Date Chartered: 1/1/1973
Purpose
The Section on Clinical Legal Education promotes the communication of ideas, interests and activities among members of the Section and makes recommendations on matters concerning clinical legal education.
Annual Meeting Programs
2024
- Main Program
- Clinical Legal Education (Co-Sponsored by Communications, Media and Information Law, Pro-Bono & Access to Justice, Technology, Law and Legal Education; and Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Issues, and Women in Legal Education)
- Part-Time Division Programs (Co-Sponsored by Academic Support, Clinical Legal Education, and Pre-Law Education and Admission to Law School)
- Poverty Law (Co-Sponsored by Clinical Legal Education, Critical Theories, Pro-Bono & Access to Justice, Property Law, and Women in Legal Education)
- Balance & Well-Being in Legal Education (Co-Sponsored by Clinical Legal Education, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging Professionals, Student Services, and Teaching Methods)
- Pro-Bono & Access to Justice (Co-Sponsored by Clinical Legal Education and Poverty Law)
- Technology, Law and Legal Education (Co-Sponsored by Clinical Legal Education and Teaching Methods)
- Works-in-Progress
2023
- Main Program
- Pedagogy Program
- Aging and the Law (Co-Sponsored by Clinical Legal Education, Employment Law, and Law, Medicine and Health Care)
- Pro Bono & Access to Justice (Co-Sponsored by Creditors’ and Debtors’ Rights, Clinical Legal Education, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging Professionals, and Leadership)
- Balance & Well-Being in Legal Education (Co-Sponsored by Academic Support, Clinical Legal Education, Student Services, and Teaching Methods)
- International Human Rights, Co-Sponsored by Clinical Legal Education, New Law Professors and Teaching Methods
2022
- Main Program
- Section on Minority Groups (Co-Sponsored by Clinical Legal Education)
- Section on Poverty Law (Co-Sponsored by Clinical Legal Education)
- Section on Aging and the Law (Co-Sponsored by Clinical Legal Education)
- Section on Leadership (Co-Sponsored by Clinical Legal Education)
- Section on Animal Law (Co-Sponsored by Clinical Legal Education)
- Section on Civil Rights (Co-Sponsored by Clinical Legal Education)
- Section on For the Law School and Pro-Bono & Public Service Opportunities Joint Program (Co-Sponsored by Clinical Legal Education)
- Pedagogy
- Networking Session
- Award Ceremony
2021
- Clinical Legal Education, Community Economic Development and Property Law Joint Program
- Joint Program Panel 1
- Scholarly Presentations
- Pro Bono & Public Service Opportunities(Co-Sponsored by Clinical Legal Education)
- Women in Legal Education(Co-Sponsored by Clinical Legal Education)
- Balance in Legal Education, Clinical Legal Education, and Leadership Joint Pedagogy
2020
2019
Awards
Section of the Year
William Pincus Award
The purpose of this award is to honor individuals, groups or institutions for effecting an outstanding contribution to the cause of clinical legal education. This award may be announced formally at the AALS annual meeting or at an annual clinical conference or workshop. The criteria for the William Pincus Award shall be based on scholarship, program design and implementation, or other activity beneficial to clinical education or to the advancement of justice.
Shanara Gilbert Award
Designed to honor an “emerging clinician,” the M. Shanara Gilbert Award is for a recent entrant (10 years or fewer) into clinical legal education who has demonstrated some or all of the following qualities:
- a commitment to teaching and achieving social justice, particularly in the areas of race and the criminal justice system;
- a passion for providing legal services and access to justice to individuals and groups most in need;
- service to the cause of clinical legal education or to the AALS Section on Clinical Legal Education;
- an interest in international clinical legal education; and
- an interest in the beauty of nature (desirable, but not required)
Recipients
Year | Award Name | Recipient | Law School |
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2023 | Ellmann Memorial Clinical Scholarship Award | Anna Carpenter | University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law. |
2023 | Ellmann Memorial Clinical Scholarship Award | Colleen Shanahan | Columbia Law School |
2022 | M. Shanara Gilbert Award | Anita Sinha | American University, Washington College of Law |
2022 | Ellmann Memorial Clinical Scholarship Award | Deborah Archer | New York University, School of Law |
2022 | Ellmann Memorial Clinical Scholarship Award | Richard J. Wilson | American University, Washington College of Law |
2021 | William Pincus Award | Susan Bennett | American University, Washington College of Law |
2021 | William Pincus Award | Nancy Maurer | Albany Law School |
2020 | Shanara Gilbert Award | Alexis Karteron | Rutgers Law School |
2020 | William Pincus Award | Paul Tremblay | Boston College Law School |
2019 | Shanara Gilbert Award | Sara Rogerson | Albany Law School |
2019 | William Pincus Award | Alexander Scherr | University of Georgia School of Law |
2019 | William Pincus Award | David Santaroce | University of Michigan Law School |
2018 | Shanara Gilbert Award | Alina Ball | University of California, Hastings College of the Law |
2018 | William Pincus Award | Carol Izumi | University of California, Hastings College of the Law |
2017 | Shanara Gilbert Award | Chi Adanna Mgbako | Fordham University School of Law |
2017 | William Pincus Award | Frank Askin | Rutgers Law School |
