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J. Michael Norwood

Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and Professor of Law
Email: norwood@law.unm.edu

Professor Norwood centers his work in four general areas: clinical legal education, children's advocacy, technology law, and computer applications.

The primary focus of his clinical work is developing sustainable, community oriented law clinics. Professor Norwood's clinics bring a multidisciplinary approach to serving the unmet needs of underrepresented clients and groups. To this end, he has participated as principal investigator or consultant on numerous research grants that have supported this approach to clinical legal education. In his current clinical work he developed and teaches a child advocacy clinic that includes a multidisciplinary clinical component through a cooperative arrangement and strategic alliance with the pediatrics department at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine.

Computer technology became a focal point for Professor Norwood's work during his term of service, from 1983 to 1992, as the Director of Clinical Programs at the University of New Mexico School of Law. Computer technology continues to be central to his research and teaching. His interest in computer technology includes both computer applications used by legal professionals and the law that governs the use of computers, especially Internet law. His work in computer technology includes service as the inaugural research scholar at the Centre for Computer Technology and Law at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland. He is also a member of Board of Directors of the Center for Computer Aided Legal Instruction (CALI) and is a past president of CALI.

Terry Player

Professor of Law
Email: tplayer@sandiego.edu

Professor Theresa J. Player was a staff attorney with the Legal Aid Society of San Diego and a private practitioner before joining the clinical faculty in 1980. She served as director of USD’s Legal Clinic from 1984 to 1998. She teaches in the areas of trial practice, negotiation, interviewing/counseling and civil clinic. She has also participated extensively in the law school’s summer study abroad programs as onsite director in London, Paris, Dublin and Barcelona. Player is co-author of California Trial Techniques (Michie Press) and is involved in several projects concerning legal education and technology.

Robert Seibel

Professor of Law
Email: rseibel@cwsl.edu

Robert Seibel, co-Director of the Elder Law Clinic at CUNY School of Law, previously taught in the clinical program at Cornell Law School where he received an award for his volunteer and community efforts in Tompkins County. A graduate of Bowdoin College and Northeastern University School of Law, he is a past President and a founding member of the Board of Directors of the Clinical Legal Education Association (CLEA), and serves as webmaster for the organization's worldwide web site. He is also a past Chair of the AALS Section on Law and Computers.

Seibel has been a speaker and organizer of many clinical teaching conferences, and has also spoken at conferences and workshops of various Legal Aid organizations, the AALS Section on Computers and Law, the Section on Litigation, and he has taught negotiation techniques to the AALS section on Law Libraries. He is a former Board member of the Legal Aid Society and the Community Dispute Resolution Center. Prior to teaching, he practiced law at a large private law firm in Boston where he specialized in estate planning and administration. He has published articles based on his original empirical research about law school field placement programs and the demographics of clinical teachers.