THIS SEEMS MORE LIKE A JOB-PROTECTION PLOY: Clinical Profs Demand That ABA Require All Law Students Take 15 Credits of Experiential Courses and 1 Clinic or Externship. I think clinical courses are great — we have a lot of them at Tennessee — but this smacks of self-dealing. At any rate, clinical courses are expensive. Say what you will about Professor Kingsfield, but having him lecture to a class of a couple of hundred first years was cheap. As law schools come under increasing cost pressure, Kingsfield is probably looking better. Which, I suspect, is the reason for this effort.