Evelyn Cruz

The Clinical Legal Education Association exists to advocate for clinical legal education as fundamental to the education of lawyers. CLEA and its members seek to:

• foster excellent teaching and scholarship by clinical educators;
• integrate clinical teaching and extend its methods into the legal education program of every law school;
• reform legal education so as to prepare law students for excellent and reflective law practice;
• advance regulation of legal education that insures the continued vitality of clinical education in law schools; and
• pursue and promote justice and diversity as core values of the legal profession.

Cruz teaches Immigration Law and Comprehensive Law Practice, and she directs the College's Immigration Law & Policy Clinic, which represents unaccompanied minors in immigration removal proceedings and received the 2007 President's Medal for Social Embeddedness at ASU.