Research Methodology

We included the following types of materials for this annotated bibliography: articles, books/book chapters, dissertations/theses, guides, handbooks, regulations, and case law. For material in disciplines outside Law, we focused on supervision in clinical and applied contexts in various fields including medicine, psychotherapy, and social work.

Search engines used were: HeinOnline, CanLII, Google Scholar, Google Books databases, and the Law Society of Ontario’s Continuing Professional Development materials using search terms that included “clinical legal education”, “clinical law”, “legal clinic”, and “supervision”. Searches were narrowed through terms such as “pedagogy”, “trauma”, “supervisor role”, “mentorship”, “disability”, “diversity”, and others. Many articles refer tangentially to issues relating to supervision within clinical legal education. We included these to give the fullest account of literature relevant to supervision within Canadian clinical legal education.