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CLINICAL LEGAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION

NEWSLETTER

Vol. IX, No. 3 January, 2001

Carolyn Wilkes KaasQuinnipiac

It’s 2001. For real. So manythings have occurred that, at onetime or another, did not seemremotely possible to me.

In 1968, when I first saw themovie, I (like every other teenager, Isuspect) speculated about life, atleast my life, in 2001. I could notimagine being a 46 year oldwoman, and had absolutely no ideathat law, or teaching, was in myfuture. I could not even envisionmyself using a computer. Onething that is the same is that Iloved the Beatles then, and I lovethe Beatles now.

In 1983, I became a motherfor the first time. I distinctly

remember cradling my daughterwhile performing the obligatorycalculation, realizing that shewould turn 18 in 2001, and wouldmost likely graduate from highschool that year. Seemed likeplenty of time to plan and save forcollege. Here we are: Class of ‘01.Bank account balance: ... nevermind. Blessedly, my daughter’sfavorite music group is the Beatles,so I did something right.

In 1992, I attended my firstAALS Clinical Teacher’sconference. It was in Albuquerque.I was in my third year of lawteaching, and still felt clueless. Iknew I was a good lawyer, but hadnot figured out what it meant to bea good law teacher, clinical orotherwise. I was immersed indoctrinal and trial advocacyconcerns, and was trying to figureout how best to teach interviewingand counseling, but had not yetread a single article on clinicalteaching. I was just beginning toformulate the right questionsabout what I was trying to do andwhy, and went to the conferencelooking for some answers.

Boy, did I find them. But Ialso found that I was not yetequipped to understand even halfof what the amazingly evolvedpeople I met were talking about.

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This was not the language spokenat my school. I felt like one of theapes reaching out tentatively totouch the sleek, granitemonument. I was thrilled by, butalso very intimidated by, thesophisticated ways in which peoplespoke of engaging students on thequest to be reflective practitioners,learning contracts, teaching aboutvalues and difference, setting goalsfor one’s clinical program (peopledid that ???) and even the strugglefor parity for clinical teachers. Howcould I possibly absorb every-thing? The authors of some of thegreat writings on my “Must GoHome and Read” list strolled by meat regular intervals. A group ofpolitically-savvy clinicians went outto dinner on Cinco de Mayo thatyear and decided that they neededto form an organization separatefrom the AALS Clinical Section,and they named it CLEA. Would Iever feel worthy of being a memberof this group and that I hadanything to offer? Would I alwaysfeel like I had come to a pot-luckdinner with store-bought cookies,when everyone else cooked likeEmeril?

It’s 2001. For real. I sit atmy computer, listening to theBeatles, and waiting for mydaughter’s college acceptanceletters, and you all thought wellenough of me to elect me, CarrieKaas, as the president of CLEA.Ain’t life amazing?

So, what should I do to liveup to this awesome honor? If I’velearned anything, it is that:(1) goal-setting is important;(2) you can’t do everything everyyear; (3) one should borrow heavily

from the great minds of one’spredecessors (and the Board) withappropriate attribution, of course.

Your CLEA Board has beenformulating goals and game plansall along, and I will see to it thatthese plans continue. We do notseek to duplicate the work of theAALS Section on ClinicalEducation, but rather tocomplement it and fill the gap thatthe CLEA founders correctlyperceived: there are some thingsthat clinical teachers can do betteras an independent group. Ourefforts fall into three main themes:1. R-E-S-P-E-C-T. (I also lovedAretha in 1968 and still love her.)

As I danced to this song atthe CLEA event in San Francisco afew weeks ago, I realized that thiscould be our theme song. Sadly, somuch of our time still needs to bespent working to improve thestatus of and regard for clinicalteachers and teaching. CLEAdevotes much of its efforts andresources to being a voice forclinical education with the ABAand other entities. The Standardsfor Accreditation that effect thesecurity and rights of clinicalteachers and legal writing teachersremain at the fore, as well as veryimportant debates on the degree towhich legal education today trulyprepares our students to practicelaw competently, passionately, andhumanely. (See Jay Pottenger’sreport for details, in thisnewsletter.)

Oh yes, there has beenprogress. We are all still riding thehigh of having Elliott Milsteincomplete a year as President of theAALS. He challenged law schools

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and all law professors to find waysto commit to promoting access toequal justice, asking them not toleave that task just to their clinics.The resulting Equal JusticeColloquia are still in progress. Andto his everlasting credit, he thenused his office to question thepoint of the “tiresome debate” overthe faculty status and governancerights of clinicians. (See the AALSNewsletter, Number 2000-4,November, 2000.) But of course,Elliot’s point is that we are stillhaving this debate, despite thesmashing success of thirty years ofclinical education.

So, it is clear that we need to“keep on keepin’ on” in this area.Yes, it affects the quality of thelives of those of us who do thiswork, on issues like pay, jobsecurity, and the ever-elusiverespect of one’s peers. That alonemakes it a worthwhile endeavor.But most of us believe quitepassionately that all lawyers, lawstudents, and their future clientssuffer as well when clinical andlegal writing teachers are cut offfrom full “[p]articipation in thedeliberations over the directions ofour law schools and in theintellectual communities theyconstitute.” (See Elliott’s message,supra.) Moreover, without tenure,the academic freedom of theseteachers suffers, eroding theirability to take on controversialcases and causes, write provocativearticles, “speak truth to power” onlegal education issues in any andall fora, and yes, to takepedagogical chances in ourclassrooms. Silencing some of thevoices may make faculty meetings

shorter, but it does so at a terriblecost to legal education and criticalthinking, and to the communitieswe serve.2. Challenge Ourselves

I tried, but can’t think of asong title or lyric that captures thenotion that Kim O’Leary expressedtwo years ago, when as theChairperson of the Section, sheasked us to “challenge ourselveswith the same vigor and to thesame high standards we challengeour students, our client’sopponents, and our institutions.”(See AALS Section Newsletter,Vol.99, No. 1, April 1999.) This isan on-going and over-archingclarion call for excellence. ButCLEA has a role to play in thisregard, as well. We intend to revivethe periodic discussion of the needfor guidelines, or standards forgood practices in our own work.Should CLEA start “certifying”whether or not programs meetthese standards of good practice?Would it help us achieve credibilityin the academy and at individualschools or would it thwart us?Sandy Ogilvy (Catholic), VanessaMerton (Pace), Roy Stuckey(U.So.Carolina), and Peter Joy(Wash U.) have been working inthis area, and if all goes well, willbe resuming the discussion inMontreal in May at the next CLEAgeneral meeting, and in Chicago inAugust, at the third annual CLEASummer Workshop.3. We Are Family

This song closed out theCLEA Dance in San Francisco.Everyone present danced together.(It was only 10:30 p.m. – we are

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getting old.) It was a warmmoment.

What is CLEA’s role in thisregard? Of course, much of thefeeling of family comes naturallyand spontaneously from thesupport we derive from each otherby gathering periodically torecognize - and celebrate - ourcommon endeavor. But there aremore formal ways that CLEA canand does help.

A. Gatherings: -The CLEA Conference

Committee continues to encouragepeople to have regional orsubstantive conferences, and hassome limited grants available tosupport these efforts. Bob Seibel ischairing that committee:seibel@mail.law.cuny.edu.

- Moreover, CLEA plans tocontinue its practice of sponsoringsome sort of event at every AALSAnnual Meeting in January andspringtime Conference orWorkshop of the AALS Section onClinical Education. Of course, partof the logic is to encourage you toattend our business meetings, butwe like to play. This past January,Hastings College of Law hosted theCLEA General Meeting and co-sponsored a reception and Dinner-Dance. Thanks to Mark Aaronson(Hastings) for making all thearrangements. In addition to ourregular business (reportedelsewhere in this issue), wethanked Stacy Caplow (Brooklyn)for her year as the hardworkingCLEA president. Most important,though, we witnessed theceremonial passing of the CLEAcheckbook from Mark Heyrman (UChicago) to Suzanne Levitt (Drake).

Mark was a founding member ofCLEA and has been its Secretary/Treasurer for nine years. He is itsinstitutional memory, and simplyput, CLEA would not exist, norwould it be as well-regarded by theABA and others, without Mark’sefforts and his wise counsel. Thankyou, Mark, for everything.

- The next CLEA generalmeeting will occur in May inMontreal, when we gather for theSection’s workshop at Le CentreSheraton. Watch the list fornotices of times, but the meetingwill most likely occur onWednesday May 9, after theopening reception.

- CLEA will continueits practice of holding SummerWorkshops, scheduled to coincidewith the ABA Annual Meeting.Next one: CHICAGO, tentatively setfor August 4. Our purpose is tocontinue improving involvement byclinical teachers in the ABA’sSection on Legal Education andAdmission to the Bar. Most facultybelong to that Sectionautomatically, and are votingmembers. Important issuesaffecting legal education comethrough that Section. Bysponsoring a Workshop on thesame day, CLEA hopes to be ableto increase attendance at theSection’s program and businessmeeting. Periodically, CLEA hasissued rallying cries to “get out thevote” on a certain issue, but webelieve that we improve ourcredibility if our participation issteady, and does not center only onthose issues that affect clinicians.Those of you in the Midwest, inparticular: See you in August!!

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Peter Joy will be organizing theAugust event. joy@wulaw.wustl.edu

B. Mentoring & Orientation:- CLEA holds a Conference

for New Clinical Teachers everyother year, once again scheduled tocoincide with the AALS Workshop.The next one is coming up: May 9in Montreal.CLEA also publishes a handbookthat compiles some of the basicmaterials in one place that peoplenew to clinical teaching mightneed. Next edition will be availablein May. (See announcementelsewhere in this newsletter.)

C. Communication &Inclusion:- The Clinical Law Review,

which CLEA cosponsors, continuesto produce excellent scholarship.

- The CLEA Website isundergoing review. The Boardvoted to form a committee to decidewhat else should be collected andmade more accessible through thissite. For example, peopleperiodically call for compilations ofmaterials that others havecollected, but there is no universaland easy way to disseminate thesecollections. WE NEEDVOLUNTEERS who either HAVEsuch collections or want to work onidentifying and gathering thosecollections. The committee willthen work with Bob Seibel,webmaster, on the technicalaspects. For now, contact me if youhave collections to “donate” or wantto be on the committee:carolyn.kaas@quinnipiac.edu

- The CLEA membershippolicy is also under review. Wehave also formed a committee todevelop strategies for increasing

membership: to full-time clinicalteachers at ALL law schools; toadjuncts, field supervisors andothers interested in clinicalteaching issues but who are notfull time faculty members; tointernational colleagues. We arealso going to have to reexamine ourunified structure for dues and “freeLaw Review to all members” policy.But CLEA remains committed towide access and membershipphilosophy, including people whoare not permitted to join the AALSSection. For now, contact me if youwant to work on this committee:carolyn.kaas@quinnipiac.edu

- State DelegateProject: we have people who havevolunteered to be “contact people”in about half of our states. CLEAdecided we needed to create thiskind of network of people whowould either be able to give usinformation about their state barsand important players and judgesin each state, and/or to be willingto contact colleagues swiftly whenan important issue arises,requiring action beyond the limitsof the listserv. Contact StacyCaplow to be a delegate.scaplow@brooklaw.edu

D. Recognition:CLEA voted to create a new

“Achievement”award, and toconsider creating others. Seereport by Paula Galowitz, AwardsCommittee Chair.

