Joint Statement from CLEA and AALS Clinical Section on Congressional Attack on Academic Freedom

CLEA Awards Committee Soliciting Nominations!

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.

Registration for the Applied Legal Storytelling Conference is now live!

The Clinical Legal Education Association (CLEA) invites new (and not so new!) clinicians to save the date for the New Clinicians Conference to be held on Saturday, April 26, 2025 at the University of Baltimore School of Law in Baltimore, MD. 

The Clinical Legal Education Association (CLEA) invites new (and not so new!) clinicians to save the date for the New Clinicians Conference to be held on Saturday, April 26, 2025 at the University of Baltimore School of Law in Baltimore, MD. 

It is time to inaugurate a new class of Bellow Scholars! Please help us spread the word about this exciting program by forwarding the below information to your colleagues and contacts.

The Clinical Legal Education Association (CLEA) continues to oppose the ranking system used by U.S. News and World Reports (USNWR). CLEA exists to advocate for clinical legal education as fundamental to the education of lawyers, and one of our core points of advocacy is to pursue and promote justice and diversity as core values of the legal profession.

The Spring 2020 CLEA Newsletter is now published!

A national survey of law schools confirms a significant shift towards allowing students to earn academic credit in paid externship positions. Most surveyed schools reported that they allow pay in at least some of their externship placements.

The CLEA Awards Committee is once again soliciting nominations for its student awards.  Schools have two student award nomination opportunities through CLEA. First, schools have the option to decide between the CLEA Outstanding Clinic Student or Outstanding Clinic Team Award.

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

We are thrilled to hold the CLEA New Clinicians Conference in person this year immediately preceding the AALS Clinical Conference in San Francisco, California. 

Here is the fresh CLEA Newsletter, Winter 2022-2023, with a message from new co-presidents, Lynnise Pantin and Gautam Hans; CLEA's statement on US News rankings; updates from the CLEA committees; articles on clinical legal education; notes on CLEA events; and news and celebration from clinical law profs and this community. 

This is the call for proposals for the ninth biennial conference on Applied Legal Storytelling. The deadline for submitting proposals is February 3, 2023.

The Clinical Legal Education Association (CLEA) continues to oppose the ranking system used by U.S. News and World Reports (USNWR).

The Clinical Legal Education Association (CLEA) invites new clinicians to save the date for the New Clinicians Conference to be held on Thursday, April 27 at Golden Gate University School of Law in San Francisco.

The CLEA Elections Committee -Crystal Grant (Duke), Lauren Bartlett (SLU), Shobha Lakshmi Mahadev (Northwestern), and June Tai (Iowa)) is soliciting nominations through October 1, 2022, of individuals to serve on the CLEA Board starting in January 2023.

The Externships 11 Organizing Committee shares this important update about the conference on October 7-8, 2022, in Los Angeles. Pepperdine and UCLA had been planning to host the conference together, but because of some leadership and staff departures, UCLA has decided that it will not co-host the conference. Pepperdine will continue, and we are shifting our plans now.

Happy Spring! And there's no better way to kick off the sunny (or rainy days) by catching up on all things CLEA in Spring 2022.