CLE Fellow Positions

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CLE fellow positions are often created to provide administrative and teaching support for clinic programs by augmenting the work of the established clinical faculty and by providing relief to clinical faculty engaged in other responsibilities. Increasingly, clinical programs are designing these positions to provide training for those wishing to become clinical faculty members.

By their nature, clinical fellowships are short-term (2 year) terminal contracts designed to provide the fellow with clinical teaching experience, the opportunity to reflect on these experiences, and possibly the prospect of being better positioned in the law school teaching market. Fellowships contracts can enable clinical programs to expand into new areas or take on limited projects on grant funding. Such experimental and limited duration projects can provide valuable service to a community, open up clinic slots to additional students, and strengthen and enliven a clinical program to build a solid foundation of clinical faculty members. Providing a thoughtfully developed training ground for new clinical faculty who are making the transition from practice to clinical teaching is even more important. Clinical fellowships can allow opportunities for mentorship in clinical teaching and provide entry-level candidates with the time and intellectual space to craft a scholarly agenda that is tied to and symbiotic with clinical teaching and service.

BABSEA CLE findings have also revealed the institutions believe the work of the CLE fellow/s enhances the institutional development of the program and the students.

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