Finally, please permit me toexpress my thanks andcongratulations to Peter Joy, therecipient of the 2001 WilliamPincus Award, issued by theSection each year. Peter, who justreceived his award in San

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Francisco and who also happens tobe your CLEA Vice President, is asamazing as everyone who honoredhim says he is. He is thepersonification of diligence andintegrity. The students and clientsat the Wash U. clinic are lucky,indeed. Thus ends my first “Stateof CLEA” Message. I look forwardto traveling with you on ourodyssey in 2001. See you inMontreal.Carrie Kaas:carolyn.kaas@quinnipiac.edu; 203582 3234; Fax: 203 582 3237.

NOTICES

CLEA CREATIVEWRITING CONTEST

Deadline January 31, 2001 The CLEA Creative WritingContest is alive, kicking andsoliciting. We're looking for poems,short stories, plays, songs, creativenon-fiction - any form of creativewriting will be welcomed.

January 31, 2001 is ourdeadline for receiving submissions.

Last year, our inaugural year, wereceived over thirty entries. Awardswere given in two categories:(1) poetry and (2) prose. If youwant to see what the winningentries look like, take a visit to theCLEA Website:(http://clrn.law.cuny.edu/clea/clea.html).

The contest rules are asfollows:

1. Entries are welcomedfrom all clinical teachers, whether full-time, part-time, or adjunctfaculty.

2. Entries must be originalwork and may have been publishedpreviously but not in any publica-tion with a circulation of more than5000. 3. There is a limit of 3entries per person. Each entryshould be no longer than 25double-spaced pages using at leasta 12-point font (except whereartistic reasons dictate departurefrom this font size) and have nosmaller than 1" margins.

4. Entries may be fiction,poetry, songs, plays, creativeessays, or any form of creativewriting. They need not be lawrelated.

5. Neither the author's namenor any identification of the authorshould appear anywhere on themanuscript. Instead, a cover pageor letter should accompany eachsubmission and should include thetitle of the work, author's name,address, e-mail address if any,phone number, and homeclinical program. This will helpmaintain anonymity while judgingoccurs.

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6. Entries should besubmitted to Calvin Pang,University of Hawaii School of Law,2515 Dole Street, Honolulu, Hawaii96822. (808) 956-7474; (808)956-5569 FAX;calvinp@hawaii.edu Again, thedeadline is January 31, 2001. 7. Entries will be judged byan independent panel of judges.The judges will not know thenames of the entrants, nor haveany other information about thesource of the entries. 8. Judging will be completedby mid-April 2001. 9. If there are sufficiententries in several categories theremay be several categories ofwinners. There will be tangibleand tasteful recognition given tothe authors of the winning entries.

10. CLEA will continue to tryto arrange publication of winningentries, and entrants agree topermit such publication, butotherwise will retain all copyrightand other legal rights to their work.

VACANCIES ONBOARD OF EDITORS

OF CLINICAL LAWREVIEW

Applications are open forthree vacancies on the Board ofEditors of the Clinical Law Review.The Selection Committee and theBoard of Editors urge you to thinkabout whether you are interested,and about others whom you wouldlike to encourage to apply.

Applications should be mailed orfaxed to the SelectionCommittee Co-Chair:

Rod UphoffUniversity of Oklahoma

College of Law300 Timberdell RoadNorman, OK 73019FAX: (405) 325-6282

Phone: (405) 325-4690E-mail: ruphoff@ou.edu

Applications must be received byMarch 1, 2001.

As provided in the Review'sby-laws, the SelectionCommittee is made up of tworepresentatives appointed byeach of the three sponsoringorganizations: AALS, CLEA, andNYU School of Law. The SelectionCommittee Chair is appointed bythe current Board. For this year,the Board has appointed as co-chairs out-going Board membersPaul Tremblay and Rod Uphoff.Other members of the committeeare Marty Guggenheim, RandyHertz, Peter Joy, AntoinetteSedillo Lopez, Mary Helen McNeal,and Robert Seibel.

Applicants should sendresumes and letters explainingtheir interest in the position andhighlighting the aspects oftheir experience that they believeare the most relevant. TheSelection Committee seeksapplications from peoplecommitted to the work of theReview and strives to select aboard and editorial staff withdiverse backgrounds andvarying experiences in andapproaches to clinical

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education. We would encourageanyone with a strong interest inclinical scholarship to apply,including those clinicians juststarting in the field as well as thosewho have labored for many years.

Members of the Board ofEditors have four-year terms.Board meetings are held twice ayear--once at the AALS annualmeeting and once at the AALSspring clinical workshop orconference. Board members mustattend at least one of thesemeetings per year to remain amember. Policy matters for theReview and status of upcomingissues are discussed in thesemeetings. Between meetings,Board members are asked toreview manuscripts and to makerecommendations on whether toaccept or reject the submissions.The reviewing Board member isexpected to give a quickrecommendation to the Editors-in-Chief on the acceptance decision,to forward more substantialeditorial comments later, and towrite rejection letters withsubstantive comments. BoardMembers also may take part inediting articles.

Minna Kotkin, Paul Tremblayand Rod Uphoff finish theirterms on the Board in May. Feelfree to contact any of them, as wellas returning Board Members (JonDubin, Cecelia Espenoza, GayGellhorn, Marty Guggenheim, PeterHoffman, Jon Hyman or KateKruse), former Board Members(Tony Alfieri, Bev Balos, RobertDinerstein, Steve Ellmann,Paul Reingold, Jim Stark, NinaTarr, or Leah Wortham), or

the co-Editors-in-Chief (RichardBoswell, Isabelle Gunning,or Randy Hertz) for moreinformation about what is expectedof a board member.

Again, resumes and letters ofinterest for the three Boardpositions should be received byRod Uphoff at the addressshown above no later than March1, 2001. Decisions will bemade in April in order for the newappointees to attend their firstmeeting at the May AALSconference in Montreal.

CALL FOR PAPERSAND CURRICULAR WORKS

IN PROGRESS

Two sessions on works inprogress will be offered at the May2001 Clinical Legal EducationWorkshop in Montreal: one onpapers in progress, the other oncurricular works in progress, i.e.new courses that a clinician isproposing or beginning to teach. Ifyou want to be considered for thepapers session, please send adescription and outline of yourpaper to Isabelle Gunning atSouthwestern Univ.(igunning@swlaw.edu) and AnnJuergens at William Mitchell(ajuergens@wmitchell.edu). Forcurricular works, please send adescription and/or syllabus of yourcourse or curriculum revision tothe same individuals. The papersand/or syllabi should be inGunning and Juergens' hands bythe end of February 2001. They

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will contact you by mid-March asto whether there will be room foryou to present your work in one ofthe sessions. Don't be shy. Peopleare very supportive at thesesessions and presenters almostalways find the feedback valuable.

The small group discussions(as contrasted with concurrentsessions) at theworkshop will also offer time tofloat ideas for potential scholarshipamongpeers.

PARTICIPANTS SOUGHTFOR PILOT PROJECTTO DEVELOP CLIENT

SATISFACTION FORMS

Clark Cunningham(Washington-St. Louis) is invitinglaw school clinics from around thecountry to participate in the pilotstage of a long-term project todevelop a standard methodologyfor evaluating initial clientinterviews. The Effective Lawyer-Client Communication (ELCC)project has developed a sample onepage form to be filled out by aclient at the conclusion of theinitial interview. The form isdesigned to be applicable to anykind of initial interview. A separateform has also been designed to befilled out by the interviewer. Bothforms are then sent to WashingtonUniversity and an analysis will besent back to the participating clinic(at no cost to the clinic). Neitherthe client's identity nor any

confidential case information isdisclosed on the forms.

For more information pleasevisit the ELCC web site(/ls.wustl.edu/Communication/)or contact Clark Cunningham(cunningc@law.wustl.edu or 314-935-6413). The web site is set upso that all the necessary forms andinformation can be downloadedand immediately put to use.

COMMITTEEREPORTS

Accreditation CommitteeJ.L. Pottenger, Jr. (Yale)

ABA UPDATELaw School

Accreditation Process

Site VisitsStacy Caplow (Brooklyn) is seekingvolunteer clinicians to help fillopenings on ABA-sponsored sitevisit teams. Please contact herimmediately(SCAPLOW@pcm.brooklaw.edu) ifyou are willing to help out duringthe current Term. CLEA is alsoworking to strengthen the trainingclinicians (and others) participatingin the site-visit process receive,and to arrange an “AccreditationWorkshop” at the May meetings inMontreal.

Standards

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Section of Legal Education held abrief hearing in San Franciscoduring the AALS Annual Meeting.The Committee heard testimony onseveral issues of interest to clinicaland skills-training folks, includingproposed draft revisions toStandards 302 (regarding the lawschool curriculum) and 405 (jobsecurity, governance rights, etc.). CLEA did not offer any formaltestimony at this hearing, but theBoard (and general membership)discussed the issues presented thefollowing day and will submittestimony later this Spring.

Standard 302

The SRC draft would rewritethis Standard rather substantially,but most of the changes areactually just a reorganization. Theone major change proposed wouldrequire law schools to be sure alllaw students complete at least two(rather than the current one)“rigorous writing experience(s)” aspart of their graduationrequirements. If adopted, the newlanguage would provide: “Allstudents in a J.D. program shallreceive . . . substantial legal writinginstruction, including [theserigorous experiences]. . . .” ThisStandard, as redrafted, would leaveclinical and professional skillstraining courses in the optionalpart of the curriculum (i.e., a lawschool must “offer,” but neitherrequire nor, even, make clinicavailable to all law students). Theproposed reorganization wouldemphasize their optimal character,and could be seen as diminishingthe significance of clinical courses.As part of an effort to upgrade their

importance instead -- indeed, toensure “universal access” toclinical training – CLEA will submittestimony intended to give allstudents in a J.D. program anopportunity to enroll in a clinicalcourse. This is consistent with theStandards stated goal of traininglaw student to be effective andresponsible participants in thelegal profession.

Standard 405

Several proposed changeswere circulated in the SRC draft.One would clarify 405(c) (Securityof Position for Clinical Faculty) byexplaining (in Interpretation 405-6)that clinical job-security is in aschool’s “entire” clinical program,not just in their particular clinicalcourse. Thus lay-offs of clinicalfaculty due to changes(“termination or materialmodification”) in the law school’sclinical or professional skillsprogram can only be permitted ifsuch changes are made to theschool’s “entire clinical program.”This would show that clinical jobsecurity is not eliminated by thesimple expedient of canceling theclinic course or in which theperson currently teaches. CLEAsupports this clarification.

The second draft changeconcerns the status of legal writingteachers (405(d)). The SRCproposes to upgrade their statusand strengthen (slightly) their jobsecurity, by amending thelanguage to include references to“faculty membership” and“academic freedom”, and by addingthe goal of “retain[ing]” such legalwriting faculty. But the draft

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would undercut even these verymodest improvements by explicitlyallowing both “short-term” and“nonrenewable” contracts for full-time legal writing faculty, so longas such unfavorable contractualarrangements don’t adversely affectthe quality of the school’s legalwriting program. Both the Boardand members of CLEA voted tooppose this proposedInterpretation 405-a [of 405(d)]when we submit our testimony tothe Standards Review Committee. Section Activities

1. The ABA’s annualmeeting this year will be inChicago, during the first week ofAugust. CLEA will arrange aconference that week too. Becausethe Section of Legal Education alsowill hold its program – andBusiness Meeting – that week(probably Saturday, August 4),CLEA will schedule its conferencefor that same day. PLEASE MARKYOUR (NEW) CALENDARS NOW –JOIN US IN AUGUST FOR THEABA IN CHICAGO.

2. The Section offices havebeen moved from Indianapolis toChicago, where the new Consultant(John Sebert, former Dean atBaltimore) now works.

