The Global Clinical Movement: Educating Lawyers for Social Justice

Clinical legal education is playing an increasingly important role in educating lawyers worldwide. In The Global Clinical Movement: Educating Lawyers for Social Justice, editor Frank S. Bloch and 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. With chapters written by leading clinical legal educators from every region of the world, The Global Clinical Movement demonstrates how the emerging global clinical movement can advance social justice through legal education. Professor Bloch and the contributors also examine the influence of clinical legal education on the legal academy and the legal profession and chart the global clinical movement's future role in educating lawyers for social justice. The Global Clinical Movement consists of three parts. Part I describes clinical legal education programs from every region of the world and discusses those qualities that are unique to a particular country or region. Part II discusses the various ways that clinical programs and the clinical methodology advance the cause of social justice around the world. Part III analyzes the current state of the global clinical movement and sets out an agenda for the movement to advance social justice through socially relevant legal education.

Table of Contents:
TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Frank S. Bloch Part I The Global Reach of Clinical Legal Education Introduction to Part I Chapter 1: The First Wave of Modern Clinical Legal Education: the United States, Britain, Canada, and Australia Jeff Giddings, Roger Burridge, Shelley Gavigan, and Catherine Klein Chapter 2: Clinical Legal Education in Africa: Legal Education and Community Service David McQuoid-Mason, George Mukundi Wachira, and Ernest Ojukwu Chapter 3: The Clinical Movement in Southeast Asia and India: A Comparative Perspective and Lessons to Be Learned Bruce Lasky and M.R.K. Prasad Chapter 4: Clinical Legal Education in Central and Eastern Europe: Selected Case Studies Mariana Berbec-Rostas, Arkady Gutnikov, and Barbara Namyslowska-Gabrysiak Chapter 5: Clinical Legal Education in Latin America: Towards Public Interest Erika Castro, Nicolás Espejo, Mariela Puga, and Marta Villarreal Chapter 6: The "Chinese Characteristics" of Clinical Legal Education Cai Yanmin and J.L. Pottenger, Jr. Chapter 7: Japan's New Clinical Programs: A Study of Light and Shadow Shigeo Miyagawa, Takao Suami, Peter A. Joy, and Charles D. Weisselberg Chapter 8: The Bologna Process and the Future of Clinical Education in Europe: A View from Spain Diego Blázquez-Martín Chapter 9: Beyond Legal Imperialism: U.S. Clinical Legal Education and the New Law and Development Richard J. Wilson Part II The Justice Mission of Global Clinical Education Introduction to Part II Chapter 10: Legal Aid origins of clinical legal education Frank Bloch and Mary Anne Noone Chapter 11: Community Law Clinics: Teaching Students, Serving Disadvantaged Communities Anna Cody and Barbara Schatz Chapter 12: Addressing Lawyer Competence, Ethics and Professionalism Nigel Duncan and Susan L. Kay Chapter 13: The Impact of Public Interest Law on Legal Education Daniela Ikawa Chapter 14: Justice Education, Law Reform and the Clinical Method Les McCrimmon and Edward Santow Chapter 15: Street Law and Social Justice Education Richard Grimes, David McQuoid-Mason, Ed O'Brien, and Judy Zimmer Chapter 16: Legal Literacy Projects: Clinical Experience of Empowering the Poor in India Ajay Pandey and Sheena Shukkur Chapter 17: The Social Justice Nexus between ADR and Clinical Legal Education in India, South Africa, and the United States Karen Tokarz and V. Nagaraj Part III The Global Clinical Movement and Educating Lawyers for Social Justice Introduction to Part III Chapter 18: The Global Clinical Movement Frank S. Bloch and N.R. Madhava Menon Chapter 19: The Role of National and Regional Clinical Organizations in the Global Clinical Movement Margaret Martin Barry, Filip Czernicki, Izabela Kra?nicka, and Mao Ling Chapter 20: Bridging Different Interests: The Contributions of Clinics to Legal Education Jeff Giddings and Jennifer Lyman Chapter 21: Clinical Scholarship and the Development of The Global Clinical Movement Neil Gold and Phillip Plowden Chapter 22: Externships: A Special Focus to Help Understand and Advance Social Justice Liz Ryan Cole Chapter 23: Setting an Agenda for the Global Clinical Movement Peggy Maisel Chapter 24: Normative Attractions to Law and their Recipe for Accountability and Self-Assessment in Justice Education Adrian Evans Chapter 25: The Global Alliance for Justice Education George Mukundi Wachira and Edward Santow List of Authors

