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Saturday Schedule
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Annual
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Saturday, January 4, 2003
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4:00-5:45 p.m.
Section on Clinical Legal Education
- Carol L. Izumi, The George Washington University, Chair
- Catherine F. Klein, The Catholic University of America, Program Chair
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Delaware Suite A
Marriott Wardman Park Hotel
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Lessons from Abroad: Transforming Ourselves,
Our Clinics and Our World
Moderator:
Catherine F. Klein, The Catholic University of America
Speakers: - Jane H. Aiken, Washington University
- Alicia Alvarez, DePaul University
- Grady Jessup, North Carolina Central University
- Paula C. Johnson, Syracuse University
This panel will examine the unique benefits that legal work outside of the United States brings to our understanding of ourselves, our clinical work and our role in the world. Panelists include clinicians who have worked in Africa, Central America, Eastern Europe and South Asia. Through this work, they address the challenges of making international connections and setting up programs abroad and offer insights about the self-reflection and value awareness that working in another country provokes for teachers and students. Using methods drawn from clinical teaching, the panel will create opportunities for session participants to reflect on strategies to heighten our awareness of cultural similarities and differences in order to provide meaningful and respectful legal services outside the U.S. The result we strive for is, at its base, to increase our and our students' cultural sensitivity and ability to collaborate and ideally, to have lawyers and the rule of law play a positive role in the transformation of the world for the betterment of all peoples.
Business Meeting at Program Conclusion
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