3. The federal Departmentsof Justice and Education continueto monitor the accreditationactivities of the ABA and theSection’s Council of LegalEducation. Although DOEapproved the ABA for another fiveyears, regular report-backscontinue, and CLEA (most recently,Margaret Barry) regularly testifies

at those hearings. Meanwhile, theU.S. District Court for the Districtof Columbia is consideringproposed modifications to theantitrust consent decree, whichstill governs many aspects of theABA’s law school accreditationprocess. Individual CLEAmembers (most recently, GaryPalm) are participating in thatprocess.

ABA ACCREDITATION SITEINSPECTION TEAM

UPDATE

As you may have heard,CLEA has been working with theABA Consultant's Office to make itpossible to have an experiencedclinical teacher available to serveon every team that goes out toinspect a law school foraccreditation review. Severalmonths ago, we asked forvolunteers, and 60 of youvolunteered! Thank you for theoverwhelming response. We are now at the next stage oflogistics. We will be working withJohn Sebert and Barry Currier todevelop efficient ways to matchparticular people to the right siteteam, and to include people off thelist in the periodic ABA-sponsoredtraining sessions. If youvolunteered but haven't heard fromanybody yet, do not despair. Thisis a "work in progress." We want to encourage otherswho want to work on site teams tovolunteer. You will be asked toattend some training sessions, and

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if selected, you are also expected toprepare your report in a timely andthorough fashion. CLEA will besponsoring a session at the MayAALS Conference to provide its ownsupplemental orientation to thosewho have volunteered to serve onteams, or even for those who justwant to learn more about thepossibility. WATCH THE LIST forannouncements about thissession. If you have questions orwant to add your name to the listof clinical teachers ready, willing,& able to be trained and/or calledupon to serve, contact StacyCaplow, who will be coordinatingCLEA's efforts in this regard.Thanks! scaplow@brooklaw.edu

Awards Committee

At the CLEA meeting at theAALS in January, the membershipapproved the creation of a CLEAAchievement Award for those whohave contributed to the advance-ment of legal education.Nominations for the award willsoon be solicited. The text of thisaward follows:

The Clinical Legal EducationAssociation (CLEA) was formed in1992 to bring together, in a singleorganization, all of those involvedin clinical legal education. One ofCLEA's purposes is to serve as avoice for clinical teachers and torepresent their interests inside andoutside the academy, including inthe political arena.

To recognize those who havecontributed to the advancement ofclinical legal education,particularly in the political arena,

CLEA has created an award tohonor individuals who have servedas an advocate and voice forclinical teachers. The award willbe given annually at CLEA'smeeting at the springtime AALSClinical Section Conference.

The criteria for the award arecommitment to the field of clinicallegal education; advancement ofthe field (by, e.g., work withinorganizations that affect thecontours of legal education, or bywriting and speaking about thefield, or by serving as aspokesperson for the field in thelitigative, legislative, administrativeor other arenas); and fostering aspirit of community (by, e.g.,planning or leading conferences orsponsoring initiatives).

The recipient of the awardwill be selected by a committee, tobe appointed by the President ofCLEA. The committee will becomposed of at least five CLEAmembers; no more than onemember of the committee can be amember of CLEA's Board ofDirectors. The committee willsolicit nominations for the awardfrom all members of the clinicalcommunity, with the deadline fornominations being one monthbefore the presentation of theaward.

Two other possible awardswere also discussed at themembership meeting. One was theCLEA Student Award. The idea isto create an award that each lawschool could present to anoutstanding student at graduation(or some other time). The secondpossible award is an OutstandingCase or Project Award. For both of

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these possible awards, the AwardsCommittee was charged withdeveloping criteria and a processfor applications. The Committeewould then report back to themembership at its next meeting fora final decision on whether toapprove one or both of theseawards.

Externship CommitteeMarlana Valdez (American)

The AALS ExternshipCommittee met in San Francisco todiscuss activities for the comingyear, and with over 25 externshipfaculty in attendance, we were ableto develop a fairly ambitiousagenda. The overwhelmingsentiment of the group was that weneed more opportunities tocommunicate regarding the uniqueissues encountered in externshipwork. Upcoming conference andworkshop opportunities include:

(1) AALS Clinical Conference(May 9-12, Montreal) - On Thurs.,May 10, from 6:30 - 8:30 p.m., weare scheduling a special programfor externship faculty on“Managing Difficult FieldPlacement Issues.” Panelists willaddress an array of workplaceissues from the mundane(incompetent field supervision) tothe dramatic (sexual harassment).The format will be informal withplenty of time for discussion, anddinner will be provided. Watch theClinic and Externship Listservs fordetails.

The Clinical ConferencePlanning Committee has also putout a call for works in progress for

two sessions - one on papers inprogress, the other on curricularworks in progress, i.e. new coursesthat a faculty member is proposingor beginning to teach. It would bewonderful to have externshipfaculty among the presenters atthese sessions. If you areinterested, send a description andoutline of your paper or adescription and/or syllabus of yourcourse to Ann Juergens at WilliamMitchell (ajuergens@wmitchell.edu)or Isabelle Gunning atSouthwestern University(igunning@swlaw.edu) by the endof February.

(2) CLEA New CliniciansConference (May 9, Montreal) -This conference for thosebeginning clinical work will offera “nuts and bolts” session onexternship programs. Inconnection with the NewClinicians Conference, wewould like to locate experiencedexternship faculty who wouldbe willing to serve as mentors tonew faculty - names of thoseinterested in finding a mentorand those agreeable to servingat the Conference or contactMarlana Valdez(mvaldez@wcl.american.edu).

(3) We are exploring a full-dayexternship conference on theday preceding the May, 2002Clinical Conference. If you areinterested in working toorganize this conference,contact Mary JoEyster<MEYSTER@pcm.brooklaw.edu>) or Marlana Valdez.

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(4) Catholic University is in thepreliminary stages ofconsidering repeating its highlysuccessful 1998 externshipconference. This conferencewould be held in the spring of2003. We’ll keep you updatedas we hear more.

In addition to conference/workshop opportunities, weconsidered other ways to facilitatesharing of information and ideas.Fran Catania agreed to chair asubcommittee to develop on-linelinks to course syllabi and teachingmaterials, program manuals,Internet classroom sites, and thelike. He’ll be exploring with CLEAthe possibility of using the CLEAwebsite as a base -- externshipfaculty could visit the website tolocate links to colleagues’materials. If you’re interested inassisting on this project, contactFran<francis.j.catania@law.widener.edu>.

Larry Krieger also agreed toinvestigate supplementing theLEXTERN listserv with adiscussion board, which wouldallow us to archive discussiontopics. If you would like to workwith Larry on this project, contacthim at Lkrieger@law.fsu.edu. Andif you haven’t already subscribedto the externship listserv, you cando so by sending an e-mail tolistserv@lists.cua.edu. The text ofthe e-mail should say “SubscribeLEXTERN..”

The other major issue discussed atthe meeting was working

conditions for externship facultyand administrators. Manyexpressed concern that they areworking in less than idealenvironments, supervising largenumbers of students and carryingheavy teaching loads frequentlywith neither a faculty appointmentnor any type of job security. TheCommittee would be interested inbeginning to systematicallyexamine the status of externshipfaculty and administrators as wellas to track possible weakening ofexternship programs in response tothe ABA Standard revisions lastyear. As a first step, this projectmight involve development of aquestionnaire regarding externshipfaculty status and workload issues.If you are interested in working onthis subcommittee, contactMarlana Valdez

We have a busy year planned andneed your ideas, energy, and hardwork. Please volunteer to getinvolved with the Committee - it’s agreat way to learn more and to getto know your colleagues aroundthe country.

INTERNATIONALCOMMITTEE

Roy Stuckey (South Carolina)

The International Committeeof the AALS Section on ClinicalLegal Education met on January 5,2001, during the AALS AnnualMeeting in San Francisco. Thepurpose of the meeting was todiscuss how to create practical andsustainable ways for clinical

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teachers around the globe to sharenews on a more regular basisabout new developments incurriculum design and teachingmethodologies. The result of themeeting was a decision to begindiscussing the viability of creatingan international journal that wouldbe published electronically.

Committee chair RoyStuckey began the meeting byintroducing Les McCrimmon of theUniversity of Sydney who co-facilitated the meeting. Mr.McCrimmon made a briefpresentation during which hepointed out that most law teachersneed some motivation to spendtheir time sharing information. Heobserved that law teachers aremotivated to participate inactivities that enhance their“promotability” (promotion,retention, tenure, salary) such aspublishing in journals andparticipatingin scholarly meetings.

The Committee concludedthat no existing journal provides asuitable format for publishinginformation about new courses andprograms or teachingmethodologies, at least not on aglobal basis. The discussionevolved into a suggestion to createa new journal that would gathercontent from contributors aroundthe world, distribute itperiodically to subscriberselectronically without charge, thenarchive the material on a website.

The Committee decided tosolicit reactions to the idea from asbroad an audience as possible. Ifthe idea appears viable, a moredefinite proposal will be developed

for discussion at the GAJEconference that is being plannedfor South Africa in December 2001.

Some of the specific issuesthat must be addressed includehow to handle translation needs(web-based translation programsare apparently not yet sufficientlyreliable) and what to name thejournal (“legal education” is toobroad and “clinical” has manydifferent meanings worldwide).

Another issue is how toensure that the journal will besufficiently prestigious to motivatepeople to contribute. A relatedquestion is what types of materialsto publish (the Committee’s initialthought is that the journal shouldpublish anything of potentialinterest to an internationalaudience, including scholarlyresearch articles,descriptive pieces, teaching tips,reviews of new scholarship,editorials, information aboutresources, and general news ofinterest to an internationalaudience). One advantage ofelectronic publishing is thatcosts are not related to the numberof pages produced.

The Committee envisionsthat an international executiveboard of editors could makedecisions about what to include ineach issue and a largerinternational board of editors couldedit any submissions that requireediting. One exciting possibility isthat the board of editors couldenlist the help of student editorswho may even be able to earncredit from their schools forparticipating. Responsibility forassembling the final product and

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archiving it could be rotated amongthe executive editors. Copyrightprotection may or may not be aproblem.

Comments, reactions, andoffers to help develop a moredetailed proposal should be sent toProfessor Roy Stuckey, Universityof South Carolina School of Law,Columbia, SC 29223 (USA). Email: Roy@law.law.sc.edu. Fax:(803)777-3401.

CONFERENCES ANDWORKSHOPS

CLEA NEW CLINICALTEACHER’S

CONFERENCE MAY 9, 2001MONTREAL

CLEA will continue itstradition of sponsoring a one-dayconference for new clinicalteachers on Wednesday, May 9,2001, immediately preceding theregular AALS Workshop. The lastsuch conference was in May of1999 at Lake Tahoe. Approximately100 new clinicians attended in1999, and the program receivedrave reviews. Like the last one, thisprogram is designed so that newclinicians that are coming to theAALS workshop can come just oneday early, incurring only modestadditional expense. At the session,we will provide an orientation tosome vocabulary and to the “hot

issues” and debates of clinical legaleducation, so that the Workshopsessions make more sense. Wealso will provide an opportunity todiscuss and practice some basicteaching, feedback, andsupervision skills, in either the in-house or externship setting.Handbooks, with a list of suggestedbasic readings and other helpfulhints, comes with the package.Details are still in the works, butthis much we know so far:DATE: Wednesday, May 9, 2001,from 9-5.LOCATION: We expect it to be atthe Le Centre Sheraton, site of theAALS Workshop. Unfortunately, this meeting willconflict with the AALS Law ClinicDirector’s Workshop. If all goeswell, though, the luncheon for bothevents will be combined.FEES: Modest registration fee,probably in the area of $150, willinclude lunch and snacks.WHO SHOULD ATTEND: Anybodywith 0-2 years clinical teachingexperience; more experiencedclinicians may also benefit, if theydid not attend the last New ClinicalTeacher’s Conference in LakeTahoe, and have not yet attendedany clinical conference. In onemonth or so, the planningcommittee will post a detailedprogram and registrationinformation on the Clinic Listserv,and the CELA Website, and willmail an announcement to everyABA-accredited law school.However, if you are new and thinkyou are going to come, or if you areexperienced and are going to sendsomeone you know who is new, wewould love to get a preliminary

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indication of interest. PLEASE e-mail your interest RIGHT AWAY to:Kim Diana Connolly (U. So.Carolina) atconnolly@law.law.sc.edu . Includeyour basic contact information.Please SPREAD the WORD aboutthis. Remember to sign up yournewly hired colleagues!!

