Many clinicians are actively engaged in legal scholarship as part of our professional development. As clinical faculty committed to social justice, we are uniquely situated to integrate theory and practice, drawing upon our individual client representation to advocate more broadly for social justice. This concurrent session will explore the possibilities for clinicians to engage in scholarship as a means to achieve social change. This session is designed to appeal to both new clinicians, who seek advice and support for developing a scholarly agenda and finding support for their work, and more experienced clinicians, who are looking for ways to integrate their teaching, practice, and scholarship.
Questions we will explore include: What are the implications of the dialectic between clinical practice and legal scholarship? How does one inform and enrich the other? What are the positive implications of our multiple missions and responsibilities? How might our scholarship challenge hierarchies, both outside and within the legal academy? How do we engage in community-based research that incorporates interdisciplinary studies, including empirical fact-gathering? How might we collaborate with academics and professionals from other disciplines in our research and writing? What are sources of funding and institutional support for such research?