The Center for the Study of Applied Legal Education is a non-profit corporation dedicated to the empirical study of applied legal education and the promotion of related scholarship.

CSALE’s initial focus is a long-term longitudinal study that captures significant aspects of the growth and development of applied legal education, its diverse substantive foci, its methodologies, its instructors, and its integration into the American legal academy. 

The study is conducted with a multi-layered survey issued every three years. The first iteration of the survey was completed in the Spring of 2008.  A report summarizing the results and access to some of the raw data is now available by clicking "Survey Results" on the navigation bar to the left.

CSALE's work is supported by the AALS Section on Clinical Legal Education, the Clinical Legal Education Association, the University of Michigan Law School, and through the generosity of people like you.  To learn more about CSALE, its study and the need it fills, please use the navigation bar.  To support CSALE's work click here.