ABA and Bar Standards Advocacy
Co-Chairs: Sarah Wolking and Serge Martinez
Committee Members: Caitlin Barry, Andy Budzinski, Davida Finger, Melina Healey, Ronie Hochbaum, Kendall Kerew, Kate Kruse, Robert Kuehn, Mary Lynch, Joy Radice, Michael Vastine, Ian Weinstein, and Cindy Wilson
This Committee advocates in a variety of external venues on issues of importance to clinical legal education. Its work includes tracking proposals in the ABA and state bar commissions that regulate and affect legal education and clinical legal education. In addition, the ABA and Bar Standards Advocacy Committee coordinates CLEA's public comments and creates an organized and multi-faceted response on issues affecting legal education.
Awards
Chair: Gautam Hans and Tameka Lester
Committee Members: Elizabeth Grant, D’lorah Hughes, Genevieve Mann, Talia Peleg, Cindy Wilson
The primary responsibility of the Awards Committee is to solicit nominations for and select the recipients of three awards: (1) Outstanding Advocate for Clinical Teachers; (2) Excellence in a Public Interest Case or Project; and (3) Outstanding Student (one student per law school). The Committee also periodically reviews the eligibility requirements and rules for the awards and proposes changes, as needed.
Best Practices in Pedagogy
Co-Chairs: Benjie Louis and Lauren Rogal
Committee Members: Kaci Bishop, Laila Hlass, Carrie Kaas, Allison Korn, Emily Suski, Anna Cominsky, Megan Bess, Genevieve Mann
The Best Practices Committee was formed shortly after CLEA’s 2007 publication of Best Practices for Legal Education. The Committee commissioned a second Best Practices book, Building on Best Practices: Transforming Legal Education in a Changing World, which was published by LexisNexis in 2015. The committee continues share best practices in pedagogy to the experiential community through webinars, conferences, trainings and online resources.
Communications
Chair: Madalyn K. Wasilczuk and Davida Finger
Committee Members: Jeff Baker, Amanda Cole, Tanya Cooper, Ronie Hochbaum
This Communications Committee is charged with proposing and developing CLEA’s communications policies and strategies, utilizing a variety of modes that currently include the organization’s website, Facebook page, Newsletter and Best Practices Blog.
Conference and Externship Conference Support
Co-Chairs: Kara Finck and Talia Peleg
Committee Members: Jodi Balsam, Eden Harrington, Margaret Johnson, Mike Murphy, Jeffrey Pokorak, Bob Probasco, Christina Scott
The Conference Committee oversees the application process for organizations that seek support for regional and national conferences. In 2017, pursuant to the Strategic Plan, the Conference Committee will be charged with undertaking several new initiatives, in collaboration with the Communications and Best Practices in Pedagogy Committees.
Faculty Equity and Inclusion
Co-Chairs: Valeria Gomez and Shobha Mahadev
Committee Members: Jocelyn Cazares Willingham, Lia Sifuentes Davis,Jennifer Fernandez, Anju Gupta, Gautam Hans, Neha Lall, Shobha Mahadev, Aimee Maldonado, and Tomica Saul
The Committee on Faculty Equity and Inclusion is tasked with proposing ways to reverse the diversity crisis within clinical legal education. The Committee will work to raise and educate various stakeholders about the lack of racial/ethnic diversity among clinical professors and propose avenues for change.
Elections
Chair: Reena Parikh and Crystal Grant
Committee Members: Jenna Cobb, Shobha Mahadev, Sarah Shalf, and Kirby Tyrell
The Elections Committee is a mandatory committee of CLEA and is responsible for carrying out the elections requirements in CLEA’s bylaws. Under the bylaws, the Elections Committee is responsible for soliciting nominations, verifying eligibility of candidates and voters, creating and distributing ballots, overseeing the ballot count, and certifying and announcing election results.
Externships
Co-Chairs: Dena Bauman and Kate Devlin Joyce
Committee Members: Jodi Balsam, Carolyn Kaas, Kendall Kerew, Denise Platfoot Lacey, Neha Lall, Matthew McGovern, Ashley Menendez, Melissa Redmon, Amy Sankaran, Anne Sidwell, June Tai, Cindy Wilson
The Externship Committee advocates on behalf of CLEA and its members with respect to issues related to field placement programs. For example, together with CLEA’s ABA and Bar Standards Advocacy Committee, the Externship Committee represents CLEA in connection with ABA accreditation standards and state bar admissions requirements that have an impact on field placement programs. In addition, the Committee promotes increased awareness within the legal education community about the similarities, differences, and overlap between externships and law clinics.
Membership
Co-Chairs: Sarah Shalf and Tomica Saul
Committee Members: Valeria Gomez, Neha Lall, and Talia Peleg
The Membership Committee serves as the liaison between the CLEA board’s work and CLEA members. The committee updates the status of its members every year and responds to members’ comments and questions with respect to CLEA’s work. The committee also prepares membership materials, and helps members stay connected to the work of the organization and members of the clinical community.
New Clinicians
Co-Chairs: Paul Radvany and Nickole Miller
Committee Members: Kathryn Banks, Crisanne Hazen, Praveen Kosuri, Sue Schechter, Shanda Sibley, Anita Sinha, Kele Stewart, Wendy Vaughn, Danny Schaffzin, Amy Sankaran, Chante Brantley, Kate Raven, Gautam Hans, Larry Stein
The primary work of the New Clinicians Committee is to offer support, orientation, and an introduction to clinical education to those who are new to clinical teaching. Committee members plan and present CLEA’s New Clinicians Conference every two years (in odd years), before the start of the AALS Clinical Conference, and developed a series of workshops designed for new clinicians during the two most recent national Externships Conferences. Working with CLEA’s Advocacy Training Committee, the New Clinicians Committee will continue to explore other ways in which it might help to educate and train new clinicians.
Newsletter
Chair: Ronie Hochbaum
Committee Members: Nickole Miller, Susan Donovan, and Allison Wang
The CLEA Newsletter Committee publishes two issues each year. Besides featuring reports on CLEA's advocacy work and announcing clinicians' good news, including promotions, new arrivals, transitions, awards, honors, books and publications, the committee aims to publish shorter articles on clinical teaching and creative writing on social justice topics, and evolve into a venue where clinicians can publish shorter articles that might count towards tenure requirements in schools that recognize broader definitions of "scholarship" for clinicians.
Strategic Planning Committee
Chair: Gautam Hans and Lynnise Pantin
Committee Members: Crystal Grant and Davida Finger
Website Redesign
Co-Chairs: Jennifer Fernandez and Shanda Sibley
Committee Members: Crystal Grant, Gautam Hans, Gowri Krishna, Mike Murphy, Reena Parikh, Madalyn Wasilczuk