Outstanding Advocate for Clinical Teachers

This award recognizes an individual who has served as a voice for clinical teachers and who has contributed to the advancement of experiential legal education. The criteria for the award are:

·      commitment to the field of experiential legal education;

·      advancement of the field (e.g., by working within organizations that affect the contours of legal education, by writing and speaking about the field, or by serving as a spokesperson for the field in the litigation, legislative, administrative, political, or other arenas);

·      commitment to advancing clinical pedagogy, teaching, and the design and implementation of effective clinic or externship courses; and fostering a spirit of community (e.g., by planning or leading conferences or initiatives). 

Clinical teachers include individuals who teach in-house clinics, externships, hybrid courses, and other forms of experience-based law courses.  

Prior recipients of the award are:

2024 2023	Leigh Goodmark (Maryland) Deborah Archer (NYU)
2022	Sheila Bedi (Northwestern) and Ian Weinstein (Fordham)
2021	Robert Kuehn (Washington University in St. Louis)
2019	Stephen J. Ellmann (posthumously)
2017	Elliott Milstein (American)
2016	Gary Palm (posthumously)
2015	Claudia Angelos (NYU)
2014	Jon Dubin (Rutgers)
2012	Phyllis Goldfarb (George Washington)
2011	Deborah Epstein (Georgetown)
2010	Jane Barett (Maryland)
2009	Ann Shalleck (American)
2007	Roy Stuckey (South Carolina)
2006	Margaret Martin Barry (Catholic)
2005	Jay Pottenger (Yale)
2004	Paul Tremblay (Boston College)
2003	Nancy Cook and Robert Seibel (Cornell)
2002	Mark Heyrmann (Chicago) and Liz Ryan Cole (Vermont)

 

Individuals who currently are, or at any time during this academic year were, CLEA Board members or Executive Committee members are not eligible to receive the award this year.