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How Much Clinic For How Many Students?: Examining The Decision To Offer Clinics For One Semester Or A Full Academic Year, Kele Stewart

Kele Stewart

Calls for legal reform, most notably the Carnegie Report, create an imperative that law schools provide more clinical opportunities to law students. In a world with limited resources, this potentially creates a tension between providing a clinical opportunity to all (or most) students versus providing a deeper clinical experience to those who take clinics to increase the likelihood that they are competent to practice upon graduation. While clinical scholars recognize that the decision to offer a clinic for one semester or the full academic year is an important consideration in clinic design, there has been little analysis of how this …