Call for Proposals: CLEA Best Practices in Legal Pedagogy Committee

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.

Chapter topics may include (but are not limited to):

·         Academic Freedom and other threats to Experiential/Clinical/Legal Education;

·         Academic Success Programs;

·         Assessments (e.g., formal and informal, formative and summative, criterion-based assessments);

·         Cross-Cultural Lawyering;

·         Expanding Experiential Education Throughout the Curriculum (e.g., 1L experiential offerings, incorporating experiential education into traditional doctrinal classes);

·         Faculty Status (e.g., navigating status differences, advocating for change)

·         Leadership in Legal Education;

·         Next Gen Bar Exam;

·         Professional Identity Formation;

·         Rule of Law (e.g., strategies for teaching the rule of law in the face of challenges to it);

·         Technology (e.g., remote and hybrid teaching, best practices for using Gen AI, digital accessibility); and

·         Anything else that addresses other developments in legal education or preparing for the future of legal education.

Proposals should be for original pieces that have not been published or submitted for publication. New authors and authors from previous CLEA publications are welcome to submit proposals. In submitting your proposal, please include:

·         Your name, contact information, institutional affiliation, and courses taught;

·         Your proposed topic or title;

·         A brief description of the proposed topic (no more than 500 words);

·         A brief description of your expertise on the topic (no more than 300 words);

·         A brief description of how your topic is relevant to a wide array of law students with diverse experiences, identities, and views (no more than 300 words);

·         An approximate word count (chapters should be between 6,000 and 10,000 words);

·         Whether you would be willing to co-author or not, and if so, if you have a co-author in mind; and

·         Anything else that you think would be helpful for the editors to know.

Proposals must be submitted by 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, March 1, 2026. We expect to make decisions and extend offers in late spring 2026 and that initial drafts will be due at the end of summer 2026. We anticipate the volume being published in 2027 or early 2028.

Please submit your proposal in Word format to  C.Benjie.Louis@Hofstra.edu  with the subject line, “BP Chapter Proposal.”

Thank you,

Best Practices Book Sub-Committee of CLEA’s Best Practices in Legal Pedagogy Committee, C. Benjie Louis (co-chair), Lauren Rogal (co-chair), Megan Bess, and Kaci Bishop