Conversations with Clinicians
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In Spring 2022, the UDC Law Clinical Program launched Conversations with Clinicians, a series that brings leading experiential legal educators from across the country to the UDC Law community to discuss topics of interest to the clinical legal education community. Join us each semester for a new season as we dive into some of the most pressing issues facing our professional community.
Season 5 (Fall 2024)
In Season 5, Episode 1 of Conversations with Clinicians, UDC Law’s Immigration & Human Rights Clinic Co-Director Professor Anne Schaufele moderates an engaging conversation between Professor Jabeen Adawi of University of Pittsburgh School of Law and Roscoe Bright, LSW, MSW ’24 graduate, exploring clinic collaborations with Master of Social Work programs.
In Season 5, Episode 2 of Conversations with Clinicians, UDC Law’s Criminal Defense & Racial Justice Clinic Director Professor Quo Judkins moderates as Professor Susan McGraugh of Saint Louis University School of Law and Lauren Choate, Social Worker and Adjunct Instructor, discuss Navigating Conflicts and Professional Tensions and Strengthening Clinic and Social Work Collaborations.
Season 4 (Spring 2024)
In Season 4, Episode 1 of Conversations with Clinicians, UDC Law’s Immigration & Human Rights Clinic Co-Director Professor Jocelyn Cazares Willingham engages in conversation with Professor Faiza Syed of Brooklyn Law School, exploring the role of clinics as government watchdogs.
Season 3 (Spring 2023)
In Season 3, Episode 1 of Conversations with Clinicians, UDC Law Professor and Dean Emerita Shelley Broderick speaks with Professor Bridgett Ortega of Atlanta’s John Marshall Law School. Professors Ortega and Broderick discuss the importance of externships in legal education.
In Season 3, Episode 2 of Conversations with Clinicians, UDC Law’s General Practice Clinic Co-Director Professor Andy Budzinski chats with Professor Gautam Hans of Cornell Law School about creating pathways to clinical education.
In Season 3, Episode 3 of Conversations with Clinicians, UDC Law’s Tax Clinic Director Professor Sakinah Tillman chats with Professor Tameka Lester of Georgia State College of Law about sparking the “tax law tingle” in students.
In Season 3, Episode 4 of Conversations with Clinicians, UDC Law’s Community Development Law Clinic Director Professor Jerome Hughes chats with Professors Renee Hatcher and Carmen Huertas-Noble about their journeys to clinical education and cooperatives as a specific form of transactional and community development lawyering.
Season 2 (Fall 2022)
In Season 2, Episode 2 of Conversations with Clinicians, UDC Law Associate Dean of Experiential and Clinical Programs and Immigration & Human Rights Clinic Director Lindsay M. Harris speaks with Professor Ron Tyler, who runs the Criminal Defense Clinic at Stanford. Professors Tyler and Harris discuss burnout, secondary trauma and self-care in Clinic.
In Season 2, Episode 3 of Conversations with Clinicians (November 4, 2022), UDC Law’s Criminal Law Clinic Director Professor Ieshaah Murphy spoke with Georgetown Law’s Professor Kris Henning. Professor Henning is the Director of the Juvenile Justice Clinic and Initiative. Her book, The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth, was published in 2021. Professors Henning and Murphy talk about advocacy in clinic and beyond.
Season 1 (Spring 2022)
In Season 1, Episode 1 of Conversations with Clinicians (March 11, 2022), UDC Law former Dean Renée Hutchins talked to Co-Director of the Clinical Program at the University of Maryland Carey School of Law Michael Pinard about career trajectories for clinicians.
In Season 1, Episode 2 of Conversations with Clinicians (March 25, 2022), UDC Law Associate Dean of Experiential and Clinical Programs Lindsay M. Harris chatted with Professor and Associate Provost Laila Hlass of Tulane Law and Associate Dean of Experiential Education Allison Korn of UCLA Law about trends in experiential legal education discussed in their 2020 Villanova Law Review article, “Assessing the Experiential (R)Evolution.”