Mission

CLEA exists to advocate for clinical legal education as fundamental to the education of lawyers.

CLEA and its members seek to:

• foster excellent teaching and scholarship by clinical educators;

• integrate clinical teaching and extend its methods into the legal education program of every law school;

• reform legal education so as to prepare law students for excellent and reflective law practice;

• advance regulation of legal education that insures the continued vitality of clinical education in law schools; and

• pursue and promote justice and diversity as core values of the legal profession.