Sessions Information

  • January 8, 2016
    1:30 pm - 3:15 pm
    Session Type: Section Programs
    Session Capacity: 130
    Hotel: Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel
    Room: Bowery
    Floor: Lower Level
    This panel of clinical educators will inform and engage attendees on the question of the value of clinical education—understanding it and measuring it. We will examine the trope of clinical education being “costly” by drawing upon existing studies of the factors that go into the finances of clinical education relative to other parts of the curriculum. Beyond cost, we want to help the audience identify the many different ways clinics add value to our students, to our institutions, to our communities, and to the legal profession. We aim to name these ways of understanding value, as specifically as possible, but with the understanding that the actual value will very much be a school-by-school calculation. Finally, we want to engage the participants in the vital question of how we measure value, building from existing experience in measuring cost, and thinking about how the value measurement might relate to the kind of results measurement that law schools are engaged in more broadly. We hope participants will come away with a framework they can adapt at their own institutions, and have a conversation about what is missing from discussions of value at our respective institutions, and how best we can improve the quality of those discussions.
Session Speakers
University of California, Los Angeles School of Law
Speaker

Washington University in St. Louis School of Law
Speaker

University of Baltimore School of Law
Speaker

The University of Michigan Law School
Speaker

University of California, Berkeley School of Law
Moderator

Session Fees
  • 5330 Clinical Legal Education: $0.00