Immigration Professors at Clinical Law Review Writers’ Workshop

This weekend, the Clinical Law Review — a peer-edited journal devoted to issues of lawyering and clinical legal education — held its annual Writers’ Workshop at NYU School of Law. The purpose of the Writers’ Workshop is to provide an opportunity for clinical teachers who are writing in any subject to meet with other clinical law teachers to discuss their works-in-progress and receive constructive feedback on how to further develop their articles.  Attendees meet in small groups organized by subject matter, which are generally facilitated by one or two past or present members of the Board of Editors for the Clinical Law Review.  NYU Law School also provides scholarships to a number of participants, designed to allow clinical faculty who receive little or no travel support from their law schools to participate in the Workshop.

This year (like prior years) included a strong showing of immigration scholars. Richard Boswell and I co-facilitated an immigration group consisting of drafts written by David Baluarte, Caitlin Barry, Jason Cade, Carrie Rosenbaum, and Phil Torrey (all pictured above). Muneer Ahmad and Sameer Ashar facilitated groups on immigration and clinic design/experiential education, respectively, and other participants of the Workshop included Sarah Sherman-Stokes, Debbie Gonzalez, Bernie Perlmutter, Pooja Dadhania, and Christine Cimini.

I highly recommend this Workshop for clinical law teachers (including fellows and non-tenure track clinicians) looking to receive scholarship feedback in a supportive environment.  The Workshops typically take place in late September at NYU.

-JKoh