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An Empirical Analysis Of Clinical Legal Education At Middle Age, Robert R. Kuehn Jan 2023

An Empirical Analysis Of Clinical Legal Education At Middle Age, Robert R. Kuehn

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This article provides the first comprehensive empirical analysis of clinical legal education’s development and growth over the past fifty years. By analyzing dozens of surveys and reports on aspects of clinical legal education, including unique data developed by the authors, and comparing the results over time, this article presents a factual picture of clinical legal education’s progression from early adulthood to today’s middle age.

This article seeks to inform the present and help legal educators shape the future role of law clinic and field placement courses in the preparation of law students for the practice of law. It provides an …


A Study Of The Relationship Between Law School Coursework And Bar Exam Outcomes, Robert R. Kuehn Jan 2019

A Study Of The Relationship Between Law School Coursework And Bar Exam Outcomes, Robert R. Kuehn

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The recent decline in bar exam passage rates has triggered speculation that the decline is being driven by law students taking more experiential courses and fewer bar-subject courses. These concerns arose in the absence of any empirical study linking certain coursework to bar exam failure.

This article addresses speculation about the relationship between law school coursework and bar exam outcomes. It reports the results of a large-scale study of the courses of over 3800 graduates from two law schools and the relationship between their experiential and bar-subject coursework and bar exam outcomes over a ten-year period. At both schools, the …