AALS Workshop on ClinicalLegal Education:

Expanding Visionsof Scholarship :

Making It HappenMay 9–12, 2001

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

WEDNESDAY, MAY 9, 2 001

4:00–7:30 p.m. Registration

5:30–7:00 p.m. AALS Reception

THURSDAY, MAY 10, 2001

9:00–9:15 a.m. Welcome Elliott S. Milstein, AmericanUniversity and AALSImmediate Past President

Introduction and Overview ofIssuesRichard A. Boswell, University ofCalifornia, Hastings and Chair,Planning Committee for the AALS ∗ (skäl’ er-ship’) n. teachingmaterials, videotapes, briefs,websites, legislation, stories,and even law review articles.

Workshop on Clinical LegalEducation

9:15–10:15 a.m. ClinicalScholarship:What Is It? Why?What Should It Be?

Modern clinical education, bornout of what has been called theCLEPR colony and the tumult ofthe 1960’s, has long struggled forlegitimacy within the academy. Asclinicians’ status and standinghave improved within the legalacademy we have also producedmore and wide-ranging forms ofscholarship. Whether we shouldengage in scholarship and the formof that scholarship have been thesubject of much debate. It hasbeen said that if we are unable orunwilling to memorialize what wedo is it worth doing at all? Thisfirst plenary will attempt to fleshout the main issues in the debatesabout clinical scholarship and getus to think about “What is clinicalscholarship?” and “Why should webe doing it?” and “Will ourscholarship make us betterteachers or will it detract us fromour mission as clinical teachers?”

10:15–10:30 a.m. RefreshmentBreak

10:30 a.m. –12:00 noon SmallGroup Discussions: What HaveYou Done, What Do You Hope toDo?

12:00 noon–1:45 p.m. AALSLuncheon Making a Record: OralHistory of Clinical Legal EducationJ.P. Ogilvy (Catholic)

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2:00–3:15 p.m. CreatingScholarship to Make Us BetterTeachers

How often have you experiencedsomething in supervision that youwish you could turn into someform of scholarship? We will use avideotaped supervision session tobrainstorm scholarship projects –as broadly defined by theWorkshop – that we can develop tobetter teach skills and values inthe clinic. To ensure plenty ofopportunity for discussion, wewill break up into five separategroups.

3:15–3:45 p.m. Refreshment Break

3:45–5:15 p.m. Small GroupDiscussions

5:15–6:30 p.m. AALS Reception

8:30–10:00 p.m. Optional EveningSessions

F R I DAY, M AY 11 , 2 0 01

9:00–10:30 a.m. CreatingScholarship to Reform LegalSystems

Clinicians generate scholarship(broadly defined) for manypurposes. Our teaching materials,videotapes, briefs, websites,legislation, stories, books, papersand articles generously inform usand our non-clinical colleaguesabout legal doctrine, lawyeringskills and values, and issues inlegal education. The voices andmessages within our scholarship

also shape the systems in whichlaw is practiced and justice isdispensed. This plenary willexamine the ways our creativework, drawn from our experience,helps to reform and improve legalsystems.

10:30–10:45 a.m. RefreshmentBreak

10:45 a.m. –12:00 noon SmallGroup Discussions

12:00 noon–1:45 p.m. AALSLuncheon

2:00–3:15 p.m. ConcurrentSessions (see list below)

3:15–3:30 p.m. RefreshmentBreak.

3:30–5:00 p.m. ConcurrentSessions (see list below)

6:00–8:00 p.m. Clinical SectionCommittee Meetings

S AT U R DAY, M AY 12, 2 001

9:00–11:00 a.m. CreatingScholarship to Advance SocialJustice

The debate over whether the pen orthe sword is more effective inmaking social change has raged forcenturies. The purposes of thisplenary are to convey theimportance of making a record ofwhat we do to advance socialjustice, and to explore theopportunities for and challenges ofbringing that scholarship tofruition.

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CONCURRENT SESSIONS

-What Do I Have to Say: DrawingScholarship Out of ClinicalWork & Developing One’s Voice

-Tensions In Our Work Time:Scholarship, Supervision,Service & Serenity

-Nuts and Bolts: Traditional LawReviews— How to Developa Piece that Makes a Contributionand Is Accepted Within theAcademy

-Nuts & Bolts: Empirical Studies

-Nuts & Bolts: Videotapes & CD-ROM

-Nuts & Bolts: The Joys andSorrows of CollaborativeProjects

-Works in Progress: Call for Papers

-Curricular Works in Progress: Callfor Presentations

-Turning Curricular Innovationsinto Scholarship and Vice Versa

-How to Use Scholarship to DriveSocial Justice Goals

-Ethics of Scholarship: How CanWe Create Scholarship thatRespects Clients, Students andtheir Privacy?

-Alternative Styles & Formats ofScholarship

-Law School Policies that SupportScholarship & Value Varieties ofScholarship: Developing a Model

-Do Real Lawyers Read LawReviews?: A Survey

-The Effectiveness of ConservativeDoctrinal Scholarship: HasIt Won? Can We Counter It?

-Race Scholarship: Issues andTrends

-Feminist Clinical Scholarship:Issues and Trends

-Using Scholarship to Think AboutCulture and Values in ourClasses

-Using Scholarship to TeachInterviewing and Counseling

-Thinking Like a Clinician: ThePedagogy of Student ClinicalScholarship

-Which IS Mightier, The Pen or theSword? The ContinuingDebate.

Law Clinic Directors’Workshop

May 8-9,2001Montreal, Quebec, Canada

TUESDAY, MAY 8, 2001

4:00–8:00 p.m. Registration

6:00–7:00 p.m. AALS Reception

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WEDNESDAY, MAY 9, 2001

9:00–10:30 a.m. Directing ClinicalFaculties: Herding Cats throughAdministrative and CurricularChoices

Law schools utilize a variety ofmodels for clinic administration. Insome law schools, there is aclinical program director thatdirects all of the clinical offeringsat the law school. In other lawschools, the clinical programdirector only directs the in-houseclinics. In other schools,there is nooverall director and each directordirects only the clinic in which heor she teaches. All of these modelsshare common elements andissues, however. How important isit for clinics to share a commonphilosophy? How important isit for clinics to coordinaterecruitment? How important areconsistency and coherency? Inaddition, clinic directors confrontcommon problems under each ofthese models. What are the toolsavailable to “direct” other facultymembers who have the same rightsto academic freedom as the clinicdirector? This session and thefollow-up small groups willprovide a vehicle for addressingthese issues and for sharingsuccessful approaches and forsharing unsuccessful efforts.

10:30–10:45 a.m. RefreshmentBreak

10:45 a.m. –12:15 p.m. WorkGroup Discussions

12:15–1:45 p.m. AALS Luncheon

2:00–3:30 p.m. FacilitatingScholarship* Within Our ClinicalFaculties:

The Role of the Clinic DirectorTo the extent that scholarship byclinicians is important forinternal and external reasons,what role can the clinic directorplay in creating an environment inwhich scholarship can takeplace? What role can the clinicdirector play vis-à-vis law schooladministrators in freeing upclinician time to producescholarship over summers andduring the school year and ingetting the resources to help movethat process forward? Whatapproaches have other law schoolsutilized to address these issues?What role can the clinic directorplay in motivating clinical facultymembers to produce scholarshipand in creating an intellectual/political environment in whichthat scholarship will be of highquality and impact?

3:30–3:45 p.m. Refreshment Break

3:45–5:15 p.m. Work GroupDiscussions

2001 EQUAL JUSTICECONFERENCE

The 2001 Equal JusticeConference, co-sponsored by theABA Standing Committee on ProBono and Public Service and theNational Legal Aid and DefenderAssociation, will be held March 29-

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31, 2001 and provide you withcutting edge information aboutlegal services delivery, funding andpolicy development. You may viewthe complete conference brochureathttp://www.abanet.org/legalservices/ejchighlights.html. You alsomay register on-line this year.

This year, we will offer thefollowing new programmingpertaining to law school pro bono:

∗Administering and Expanding aLaw School Pro Bono Program(Wednesday March 28, 1:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m.)

Designed for law school probono program advisors/coordinators/directors, this programwill address the unique aspects ofoperating and expanding a lawschool pro bono program. Trainerswill discuss a wide range of topicsimpacting law school pro bonoprograms, including programmodels and structures, cultivatingand creating new opportunities forstudents, special issues that mayarise with student-led projects,recruitment and retentionof student and faculty volunteers,recognition methods andincorporating Street Law into yourpro bono program. Materials will bedistributed to participants. Allexperience levels welcome. Cost: No additional cost-registration is included with thebasic conference registration fee

∗Street Law Program (ThursdayMarch 29, 8:30-12:00)

The Nuts and Bolts of StreetLaw session will provide informa-

tion for building a successful publiclegal education model for use in lawschools. This highly interactiveworkshop will discuss the rationalefor teaching law to the public andmodel practices. Participants willreceive follow-up technicalassistance. *Workshops of Interest-(Thursday March 29 throughSaturday March 31(ending atnoon)

We will offer over 80substantive workshops pertainingto a variety of topics pertaining tothe delivery of legal services to thepoor with an emphasis on pro bono.

The conference will be heldin San Diego, CA at Town andCountry Resorts. Details aboutaccommodations, airfares(including discount codes onAmerican, Delta and US Airways),etc. may be found by visiting ouronline brochure athttp://www.abanet.org/legalservices/ejchighlights.html.

If you have any questionsabout the Equal JusticeConference, please feel free tocontact Dina Merrell atmerrelld@staff.abanet.org or312.988.5773.

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The 3rd French-AmericanConference on Technology

and Legal PracticeSyracuse University

In October 2001, Syracusewill be hosting an internationalconference looking at howtechnology can improve the qualityof legal services, and also lower thecost of providing legal services.

One of the particular areas ofinterest is the provision of legalservices to persons with limitedresources. Our goal is to focus oneor more sessions of the conferenceon legal aid or clinical lawtechnology applications (beingdesigned or already in use), and tolook at what the experience withsuch applications might be or hasbeen.

The CALL FORPARTICIPATION is available at theconference web site:http://legal.edhec.com/3rd_french-american_conference).

If you have any questions,please feel free to contact PatriciaHassett, phassett@law.syr.edu forfurther details.

2001GLOBAL ALLIANCE FOR

JUSTICE EDUCATIONDurban, South AfricaDecember 5-14, 2001

Asha Ramgobin (Director ofthe Law Clinic, University of Natal,South Africa and President of the

Association of Legal AidOrganizations of South Africa), co-chair of the conference planningcommittee of the Global Alliancefor Justice Education (GAJE), hasannounced that the second world-wide GAJE conference will be heldin Durban, South Africa during theperiod of December 5-14, 2001. The main conference will be a 3-4 day event and will be followed bya 4-5 day "train the trainers"workshop. The theme of the conference willbe RECONCILIATION,TRANSFORMATION AND JUSTICE.Topics currently under considera-tion include: Reconciliation andJustice Education, Women'sEducation and Gender Issues,Race and Justice Education, AIDsand the Law, Partnerships betweenMore and Less DevelopedInstitutions, Development ofTeaching Materials, and StudentPractice Rules. The conference willalso be the occasion for theratification of a constitution orcharter for GAJE and fororganizational planning anddevelopment. Consistent withGAJE's commitment toinclusiveness, registration fees willbe modest and inexpensive foodand accommodation will beavailable.

