Washington University Law Review

Article Title

Clinical Programs That Allow Both Compensation and Credit: A Model Program for Law Schools

Authors

Roy D. Simon Jr., Washington University School of Law
Tom Leahy, Loyola University School of Law

Publication Title

Washington University Law Quarterly

Abstract

In this Article, the authors set out the arguments for and against "credit-plus-pay" clinical programs, categorizing the arguments on both sides as either educational arguments or economic arguments. The authors then develop a model credit-plus-pay program. The authors begin with two fundamental premises. First, every law school should be free to design a curriculum that is best suited to serve its own students and produce competent lawyers. Second, each program offered by a law school should be evaluated on its own educational merits, not on the basis of a rigid litmus test such as compensation.

Recommended Citation

Roy D. Simon Jr. and Tom Leahy, Clinical Programs That Allow Both Compensation and Credit: A Model Program for Law Schools, 61 Wash. U. L. Q. 1015 (1984).
Available at: https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/law_lawreview/vol61/iss4/4