Program

CONFERENCE AND SMALL-GROUP SCHEDULE

The general plan for the conference is to have two plenary sessions, one at the beginning on Friday morning (October 1, 2010) and one at the end on Saturday morning (October 2, 2010). In between, besides lunch and dinner on Friday (at both of which there will be presentations, currently being planned), everything will consist of small-group sessions. Specifically, we’ll have 4 90-minute time-slots for small-group meetings: Friday at 10:45 AM, 2:15 PM and 4:00 PM, and Saturday at 9:00 AM. So the full conference will be structured this way (except that all the times here may be moved a few minutes in one direction or another as we complete our plans):

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1:

9:00 – 10:30 Welcome, and first plenary
10:45 – 12:15 First meeting time for small groups
12:30 – 2:00 Lunch session
2:15 – 3:45 Second meeting time for small groups
4:00 – 5:30 Third meeting time for small groups
7:00 Dinner session

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2:

9:00 – 10:30 Fourth meeting time for small groups
10:45 – 12:15 Closing plenary

With 4 time-slots for small group sessions, and 32 papers, we plan to have 8 papers presented in each of the 4 available small-group meeting times. With that in mind, we’ve organized the papers into 4 themes: (1) organizing and delivering clinical legal education; (2) ethics, jurisprudence, and engagement with clients; (3) pedagogy; and (4) beyond individual litigation: groups, transactions, and policy clinics. In each of the 4 small-group slots, there will be 4 separate small group meetings, one for each of these four themes.

You’ll see, of course, that these categories overlap and many of the papers could easily fit in more than one of them. The value of the categories is just heuristic – to help everyone who is part of the conference to get a handle on the wealth of material they’re going to have a chance to engage with. Some conference attenders may only want to go to sessions from a particular theme; others may want to be sure to attend one session from each of the 4 themes; and still others may choose their preferences with no regard to the themes under which we’ve categorized the sessions. We’re fine with all of these approaches.

What we do want is for everyone who’s registering to tell us their preferences for each of the four time-slots. We'll be asking registrants to do that early in September, and then hopefully we’ll be able to assign people to sessions based pretty closely on their preferences. We’ll also be asking everyone to read as many of the papers as possible for the particular sessions they’ll be attending. That way we hope to insure that every presenter is speaking to a group of people not only interested in but also prepared to engage with the presenter’s work – this conference depends on both presenters and attenders and the insights they develop together! (By the way, if you’re coming but haven’t registered, please do that right away.)

Here’s the schedule for the 16 small-group sessions. We’ll be posting information in September about the plenaries and mealtime presentations as well.

1. Organizing and delivering clinical legal education

A. Deborah Maranville (University of Washington School of Law), Russell Engler (New England School of Law), Phyllis Goldfarb (George Washington University Law School), Susan Kay (Vanderbilt University Law School), & Mary Lynch (Albany Law School), “Revision Quest: A Design Primer for Enhancing Experiential Education in the Law School Curriculum”; and Karen Tokarz (Washington University School of Law), Peggy Maisel (Florida International University College of Law), Robert F. Seibel (California Western School of Law), & Antoinette Sedillo Lopez (University of New Mexico School of Law), “Universal Clinical Legal Education: Why Clinical Courses Should Be Required for All Law Graduates and How It Can Be Done” (Friday, 10:45 – 12:15)
B. Adele Bernhard (Pace University School of Law), “This Porridge is Too Hot: Pre-Trial Misdemeanor Criminal Defense Clinics & Innocence Projects -- Is Anything Just Right?”; and Mary Jo Eyster (Brooklyn Law School) & Marjorie A. Silver (Touro College, Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center), “The Accidental Clinician and the Experienced Director: A Conversation on the Value of Externships” (Friday, 2:15 -3:45)
C. Brook Baker (Northeastern University School of Law), “Practice-Based Learning: Emphasizing Practice and Offering Critical Perspectives on the Dangers of ‘Co-op’tation”; and Jeff Selbin (University of California, Berkeley School of Law) & Jeanne Charn (Harvard Law School), “The Clinical Lab Office” (If you would like a copy of this article, please contact the authors directly) (Friday, 4:00 – 5:30)
D. Binny Miller (American University, Washington College of Law), “Herding Cats: The Role of Directors of Law School Clinical Programs”; and Kimberly O’Leary (Thomas M. Cooley Law School), “Back to the Future: Twenty-Five years after the Inspiration for the Future of the In-House Clinic Report, What Have we Learned about In-House Clinics?” (Saturday, 9:00 – 10:30)