The planning processremains open and the planningcommittee is eager to receivecomments and suggestions.Comments and inquiries can besent by email to Asha Ramgobin atramgobina@mtb.und.ac.za or, inthe United States, to Frank Bloch,who serves on the GAJE steeringcommittee and chairs the

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communication committee:frank.bloch@law.vanderbilt.edu

Further information aboutthe conference and about GAJEcan be found on the GAJE web siteat www.gaje.org . The GAJE website also contains a detailedconference report, list of attendees,and photographs from the firstGAJE conference, held in India inDecember 1999, and attended byover 120 delegates from all sixcontinents.

5th ANNUALNORTHWEST CLINICAL

LAW TEACHER’SCONFERENCE

The 5th Annual NorthwestClinical Law Teacher’s Conferenceis being sponsored by theUniversity of Victoria, Faculty ofLaw, and hosted by the Law Centreand the Environmental Law Clinic.WHEN: Friday evening September28 to Sunday noon September 30,2001WHERE: the Chateau Victoria,overlooking the harbour, indowntown VictoriaAGENDA: this conference will be ofinterest to those involved indelivering clinical legal educationand services in a variety ofsettings; it will include workshopsand roundtable discussions ontopics of general interest toclinicians, as well as sessions onmore specialized topics (the specificprogram is being developed --inputwelcome!)

THE HOTEL: newly renovatedhotel with views south acrossStrait of Juan de Fuca to OlympicMtn Range and north upVancouver Island. Fitness centrewith pool and jacuzzi. Friday nightreception and Saturday nightdinner in "Vista 18 Room" on topfloor.COST: Conference fee will include1 dinner, 2 breakfasts and 2lunches; 2 nights accommodation(double occupancy); conferencematerials; and all taxes andgratuities. Current estimate forabove is approximately $325.00CanadianCONTACT: for further informationabout the Chateau Victoria visitwww.chateauvictoria.com;registration forms will be send outshortly. In the meantime, logisticsare being handled by Debra Roberg<Debra.Roberg@LSS.BC.CA>.

Redefining the PublicSector: Accountability and

Democracy in an Eraof Privatization

Fordham Law SchoolFebruary 2, 2001

The conference will run from9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. FordhamLaw School is located at 140 West62nd Street, New York, New York. More information andregistration material is available onthe web. You can either follow thelink at the law school's home page,which is at

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http://law.fordham.edu, or godirectly tohttp://law.fordham.edu/event.ihtml?id=603&back=home&template=cal. If you have any questions, pleasefeel free to contact Matt Diller atmdiller@mail.lawnet.fordham.edu.

Workshop on InternationalHuman Rights Service and

the Legal AcademyAmerican University

April 20, 2001

This day-long workshop willgather faculty, staff and studentsparticipating in advocacy workwithin the academic communitythrough clinical programs inhuman rights and human rightscenters. The workshop follows a1999 Yale Law School sessionwhere a group of roughly 50 peoplemet to exchange experiences andplan collective projects. Theprogram will be by invitation andnot open to the general public, andannouncements will be sent to theparticipants of the 1999symposium and others who haveidentified themselves to WCLfaculty as interested in startinginternational human rights centersand clinics. To change your contactinformation, suggest others whoshould attend, or be put on the listto receive further information,please notify Stephanie Ann Fittsat 202-274-4142,sfitts@wcl.american.edu. If youhave topic or other suggestions forthe workshop, you can reach Beth

Lyon at 202-274-4146,blyon@wcl.american.edu.

INFORMATIONRESOURCES

FOR CLINICALTEACHERS

The CLEA Website is:http://clinic.law.cuny.edu/clea/clea.html

To get on the LAWCLINIC Listserv(run by Washburn), send an emailto listserv@law.lib.wuacc.edu Donot put anything in the subjectspace. In the body of the message,just put the words “subscribelawclinic” followed by your firstand last name. You will get areturn e-mail telling you how topost messages.

For the Externship Listserv (runby Catholic), send an e-mail tolistserv@lists.cua.edu Again,don’t put anything in the subjectspace and in the body, write“subscribe lextern.”

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The On-line Directory of ClinicalTeachers is maintained by DavidChavkin on the WashingtonCollege of Law at AmericanUniversity website. You can searchby name, type of clinic, school orgeographical location. The addressishttp://www2.wcl.american.edu/clinic/ Once you join CLEA or the AALSSection, you will be in thisdatabase. Remember to getchanges in data to David - many ofyou now have new area codes orother things that cause glitches ingetting in touch with each other!

N EWS/ANNOUNCEMENTS

Individuals

Alicia Alvarez (Depaul) andBetsy Fuller (Syracuse) arespending the year on FulbrightFellowships in El Salvador. Theyare at the Universidad deEl Salvador and UniversidadTecnologica respectively. Alongwith DPK Consulting, they areplanning the First CentralAmerican Clinical Conference to beheld March 28-30, 2001 inSan Salvador. Their hope is tobring together clinical professorsfrom Central America to exchangeideas, experiences and resourceswith each other as well as withclinicians in other parts of theAmericas (both north and south).Their goals are two-fold: First, toprovide an opportunity for LatinAmerican clinicians to gather in

one place to exchange ideas,materials, visions and problemsolve some around obstaclesconfronting clinical education inthe region. Second, they hopethrough this conference tointroduce the concept of clinicaleducation in El Salvador and makeavailable the expertise andexperience of clinicians in otherLatin American environments andthe U.S.

W. Lewis Burke (South Carolina)presented a paper, “PostReconstruction Justice in SouthCarolina: The Prosecution andPardon of Francis Lewis Cardoza”at the Annual Meeting of theAmerican Society for Legal Historyat Princeton University in October.

Louise Howells (D.C.) has beengranted tenure at the University ofthe District of Columbia, David A.Clarke School of Law

Peter Joy (WashingtonUniversity, St. Louis) was therecipient of the 2001 AALSClinical Section Pincus Awardpresented annually to honor one ormore individuals or institutions foreffecting an outstandingcontribution to the cause of clinicallegal education. The award isbased on service, scholarship,program design and implementa-tion, or other activity beneficialto clinical education or to theadvancement of justice. The Awardwas established in 1980 and firstpresented at the 1981 AnnualMeeting of the AALS.

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AALS Annual Meeting on ThursdayJanuary 4, 2001.

Susan Kay (Vanderbilt) has beenappointed Assistant Dean forClinical Education at Vanderbilt,effective July 1, 2001. Shesucceeds Frank Bloch, who isstepping down as the Director ofthe Clinical Program after 22 years.

Maury Landsman (Minnesota)presented a draft of a paperentitled “Moral Judgment andPreference for Public Interest LawPractice Among Beginning LawStudents” with Professor StevenMcNeel, a social psychologist atBethel College, at the AnnualConference of the Association forMoral Education in Glasgow,Scotland.(

Rod Uphoff (Oklahoma), CarrieHempel (Southern California) andDavid Gottlieb (Kansas)presented a conference on clinicallegal education, held at andsponsored by Marmara University,Istanbul, Turkey December 18-22,2000.

CLINICAL PROGRAMS

Arkansas-Little Rock

The University of Arkansasat Little Rock William H. BowenSchool of Law has hired two facultymembers who will teach, amongother courses, a new two semesterskills training sequence.

Paula J. Casey is rejoiningthe faculty as Professor of Law

after serving several years asUnited States Attorney for theEastern District of Arkansas. Shetaught in the UALR Legal Clinicfrom 1979-81, as part of her firstassociation with the faculty.

A. Felecia Epps is currentlyVisiting Assistant Professorteaching Mental HealthLaw Clinic and Trial Advocacy.

Brooklyn Law School

Students from Brooklyn LawSchool's Corporate and Real EstateClinic, directed by Debra Bechtel,represented a corporation formedfor fifteen low-income families inclosing a $445,000 constructionloan from NCB DevelopmentCorporation which will becombined with $800,000 in grantfunds to rehabilitate a vacantbuilding the corporation purchasedin Harlem. Construction isexpected to be complete inDecember of 2001 by which timestudents will have completed theco-op conversion. For fourteenmonths before the closing,students were involved in:1) negotiating with the Cityregarding purchase of the buildingand real property tax exemptions,2) drafting the certificate ofincorporation and by-laws,drafting and negotiating theconstruction contract,3) pushing the proposal throughthe City's property dispositionprocess, 4) reviewing andnegotiating loan documents,5)negotiating a regulatoryagreement which includes low-income restrictions imposed by the

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grantor, 6) preparing opinionletters and other documentsrequired by the lender for closingand 7) reviewing title transferdocuments. Eight studentsspent one semester in teams of twoworking on the project.

CASE WESTERN RESERVE

Case Western Reserve wasthe beneficiary of a generous giftfrom the Milton A. Kramer andCharlotte R. Kramer CharitableFoundation that has allowed themto expand their clinical program.This was actually the second giftfrom the Kramer Foundation thathas been a strong supporter ofclinicallegal education, and our programin particular. With this gift, CaseWestern was able to hire a sixthfull-time clinician and to launchtwo new clinical courses - aCommunity Development Clinicand an Immigration Law Lab whichis a clinical course annexed to thesubstantive immigration lawcourse. Earlier, the KramerFoundation provided much of thesupport needed to build theirpresent facility. The latest gift hasgiven them the ability to fill theremaining space!

Kathy Hessler and CarolTurowski have joined the clinicalfaculty at Case Western. AssociateProfessor Katherine M. Hessler wasa former staff attorney at LegalServices of Northern Virginia whohas had extensive teachingexperience at Cornell, University ofDayton, and Capital University.

She has published articles on thesuppression of free speech and hasparticipated in several of local,regional and national conferences.She is teaching in the Civil,Community Development andFamily Law Clinics.

Visiting Assistant ProfessorCarol A. Turowski previouslytaught in the Hofstra UniversityHousing Law Clinic. Prior toteaching, she was a publicdefender in the Criminal DefenseDivision of the Legal Aid Society inQueens County, New York. She willbe teaching in the CriminalDefense Clinic.

CONNECTICUT

Elizabeth McCormick hasjoined the faculty as the very firstWilliam R. Davis ClinicalTeaching Fellow. Betsy formerlyworked as a public defender inPhiladelphia and as an assistantattorney general for the FederatedStates of Micronesia. The Davisfellowship was made possible by agenerous gift to the law school byBill Davis '55, a renowned Hartfordtrial lawyer.

DENVER

A federal judge approved inprinciple the settlement of a racialprofiling case brought by the ACLUten years ago. Under thesettlement, which the clinic wasinstrumental in negotiating, theUniversity of Denver will receive$254,000 to fund a clinicalfellowship in Civil and Human

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Rights in the Student Law Office,the in-house clinic. Dean MaryRicketson, has approved the lawschool's contribution ofapproximately $200,000 over thenext eight years. This funding willallow the University of Denver tocreate a new clinical program towork with community groups, suchas the NAACP and the ACLU, aswell as interested policeorganizations, to address issues ofpolice misconduct and illegaldiscrimination.

