Clinician Spotlight
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.
We are now in the midst of a coordinated and escalating campaign against academic freedom, legal education, and the ethical practice of law from the highest echelons of domestic power and influence. The latest deeply troubling example is the attack on Professor Ramzi Kassem, a tenured law professor and clinician at the City University of New York (CUNY) School of Law, who has been singled out by members of Congress for his speech, advocacy, and zealous representation of clients.
Joint Statement from CLEA and AALS Clinical Section on Congressional Attack on Academic Freedom
Register here for the New Clinicians Conference at the University of Baltimore School of Law on Saturday, April 26th: https://www.cleaweb.org/event-6097985.
Case Western Reserve University School of Law invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position as Assistant Professor of Law and Director of the Dr. Frank Stanton First Amendment Clinic beginning in the 2027-2028 academic year. uture.
Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law (located in suburban Philadelphia, PA) is hiring a Director of the Intellectual Property Clinic (Assistant/Associate/Full Professor). The Director will be a full-time continuing non-tenure track (governed by ABA Standard 405(c)) member of the faculty. We anticipate a start date of June 1, 2027. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis beginning in late July.
The University of Florida Fredric G. Levin College of Law invites applications for a Clinical Practitioner-in-Residence in its Veterans and Servicemembers Legal Clinic to start as soon as practicable. This position will offer entry-level and newly-practicing attorneys exposure to law school clinical teaching and research opportunities at one of the nation’s premier public law schools.
The University of Florida Fredric G. Levin College of Law invites applications for a Clinical Practitioner-in-Residence in its Immigration Clinic to start as soon as practicable. This position will offer entry-level and newly-practicing attorneys exposure to law school clinical teaching and research opportunities at one of the nation’s premier public law schools.
WASHBURN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW invites applicants for a tenured/tenure-track position to teach first year Legal Analysis, Research and Writing, beginning in the 2027-2028 academic year. Washburn Law’s nationally ranked legal writing program follows the typical structure for legal writing courses: objective or predictive writing in the first semester and persuasive writing and advocacy in the second semester. Both courses are three credit hours. Washburn Law has a unitary tenure track with scholarship support including summer writing grants, year-round research assistants, and funding for travel to conferences. This nine-month tenured/tenure-track position is one of three open tenured/tenure-track positions in the School of Law.
WASHBURN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW invites applicants for a tenured/tenure-track position to teach in the Washburn Law Clinic and to teach complementary doctrinal courses, beginning in the 2027-2028 academic year. Washburn Law has a unitary tenure track with scholarship support including summer writing grants, year-round research assistants, and funding for travel to conferences. This nine-month tenured/tenure-track position is one of three open tenured/tenure-track positions in the School of Law.
The University of Connecticut (UConn) School of Law seeks candidates for an open-rank clinical faculty position in its Legal Practice Program (“LP Program”), beginning in the fall of 2027.
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.