2017 | William Pincus Award | Thomas F. Geraghty | Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law |
2016 | Shanara Gilbert Award | Perry Moriearty | University of Minnesota Law School |
2016 | William Pincus Award | Bryan L. Adamson | Seattle University School of Law |
2015 | Shanara Gilbert Award | JoNel Newman | University of Miami School of Law |
2015 | William Pincus Award | Ann C. Shalleck | American University, Washington College of Law |
2014 | Shanara Gilbert Award | Lisa Bliss | Georgia State University College of Law |
2014 | William Pincus Award | Jeanne Charm | Harvard Law School |
2013 | Shanara Gilbert Award | Sarah Gerwig-Moore | Mercer University School of Law |
2013 | William Pincus Award | Phillip G. Schrag | University of California, Los Angeles School of Law |
2012 | Shanara Gilbert Award | Kimberly Ambrose | University of Washington School of Law |
2012 | William Pincus Award | Robert R. Kuehn | Washington University School of Law |
2011 | Shanara Gilbert Award | Nekima Levy-Pounds | University of St. Thomas School of Law |
2011 | William Pincus Award | Christine Zuni Cruz | University of New Mexico School of Law |
2010 | Shanara Gilbert Award | Charles Auffant | Rutgers School of Law – Newark |
2010 | William Pincus Award | Robert Dinerstein | American University, Washington College of Law |
2009 | Shanara Gilbert Award | Ron Whitener | University of Washington School of Law |
2009 | William Pincus Award | Margaret Martin Barry | The Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law |
2008 | Shanara Gilbert Award | Kris Henning | Georgetown University Law Center |
2008 | William Pincus Award | John Elson | Northwestern University Prtizker School of Law |
2007 | Shanara Gilbert Award | Pam Metzger | Tulane University School of Law |
2007 | William Pincus Award | Anthony V. Alfieri | University of Miami School of Law |
2006 | Shanara Gilbert Award | Michael Pinard | University of Maryland School of Law |
2006 | William Pincus Award | David Binder | University of California, Los Angeles School of Law |
2005 | Shanara Gilbert Award | Melissa Breger | Albany Law School |
2005 | William Pincus Award | J. Michael Norwood | University of New Mexico School of Law |
2004 | Shanara Gilbert Award | Esther Canty-Barnes | Rutgers School of Law – Newark |
2004 | William Pincus Award | Randy Hertz | New York University School of Law |
2003 | Shanara Gilbert Award | Beth Lyon | Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law |
2003 | William Pincus Award | Sandy Ogilvy | The Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law |
2002 | Shanara Gilbert Award | Grady Jessup | North Carolina Central University School of Law |
2002 | William Pincus Award | Bernida Reagan | East Bay Community Law Center |
2002 | William Pincus Award | Louise Trubek | University of Wisconsin Law School |
2001 | Shanara Gilbert Award | Adele Bernhard | Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University |
2001 | William Pincus Award | Peter A. Joy | Washington University in St. Louis School of Law |
2000 | William Pincus Award | E. Clinton Bamberger | University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law |
1999 | William Pincus Award | Katherine Shelton Broderick | U.D.C. David A. Clarke School of Law |
1998 | William Pincus Award | Steve Wizner | Yale Law School |
1997 | William Pincus Award | Edgar Cahn | U.D.C. David A. Clarke School of Law |
1997 | William Pincus Award | Jean Cahn | Antioch, posthumously |
1996 | William Pincus Award | Wally Mlyniec | Georgetown University Law Center |
1995 | William Pincus Award | Clinical Law Review | N/A |
1994 | William Pincus Award | Harriet Rabb | Columbia Law School |
1993 | William Pincus Award | Roy Stuckey | University of South Carolina School of Law |
1992 | William Pincus Award | Elliott Milstein | American University, Washington College of Law |
1991 | William Pincus Award | Sue Bryant | City University of New York School of Law |
1990 | William Pincus Award | Bea Moulton | University of California, Hastings College of Law |
1989 | William Pincus Award | Gary Palm | University of Chicago, The Law School |
1988 | William Pincus Award | William Pincus | Unlisted |
1987 | William Pincus Award | Gary Bellow | Harvard Law School |
1986 | William Pincus Award | Tony Amsterdam | New York University School of Law |
1985 | William Pincus Award | Dean Hill Rivkin | University of Tennessee College of Law |
1984 | William Pincus Award | Robert McKay | Unlisted |
1983 | William Pincus Award | William Greenhalgh | Georgetown University Law Center |
1982 | William Pincus Award | Hon. Neil Smith | D. IA |
1981 | William Pincus Award | David Barnhizer | Cleveland-Marshall College of Law at Cleveland State University |
Clinical Law Review
The Clinical Law Review is a semi-annual peer-edited journal devoted to issues of pedagogy and theory concerning clinical and externship education, lawyering, and social justice. The Review seeks to promote the scholarship impact of and synergies in the work of clinical law teachers, externship teachers, and other scholars. The Review is jointly sponsored by the Association of American Law Schools (AALS), the Clinical Legal Education Association (CLEA), and New York University School of Law. The Review is edited, administered and financially supported by New York University School of Law and CLEA. The views expressed in the Review are those of the authors and should not be attributed to the sponsoring organizations, the institutions with which the authors are affiliated, or others.