If you would like to readabout the settlement, click on thiswebsite:http://www.denverpost.com/opinion/edits1116c.htm

VILLANOVA

Villanova University Schoolof Law is delighted to announce therecent appointment of Leslie Bookas Assistant Professor of Law andDirector of the Federal Tax Clinic. Professor Book is a leadingauthority on issues affecting thelow-income taxpayer community. He previously was an AssistantClinical Professor and Tax ClinicDirector at Quinnipiac School ofLaw. In January, 2001, he wasappointed the Chair of the LowIncome Taxpayer Committee of theAmerican Bar Association TaxSection. His article on taxpayers'due process rights, "The NewCollection Due Process TaxpayerRights", was published in "Tax

Notes" last year. He also recentlyco-authored a chapter on civil taxpenalties in the book EffectivelyRepresenting Your Client Beforethe IRS, published last October.Villanova has a growing clinicalprogram. In addition to the TaxClinic, they have three otherclinics: the Clinic for Asylum,Refugee and Emigrant Services,which represents before theimmigration court asylum seekerswho are fleeing persecution in theirhome countries; the JuvenileJustice Clinic, which representsjuveniles in delinquencyproceedings; and the VillanovaCommunity Legal Services Clinic,which represents low-incomeclients in civil matters includinghousing, domestic violence andelder law issues.

WHITTIERIn July, 2000 Whittier Law

School founded its first in-house,live client Clinic. Focusing on theneeds of children and youth, theChildren's Rights Clinic, beganaccepting clients in August of 2000and has just begun its second termof clinical education andcommunity service.

The Clinic is supervised byDirector Scott Wylie, who alsosupervises the Externship Programfor Whittier.

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BOOKS &PUBLICATIONS

Frank S. Bloch (Vanderbilt) andRienk Prins, “Work Incapacity andReintegration: History and Aim ofthe WIR Project” and “SocialSecurity, Work Incapacity, andReintegration” in

( Frank S. Bloch &Rienk Prins, eds., TransactionPublishers 2000).

Richard Boswell (Hastings)

(CarolinaAcademic Press; 3d Ed.2000).

Melissa Breger (Michigan),Suellyn Scarnecchia (Michigan),Frank Vandervort & NaomiWoloshin, Building Pediatric LawCareers: The University of MichiganLaw School Experience, 34 FAM. L.Q. 531 (2000)

W. Lewis Burke (South Carolina)“The Radical Law School: TheUniversity of South Carolina

School of Law and Its AfricanAmerican Graduates, 1873-77 inW. Lewis Burke and James L.Underwood, Eds. At Freedom’sDoor: African AmericanFounding Fathers and Lawyersin Reconstruction SouthCarolina (University of SouthCarolina Press 2000).

Stephen Ellman (New York LawSchool), Truth and Consequences,69 Fordham L. Rev. 895 (December2000)

Dan Filler (Alabama) RandomViolence and the Transformation ofthe Juvenile Justice Debate, 86 Va.L. Rev. 1095 (2000).

David Gottlieb (Kansas, On leaveat Howard 2000-2001),

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Peter Honigsberg (University ofSan Francisco),

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Robert R. Kuehn (Utah), ATaxonomy of Environmental Justice,30 Envtl. L. Rep. 10681 (2000).

Maury Landsman (Minnesota)and Carol Chomsky , IntroducingNegotiation and Drafting into theContracts Classroom, 44 St. LouisU. L. J. 1545 (2000)

Steve Meili (Wisconsin), A VoiceCrying Out in the Wilderness: The

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Client in Clinical Education 2000Wis. L. Rev. 3.

Carrie Menkel-Meadow(Georgetown), Foreword: TellingStories in School: Using CaseStudies and Stories to Teach LegalEthics, 69 Fordham L. Rev. 787(Dec. 2000)

Vanessa Merton (Pace), What DoYou Do When you Meet a ‘WalkingViolation of the Sixth Amendment’If You’re Trying to Put that Lawyer’sClient in Jail? 69 Fordham L. Rev.997 (December 2000)

Bill Patton (Whittier), Pandora'sBox: Opening Child ProtectionCases To The Press And Public, 27W.S.L.Rev.181 (2000)

Michele R. Pistone (Villanova),Assessing the Proposed RefugeeProtection Act: One Step in the RightDirection, 14 Geo. Immigr. L.J. 815

Mark Spiegel (Boston College),The Story of Mr. G.: Reflectionsupon the Questionably CompetentClient, 69 Fordham L. Rev. 1179(December 2000)

POSITIONANNOUNCEMENTS

BROOKLYN LAW SCHOOLTenure-Track Transactional

Clinic Faculty

Brooklyn Law School seeksto hire a full-time, tenure trackfaculty member to develop andteach a transactional law clinic,along with related doctrinalcourses. The Law School hasidentified the areas of not-for-profit corporations, communitydevelopment, business, orintellectual property as possiblecontexts for such a clinic. This listis not exclusive, however; thechoice of transactional contextswill ultimately depend on anumber of factors including thefaculty member's interests andexpertise. The clinic may bestructured on either a live-client,externship or simulation model.Its objectives will be to familiarizestudents with the major processes(planning, drafting, counseling,negotiation, etc.) that lawyers usewhen representing clients inbusiness transactions. Theprogram will also help studentsdevelop the problem solving skillsthat are essential to effectivetransactional lawyering regardlessof a transaction's particularsubstantive law setting.

Applicants should havetransactional practice experience, astrong academic background, anda demonstrated interest in

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scholarly activity and publication.Applications should be submittedto Professor Arthur Pinto, Chair,Faculty Appointments Committee,Brooklyn Law School, 250Joralemon Street, Brooklyn, NY11201. The application shoulddescribe the clinical program andrelated course offerings that theapplicant proposes.

CENTRAL & EASTEUROPEAN LAW

INITIATIVE (CEELI)

The Central and EastEuropean Law Initiative (CEELI), apublic service project of theAmerican Bar Association, iscurrently seeking experiencedclinical legal educationprofessionals to serve in:Central Asia (Uzbekistan,Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan) for 3to 12 months; Moldova for 3 weeksto 6 months; Russia for 3 to 12months; Ukraine for 3 weeks to 6months.Duties: Assist law schools indeveloping practice-basededucation programs (pro bono live-client clinical programs, extern-ships, including: a) transferringexperience and knowledge on thefundamentals of practice-basededucation; b) training facultymembers on clinical supervisionand skills development techniques;c) assisting in the integration ofclassroom components, includingskills training and skills-basedsimulations; d) conductingseminars and roundtables aimedat conveying a sense of

professional responsibility andlegal service; and e) developingworkbooks and manuals (modelforms, procedures).

CEELI considers attorneys with aminimum of five years of clinicallegal experience, U. S. barmembership, high level of energyand initiative, and stronginterpersonal skills, anddemonstrated internationalexperience and foreign languageskills are preferred. Allparticipants receive a generoussupport package that covers travel,housing, general living, andbusiness expenses. In-countryforeign language training, medicalevacuation insurance andreimbursement for medicalinsurance premiums are alsoincluded.

To receive an application/information packet, please sendyour name and address toceeli@abanet.org. Or call 1-800-98CEELI (in the Washington,DC area try (202) 662-1754). Orvisit www.abanet.org/ceeli.

COMMUNITY TAX LAWPROJECT

Executive Director

Applications due 31 January 2001.To be filled by 01 March 2001.Position start date: No later than01 September 2001.

The Community Tax LawProject (CTLP) is a nationally-recognized provider of legalservices to low income Virginiataxpayers in disputes with the IRS

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and state agencies. CTLP alsoconducts education and outreachabout relevant tax issues to specialpopulations including welfare-to-work participants, immigranttaxpayers (includingundocumented workers), anddomestic abuse victims. Locatedin Richmond, Virginia, CTLP alsooperates the Low Income TaxpayerClinic Resource Center, a nationalsupport center for low incometaxpayer clinics. CTLP is a leaderin tax policy and legislativeinitiatives impacting low incometaxpayers. CTLP was the first lowincome taxpayer clinic (LITC) in thenation.

For more information aboutThe Community Tax Law Project,visit our website at www.ctlp.org.CTLP has received funding fromthe Virginia Law Foundation, theAmerican Bar Association Sectionof Taxation, the Commonwealth ofVirginia, and the Internal RevenueService (under the LITC grantprogram). CTLP is not a grantee ofthe Legal Services Corporation.

The Executive Director will:-Oversee a staff of 2 or 3 attorneys,a pro bono coordinator, a programadministrator, student interns, anda statewide pro bono panel of 135attorneys and accountants.- Provide guidance and oversight tothe staff of the Low Income TaxClinic Resource Center.- Develop program initiatives,identify appropriate fundingsources, maintain foundation andother donor relationships, anddraft grant applications and grantreports.

- Develop operating and capitalbudgets, long-term plans, andcash-flow analyses for all aspectsof program operations.- Identify opportunities tocoordinate and partner withnational, state, and local barassociations, legal aid societies,and other community serviceorganizations (including faith-based charities) in order to providetax education and representationto target populations.- Organize an annual continuinglegal education program on topicsrelating to taxation of low incomeindividuals (in the areas of bothpolicy and procedure). Conducttraining programs for attorneysand advocates of low incomepersons about relevant tax topics.- Supervise the production ofbrochures and other advocate andtaxpayer training materials,including The Community Tax LawReport, a national quarterlynewsletter about low incometaxpayer practice and policy.- Appear in public and makepresentations at national, state,and local tax conferences; addressnational, state, and local barassociations; and testify beforelegislative bodies at both thefederal and state levels about lowincome taxpayer practice andpolicy issues.

Leading candidates for theExecutive Director position will belicensed to practice law in Virginiaor have an application foradmission to Virginia in process.The candidate must demonstrateexperience in tax controversypractice either through private or

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government employment or as astudent tax clinic director. Thecandidate must have somesupervisory and/or managementexperience and must possessstrong communication skills,including the ability to write clearlyand persuasively. Spanish orAsian language fluency is a strongpositive factor. Candidatesshould be familiar with MicrosoftNT Server environments. TheExecutive Director must have theability to travel and representCTLP at conferences and meetings.Salary and Benefits: This positionoffers a highly competitive salaryand excellent benefits package.Applications: Interested applicantsshould mail, fax or e-mail aresume, salary history, references,and a statement of interest to:Executive Director Search, TheCommunity Tax Law Project, 3600West Broad Street, Suite 678,Richmond, VA 23230; fax (804)353-6968; e-mail info@ctlp.org

The Community Tax LawProject is an affirmativeaction/equal opportunity employerand does not discriminate on thebasis of race, color, religion, sex,national origin, age, disability,sexual orientation, or AIDS-relatedillness.

CONNECTICUTStaff Attorney

The Center for Children'sAdvocacy, housed at the Universityof Connecticut School of Law, isseeking a full-time staff attorney.Responsibilities will include

representing individual low-incomechildren and adolescents, workingon systemic litigation, lobbying,supervising and teaching lawstudents, contributing to a web siteand newsletter devoted toimproving the quality ofrepresentation for children, andworking on the Center's drop-outprevention program/legal advocacyclinic at Hartford Public HighSchool.. The attorney will focus ona variety of issues, includingabuse/neglect, special education,access to mental health care,homelessness, and juvenilejustice. The attorney will workclosely with the executive director,the staff social worker, otherattorneys in the office, and lawstudent interns.

Minimum of two years ofrelated experience required. Mailcover letter, resume, andreferences to Martha Stone,Executive Director, Center forChildren's Advocacy, University ofConnecticut School of Law, 65Elizabeth St., Hartford, CT 06105or fax to 860-570-5256.

CCA is an equal opportunityemployer. Persons of color andwomen encouraged to apply. Moreinformation about the Center canbe found on the Center's web sitewww.kidscounsel.org.

