Articles by Jim Greif

AALS welcomed more than 100 attendees to the AALS Workshop for New Law School Teachers from June 5-7 in Washington, DC.

Since 2002, the AALS Section on Clinical Legal Education has hosted the Bellow Scholars program to support empirical research of clinical law professors and improve access to justice. The program was founded to reflect the ideals of late Harvard Law professor Gary Bellow, one of the founders of clinical legal education who played a crucial […]

To keep law school faculty and staff up to date with the latest legal education news, we collect articles on new programs, collaborations with other schools, faculty accomplishments, awards, clinical activities, and special events. You can share news and updates with the editors of the weekly digest here. With the launch of our online platform LENS, we will be sharing a weekly roundup of legal education news, highlighting the most important stories.

North Carolina Central University School of Law was founded in 1939, to provide opportunities for African Americans to become lawyers. The NCCU School of Law’s mission is to provide high-quality, personalized, practice-oriented, and affordable legal education to historically underrepresented students from diverse backgrounds to help diversify the legal profession.

To keep law school faculty and staff up to date with the latest legal education news, we collect articles on new programs, collaborations with other schools, faculty accomplishments, awards, clinical activities, and special events. You can share news and updates with the editors of the weekly digest here. With the launch of our online platform LENS, we will be sharing a weekly roundup of legal education news, highlighting the most important stories.

Through an annual nationwide survey, the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) measured law school contributions to the delivery of much-needed legal services through clinics, other experiential courses, and the pro bono activities of law students.  In the fall of 2024, 82 law schools reported that 18,929 law students in the graduating class of 2024* contributed […]

More than 830 legal educators attended the largest AALS Conference on Clinical Legal Education, held April 26-29, 2025 in Baltimore.

The recently published issue (73-2) of the Journal of Legal Education includes articles in three areas that have long been the publication’s focus as the journal of record for legal education: pedagogical innovation, the design of legal education and curricula, and the connections between legal education, law practice, and licensure. This is the first issue edited jointly […]