Clinical Legal Education
Our clinics offer diverse and sophisticated practice opportunities to second- and third-year students working closely with skilled supervising attorneys. Clinical courses provide students with an understanding of the essential relationship between thinking about legal problems and dealing with client problems. Rather than focusing on routine legal services, our clinical offerings involve complex matters in which creativity and innovation play key roles in effectively serving clients.
Read "Pioneering law clinic helps create affordable housing."
Our clinics include:
* Affordable Housing Clinic
* Community Economic Development Clinic
* Environment and Development Clinic
* Environmental Policy Clinic
* Law and Social Work Clinic
* Mediation Clinic
* William and Mary Foster Elder Law Clinic
* Women, Children and Social Justice Clinic
See also:
Externships and Judicial Clerkships
More information:
* Clinical Legal Education Brochure (pdf)
* Clinic Podcasts - involving members of clinic faculty and visiting speakers.
Clinical Legal Education Administration:
Anthony H. Szczygiel, Co-Director |
Suzanne E. Tomkins, Co-Director |
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Staff: |
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Affordable Housing Clinic
Students work with faculty and other experts to represent nonprofit developers of affordable housing and to assist in financing the creation of low-income and special-needs housing. UB Law students have leveraged over $165 million since 1987 funding 2,000 units of affordable housing in Western New York for low-income families, the elderly, targets of domestic violence, and people with disabilities. [more...]George M. Hezel, Director |
Thomas Disare |
Sam Magavern |
Community Economic Development Clinic
In this clinic, students counsel community organizations and enterprises, not-for-profit corporations, worker-owned businesses, labor unions, and government agencies in a wide array of transactional matters. [more...]Lauren E. Breen, Director |
Aaron Bartley |
Environment and Development Clinic
Students in this clinic work on projects addressing issues in the area of environment and development on behalf of local governments and/or community groups. Most recently the clinic undertook an analysis of legal and policy questions related to developing offshore wind farms in the Great Lakes. [more...]Robert S. Berger, Director |
Environmental Policy Clinic
The Clinic focuses on environmental policy issues that have direct impact upon the Western New York community – especially the proliferation of hazardous waste and solid waste landfills and formerly used and heavily polluted defense sites located within the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation's Region 9 (comprised of Niagara, Erie, Wyoming, Chautauqua, Cattaraugus and Allegany Counties).
Nils Olsen, Director
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Law and Social Work Clinic
Students enrolled in the JD/MSW dual degree program work in legal service agencies, social service agencies, prosecutor offices, or in the therapeutic courts consistent with their concentration in the Masters of Social Work Program. Students are also enrolled in the JD/MSW Colloquium to discuss issues and concerns of being a dual professional. [more...]
Melinda R. Saran, Director |
Mediation Clinic
Working on cases referred by local courts or other mediation agencies, students help resolve disputes in family law, small claims, and the community. They learn about the dynamics of conflict, the theory and practice of negotiation, and the practical aspects of conducting an effective mediation proceeding. [more...]
Steven Sugarman, Director |
William and Mary Foster Elder Law Clinic
Students work in areas relevant to medical care in the context of cases dealing with health-law issues faced by the elderly. [more...]
Anthony H. Szczygiel, Director |
Women, Children and Social Justice Clinic (formerly the Family Violence Clinic)
Students work in legal service agencies, social service agencies, prosecutor offices, or legislative offices and participate in a range of legal counseling, advocacy, and research to address the problems of family violence. [more...]
Suzanne E. Tomkins, Director |
Catherine Cerulli, Director of Research |
Remla Parthasarathy |
Kathryn Rebhan |