Now Soliciting Nominations!

The CLEA Awards Committee is excited to announce that we are once again soliciting nominations for two annual awards. This year’s awards will be presented during the AALS Conference on Clinical Legal Education on Sunday, April 27, and we look forward to this opportunity to recognize and celebrate our clinical community’s valuable and inspiring work.   

The awards are:

Outstanding Advocate for Clinical Teachers; and
Excellence in a Public Interest Case or Project 

Nominations should be in the form of a letter of no more than three single-spaced pages. Each nomination should be endorsed by at least three individuals, and at least one of the three must be a full-time clinical faculty member at a law school and a member of CLEA. The nominating letter should clearly indicate which of the nominators are CLEA members. Letters of support from CLEA members or non-members are also welcome. 

The nomination deadline for both awards is Monday, March 31. Please send nominations via email to awards@cleaweb.org with the subject line: 2025 CLEA Awards. All materials, including letters of support, should be submitted as a single PDF.

CLEA will notify the awardees and their nominators as soon as a decision is made. We will ask the nominators to prepare a short video, to be shown at the awards ceremony, introducing the nominee and explaining the reasons for their nomination.

Information about nominating student awardees will follow.

For more information on the awards, please see the awards pages below.

For more information on CLEA Awards: