Empirical Research and Clinical Education « Best Practices for Legal Education. The following is an email sent over a law clinic listserve from Professor Amy Applegate, Clinical Professor of Law at Indiana University Maurer School of Law, and is reproduce here with her permission: Dear All: I was quite intrigued by this chain of e-mails, and am following up on Judith Welch Wagner’s suggestion about engaging in more in-depth, rigorous research, perhaps conducted by the Law School Survey of Student Engagement (LSSSE). I wanted to bring to everyone’s attention the attached article written by Carole Silver (and two others) here at Indiana University Maurer School of Law. Carole teaches one of the sections of our first year Legal Professions course and is the Director LSSSE. Carole is also presenting at the 2011 Conference on the Future of the Law School Curriculum in mid-June – she is a presenter on the Sunday Plenary about Forces from Outside the Academy.
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