Professor Stephanie Blondell Presents "Minding the Gaps: Ideas for Building Collaborative Capacity in the Face of Federal Institutional Deterioration" -- AALS 2026 Conference on Clinical Legal Education

Professor Stephanie Blondell presented "Minding the Gaps: Ideas for Building Collaborative Capacity in the Face of Federal Institutional Deterioration" at the Association of American Law Schools 2026 Conference on Clinical Legal Education on May 7. The conference was held on May 1-5 in Portland, Oregon.

From the 2026 Conference on Clinical Legal Education:

The session is designed for experiential faculty and facilitated by conflict resolution experts. Its primary goal is to inspire educators to address the gaps created by the deterioration of federal institutions (such as the Department of Justice Community Relations Service) by using clinical and experiential courses to teach micro-skills that empower students to maintain democratic norms. In addition the collaborative team of clinicians and deans each presented clinic adaptations based on decreasing federal sector agency services. Along with Professor Stephanie Blondell, Director of the Pepperdine Mediation Clinic, the following presented: Bill Froehlich (The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law), Toby Treem Guerin (Maryland Carey Law), Gail Silverstein (UC Law San Francisco) & Robyn Weinstein (Cardozo Law).