Professor Tanya Asim Cooper Elected to Clinical Legal Education Association Position and Executive Committee

Professor Tanya Asim Cooper has been elected to the office of secretary of the Clinical Legal Education Association (CLEA) and a member of the Executive Committee for a three-year term starting July 1, 2024. CLEA is the largest independent organization of law professors in the country. CLEA advocates for clinical legal education as fundamental to a lawyer's education.

Professor Cooper is a clinical professor of law and director of the Restoration and Justice Clinic at Pepperdine Caruso Law. The Pepperdine University Rick J. Caruso School of Law has been ranked #52 in the country in the U.S. News & World Report 2024-2025 Best Law School rankings of law schools accredited by the American Bar Association and #23 in Clinical Training. National Jurist Magazine has ranked Caruso Law's clinical program #9 in the nation and #1 in California for practical training.