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Tel: 215.898.8427
Fax: 215.573.6783
Email: alerner@law.upenn.edu
Expertise
- Child Welfare Law
- Civil Rights Law
- Employment Law
- Litigation
- Professional Responsibility
Bio
Alan Lerner has been leading the Interdisciplinary Child Advocacy Clinic since 2002, teaching students in law, social work, and medicine to represent the interests of children in child maltreatment, disability, medical assistance, and special education cases.
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Alan Lerner has been leading the Interdisciplinary Child Advocacy Clinic since 2002, teaching students in law, social work, and medicine to represent the interests of children in child maltreatment, disability, medical assistance, and special education cases. He co-teaches with a pediatrician from Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and a certified social work supervisor active in child welfare matters.
In 2007, Lerner was named a Bellow Scholar by the Committee on Lawyering in the Public Interest of the Association of American Law Schools for his research project, “Identifying the Red Flags of Child Neglect to Facilitate Evidence-Based Focused Responses.” He reported on the preliminary results of that research at the annual meeting of the AALS Clinical Education Section in May 2008. Lerner has been invited to conduct workshops and give presentations about clinical teaching theory and methods both in the United States and abroad, in such countries as Argentina, China, Great Britain, Poland, Turkey, and Viet Nam.
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Representative Professional Positions
Penn Law - Practice Professor (1993- )
Law Clerk to the Hon. A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., U.S. District Court (1966-68)
Partner - Cohen, Shapiro, Polisher, Shiekman and Cohen (1968-93)
Faculty Co-Director - Center for Children’s Policy Practice and Research, University of Pennsylvania (2003- )
Representative Publications
Teaching Law And Educating Lawyers: Closing The Gap Through Multidisciplinary Experiential Learning, INT’L J. CLINICAL LEGAL EDUC. 96 (2006) (with Erin Talati).
Clinicians In The Courtroom: What Every Clinician Needs to Know About Testifying In Court (with Dr. Cindy Christian and Mimi Rose) Organized and chaired a workshop, sponsored by The Field Center for Children’s Policy, Practice, and Research, February 2005.
Using Our Brains: Reaching Our Students’ Hearts and Minds Through Their Limbic System, Presentation at the Global Alliance for Justice Education, Third International Conference, Krakow, Poland, July 2004.
Using Our Brains: What Cognitive Science Teaches About Teaching Our Students to be Ethical, Professional Lawyers, 23 QUINNIPIAC. L. REV. 643 (2004).
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Panel Member, Building Better Lawyers: Innovative Approaches to Teaching Judgment and Problem Solving. American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA., August 1999.
Moderator, Education for Children In Foster Care, Fifty Years After Brown v. Board of Education, Field Center Public Forum, April 2004.
Small Group Leader, New Clinicians Conference, Clinical Legal Education Association, Lake Tahoe, CA., May 1999.
Law & Lawyering In The Workplace: Building Better Lawyers By Teaching Students to Exercise Critical Judgment as Creative Problem Solvers, 32 AKRON L. REV. 107 (1999).
Moderator, Emerging Legal Issues in Child Welfare, Field Center Public Forum, December 2003.
LEGAL INTERVIEWING and LEGAL INTERVIEWING: A VIDEO WORKSHOP (Teaching Video and 110 page manual, with Dr. Angie Hermann), National Institute for Trial Advocacy, Notre Dame, Ind., 1999.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Journey of a Dreamer and Activist, Presentation, Medford Leas Retirement Community, January 2004.
Round Table Participant, Developing Problem-Solving Skills For Lawyers: Rethinking the Role of Law School Education. United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., April 1999.
Recent Developments in the Law Affecting Evidence Issues in Employment Discrimination Litigation, First Annual Employment Law Institute, Pennsylvania Bar Institute (1995).
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Current & Recent Research
Representative Professional Activities
Prepared a report for the Dependency Court, Court Improvement Project to submit to the newly appointed Administrative Judge of the Court regarding the efficacy of pre-hearing conferences in dependency proceedings, May 2006.
Why the Silk Road to Globalized Legal Education Runs Through the Limbic System, presented to the International Consortium on Legal Education, Second Annual Conference, Istanbul, Turkey, July 2005.
Kids In Care: Where We Are and Where We Need to Go. (with Anne Marie Ambrose, Dr. Gillian Blair, Angel Flores, Esquire, and Marcia Levick, Esquire) Organized and moderated panel discussion for The Field Center for Children’s Policy, Practice, and Res
Organized a committee of lawyers representing all of the constituencies in the Philadelphia Child, Welfare System to work together to analyze and comment upon proposed state-wide rules of procedure for Dependency Court, fall 2005.
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Education
- LL.B. - University of Pennsylvania - '65
- B.S. - University of Pennsylvania - '62
Courses Taught
- Interdisciplinary Child Advocacy Clinic
- Civil Practice Clinic
- Advanced Civil Practice Clinic
- Law & Lawyering in the Workplace
- Employment Discrimination Law
Research Areas
- Lawyering and Clinical Supervision (including Professional Responsibility)
- Child Advocacy
- Child Welfare Law
- Employment Discrimination Law
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