Shanara Gilbert Award

The Shanara Gilbert Award, presented by the Awards Committee of the AALS Section on Clinical Legal Education, is designed to honor an emerging clinician. The award is for a recent entrant (10 years or fewer) into clinical legal education who has demonstrated all or some of the following qualities:

1) a commitment to teaching and achieving social justice, particularly in the areas of race and the criminal justice system;
2) an interest in international clinical legal education;
3) a passion for providing legal services and access to justice to individuals and groups most in need;
4) service to the cause of clinical legal education or to the AALS Section on Clinical Legal Education; and
5) an interest in the beauty of nature (desirable, but not required).

To nominate a person, see the submission guidelines.