Robert R. Kuehn
Professor of Law
Office
Anheuser-Busch Hall
Room 591
Faculty Links
Featured Scholarship
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Peter A. Joy & Robert R. Kuehn, An Anthology of Interference in Law School Clinics (2025).
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Robert R. Kuehn & Peter A. Joy, Measuring the Impacts of Experiential Legal Education, 73 J. Legal Educ. 683 (2025).
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Robert R. Kuehn & David A. Santacroce, An Empirical Analysis of Clinical Legal Education at Middle Age, 71 J. Legal Educ. 622 (2022).

About Robert R. Kuehn
Professor Robert R. Kuehn focuses his teaching on clinical legal education and professional responsibility and has published extensively on such topics as legal education, academic freedom, access to legal representation, environmental justice, environmental enforcement, and professional responsibility. He is the former president of the Clinical Legal Education Association (CLEA) and the current vice president of the Center for the Study of Applied Legal Education (CSALE), which publishes tri-annual surveys of law clinics and field placement programs, courses, and instructors. Before becoming a law professor, he clerked for the Hon. James C. Hill, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, and the Hon. Sidney M. Aronovitz, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. He then practiced law in Washington, D.C. in the Environmental Enforcement Section of the Environment and Natural Resources Division at the U.S. Department of Justice.
Education
- B.A., Duke University, 1974
- J.D., George Washington University, 1981
- LL.M., Columbia University, 1983
- M.P.H., Harvard University, 1995
Courses
- Legal Profession
- Judicial Clerkship Externship
- New York Regulatory and Business Externship
Areas of Expertise
- Clinical Legal Education
- Professional Responsibility
Scholarship
- “A Study of the Relationship Between Law School Coursework and Bar Exam Outcomes,” 68 Journal of Legal Education (forthcoming 2020)
- “Addressing Bias in Administrative Environmental Decisions,” 37 Journal of National Association of Administrative Law Judiciary 693 (2017)
- The 2016-17 Survey of Applied Legal Education (co-author), Center for the Study of Applied Legal Education (2017)
- “Universal Clinical Legal Education: Necessary and Feasible,” 51 Washington University Journal of Law & Policy 89 (2017)
- “Measuring Clinical Legal Education’s Employment Outcomes,” 2015 Wisconsin Law Review 645
- “Pricing Clinical Legal Education,” 92 Denver University Law Review 1 (2014)
Media
Activity & Affiliations
- Vice President, Center for the Study of Applied Legal Education (CSALE)
- Past President, Clinical Legal Education Association
Honors & Awards
- William Pincus Award, Association of American Law Schools
- Runner Up, Lawyer of the Year, The American Lawyer (for clinic)