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26 Clinical L. Rev. 147 (2019-2020)
The Clinical Law Review at 25 - What Have We Wrought

handle is hein.journals/clinic26 and id is 155 raw text is: THE CLINICAL LAW REVIEW AT 25- WHAT HATH WE WROUGHT? ROBERT D. DINERSTEIN* INTRODUCTION 1992 seems like a lifetime ago. I was in my tenth year as a clinical teacher at American, and in my second year as a tenured law profes- sor. My children were seven and five years old, respectively. (They are now both married and parents of infants.) The sports teams I fol- lowed most closely (and still do), the Yankees in baseball and the Gi- ants in football, were both having down years.' The Americans with Disabilities Act, a landmark statute of great importance in disability rights, my substantive field of interest, had been enacted only two years earlier. To be sure, the political campaign generated a fair bit of excitement, as the three-way race between George H.W. Bush, H. Ross Perot, and Bill Clinton was in full swing, though from today's overheated political perspective that campaign seems almost quaint by comparison. My most important professional activity in 1992 was my service as chair of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Section on Clinical Legal Education. In September 1992, I wrote a Message from the Chair for the Section's newsletter on clinical legal scholarship and the fast-developing plans to establish a peer-edited law journal dedi- cated to its publication.2 Mine was not the first Message from the Chair to address clinical legal scholarship-Gary Palm's Message in a 1986 Section Newsletter was entitled Scholarship and Clinical Educa- * Professor of Law and Director, Disability Rights Law Clinic, American University Washington College of Law (WCL). The author thanks Sahar Takshi, WCL Class of 2020, for her excellent research assistance in connection with this essay. With apologies to Samuel F.B. Morse and the Book of Numbers, 23:23, the phrase is in the title is a take-off from What Hath God Wrought, the words from the Bible transmit- ted as the first Morse Code message on May 24, 1844. 1 The Yankees record that year was 76-86. The Giants would finish 6-10. The Yankees' 1992 losing season was its fourth straight; starting the following year, 1993, the Yankees have not had any losing seasons. See http://newyork.yankees.mlb.com/nyy/history/year-by yearjresults.jsp. The Giants have been less successful in this time period, but have ap- peared in three Super Bowls, winning two of them. See https://www.pro-football-reference. com/teams/nyglindex.htm. 2 Bob Dinerstein, Message from the Chair, SECT. ON CLUN. LEGAL EDUC. NEWSLET- TER, Ass'N AM. L. SCHS. 3 (Vol. 92, No. 2, Sept. 1992) (Dinerstein, Message from the Chair). 147

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