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65 Vill. L. Rev. 713 (2020)
Assessing the Experiential (R)Evolution

handle is hein.journals/vllalr65 and id is 743 raw text is: VILLANOVA LAW REVIEW VOLUME 65 2020 NUMBER 4 Articles ASSESSING THE EXPERIENTIAL (R)EVOLUTION ALLISON KORN* & LAILA L. HLASS** ABSTRACT For more than a century, law schools have resisted substantial reforms relating to experiential education. Yet, in 2014, the ABA mandated a six- credit experiential course graduation requirement for law schools, along- side a packet of experiential curriculum amendments. Proponents of ex- periential education had hoped for a fifteen-credit mandate, aligning law schools with other professional schools that require one-quarter to one- third skills training. Still, six credits is significant, potentially marking a striking shift in the direction of legal education. To date, no one-includ- ing the ABA-has broadly evaluated the post-mandate legal education ex- periential landscape. It is particularly urgent to consider recent shifts in legal education as law schools grapple with new paths forward in the back- drop of a global pandemic and calls to meaningfully address systemic ra- cism in legal education. In 2018-2019, the first classes of law students graduated under the revised ABA Standards, and the authors conducted a national survey of ABA-accredited law schools, receiving responses from 126 institutions. Data collected from this survey informed our study, which is the first sys- tematic, empirical investigation into the experiential landscape shift since the revised Standards were adopted. Our analysis reveals a proliferation of deans and directors of experiential education, continued growth in expe- riential curricula, including among experiential courses in the first-year curriculum, and experimentation with new pedagogical approaches. Hy- brid experiential courses termed labs and practicums have expanded * Assistant Dean for Experiential Education, UCLA Law School. ** Professor of Practice and Director of Experiential Learning, Tulane University School of Law. Thanks to Anna Carpenter, Christine Cerneglia, Phyllis Goldfarb, Robert Kuehn, Lindsay M. Harris, Margaret Johnson, and participants of the 2019 NYU Clinical Writers' Workshop and the 2019 Southern Clinical Conference Works in Progress session for feedback and encouragement. We are especially grateful for the work of our brilliant and ever-diligent research assistant, Trinidad Reyes. (713)

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