2. Ethics, jurisprudence, and engagement with clients

A. Kate Kruse (University of Nevada, Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of Law/Fordham University School of Law), “The New Legal Realist Voice of Clinician-Scholars”; and Mae Quinn (Washington University School of Law, St. Louis), “Feminist Legal Realism?” (Friday, 10:45 – 12:15)
B. Robert Condlin (University of Maryland School of Law), "Bargaining Without Law"; and Ann Shalleck (American University, Washington College of Law) & Muneer Ahmad (Yale Law School), “The Jurisprudential Underpinnings of Clinical Thought” (If you would like a copy of this article, please contact the authors directly) (Friday, 2:15 – 3:45)
C. Susan Brooks (Earle Mack School of Law at Drexel University) & Bob Madden (St. Joseph College), “Epistemology and Ethics in Relationship-Centered Legal Education and Practice”; and Nancy Cook (University of Minnesota Law School), “The Message is in the Medium: Client Voice, Story, Narration, and Form” (Friday, 4:00 – 5:30)
D. Sue Bryant (City University of New York, School of Law at Queens College) & Jean Koh Peters (Yale Law School), “Reflecting on the Habits after Ten Years: Teaching about Race, Identity, Culture, Language and Difference”; and Kathleen Kelly (Stanford Law School), “Negotiating Culture in Human Rights Clinical Field Work” (Saturday, 9:00 – 10:30)

3. Pedagogy

A. Peggy Cooper Davis (NYU School of Law), “The Effects of Experiential Courses on Students' Learning, Emotional Health, and Sense of Professional Responsibility”; and Jennifer Lyman (D.C. Law Students in Court), “Practicing What We Teach” (Friday, 10:45 – 12:15)
B. Robert Dinerstein & Elliott S. Milstein (American University, Washington College of Law), “Uncertainty and Indeterminacy as Over-arching Themes in Clinical Pedagogy”; and Peter Hoffman (University of Houston Law Center), “Law Schools and the Changing Face of Practice” (Friday, 2:15 – 3:45)
C. Laurie Morin & Susan Waysdorf (University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law), “The Service-Learning Model in the Law School Curriculum: Expanding Opportunities for the Ethical-Social Apprenticeship”; and Raja Raghunath (University of Denver College of Law), “The ‘Plus One’ Clinic: Tapping Into the Disorienting Possibilities in Representing Landlords Alongside Tenants” (Friday, 4:00 – 5:30)
D. Ian Weinstein (Fordham University School of Law), “Sorting for School Success and Developing Reflective Practice: From Educational to Professional Markets”, and "Personality -- Traits, Types and Styles: The Problem of Pirates and Ninjas"; and Richard Wilson (American University, Washington College of Law), “Does Global Clinical Legal Education Have, or Need, a Unifying Theory?” (Saturday, 9:00 – 10:30)

4. Beyond individual litigation: groups, transactions, and policy clinics

A. Robin S. Golden (Yale Law School), “Collaborative as Client: Lawyering for Effective Change”; and Paul Tremblay (Boston College Law School), “Counseling Community Groups” (Friday, 10:45 – 12:15)
B. Brian Glick (Fordham University School of Law), “Transactional Law & Organizing”; and Robert Statchen (Western New England College Schools of Law & Business), “Scribes, Practitioners and Clinicians: Preparing Transactional Documents in a Clinical Environment” (Friday, 2:15 – 3:45)
C. Edgar Cahn (University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law), “Clinical Legal Education -- Where Next? Creating and Becoming Agents of Change”; and Louise Trubek & Marsha Mansfield (University of Wisconsin Law School), “Networking to Expand Poverty Law Advocacy” (Friday, 4:00 – 5:30)
D. Suzanne B. Goldberg (Columbia Law School), “Multidimensional Advocacy: A Clinical Teaching Framework”; and Anita Weinberg (Loyola University, Chicago, School of Law) & Elizabeth Cooper (Fordham University School of Law), “(Re)constructing Clinics in a Challenging Context: Teaching Policy and Legislation” and charts (Saturday, 9:00 – 10:30)