. They will lead an interactive session that includes both sharing and brainstorming concrete exercises to teach narrative in clinical seminar—or a clinical seminar through narrative. These exercises will explore how to construct a narrative, how to listen for a narrative, how to create a case theory using narrative elements, how to use narrative in legal counseling, and how to conduct fact investigation using narrative. Margaret and Carolyn will also share rubrics and other tools they have found useful in their own teaching of this material.