About the Author :
Frank S. Bloch is Professor of Law and Director of the Social Justice Program at Vanderbilt University Law School. He holds a B.A. (1966) and a Ph.D. (Politics 1978) from Brandeis University and a J.D. (1969) from Columbia University Law School. He was a legal aid attorney with California Rural Legal Assistance and an instructor at the University of Chicago Law School's Mandel Legal Aid Clinic before joining the Vanderbilt Law School faculty as Director of Clinical Education. Professor Bloch is an internationally prominent expert in social security, disability, and other benefits programs, as well as legal aid and clinical legal education. He is the author or editor of six books and has published over 30 articles and book chapters. He is a member of the National Academy of Social Insurance and serves on the Steering Committee of the Global Alliance for Justice Education. He has been a Fulbright Professor at Delhi University, a research fellow at the International Social Security Association, and a consultant for the Administrative Conference of the United States, the Social Security Advisory Board, and the US Agency for International Development.

Review :
"A major focus of clinical legal education is teaching appropriate professional values to entry-level lawyers. The project of figuring out how to do that is occurring in most of the legal education systems around the world. This book is important reading for anyone who aspires to be part of the international effort to train and enlist lawyers in the cause of justice." -- Elliott S. Milstein Professor of Law, American University Washington College of Law "This unique book has truly global reach. It offers not only jurisdictional analysis and comparison but also a thematic account of the phenomenal rise of justice education throughout higher education, including its relationships with social justice, public legal education, professional ethics, and legal scholarship. The authors are to be applauded for this book, for which academics, lawyers, and students will be grateful." -- Kevin Kerrigan Associate Dean, School of Law, Northumbria University Editor, International Journal of Clinical Legal Education "This collection promotes the reorientation of legal education toward educating lawyers for social justice. It describes the current state of justice education in various countries, and explains the special roles that clinical legal education can play in teaching students about social justice inequities and the responsibility of lawyers to address them. Every law teacher should read this book, especially those who care about social justice and want their students to care as well." -- Roy Stuckey Distinguished Professor Emeritus and Webster Professor of Clinical Legal Education Emeritus, University of South Carolina School of Law "In this work Frank Bloch together with fifty others draws out the lofty ideal of the lawyer's pursuit of social justice and presents a global movement of individuals and institutions--all focused on ensuring that young activist lawyers who enter law school are given the mentorship, guidance and tools with which to pursue their dream. This is a collection that will at once talk to the activist lawyer from anywhere in the world and say-- you are not alone; while at the same time it will point to the brave journey that lies ahead for the global collective." -- Asha Ramgobin Executive Director, Human Rights Development Initiative "This book is an interesting, stimulating and enjoyable read, incorporating a variety of styles that flow together well. The book has an impressive array of authors, all of whom are leaders in clinical legal education. This book would be particularly beneficial to any students at undergraduate or postgraduate stage, who are studying or are about to embark upon a clinical legal education module or extra-curricular pro bono work. It could and should be recommended as pre-reading to any of these students and would assist them in their understanding of the context, and the importance of the work they are about to participate in." -- Colleen Smith, The Law Teacher "This is one of the first books focused exclusively on descriptions of clinical legal practice. It offers an opportunity to think coherently about law school clinics as a subset of public interest law. In addition to the descriptive ambition underlying the book, Bloch and his collaborators make key choices in the construction of the project...The book exhibits a clear understanding of the complexity and variation within clinical practice. I believe that the book is a significant achievement and one with consequence and meaning throughout legal education and the legal profession." --Sameer M. Ashar, Journal of Legal Education