The Continuing Work of the Bellow Scholars

In November 2010, the University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law hosted the fourth Bellow Scholar Workshop and subsequently published the work of two Bellow Scholars in Volume 16 of the UDC Law Review.1 I was privileged to contribute a foreword to Volume 16 in which I commented on thelegacy of my late husband, Gary Bellow, and offered a brief narrative of the origins of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Clinical Section\u27s Bellow Scholar program.2 Most of the earliest Bellow Scholars had worked with Gary or had taken his courses. We understood that we could best honor his legacy by building a capacityfor rigorous analysis and investigation, carried out in a community of activists willing to learn from each other and from other disciplines. 3Our goal was to better understand and address significant problems in the lives of low- and moderate-income people.4 We expected that we would also critically examine both the content and methods of our teaching and the learning goals we pursued in our clinics

Attendee Discussion: How Should Legal Educators and Law Schools Respond to These Changes?

Michael Kelly. The Gaping Hole in American Legal Education. Major changes that have occurred in law during the last three decades (such as intense competition and phenomenal increases in compensation in the private sector, and consolidation in law practices of all kinds) have been driven by tightly managed and strongly focused practice organizations. But understanding how organizations function is not part of law school curricula or pedagogy or the agenda of those who would reform legal education. Equipping law students for a career in law in the 21st Century now requires understanding organizations, whether lawyers represent them, oppose them or work within them. And legal ethics teaching in law school--focused on the rules and principles applicable to all lawyers in a unitary profession--needs extension to the ethical realities of organizations that are now fundamental to a highly differentiated and segmented profession