CONNECTICUTVisiting Clinical Position

The University ofConnecticut School of Law seeksapplicants for a one-year

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visiting clinical position beginningin the fall of 2001. The visitingprofessor would work in the lawschool's Civil Rights Clinic, whichrepresents parties in housingdiscrimination matters, parents inchild protection cases, claimants inunemployment compensationappeals, and occasionally othertypes of matters.

Experienced clinicians arepreferred (although experience inthe types of cases handled by theCivil Rights Clinic is notnecessary). Applicants whoare members of the Connecticutbar or have the ability to waive inare strongly preferred. To waive in,an applicant must have practicedlaw in a single jurisdiction, as theprincipal means of her livelihood,for at least five of the past sevenyears.

The University ofConnecticut encouragesapplications from under-represented groups includingminorities, women and people withdisabilities.

Applicants should submit aresume and letter of interest toCarolyn Jones, Chair, FacultyAppointments Committee,University of Connecticut School ofLaw, 65 Elizabeth Street, Hartford,CT 06105.

UNIVERSITY OF DETROITClinical Director

The University of DetroitMercy School of Law seeks to fill

the position of Clinical Director, atenure track position, beginningJuly 1, 2001. Candidates withsubstantial experience in thepractice of law and in full-timeclinical teaching are preferred.They should have an interest inand demonstrated potential forprogram development and forexcellent scholarship. TheUniversity is an equalopportunity employer pursuant toall applicable provisions of law.

Contact:Prof. Jacqueline P. Hand

Chair, Faculty Appointments Committee University of Detroit Mercy Law School 651 E. Jefferson Ave. Detroit, MI 48226 handjp@udmercy.edu

GEORGE WASHINGTONHalf-Time Criminal Applellate

Clinic Faculty Position

The George WashingtonUniversity Law School, JacobBurns Community Legal Clinics,invites applications for thefollowing non-tenure track clinicalfaculty position beginning in the2001 academic year:

A half-time, clinical facultyshared position as a supervisorand clinical teacher in the lawschool’s Criminal Appellate Clinic.Officially titled the FederalCriminal and Appellate Clinic(FAC), this is an in-house clinic inwhich court-certified third-year lawstudents represent indigent clients

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usually on direct appeal of felonycriminal convictions. Thesupervisor/teacher will shareteaching, supervision, andadministrative responsibilities andwork closely with the FAC Director.Weekly clinic seminar curriculumcovers approaches to studying arecord, defining and investigatingissues, client relations andcounseling, appellate procedure,fact-writing, written and oralargument, ethical problems, aswell as systemic and comparativeexamination of criminal justiceissues and trial strategies. Closesupervision occurs on anindividual basis and addressescomplex questions of issuedevelopment, strategy, client-counseling, and advanced writtenand oral advocacy in the context ofspecific cases. Demands of courtschedules prevent “screening”cases for difficulty, outside ofgeneral guidelines against verylengthy transcripts or capitalcases. Workload fluctuates greatlyover the course of the year, withconsistently intense demandsSeptember through March.Qualifications: Applicants musthave a strong academic record withsignificant criminal andsupervision experience and stronginterpersonal skills. They musthave excellent skills in written andoral advocacy, as well as the abilityto work well with others understressful conditions, includingdeadline pressure, with limitedstaff resources. Preferredexperience includes: appellatelitigation, work with indigentclients, and supervision orteaching of complex writing

projects. Applicants must belicensed in Maryland and/or DC,or eligible and willing to takeMaryland Attorney’s Bar Examwithin two years and must haveschedule flexibility during theperiods of maximum clinic output.

Review of applications willbegin January 15, 2001, and willcontinue until the position is filled.Applicants should send a coverletter, resume, and references to:Professor Todd D. Peterson, Chair,Faculty Appointments Committee,The George Washington UniversityLaw School, 2000 H Street, N.W.,Washington, DC 20052. TheGeorge Washington University isan Equal Opportunity/AffirmativeAction Employer.

GEORGE WASHINGTONProject Director, Health Insurance

Counseling ProjectThe George Washington

University Law School, JacobBurns Community Legal Clinics,invites applications for thefollowing non-tenure track clinicalfaculty position beginning in the2001 academic year:

A one-year clinical facultyposition as Project Director of theHealth Insurance CounselingProject that may be extendedbeyond one year if funding permits.The Jacob Burns Community LegalClinics Health InsuranceCounseling Project, funded by theDC Office on Aging and the HealthCare Financing Administration,provides information andassistance to elderly and disabledDistrict of Columbia residents in

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the areas of Medicare, Medicaid,Long Term Care and other relatedhealth insurance issues. Activitiesinclude outreach into thecommunity through visits tohospitals, nursing homes, seniorcenters, nutrition sites, churches,public housing sites and healthfairs. This individual isresponsible for the day to dayadministration of the grant andteaching the Health Law RightsClinic. The grant duties includewriting annual grant applicationsto the DC Office on Aging and theHealth Care financingAdministration, reporting quarterlyto both agencies, attendingmonthly meetings of the DC Officeon Aging, and attending meetingssponsored by the Health CareFinancing Administration forgrantees. In addition, programadministration includes recruiting,training and supervising attorneys,staff and senior volunteers fromthe community. The projectdirector counsels clients over thephone, in person and throughhome visits on health insuranceissues; performs educationalseminars in the community; andperforms community outreach atnursing homes, hospitals, nutritionsites and other local forums. Theclinical component includesteaching a one-semester, two-credit clinical course to second andthird year law students including aweekly seminar and supervisingstudents in the clinic as theycounsel and advise clients. Theclinician is responsible fordeveloping and maintaining a caseload for students as well asdesigning and supervising

community projects for students toresearch and develop. The positionalso supervises students as theyparticipate in cases withadministrative hearings beforelocal and federal governmentagencies and matters in District ofColumbia and Federal courts.Qualifications: Applicants mustpossess a JD and be licensed inthe District of Columbia or willingto become licensed; have clinical orother law teaching experience;demonstrated skills in writing andimplementing grants; experience intraining and supervising attorneys,staff and volunteers; knowledge ofhealth insurance and publicbenefits; and experience and acommitment to working withseniors, persons with disabilities,minorities and local communitygroups.

Review of applications willbegin January 15, 2001, and willcontinue until the position is filled.Applicants should send a coverletter, resume, and references to:Professor Todd D. Peterson, Chair,Faculty Appointments Committee,The George Washington UniversityLaw School, 2000 H Street, N.W.,Washington, DC 20052. TheGeorge Washington University isan Equal Opportunity/AffirmativeAction Employer.

GEORGE WASHINGTONHalf-Time Director of

Outside Placement

The George WashingtonUniversity Law School, JacobBurns Community Legal Clinics,

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invites applications for thefollowing non-tenure track clinicalfaculty position beginning in the2001 academic year:

A half-time clinical facultyposition as Director of OutsidePlacement. The Outside PlacementProgram is a law school clinicthrough which students mayreceive academic credit for unpaidexternships in government,judicial, and public interest legaloffices. The Director’sresponsibilities include overseeingthe placements of approximatelyeighty students per semester,acting as a liaison between the lawschool and several hundred localplacement sites, coordinatingwritten evaluations of law studentsby field supervisors, maintaining alibrary of prior placements andstudent evaluation for review byprospective students, determiningwhether to approve placements incompliance with ABA standards,coordinating the classroomcomponent, and acting as a liaisonbetween faculty teaching thecourse and students enrolled inthe program. In addition to theabove administrative duties, theDirector also meets regularly withstudents enrolled in the program,provides feedback on writtenassignments, assures substantivelegal value and quality supervisionat each placement, and advisesprospective students of availableopportunities. The Director hassubstantial input into the designand administration of theclassroom component and mayalso teach a section.Qualifications: Applicants mustpossess a J.D. Prior experience in

program administration andknowledge of the Washington,D.C., area public sector legalcommunity would be helpful.Applicants must be extremelyorganized.

Review of applications willbegin January 15, 2001, and willcontinue until the position is filled.Applicants should send a coverletter, resume, and references to:Professor Todd D. Peterson, Chair,Faculty Appointments Committee,The George Washington UniversityLaw School, 2000 H Street, N.W.,Washington, DC 20052. TheGeorge Washington University isan Equal Opportunity/AffirmativeAction Employer.

HARVARDLecturers in First Year

Lawyering Program

The First Year LawyeringProgram of the Harvard Law Schoolintroduces law students to the waylawyers reason, research andexpress themselves orally and inwriting both in adversarial andnon-adversarial settings. TheProgram is currently beingredesigned to transmit a variety oflawyering skills as well as trainingin legal research and writing in amanner which provides a coherentand consistent experience to allfirst year students. The programwill emphasize prompt feedbackand a close working relationshipbetween first year students,Program instructional staff andfaculty teaching other first year

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courses. Staff will include aDirector and Associate Director, sixClimenko/Thayer Lecturers on Lawand students from a Law Schoolinstructional corps.

RESPONSIBILITIES OFFIRST YEAR LECTURERSINCLUDE:

Under the direction of theDirector and Associate Director,collaborating in the design andteaching of two sections ofapproximately 40 students each ina year long First Year Lawyeringcourse, working closely with otherinstructional staff to design (andwhere appropriate redesign)exercises and select readingassignments and other materials.Lecturers will present teachingmodules on particular skill-relatedsubjects, participate in the trainingand coordination of upper-levelstudent assistants, and collaboratewith library staff in the design anddelivery of legal research training.Six positions are open; up to two ofwhich will also includeresponsibilities for developing casefiles and related materials for theupperclass Ames Moot Courtprogram.REQUIREMENTS:

J.D. degree and at least twoyears of practice experiencerequired. Prior experience teachinglaw, legal writing orworking in law school clinics or lawschool administration are desirablebut not essential. Also extremelyuseful is knowledge of, orexperience with, informationtechnology systems as they relateto training in legal writing andresearch skills. The selectedindividual must possess

outstanding legal andinterpersonal skills, as this jobwill involve close coordination withLaw School faculty, staff, andstudents. Demonstrated creativity,energy, and organizational talentsare critical, as in the ability toestablish and sustain credibility ina scholarly community with highstandards.SALARY:

Salary is $53-57,000.Contracts for up to three years arecontemplated. Appointments willcommence July 1, 2001.APPLICATION PROCEDURE:Applicants should submit a coverletter setting forth theirqualifications, along with a resumeand the names of 3 references byFebruary 7, 2001 toCONTACT: Climenko/ThayerSearch Committee Catherine Claypoole Griswold Hall 201A Harvard Law School

Cambridge, MA 02138

claypool@law.harvard.edu

LOYOLA-LOS ANGELESAssociate Clinical Professor

Loyola Law School-LosAngeles invites applications for onefull-time, non-tenure track positionas an Associate Clinical Professorfor the 2001-02 academic year.Associate Clinical Professors teachup to two sections of required first-year Legal Research and Writingand one section of EthicalLawyering. Ethical Lawyering, arequired upper-division course,

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teaches legal ethics, clientinterviewing and counseling in aninnovative, integrated format usingvideo and live client simulations.Legal Research and Writing coversobjective and persuasive writingand requires intensive individualstudent contact and closeevaluation of written work.

The initial appointment asan Associate Clinical Professor isfor one year and may be renewedfor unlimited successive three-yearperiods.

Applicants must have adegree from an ABA/AALSaccredited law school, astrong academic record along withexcellent written and oral skills.Practice experience in interviewingand counseling clients is required.Prior law school teachingexperience in either legal writing,professional responsibility and/orinterviewing and counseling isstrongly preferred.

