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The Clinical Experience: A Case Analysis
Solomon, Robert
Solomon, Robert
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In trying to combine the best possible educational experience for the student with the highest quality legal services to the client, the clinician has one foot in each of two very different worlds. At one extreme, practitioners view academics as ivory tower thinkers with no sense of the real world. At the other extreme, academics view practitioners as trades-people, moving cases to conclusion without any examination of either the public policy behind the law or its theoretical underpinning. The chasm can be large. This is the story of how Yale Law School's Homelessness Clinic dealt with that problem and the educational theory behind the clinic's legal work.