Document Type

Report

Publication Date

2026

Abstract

This report summarizes the results of the Center for the Study of Applied Legal Education’s (CSALE) 2025-26 Survey of Applied Legal Education. The 2025-26 CSALE Survey is CSALE’s seventh triennial survey of law clinic and field placement (i.e., externship) courses and educators. The results provide insight into the state of experiential legal education in areas like program design, capacity, administration, funding, and pedagogy, and the role of clinic and field placement educators in the legal academy. Law schools, legal educators, scholars, and oversight agencies rely on CSALE’s data. The 2025-26 CSALE Survey is composed of two parts. A Survey of School Programs was directed to American Bar Association (ABA) accredited law schools through the person with oversight over, or greatest knowledge of, the clinic and field placement programs at each school (typically a director or associate dean). The respondent was, in turn, asked to provide email addresses for all full-time law school employees teaching in a law clinic or field placement course at their school, as well as any part-time employees/adjuncts who direct or have primary responsibility for a clinic or field placement course.1 Each of those persons was invited by email to fill out the Survey of Instructors that asked about their clinic and field placement courses and employment relationship with the law school.

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2026 The Center for the Study of Applied Legal Education. Permission is granted to reprint all or part of this report, provided the use is not for profit and reference is made to this report. All other rights reserved.

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