MISSION STATEMENT


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.