The AALS Clinical Conference begins today (May 1) in Portland, Oregon. https://clinical.aals.org/. A topic on everyone’s mind will be how the dramatic shift in political winds in Washington has influenced faculty teaching in clinical progams throughout the U.S. Washington University Professor Robert Kuehn offers us a cogent analysis. You can find the abstract here. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6668559. Details are here

Kuehn, Robert R., The Effects of Political Interference on Law School Clinic Faculty (April 28, 2026). Clinical Legal Education Association Newsletter, Vol. 35, No. 2 (2026),