Our Mission

The purpose of Educating Tomorrow’s Lawyers is to encourage and facilitate innovation in legal education in order to train new lawyers to the highest standards of competence and professionalism.

The Challenge: Aligning Legal Education with the Needs of an Evolving Profession

Today's legal system requires well-rounded law school graduates who leave law school prepared for the profession. ETL is convening a group of innovative faculty and law schools committed to graduating practice-ready lawyers by challenging traditional legal education and creating new models for success.

The Process: Advancing Legal Education Through Experimentation and Shared Innovation

Using the 2007 Carnegie Foundation report as a starting point, ETL will build upon recent efforts to develop a national consortium of institutions and an innovative community of faculty committed to implementing wider and more integrated approaches to legal education. By offering a structured, committed, and highly collaborative approach, combined with dedicated staff and resources and a mission focused on best practice analysis of legal education, ETL is taking years of advances in legal education learning theory and creating an innovative, robust and accessible foundation for ongoing inquiry, exploration and measurement in legal education.

The Outcomes: Leveraging Analysis to Advance Change

ETL will support innovative schools and faculty by providing resources for assessing law teaching models and conducting ongoing measurement of outcomes.