Foundations of Clinical Legal Education the full curriculum.
A ten-module foundation programme that takes learners from the philosophy of clinical legal education through intake, supervision, ethics, advocacy and clinic evaluation — every module paired with practice inside the Digital Clinical Practice Environment™.
Ten modules, one clinical practitioner.
1 of 10 modules are open now; the remainder are released progressively as cohorts open.
Introduction to Clinical Legal Education
CLE as a philosophy, method and professional practice: what makes learning clinical, how it differs from doctrinal teaching, delivery models and the stakeholder ecosystem.
- Define Clinical Legal Education and its defining characteristics
- Distinguish clinical from traditional doctrinal legal education
- Map the stakeholders in a clinical ecosystem
Experiential Learning Theory for Law Teachers
Kolb, Schön and Vygotsky applied to legal education: designing learning cycles, scaffolding, and turning experience into transferable professional judgment.
- Apply Kolb's cycle to a clinical activity
- Design scaffolding within a learner's zone of proximal development
- Write learning outcomes that are observable and assessable
Models of Law Clinics and Programme Design
In-house live-client clinics, externships, simulation clinics, street law, policy clinics and hybrid digital clinics — choosing a model that fits institutional capacity.
- Compare clinic models against resources and regulation
- Draft a clinic model proposal for your institution
- Identify sustainability and funding considerations
Client Interviewing and Fact Investigation
Structured interviewing, active listening, question funnels, cultural competence and building a reliable factual record from a first client meeting.
- Run a structured client interview end to end
- Elicit and verify material facts
- Record and communicate a factual chronology
Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility in Clinics
Confidentiality, conflicts, competence limits, student practice rules, and the supervising lawyer's continuing professional responsibility.
- Apply confidentiality and conflict rules in a clinic setting
- Recognise the boundaries of student practice
- Design an ethics protocol for a clinic file
Supervision, Feedback and Reflective Practice
Graduated supervision, feedback that changes behaviour, reflective journals, and supervising remotely across time zones and jurisdictions.
- Deliver specific, timely, developmental feedback
- Design a graduated supervision plan
- Assess the quality of a student reflection
Case Management, Intake and Clinic Operations
Intake criteria, triage, file opening and closing, record-keeping, data protection and the operational discipline that keeps a clinic safe.
- Build an intake and triage protocol
- Operate a compliant case-management workflow
- Apply data-protection duties to client files
Advocacy, Drafting and Client Communication
Advice letters, pleadings and submissions, plain-language client communication, and oral advocacy fundamentals in tribunal and court settings.
- Draft a client advice letter in plain language
- Prepare and deliver a short oral submission
- Structure written advocacy around the issue in dispute
Access to Justice, Social Justice and Community Engagement
The justice mission of clinical education: unmet legal need, street law and community legal literacy, partnerships with NGOs and public interest litigation.
- Assess unmet legal need in a community
- Design a community legal education intervention
- Evaluate the justice impact of clinic work
Assessment, Evaluation and Clinic Impact
Assessing clinical competence fairly, rubrics and competency frameworks, programme evaluation, and reporting impact to faculty, funders and regulators.
- Build a competency-based assessment rubric
- Evaluate a clinical programme against stated outcomes
- Report clinic impact credibly to stakeholders
Begin with Module 1 today.
Self-paced lessons, a scenario challenge, an AI practice exercise and a reflection journal — no cohort wait.