Please send resume and thenames of two references to BarbaraLu-Baltazar, Administrator ofHuman Resources, Loyola LawSchool, 919 S. Albany St., LosAngeles, CA 90015 or FAX 213-386-6966. The deadlinefor receipt of applications isFebruary 15, 2001. EOE

NORTHEASTERNPublic Interest Fellowship

Domestic Violence Institute

Description: The DomesticViolence Institute (DVI) atNortheastern University School ofLaw (NUSL) seeks a recent law

graduate to supervise in theDistrict Court legal clinic whereNUSL students provide civiladvocacy services to victims ofdomestic violence. This is a full-time, eighteen-month fellowshipthat begins March 1, 2001. (It isanticipated that a second two-yearDistrict Court fellowship will beoffered beginning on September 1,2001.) The fellowship includessubstantial direct client services aswell as opportunities forsupervision of community and lawstudent advocates and clinical lawteaching. The fellow will also workclosely with the DVI faculty on anumber of interdisciplinarycommunity collaborations of whichNortheastern is a founding partner.

Qualifications andApplication: Prior experienceworking directly with victims ofdomestic violence is required.Experience as a lawyer, clinical lawstudent or non-lawyer advocate incivil or criminal litigation involvingissues of domestic violence ispreferred. The applicant will berequired to become a member ofthe Massachusetts Bar; currentmembership or pending admissionto Massachusetts Bar is preferred.Bi-lingual capability (in Spanish,Haitian Creole or Vietnamese) ishighly desirable. NUSL is an equalopportunity employer that does notdiscriminate on the basis ofgender, race, ethnicity, age orsexual orientation. Send resumesto Clare Dalton or Lois Kanter atthe School of Law Clinics, 716Columbus Avenue, #212, Roxbury,MA. 02115. E-mail questionsshould be directed toL.Kanter@nunet.neu.edu.

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SUFFOLKDirector of Clinical Programs

Suffolk University LawSchool (Boston, MA) is seekingapplicants for the position of(Assistant, Associate, or) Professorof Law and Director of ClinicalPrograms. This is a tenure-trackor tenure-eligible position on theacademic faculty starting in the2001-2002 academic year.

Responsibilities of theposition include teaching andsupervision of the ClinicalPrograms; developing theeducational and public serviceaspects of the clinics; makingrecommendations regarding theappointment, retention andcontract extension of clinicalinstructors; preparation of budgetrequests; development of grantproposals; and coordination amongthe clinical instructors and withother faculty on professionaldevelopment and instruction.

Suffolk's program presentlyemploys 10 full-time clinicalinstructors, 2 adjunct instructors,and 20 part-time supervisors. Theclinics are located in Chelsea,Massachusetts and in the new lawschool building in downtownBoston. Existing clinics includeCivil, Housing and Landlord-Tenant, SU Clinics, JuvenileJustice, Domestic Abuse, FamilyLaw, Criminal Defendersand Prosecutors, and an ExternProgram. The Dean and Facultyare committed to full developmentof the Clinical Programs.

Please submit a letter ofapplication and currentresume to Professor Charles P.Kindregan, Chair, ClinicalPrograms Committee, SuffolkUniversity Law School, 120Tremont Street, Boston, MA02108-4977. Review of candidateswill begin by February 15, 2001.

SYRACUSETenure-Track Faculty

Public Interest Law Firm (PILF)

The Syracuse UniversityCollege of Law invites applicantsfor a permanent, tenure trackfaculty position as Director of thePublic Interest Law Firm (PILF).PILF is one of five in-house clinicsat the College of Law thatspecializes in civil rights litigationand advocacy. Applicants for theposition who have experience incivil rights litigation (such asdisability discrimination litigation)and clinic teaching are stronglyencouraged to apply. The Collegeof Law is committed to diversity adis an equal employment oppor-tunity employer. Interestedapplicants should send theirresumes and the names of threereferences to Professor MartinFried, Chair, Faculty AppointmentsCommittee, Syracuse UniversityCollege of Law, Syracuse, New York13244-1030 as soon as possible.For more information about clinicallegal education at SyracuseUniversity College of Law, you mayalso contact Professor Arlene S.Kanter, Director of Clinical Legal

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Education, by email atkantera@law.syr.edu.

TOUROSTAFF ATTORNEY

CIVIL RIGHTSLITIGATION CLINIC

Touro Law Center is seekinga staff attorney for the Civil RightsLitigation Clinic (formerly theMental Disability Law Clinic). TheClinic is funded under theProtection and Advocacy forIndividuals with Mental Illness Actand is part of a state-wide systemthat provides legal services todisabled individuals. The Clinicprovides legal services toindividuals who suffer or have beendiagnosed as suffering from mentalillness in such areas as civilcommitment, conditions ofconfinement, care and treatment,employment and access to publicservices. Law reform litigation, toadvance the rights of mentally illindividuals, forms a significantpart of the Clinic’s work.

Touro Law Center iscommitted both to integrating astrong clinical educationcomponent into the entirecurriculum and to instilling in itsstudents recognition of theprofessional obligation for publicservice. The Civil Rights LitigationClinic is one of five “in-house”clinics that contribute to thosegoals. All students are required toparticipate in a Clinic or performpro bono service.

The staff attorney will beresponsible for maintaining anindependent caseload andsupervising law students workingon other cases. Communityeducation for consumer groupsand family members will be anadditional responsibility. The staffattorney may also participate inother Clinic activities, such aslegislative advocacy and writingamicus briefs.

The Clinic is seeking anindividual with a demonstratedinterest in disability rights with aminimum of two years’ experience.The position requires constantinteraction with clients and withstudents who are just beginning toencounter professional demands.The staff attorney serves as a rolemodel for students and a skillsteacher within the Clinic setting.Admission to practice in the NewYork Courts or ability to obtainadmission on waiver is required.Salary commensurate withexperience.

Touro Law Center is anEqual Opportunity Employer andis committed to Affirmative Action.Please send a letter of interest andresume with names, addresses andtelephone numbers of referencesto:

Professor Bill BrooksTouro Law Center300 Nassau Road

Huntington, N.Y. 11743For further information, contactProf. Brooks at (631) 421-2244

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VILLANOVAClinical Professor

The Villanova UniversitySchool of Law invites applicationsfor a clinical professor to teach inthe law school's in-house, live-client clinic beginning in the fall of2001. This position will be eitherin a civil practice/poverty lawclinic or in a specialized clinicdepending on the experience andinterest of the applicant. This is along-term contract position.Responsibilities include classroomteaching and direct supervision ofsecond and third year students inclient representation. Over the last few years,Villanova University School of Lawhas committed substantialresources to expanding anddiversifying its clinical program.Currently its clinics include: a civilpractice clinic, a federal taxclinic, an immigration clinic, and ajuvenile justice clinic. There areplans to expand the programs withadditional clinics in the near term.Additional information about ourclinical programs is available atour website,vls.law.villanova.edu/clinics

Villanova is looking forcandidates who have shownpotential for excellence in clinicalteaching and supervision and havedemonstrated a commitment topublic and professional service

Villanova is committed todiversity and encourages womenand members of minority groupsto apply. Interested applicantsshould send a letter of interest,

resume and the names of threereferences to: Prof. MichelePistone, Director of ClinicalPrograms, Villanova UniversitySchool of Law, 299 N. Spring MillRoad, Villanova, PA 19085. Wewill begin accepting applicationsimmediately. The applicationreview process will continue untilthe position is filled.

PLEASE CHECK TO SEE IF YOURDUES ARE CURRENT. IFNOT...PLEASE PAY UP NOW!!THE CLEA BOARD REGRETS TOINFORM ALL ITS FORMERMEMBERS THAT WE ARE NOLONGER ABLE TO SEND THISNEWSLETTER OR THE CLINICALLAW REVIEW TO PEOPLE WHOARE NOT CURRENT WITH THEIRDUES. THIS MAY BE YOUR LASTCOMMUNIQUE FROM US IFYOUR DUES ARE NOTCURRENT!! YOU MAY CHECKYOUR DUES STATUS BY GOINGTO THEDIRECTORY AThttp://www2.wcl.american.edu/clinic/WE LOOK FORWARD TORECEIVING YOUR 2001 DUES OF$30, PAYABLE TO CLEA,MAILED TO David Chavkin,Washington College of Law,American University, 4801 Mass.Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20016-8181

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CLINICAL LEGAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION2001 Board of Directors*

Carolyn Wilkes Kaas (2001) Peter A. Joy (2003)President Vice-PresidentQuinnipiac School of Law School of Law275 Mount Carmel Avenue Washington UniversityHamden, Connecticut 06518-1946 Campus Box 1120(203) 582-3234 St. Louis, Missouri 63130-4900(203) 582-3237 FAX (314) 935-6445Carolyn.Kaas@quinnipiac.edu (314) 935-5356 FAX

Joy@wu.law.wustl.edu

Suzanne Jamie Levitt (2003) Angela Olivia Burton (2002)Secretary-Treasurer Syracuse University College of LawDrake University Law School Office of Clinical Programs27th & Carpenter P.O. Box 6543Des Moines, Iowa 50311 Syracuse, New York 13210(515) 271-3851 (315) 443-4582(515) 271-4100 FAX (315) 443-3636 FAX suzanne.levitt@drake.edu AOBurton@law.syr.edu

Stacy Caplow (2003) Annette Appell (2002)Immediate Past President William Boyd School of LawBrooklyn Law School University of Nevada-Las Vegas250 Joralemon Street School of LawBrooklyn, New York 11201 P.O. Box 451003(718) 780-7944 4050 Maryland Parkway(718) 780-0396 FAX Las Vegas, Nevada 89514-1003scaplow@brooklaw.edu (702) 895-2403

(702) 895-2482 FAXappell@nevada.edu

Margaret Martin Barry (2002) Paula Galowitz (2002) Columbus School of Law School of LawCatholic University of America New York University3602 John McCormack Road, N.E. 161 Avenue of the AmericasWashington, D.C. 20064 New York, New York 10013-1205(202) 319-6787 (212) 998-6430; 6441 (direct line)(202) 319-6780 FAX (212) 995-4031 FAXbarry@law.cua.edu galowitz@juris.law.nyu.edu

Suellyn Scarnecchia (2003) Bryan L. Adamson (2003)School of Law Case Western Reserve Law SchoolUniversity of Michigan 11075 East Boulevard300K Legal Research Building Cleveland, Ohio 44106625 South State Street (216) 368- 2766Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1215 (216) 368-6144(734) 764-4533 BLA@po.cwru.edu(734) 615-8961 FAX suellyns@umich.edu

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Jacqueline St. Joan (2003) Robert F. Seibel (2002)College of Law School of Law University of Denver City University of New York 7039 East 18th Avenue 65-21 Main StreetDenver, Colorado 80220 Flushing, New York 11367(303) 871-6349 (718) 340-4206(303) 871-6378 FAX (718) 340-4478 FAXJstJoan@mail.law.du.edu seibel@mail.law.cuny.edu J.L. Pottenger, Jr. (2002) Calvin Pang (2001)Yale Law School William S. Richardson School of LawJerome N. Frank Legal Services University of HawaiiP.O. Box 209090 2515 Dole StreetNew Haven, Connecticut 06520-9090 Honolulu, Hawaii 96822(203) 432-4800; 4821 (voice mail) (808) 956-7474(203) 432-1426 FAX (808) 956-5569 FAXj.pottenger@yale.edu Calvinp@hawaii.edu

Gary Palm (2003) Jon C. Dubin (2001)2800 Lake Shore Drive #3706 Rutgers University, NewarkChicago, IL 60637 School of Law(773) 248-9376 123 Washington Streetghpalm@dellnet.com Newark, New Jersey 07102

(973) 353-3186(973) 353-3397 FAXJdubin@kinoy.Rutgers.edu

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