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2012 Conference on Clinical Legal Education
Date(s):
April 30 May 3, 2012
Venue:Westin Bonventure
404 South Figueroa Street Los Angeles, CA 90071
Website:http://www.aals.org/clinical2012/
Fee(s):This event has a fee
Description:The conference’s overarching goal is to provide clinical educators with concrete lessons, examples, and ideas for improving teaching, student assessment, and clinical program self-evaluation in the face of a changing legal profession and world. Plenary sessions, mini-plenary sessions, concurrent sessions, and working groups will be structured to emphasize and produce takeaways for improving the teaching of lawyering skills and professional values, incorporating reflection components into externships/field placements and in-house clinical courses, successfully meeting the teaching challenges of today, designing effective student assessment instruments, and engaging in meaningful self-evaluation of clinical programs.
The legal profession and needs of law school graduates have been rapidly changing. The last five years have brought profound changes in the legal profession, including law firm downsizing, a weak legal employment market, and an increasing call for practice-ready law graduates. At the same time, the needs of our client communities continue to evolve, as do our students’ goals and expectations for their clinical experience. These changes have placed, and will continue to place, more demands on clinical legal education within law schools. This conference will explore what these changes mean for clinical faculty while providing attendees with concrete tools they can use at their home institutions.
The conference this year will take place over three and one-half days and will address the changing environment by examining three major themes: (1) setting goals and structuring in-house and externship/field placement clinical courses in an environment in which student goals, client needs, and the profession itself are changing; (2) developing effective techniques for teaching skills, given how the practice of law has evolved and expanded in the 21st century; and (3) measuring the effectiveness of our teaching by learning from different clinical models (simulations, externships/field placements, and in-house clinics).
There will be a plenary for each of these major themes, and presenters will include faculty who focus on externships/field placements, in-house clinics, and simulation skills teaching as well as experts from other disciplines. A subtheme of the conference will be to compare and contrast what occurs in each type of clinical pedagogy and what we can learn from each other as legal educators in our common enterprise to prepare students for the practice of law.
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10:00 am - 12:00 pm
New Clinician Program
Type: AALS Programs
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3:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Refreshment Break
Type: AALS Programs
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10:30 am
Refreshment Break
Type: AALS Programs
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12:15 pm - 1:45 pm
AALS Luncheon
Type: AALS Programs
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3:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Refreshment Break
Type: AALS Programs
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Wendi J Adelson
Organization: Florida State University College of Law
Wendi J Adelson
Organization: Florida State University College of Law
Anthony V. Alfieri
Organization: University of Miami School of Law
Ty Alper
Organization: University of California, Berkeley School of Law
Alicia Alvarez
Organization: The University of Michigan Law School
Farrin Anello
Organization: University of Miami School of Law
Claudia Angelos
Organization: New York University School of Law
Claudia Angelos
Organization: New York University School of Law
Annette R. Appell
Organization: Washington University in St. Louis School of Law
Amy G. Applegate
Organization: Indiana University Maurer School of Law
Sameer M. Ashar
Organization: University of California, Irvine School of Law
Jonathan Askin
Organization: Brooklyn Law School
Cheryl A. Azza
Organization: Suffolk University Law School
Barbara A. Babb
Organization: University of Baltimore School of Law
Barbara A. Babb
Organization: University of Baltimore School of Law
Wendy A. Bach
Organization: University of Tennessee College of Law
Wendy A. Bach
Organization: University of Tennessee College of Law
Jeffrey R. Baker
Organization: Faulkner University, Thomas Goode Jones School of Law
Sabrina Balgamwalla
Organization: University of Baltimore School of Law
Beverly Balos
Organization: University of Minnesota Law School
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