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Advocating for Clinical Legal Education as Fundamental to a Lawyer’s Education
Over the past year, a deeply troubling pattern of unchecked political interference by federal and state governmental actors in legal education has emerged. The unprecedented rescission of Professor Emily Suski’s contract of employment as Dean of the University of Arkansas School of Law is the latest evidence of the power that government actors are willing to use to silence academics for political purposes.
The CLEA Best Practices in Legal Pedagogy Committee through the Best Practices Book Sub-Committee seeks proposals for chapters for the next volume in the Best Practices Book Series, which includes Best Practices for Legal Education: A Vision and a Road Map and Building on Best Practices: Transforming Legal Education in a Changing World. This new Best Practices volume will revisit and update some of the topics covered in these prior volumes as well as explore new topics, including current and emerging techniques, strategies, and practices to help guide individual law instructors and administrators as they design their classes, courses, and curricula.
Read the CLEA Newsletter for Winter 2025-2026.
The newsletter includes items on honors, awards, publications, clinical law professors around the country, and it includes committee reports and the recurring column on clinical legal education from Bob Kuehn.
We are now in the midst of a coordinated and escalating campaign against academic freedom, legal education, and the ethical practice of law from the highest echelons of domestic power and influence. The latest deeply troubling example is the attack on Professor Ramzi Kassem, a tenured law professor and clinician at the City University of New York (CUNY) School of Law, who has been singled out by members of Congress for his speech, advocacy, and zealous representation of clients.
Joint Statement from CLEA and AALS Clinical Section on Congressional Attack on Academic Freedom
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.
The Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law is hiring a Visiting Assistant Professor to co-teach in our immigration clinic, titled the Federal Litigation and Appeals Clinic. This is a 12-month position that begins in August 2026. It is a one-year appointment with the potential option of renewal for a second year.
Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law seeks an outstanding lawyer-educator to direct and teach its Intellectual Property Law Clinic as a Visiting Assistant Professor during the 2026-27 academic year. The position is a 12-month, visiting position which will begin during the summer of 2026 with the possibility of a continuing appointment thereafter.
Cornell University Law Library is currently reviewing applications for two Research and Instruction Law Librarian positions targeting early academic career professionals.
The University of Iowa College of Law is seeking qualified applicants to teach for the 2026–2027 academic year as a Visiting Clinical Professor or Associate Professor, with the possibility of an extension through the 2027–2028 academic year.
University of Iowa College of Law is seeking a Legal Assistant / Clinic Program Manager. The Clinical Program Manager provides administrative management and paralegal support to the Clinical Law Program. The Clinical Program is a working law office within the law school that is directed by five full-time faculty members who regularly engage in the practice of law in their various practice areas and are recognized as experts in their fields.
The University of Illinois College of Law First Amendment Clinic is hiring a Fellow for the 2026-2027 academic year. This is a one-year position, with an anticipated start date in August 2026, with the possibility of renewal for a second year depending on performance and funding.
DRAKE UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL invites applications for a Visiting Faculty position (Assistant, Associate, or Full – rank commensurate with qualifications and experience) to direct and teach its Criminal Defense Clinic.
Clinician Spotlight
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Lynnise Pantin
Pritzker Pucker Family Clinical Professor Of Transactional Law; Vice Dean For Experiential Education
Lynnise Pantin ’03 is the founding director of the Entrepreneurship and Community Development Clinic. Students in the clinic develop lawyering skills as they provide legal services in a range of transactional, intellectual property, and governance matters to community organizations and low- and moderate-income entrepreneurs.
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G.S. Hans
Clinical Professor of Law
Gautam Hans is a Clinical Professor of Law and founding Director of the Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Clinic (CRCLC). CRCLC works on cases and projects relating to a wide range of topics including free speech and association; current issues involving developing technologies; and amicus briefs and policy and advocacy.
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Gowri Krishna
Clinical Professor of Law
Professor Gowri Krishna is a distinguished clinical educator and advocate for economic, racial, and social justice. She is a 2006 alumna of Fordham Law School. She began her legal career as an Equal Justice Works Fellow at the Urban Justice Center in New York City, directing a project that provided legal services to low-wage immigrant workers.
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June Tai
Clinical Professor of Law
Professor June Tai is the Director of the Field Placement Program for the law school. Her teaching and research interests focus on experiential learning and legal practice skills. She teaches and supervises students in the Field Placement Program. She also teaches contract drafting, and other practice- and skills-focused courses based on her experiences in practice prior to joining Iowa Law.
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Kathryn P. Banks
Associate Professor; Director; Children’s Permanency Clinic Legal Clinics
The New Clinicians Conference was one of the most impactful things about the clinical conference both because I learned a lot but also because I made connections with people who are still among my most trusted partners in clinical teaching. -
Neha Lall
Professor of the Practice and Director of Externships
Professor Lall joined the University of Baltimore as a Professor of the Practice and Director of Externships in 2019. Under Professor Lall’s leadership, UBalt Law has built one of the largest paid legal externship programs in the United States, with a large majority of UBalt Law students receiving compensation in conjunction with their externship work.