Gordon elected to AALS Clinical Section Executive Committee
Clinical Professor Anne Gordon, who directs Duke Law School's Externship Program, will serve a three-year term on the committee.
Clinical Professor Anne D. Gordon
Clinical Professor Anne Gordon was elected to the Executive Committee for the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Section on Clinical Legal Education at the organization’s annual meeting earlier this month. One of three members, Gordon will serve a three-year term.
According to the AALS website, Executive Committee members “support the work of the many committees in the section, provide support to regional and topic-specific conferences and events, coordinate programming central to the section’s mission, and work collaboratively with the section to advance the goals and priorities of clinical legal education.” The section’s goals include supporting the clinical community in efforts to advance racial justice.
Gordon is director of Duke Law’s Externship Program, in which students earn academic credit while working in a government or nonprofit setting, including the Duke in D.C. and Federal Public Defender’s Office integrated externships. She also teaches Social Justice Lawyering and Movement Lawyering Lab: Law for Black Lives.
Before joining Duke Law, Gordon taught at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, where she helped lead the Appellate Advocacy Program and served as a senior research fellow at the California Constitution Center. She spent the 2015-2016 academic year as a distinguished visiting professor at Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey in Puebla, Mexico, teaching professional skills and comparative constitutional law.