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Abstract

On March 5-8, 1998, in celebration of the centenary of The Catholic University of America's Columbus School of Law, the law school sponsored a conference on legal education devoted entirely to legal externships. The conference, entitled "Developments in Legal Externship Pedagogy," brought together over 170 participants, including more than 40 speakers, who represented over 100 different law schools. Some of the papers presented at the conference appear in this issue of the Clinical Law Review; others will appear in the next issue; and still others have been or will be published in other journals. In recent years there has been a significant increase in interest in legal externships as an element of the law school curriculum. The increase in the numbers and types of externship programs has attracted the attention of the accreditation committee of the ABA Council on Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar but, with a few significant exceptions, only limited scholarly and other public attention by legal educators. The conference was conceived as a step toward bringing together law teachers engaged in designing, managing, and evaluating externships to share current knowledge, to build on that knowledge and, ultimately, to create better models for legal externship programs.

Publication Title

Clinical Law Review

Volume

5

Issue

2

First Page

337

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