Clinical Faculty in the Legal Academy: Hiring, Promotion and Retention

Authors

Bryan L. Adamson, Seattle University School of LawFollow
Calvin G. C. Pang, University of Hawaii William S. Richardson School of LawFollow
Bradford Colbert, William Mitchell College of LawFollow
Kathy Hessler, Lewis & Clark Law SchoolFollow
Katherine R. Kruse, University of Nevada Las Vegas William S. Boyd School of LawFollow
Robert R. Kuehn, Washington University School of LawFollow
Mary Helen McNeal, Syracuse University College of LawFollow
David A. Santacroce, University of Michigan Law SchoolFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-2012

Abstract

The Chair of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Section on Clinical Legal Education appointed us in 2005 to the Task Force on the Status of Clinicians and the Legal Academy (Task Force) to examine who is teaching in clinical programs and using clinical methodologies in American law schools and to identify the most appropriate models for clinical appointments within the legal academy. Our charges reflected two ongoing concerns: 1) the need to collect valid, reliable, and helpful data that would inform discussions on the breadth of clinical education in the legal academy and the status of clinical educators within the academy; and 2) the need to have a foundation for complex conversations on how American law schools should view and value their clinical teachers. The first primarily describes the present, while the second carries implications for the future.

Recommended Citation

Santacroce, David A. "Clinical Faculty in the Legal Academy: Hiring, Promotion and Retention." B. L. Adamson et al, co-authors. J. Legal Ed. 62, no. 1 (2012): 115-61.