ABSTRACT
This chapter traces the development of juvenile justice clinics and describes how the efforts of law faculty and students have helped to shape the face of juvenile courts and implement the promises of In re Gault. Between 1961 and 1974, the Court considered more than 100 cases in which litigants requested the application of various Bill of Rights protections in their state criminal cases. All of the "rights movements" that emerged from this era owe their genesis to the African American civil rights movement. The Council on Legal Education for Professional Responsibility (CLEPR) effort was led by William Pincus who directed millions of dollars to law schools that were willing to create clinical courses established according to the model Pincus espoused. The work of the early clinics also helped spur the development of clinics in other aspects of children's rights such as child abuse and neglect, immigration, and school disciplinary and special education work.
