Promotion Standards



As part of its Survey, CSALE asked participants to submit their promotion and retention standards for applied legal educators. Law schools considering changes to their standards typically find such examples extremely helpful. Below are the schools that have, thus far, submitted their standards. They are divided into three groups: Schools with Tenure or Clinical Tenure Track clinicians; schools with clincians working under a contract; and schools with standards that cover both clinicians on tenure/clininical tenure track and contract. Simply click on the school's name to download their standards in pdf format (the last part of each file name indicates the month and year that the standards were submitted to CSALE). If you would like to add your school's standards to the list, simply attach them to an email to administrator@csale.org.

Tenure Track/Clinical Tenure Track:

Arizona State University|

Georgetown University |

Golden Gate University |

St. Thomas School of Law |

Vermont Law School

Clinical Contract

Indiana University -Bloomington |

New England School of Law |

Notre Dame |

St. John's University |

University of California - Berkeley |

University of Conneticut |

University of Colorado |

University of Houston |

University of Iowa |

University of Michigan |

University of Wisconsin |

Wayne State University

Tenure Track / Clinical Tenure Track and Clinical Contract

Suffolk University

University of Minnesota

University of Tulsa



2007-08 Survey Report Overview


This report tabulates the results of the 2007-08 Center for the Study of Applied Legal Education (CSALE) Survey of Applied Legal Education. The results provide valuable insight into the state and nature of applied legal education in areas including program design and structure, pedagogical techniques and practices, common program challenges, and the treatment of applied legal educators in the legal academy. And because the Survey will be repeated every three years, the results reported herein provide the "baseline" for examining the growth and development of applied legal education going forward. The report can be downloaded using the link to your left.


The Survey was composed of two distinct parts. A single Master Survey was directed to each of the 188 ABA fully-accredited U.S. law schools, 145 (77%) of which responded. Each school was, in turn, asked to distribute the Staffing Sub-Survey to every applied legal educator teaching there. Three-hundred and fifty-seven applied legal educators at 70 law schools responded. You can download the Master Survey here and the Staffing Sub-Survey here.