The 2025 AALS Conference on Clinical Legal Education will take place from Saturday April 26 through Tuesday, April 29, 2025, at the Marriott Baltimore Waterfront Hotel. The biennial Clinical and Experiential Law Program Directors Workshop will take place on Saturday, April 26, from 8:45 am to 3:15 pm, followed by a conference Opening Reception with Poster Presentations that evening. The main conference will begin on Sunday April 27, at 8:45 am The conference programming concludes on Tuesday, April 29, at 4:15 pm.
The 2025 conference will provide various opportunities to exchange concrete ideas as well as space and time to connect with colleagues in a less structured format. The conference program begins with a keynote session to frame the gathering and includes 60-minute concurrent sessions, 30-minute lightning round sessions, poster presentations, and workshops. As in past years, the conference program will include working group sessions, works-in-progress, and presentations from Bellows Scholars. Community gatherings will again be offered to support the continued desire of many of us to make the most of the opportunity to reconnect with friends and colleagues. These community gatherings are meant to be informal times for connection, fun, and community building without a formal program or agenda. We encourage people to use these scheduled opportunities to catch up with old friends and colleagues while making new connections with other clinicians.
Our community continues to grow, and conference session space is limited. We also want to maximize the opportunity for clinicians to collaborate. Thus, the Planning Committee prefers proposals that include three or more presenters. We encourage presenters to work together with others and consider using the discussion list or other means to form groups that can create cohesive, coordinated “power proposals” that may include more people. We encourage proposals that combine ideas and presenters from multiple clinical perspectives such as externship, in-house, and hybrid clinics or other clinical formats.