Committee Chairs
Interested in getting more involved in the Clinical Section? Contact a Committee Chair for more information.
Committee | Chairs | Law School |
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Alternative Dispute Resolution | Mattie Robertson | The University of California College of the Law, San Francisco |
Donna Erez-Navot | University of Florida Levin College of Law | |
Clinicians of Color | Tameka Lester | Georgia State University College of Law |
Sherley Cruz | University of Tennessee College of Law | |
Communications | Gail Silverstein | University of California, Hastings College of Law |
Externships | Nira Geevargis | University of California, Hastings College of Law |
Amanda Rivas | St. Mary’s University School of Law | |
Interdisciplinary Committee | Colleen Boraca | Northern Illinois University College of Law |
Lucy Johnston-Walsh | The Pennsylvania State University – Penn State Law | |
Jennifer Olivia | Seton Hall University School of Law | |
International Clinical Education | Sarah Paoletti | University of Pennsylvania Law School |
Gillian Dutton | Seattle University School of Law | |
Membership, Training, and Outreach | ||
Katy Ramsey | The University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law | |
Nominations | Emily Suski | University of South Carolina School of Law |
Amy Pritchard | University of Arkansas (Little Rock) William H. Bowen School of Law | |
Policy | Kim Connolly | University at Buffalo School of Law, The State University of New York |
Scholarship | Kim Thomas | University of Michigan Law School |
Technology | Michele Pistone | Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law |
Teaching Methodologies | Benjie Louis | Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University |
Jean Phillips | University of Kansas School of Law | |
Transactional Law Clinics | Lynnise Pantin | Columbia Law School |
Ted De Barbieri | Albany Law School |
Coronavirus Response
The section is committed to assisting clinicians in responding to COVID-19 and its impact on our clients, students and communities. As a first step we have set up a dropbox folder to collect and make available any policy materials folks are generating. We encourage clinicians to add files to this folder and access materials posted by colleagues.
Message from the 2024 Chairs
Dear Colleagues,
With 2024 upon us, we returned to some sense of post-pandemic normalcy, yet we find ourselves in tumultuous times grappling with widening wars, political discord, and retrenchment in the progress towards social justice. Our campuses and the communities we serve are the site of many of these battles. In the face of uncertainty and challenges in the year ahead, we are grateful for the collective courage, compassion and creativity of our clinical community, fueling us to action as we educate our students and fight for justice.
There is a lot happening with respect to clinical legal education. On the one hand, it’s exciting to see the preparation for implementing ABA Standards 303(b) and (c) now bearing fruit. But clinicians at some schools are bearing most of the responsibility for that work, and many are trying to heed the call to educate students about racism and bias amidst a hostile political environment. Additionally, clinical education is more central than ever, to the point where the ABA is contemplating a further increase in experiential course requirements. But that will require a corresponding increase in resources to maintain our pedagogical values. The environment in which we are teaching and representing clients is also rapidly changing. We are trying to understand the impact of the NextGen Bar, alternative licensing pathways, and generative AI on our work.
These are just some of the issues raised by clinicians who attended our Section business meeting at the AALS Annual Meeting in early January. To support our community as we navigate these issues, the Executive Committee identified several priorities for our work over the upcoming year, both at the Executive Committee level and through our committees.
First, we plan to build on the work of our predecessors, Anita and Norrinda, to reinvigorate our committees where needed, and strengthen the relationship between our committees and the Executive Committee, so that committees have the support they need to carry out the priorities of the Section. Some of the committee work is focused on supporting teaching, including the developments in the profession we mentioned above, as well as expanding support for new teachers. Some work is focused on protecting and advancing the status of clinicians within the academy and in a politically divided world, which will happen both through the work of committees and directly through the EC. Moreover, we want to make sure committee chairs and members are recognized for their work to support the Section, both within the Section and within their institutions.
We ask you to consider how you can support the work of the Section through committees. Please take a moment to review the charges of each of the committees and sign up for one or two that interest you, and to indicate your interest in leadership opportunities.
