Transforming the education of lawyers : the theory and practice of clinical pedagogy

This book focuses on what and how to teach students about being a lawyer as they take responsibility for clients in a clinical course. The book identifies learning and lawyering theories as well as practical approaches to planning and teaching; it highlights how the four clinical methodologies--seminar, rounds, supervision, and fieldwork--reinforce and complement each other. The book illustrates clinical education's transformative potential to create ethical, skilled, thoughtful practitioners imbued with professional values of justice and service. With contributions by both seasoned and newer clinical educators, the book addresses issues faced by all who teach in experiential lawyering courses.

The whole is greater than the sum of its parts : clinical methodologies and perspectives / Sue Bryant, Elliott Milstein, and Ann Shalleck -- Learning goals for clinical programs / Susan Bryant, Elliott Milstein, and Ann Shalleck -- The clinical seminar : choosing the content and methods for teaching in the seminar / Susan Bryant and Elliott Milstein -- Planning and teaching the seminar class / Susan Bryant and Elliott Milstein -- Seminar essays -- Judgment-based lawyering : structuring seminar time in a non-litigation clinic / Mark Neal Aaronson -- Using the classroom to teach time keeping, client billing, and ethics / Bryan Adamson -- One community economic development clinic's seminar and the challenges in connecting the work of the clinic to the work of the client / Alicia Alvarez -- Reflections on using narrative theory and storytelling practice in the clinic seminar / Carolyn Grose -- Rounds : constructing learning from the experience of peers / Susan Bryant and Elliott Milstein -- Generating conversations : planning and facilitating rounds / Susan Bryant and Elliott Milstein -- Rounds essays -- The case for structured rounds / Elizabeth B. Cooper -- Beyond the classroom : applying the stages of rounds structure to analysis of clinical supervision / Deborah Epstein -- Supervision : a conceptual framework / Ann Shalleck and Jane H. Aiken -- The practice of supervision / Jane H. Aiken and Ann Shalleck -- Supervision essays -- Reflection on supervision in feedback interactions : reinforcement of some fundamental themes / Beryl Blaustone -- Combating decision fatigue in supervision / Kristin Henning -- Supervision stories : identifying and engaging professional identity issues / Donna Lee -- Fieldwork : the experience that sparks the learning / Susan Bryant and Conrad Johnson -- Design essays : the hybrid clinic -- bringing the in-house clinic to the field / Claudia Angelos -- Fieldwork and the political / Sameer M. Ashar -- Reflections from the middle ground : clinic design in context / Juliet M. Brodie -- Lawyering in the digital age / Conrad Johnson -- The evolving design of a first generation clinic / Wallace J. Mlyniec -- Learning to be a lawyer : embracing indeterminacy and uncertainty / Robert D. Dinerstein and Elliott S. Milstein -- Reflecting on the habits : teaching about identity, culture, language, and difference / Susan Bryant and Jean Koh Peters -- Talking about race / Jean Koh Peters and Susan Bryant.