University of Maryland Clinical Program to Host 35th Anniversary Conference

The Clinical Law Program at the University of Maryland School of Law will present their 35th Anniversary Conference entitled Curriculum Reform: Linking Theory and Practice on Friday, March 6, 2009.

The program will continue the cycle of best practices discussions that have occurred across the country in response to the recently published Best Practices for Legal Education and the Carnegie Foundation Report, Educating Lawyers. The conference will focus on efforts of curricular reform, highlighting innovative programs in legal education that were implemented in response to these publications or otherwise fulfill their spirit, and discuss the centrality of clinical legal education to curricular innovation and reform.

Confirmed panelists include:

· Bryan Adamson, Seattle University School of Law

· Susan Bryant, CUNY School of Law

· Jon Dubin, Rutgers University School of Law

· Peter Joy, Washington University School of Law

· Dean Lisa Kloppenberg, University of Dayton School of Law

· Larry Marshall, Stanford Law School

· Todd Rakoff, Harvard Law School

· Dean Karen Rothenberg, University of Maryland School of Law

· Dean Rodney Smolla, Washington and Lee University School of Law

· Antoinette Sedillo Lopez, University of New Mexico School of Law

For more information and to register, click here. -jl