Second, in the spirit of ABA Standard 303(c), we hope to model best practices for DEI in our own organization, developing leadership pathways and a sense of belonging for the diverse range of voices within the clinical community. But we also continue our work externally to support schools and faculty as they are implementing the Standard, looking for ways for clinicians to offer leadership while inviting other parts of the academy into what should be a widespread and shared endeavor.
That dovetails with our final goal, which is to increase the visibility and reach of the Section across the broader clinical and AALS community. We will look for ways to expand our presence at the AALS Annual Meeting and across the academy, to build bridges and develop mutual respect through co-sponsorships and compelling events. We also aim to collaborate with the Clinical Legal Education Association and the Clinical Law Review to determine the best ways we can support clinicians in our respective roles. And we will look for more ways to further build a sense of community among clinicians.
Joining us in our work this year are the other members of the 2024 Executive Committee:
- Chair-Elect: Natalie Nanasi (SMU)
- Treasurer: Susan Hazeldean (Brooklyn)
- Secretary: Julie Dahlstrom (Boston)
- Immediate Past Co-Chair: Norrinda Brown Hayat (Fordham)
- Immediate Past Co-Chair: Anita Sinha (American)
- Member: Anne Gordon (Duke)
- Member: Allison Freedman (New Mexico)
- Member: Beth Locker (Vermont)
- Member: Priya Baskaran (American)
- Member: Nira Geevargis (U.C. Law S.F.)
On behalf of the Executive Committee, thank you for the work you do in these uncertain times, with courage and steadiness in support of our clients, students, and colleagues. We look forward to learning together and providing mutual support, including this May in St. Louis.
Be well,
Kele Stewart (Miami) and Sarah Shalf (University of Virginia)
View the Message from 2023 ChairsNewsletters
- Clinical Legal Education Winter 2023 Newsletter
- Clinical Legal Education Spring 2023 Newsletter
- Clinical Legal Education Spring 2022 Newsletter
- Clinical Legal Education Fall 2021 Newsletter
- Clinical Legal Education Spring 2021 Newsletter
- Clinical Legal Education Fall 2020 Newsletter
- Clinical Legal Education Spring 2020 Newsletter
- Clinical Legal Education Fall 2019 Newsletter
- Clinical Legal Education Spring 2019 Newsletter
- Clinical Legal Education Winter 2018 Newsletter
- Clinical Legal Education Spring 2018 Newsletter
- Clinical Legal Education Fall/Winter 2017 Newsletter
- Clinical Legal Education Spring 2017 Newsletter
- Clinical Legal Education April 2016 Newsletter
- Clinical Legal Education Fall 2012 Newsletter
- Clinical Legal Education Spring 2012 Newsletter
- Clinical Legal Education Fall 2011 Newsletter
- Clinical Legal Education Spring 2011 Newsletter
- Clinical Legal Education Fall 2010 Newsletter
- Addendum to Fall 2010 AALS Clinical Section Newsletter
- Clinical Legal Education Spring 2010 Newsletter
- Clinical Legal Education Fall 2009 Newsletter
- Clinical Legal Education Spring 2009 Newsletter
- Clinical Legal Education Fall 2008 Newsletter
- Clinical Legal Education Spring 2008 Newsletter
- Clinical Legal Education Fall 2007 Newsletter
- Clinical Legal Education Spring 2007 Newsletter
- Clinical Legal Education Fall 2006 Newsletter
- Clinical Legal Education Spring 2006 Newsletter
- Clinical Legal Education Fall 2005 Newsletter
- Clinical Legal Education Spring 2005 Newsletter
- Clinical Legal Education Fall 2004 Newsletter
Resources
- Funding Guidelines
- Funding Request Form
- Clinicians’ Desk Reference
- Association of American Law Schools – Section on Clinical Legal Education Glossary for Experiential Education
- A Pre-Law Student Guide to Experiential Learning: Clinics, Externships, Practicums and More
- Best Practices for Hiring and Retention of Diverse Clinical Faculty
Webinars & Webinar Recordings
Upcoming
Nothing currently scheduled
Past
Innovative Approaches to Rule 303(c)
April 19, 2024
Teaching Ideas for Incorporating Anti-Racism in In-house Clinics and Externships: Part 2
October 22, 2021
Teaching Ideas for Incorporating Anti-Racism in In-house Clinics and Externships: Part 1
October 8, 2021
An examination on how data provides insights that can be used to help students understand the systemic nature of discrimination. What Would You Do?, Richard Frankel
Tools for navigating difficult questions around when and how to speak out. Moving from the Margins Into the Center, Artika R. Tyner
Social change demands inclusive and deliberate leadership—and a plan to bring it all together. Dr. Tyner will share practical teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches on how law students can take strategic action for justice and equity.