Building on Best Practices is a follow-up to Best Practices for Legal Education, a project of the Clinical Legal Education Association (CLEA), authored primarily by Roy Stuckey. With contributions from more than 50 legal educators, this new volume is not a second edition, but is intended to be used in conjunction with the original volume, as the core content of Best Practices remains just as useful as when it was originally published. In the wake of new ABA Accreditation Standards, the MacCrate Report, and other changes, legal education is called upon today to respond to a broader view of what lawyers must be trained to do. Building on Best Practices identifies ten such areas and provides guidance on what and how to teach them. The demand to teach a broader range of knowledge, skills, and values presents difficult trade-offs, however, that are also considered.
Deborah Maranville is an Emeriti Professor of Law and Director of the Unemployment Compensation Clinic at the University of Washington School of Law.
Lisa Bliss is an Associate Clinical Professor, Director of Experiential Education, and Co-Director of HeLP Legal Services Clinic at Georgia State University College of Law.
Carolyn Wilkes Kaas is an Associate Professor of Law, Co-Director of the Center on Dispute Resolution, and Director of the Legal Clinic at Quinnipiac University School of Law.
Antoinette Sedillo Lopez is an Emerita Professor of Law at the University of New Mexico School of Law.