Robert R. Kuehn
Associate Dean for Clinical Education, Professor of Law
Associate Dean and Professor Robert R. Kuehn oversees the school’s highly-regarded Clinical Education Program. He focuses his teaching on clinical legal education and professional responsibility and has published extensively on such topics as legal education, academic freedom, access to legal representation, environmental justice, environmental enforcement, and professional responsibility. Before becoming a law professor, he clerked for the Hon. James C. Hill, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, and the Hon. Sidney M. Aronovitz, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. He then practiced law in Washington, D.C. in the Environmental Enforcement Section of the Environment and Natural Resources Division at the U.S. Department of Justice.
- Education
- B.A., Duke University, 1974
- J.D., George Washington University, 1981
- LL.M., Columbia University, 1983
- M.P.H., Harvard University, 1995
- Courses
- Legal Profession
- Judicial Clerkship Externship
- New York Regulatory and Business Externship
- Areas of Expertise
- Clinical Legal Education
- Professional Responsibility
- Publications
- “A Study of the Relationship Between Law School Coursework and Bar Exam Outcomes,” 68 Journal of Legal Education (forthcoming 2019)
- “Addressing Bias in Administrative Environmental Decisions,” 37 Journal of National Association of Administrative Law Judiciary 693 (2017)
- The 2016-17 Survey of Applied Legal Education (co-author), Center for the Study of Applied Legal Education (2017)
- “Universal Clinical Legal Education: Necessary and Feasible,” 51 Washington University Journal of Law & Policy 89 (2017)
- “Measuring Clinical Legal Education’s Employment Outcomes,” 2015 Wisconsin Law Review 645
- “Pricing Clinical Legal Education,” 92 Denver University Law Review 1 (2014)
- Activity and Affiliations
- Vice President, Center for the Study of Applied Legal Education (CSALE)
- Past President, Clinical Legal Education Association
- Honors and Awards
- William Pincus Award, Association of American Law Schools
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