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- Title
WHY NOT A lL CLINIC?
- Authors
KELLEY-WIDMER, JACLYN
- Abstract
This article explores the benefits and challenges of offering a clinical course for first-year law students. Currently, only five percent of law schools permit 1Ls to take clinical courses, and only two law schools offer clinics specifically designed for 1Ls. Drawing from the author's experience teaching a 1L clinic and contextualizing this project within experiential education pedagogy and the broader law- school curriculum, the article explores reasons a law school might opt to develop a clinical course for 1Ls. The article provides a snapshot of the student perspective through data analysis of students' self-reported reasons for enrolling in the clinic and experiences gained in the course. Further, the article discusses specific pedagogical innovations and benefits of a 1L clinic, and it frankly assesses and strategizes around the inherent challenges in such a project. Finally, the article presents concrete ideas for how schools might build on this knowledge to design new clinical programs and other credited experiential work for first-year law students.
- Subjects
LAW students; LAW schools; TORT theory; EXPERIENTIAL learning; AMERICAN Bar Association
- Publication
Clinical Law Review, 2024, Vol 30, Issue 2, p411
- ISSN
1079-1159
- Publication type
Article