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On Saturday, September 26, 2026, 155 clinical faculty from more than 65 schools met at NYU School of Law for the Clinical Law Review’s annual Clinical Writers’ Workshop.
The Spring 2026 CLEA Newsletter (Vol. 35, Issue 2): a message from the co-presidents, 2026 awards, committee reports, new articles on clinical education, and good news from our community.
A years-long leader in the field of experiential legal education, Professor Dahlstrom directs the Immigrants’ Rights and Human Trafficking Program at Boston University School of Law, where she serves as Associate Dean of Clinical & Experiential Education.
Over the past year, a deeply troubling pattern of unchecked political interference by federal and state governmental actors in legal education has emerged. The unprecedented rescission of Professor Emily Suski’s contract of employment as Dean of the University of Arkansas School of Law is the latest evidence of the power that government actors are willing to use to silence academics for political purposes.
Over the past year, a deeply troubling pattern of unchecked political interference by federal and state governmental actors in legal education has emerged. The unprecedented rescission of Professor Emily Suski’s contract of employment as Dean of the University of Arkansas School of Law is the latest evidence of the power that government actors are willing to use to silence academics for political purposes.
The CLEA Best Practices in Legal Pedagogy Committee through the Best Practices Book Sub-Committee seeks proposals for chapters for the next volume in the Best Practices Book Series, which includes Best Practices for Legal Education: A Vision and a Road Map and Building on Best Practices: Transforming Legal Education in a Changing World. This new Best Practices volume will revisit and update some of the topics covered in these prior volumes as well as explore new topics, including current and emerging techniques, strategies, and practices to help guide individual law instructors and administrators as they design their classes, courses, and curricula.
Read the CLEA Newsletter for Winter 2025-2026.
The newsletter includes items on honors, awards, publications, clinical law professors around the country, and it includes committee reports and the recurring column on clinical legal education from Bob Kuehn.
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LAW SCHOOL is seeking qualified applicants for a full-time position directing its Innovation Clinic, which is a transactional clinic providing legal services for start-up ventures in the innovation sector.
The Georgetown Law Street Law program seeks applicants for the Georgetown Street Law Teaching Fellowship.
Seton Hall University School of Law welcomes applications for a Clinical Teaching Fellowship with the Criminal Defense and Community Advocacy Clinic to begin during the 2026-27 academic year.
THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA SCHOOL OF LAW seeks applicants to serve as its Law School Externship Program Director.
The University of Cincinnati Donald P. Klekamp College of Law invites applications for a full-time, open-rank, non-tenure-track position as Assistant, Associate, or Professor of Clinical Law and Director of the Domestic Violence and Civil Protection Order Clinic.
Berkeley Law invites applications for a full-time position on our clinical faculty, teaching in our Death Penalty Clinic.
The Community Justice and Civil Rights Clinic seeks an experienced, collaborative, and mission-driven Staff Attorney to partner with the Clinic Director in advancing the Clinic's litigation, movement-lawyering, policy advocacy, and educational mission.
Pritzker Pucker Family Clinical Professor Of Transactional Law; Vice Dean For Experiential Education
Lynnise Pantin ’03 is the founding director of the Entrepreneurship and Community Development Clinic. Students in the clinic develop lawyering skills as they provide legal services in a range of transactional, intellectual property, and governance matters to community organizations and low- and moderate-income entrepreneurs.
Clinical Professor of Law
Gautam Hans is a Clinical Professor of Law and founding Director of the Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Clinic (CRCLC). CRCLC works on cases and projects relating to a wide range of topics including free speech and association; current issues involving developing technologies; and amicus briefs and policy and advocacy.
Clinical Professor of Law
Professor Gowri Krishna is a distinguished clinical educator and advocate for economic, racial, and social justice. She is a 2006 alumna of Fordham Law School. She began her legal career as an Equal Justice Works Fellow at the Urban Justice Center in New York City, directing a project that provided legal services to low-wage immigrant workers.
Clinical Professor of Law
Professor June Tai is the Director of the Field Placement Program for the law school. Her teaching and research interests focus on experiential learning and legal practice skills. She teaches and supervises students in the Field Placement Program. She also teaches contract drafting, and other practice- and skills-focused courses based on her experiences in practice prior to joining Iowa Law.
Associate Professor; Director; Children’s Permanency Clinic Legal Clinics
The New Clinicians Conference was one of the most impactful things about the clinical conference both because I learned a lot but also because I made connections with people who are still among my most trusted partners in clinical teaching.
Professor of the Practice and Director of Externships
Professor Lall joined the University of Baltimore as a Professor of the Practice and Director of Externships in 2019. Under Professor Lall’s leadership, UBalt Law has built one of the largest paid legal externship programs in the United States, with a large majority of UBalt Law students receiving compensation in conjunction with their externship work.