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The Clinic Lab Office, Jeffrey Selbin, Jeanne Charn
The Clinic Lab Office, Jeffrey Selbin, Jeanne Charn
Jeffrey Selbin
This essay describes the potential for law school clinics to serve as sites of empirical research to answer pressing questions about delivery of legal services in low-income communities. With others, we have noted the research imperative in legal services, made the case for infrastructure to support such research, and advocated renewed ties between law school clinics and legal services programs. For reasons set forth in the paper, now is an opportune time for clinics to contribute to a growing civil justice research agenda. We call this opportunity the “Clinic Lab Office.”
In Part I, we map the common origins and …