CLINICAL LEGAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION Volume XIX No. 2 FEBRUARY, 2011 CLEA Newsletter PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE I am so pleased to serve as the 20 th President of CLEA and continue our work together in support of clinical legal education. With over 900 members, we are America’s largest membership organization of law faculty. We have an ambitious, change- Ian Weinstein Fordham Law School oriented agenda and as an All Volunteer Non-Profit Organization, CLEA President CLEA proudly relies on each of you and the wonderful work you
[email protected] do. In this message, I report on the recent CLEA elections, Inside this issue: CLEA advocacy on the ABA’s review of Accreditation Standards, and several ongoing and upcoming projects. The activities noted Committee Reports 4 reflect the hard work of so many people and the exemplary lead- Conferences 6 ership of our Immediate Past President, Bob Kuehn (Washington New Clinicians 12 University Law School) . Bob’s contributions and strengths are 15 too numerous to list here but I think they are quite well known to Transitions 17 most of you. If he were only the go-to guy on political interfer- Promotions, Honors & Awards ence, that would be such a huge contribution in and of itself; but he has done and does so much more. He leaves very big shoes News from Clinical Pro- 21 for my rather compact feet. grams Books & Publications 60 Elections, Officers and Board Members Job Announcements 69 Binny Miller (American University Washington College EDITOR of Law) , Chair of the Elections Committee and Kate Kruse (University of Nevada, Las Vegas Law School) , CLEA Secre- tary , worked hard and conducted our annual elections in the Larry R.