Professor Lynch and Professor Louis Named to National Clinical Legal Education Board

Professor Mary Lynch was recently elected co-vice president of the Clinical Legal Education Association (CLEA) Board of Directors. Professor Benjie Louis was also elected as an officer of the board.

CLEA advocates for clinical legal education as fundamental to the education of lawyers. CLEA and its members seek to:

 Foster excellent teaching and scholarship by clinical educators

 Integrate clinical teaching and extend its methods into the legal education program of every law school

 Reform legal education so as to prepare law students for excellent and reflective law practice

 Advance regulation of legal education that insures the continued vitality of clinical education in law schools

 Pursue and promote justice and diversity as core values of the legal profession