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Title The global clinical movement : educating lawyers for social justice / edited by Frank S. Bloch
Published Oxford ; New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xxvi, 400 pages)
Contents Introduction / Frank S. Bloch -- The first wave of modern clinical legal education : the United States, Britain, Canada, and Australia / Jeff Giddings [and others] -- Clinical legal education in Africa : legal education and community service / David McQuoid-Mason, Ernest Ojukwu, and George Mukundi Wachira -- The clinical movement in Southeast Asia and India : a comparative perspective and lessons to be learned / Bruce A. Lasky and M.R.K. Prasad -- Clinical legal education in Central and Eastern Europe : selected case studies / Mariana Berbec-Rostas, Arkady Gutnikov, and Barbara Namyslowska-Gabrysiak -- Clinical legal education in Latin America : toward public interest / Erika Castro-Buitrago [and others] -- The "Chinese characteristics" of clinical legal education / Cai Yanmin and J.L. Pottenger, Jr. -- Japan's new clinical programs : a study of light and shadow / Shigeo Miyagawa [and others] -- The Bologna process and the future of clinical education in Europe : a view from Spain / Diego Blázquez-Martín -- Beyond legal imperialism : US clinical legal education and the new law and development / Richard J. Wilson -- Legal aid origins of clinical legal education / Frank S. Bloch and Mary Anne Noone -- Community law clinics : teaching students, working with disadvantaged communities / Anna Cody and Barbara Schatz -- Addressing lawyer competence, ethics, and professionalism / Nigel Duncan and Susan L. Kay -- The impact of public interest law on legal education / Daniela Ikawa -- Justice education, law reform, and the clinical method / Les McCrimmon and Edward Santow -- Street law and social justice education / Richard Grimes [and others] -- Legal literacy projects : clinical experience of empowering the poor in India / Ajay Pandey and Sheena Shukkur -- Advancing social justice through ADR and clinical legal education in India, South Africa, and the United States / Karen Tokarz and V. Nagaraj -- The global clinical movement / Frank S. Bloch and N.R. Madhava Menon -- The role of national and regional clinical organizations in the global clinical movement / Margaret Martin Barry [and others] -- Bridging different interests : the contributions of clinics to legal education / Jeff Giddings and Jennifer Lyman -- Clinical scholarship and the development of the global clinical movement / Neil Gold and Phillip Plowden -- Externships : a special focus to help understand and advance social justice / Liz Ryan Cole -- Setting an agenda for the global clinical movement / Margaret (Peggy) Maisel -- Normative attractions to law and their recipe for accountability and self-assessment in justice education / Adrian Evans -- The global alliance for justice education / Edward Santow and George Mukundi Wachira
Summary Clinical legal education is playing an increasingly important role in educating lawyers worldwide. Here, the contributors describe the central concepts, goals, and methods of clinical legal education from a global perspective, with a particular emphasis on its social justice mission
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Law -- Study and teaching (Clinical education)
Sociological jurisprudence.
LAW -- Legal Education.
Law -- Study and teaching (Clinical education)
Sociological jurisprudence
Lawyers.
Legal education.
Universities.
Ethics.
Social justice.
Form Electronic book
Author Bloch, Frank S.
ISBN 9780199701056
0199701059
9786613115805
6613115800
9780199869305
0199869308