The full conference program as it took place in Valencia is printed below. Abstracts are available for most of the sessions. To view the abstract for a particular session, click on the title of the session. To view all of the abstracts, click on the “Abstracts” link in the “6th Conference Details”
Sunday, 10 July 2011
- Pre-Conference Dinner
Monday, 11 July 2011
- 8:00-9:00: Registration
- 9:00-10:00:Opening Plenary Session
- Welcome Remarks
- Inaugural address: “Human Rights, Access to Justice and Legal Clinics at the Inter-American System.” Professor Felipe González Morales, President of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
- 10:00-11:30: Concurrent Sessions
- The Learner-Centered, Due Process Model of Clinical Supervision: Insights from Street Law in the US and the Czech Republic
- Developing Clinical Legal Education Program Standards: Strengthening our Practices or Stifling Innovation?
- A comparison of the clinical experience in Vietnam and Nigeria: Lessons Learned and Applied Legal Research
- Interdisciplinary Solutions to Justice Issues: Collaborating with Physicians to Address the Socio-Economic Determinants of Health
- Clinical Legal Education and civil society organizations; Reimagining Human Rights Law Clinics: Lessons from Latin America
- 11:30-12:00: Break
- 12:00-13.30: Concurrent Sessions
- Environmental Justice
- Clinical Legal Education in Spain: Analysis and Discussion on experiences
- Access to Justice in European law: New Challenges for Europe ; Timor Leste: Improving Access to Justice of Women in Gender Violence
- Providing Effective Representation to Immigrants in Law School Clinics: Challenges, Comparisons and Collaborations
- Clinic and Social Justice for Children; The Need For Legal Clinic For Young Offenders: A Survey of Young Offenders Prison in Malaysia
- Mainstreaming Human Rights and Justice Concerns in the Law Department Curriculum ; Introducing a Public Interest Focus in the Legal Clinic Program: A Case Study from the Kyrgyz Republic ; Advocacy outside of the courtroom: social change through policy and legislative advocacy
- 13:45-15:15: Lunch
- 15.30-17:00 :Concurrent Sessions
- Education Reform of Legal Clinic on Responding to Disasters; Clinic from Catastrophe: Justice Education in Haiti
- Developing a Disciplined Approach to Reflection: Encouraging Reflective Practice, Integrated Learning, and Sharing Promising Practices
- Clinical Legal Associations
- Social justice and curriculum development – the case for problem-based learning
- Standardised Clients and Interviewing : Assessing the Advice Interview; Assessment of Practical Skills: Practical Legal Studies at the University of Witwatersrand
- 17:00-17:30 : Break
- 17:30-19:00: Concurrent Sessions
- Engaging students in cross-border investigations of human rights conditions: challenges and opportunities
- Human Rights Fact-Finding in the Domestic Context
- Reflective Learning for Reflective Practice: An Integrated Approach
- A Model for Interdisciplinary Clinical Legal Education: Medical and Legal Professionals Learning and Working Together to Promote Public Health; How can lawyers cooperate with medical doctors? Comments based on the activities of The Medical Law Clinic
- Promoting Awareness of Environmental Justice in Law Students: Beyond the Legal Clinic
- Empowering Communities through Law School Clinics in Effecting Good Rural Governance in Developing Countries
- 19:30: Opening Reception: NGOs Gathering, Music & Wine
Tuesday, 12 July 2011
- 8:00-9:00:Registration
- 9:00-10:00:Plenary Session
- GAJE and the Global Clinical Movement
- Presentation of the recently published book, The Global Clinical Movement: Educating Lawyers for Social Justice, chaired by Frank Bloch, Professor of Law Emeritus, Vanderbilt University Law School
- Remarks by N.R. MadhavaMenon and George Mukundi
- 10:00-11:30 :Concurrent Sessions
- Street Law Workshop
- International Cross-Cultural Collaboration: Theory & Praxis
- Educating the Public About their Legal Rights: A Global Tour of “Street law” Clinics
- Reconstruction of professional ethics in post-communist society through legal education ; A Revisionist History of a Pedagogy of Practice in the U.S.: 1870 to 1917
- Seeing the wood for the trees – How can we help students to research unstructured real client problems? ; What is legal professionalism and can clinic teach it?
- Cradle to Grave: Teaching Justice, Ethics and Law in a Clinical LLB ; Clinical Legal Education – What it can/cannot achieve
- 11:30-12:00: Break
- 12:00-13.30: Concurrent Sessions
- Street Law Workshop
- Corruption and the limits of legal education ; Morals, Values, and Ethics in Clinical Teaching
- The role of Legal Clinical Methods in Promoting Financial Literacy and Education
- The Centrality of Relationships in Clinical Supervision and Lawyering
- Postgraduate Clinical Legal Education: A Cooperative Model
- 42 Placements on – Sheffield Hallam University’s Hitchhiker’s Guide to Galactical Placements
- 13:45-15:15: Lunch
- 15.30-17:00 :Concurrent Sessions (Street Law Workshop only)
- 17:00 : Optional site visits to NGOs and social justice projects
- 17:00-17:30: Break
- 17:30-19:00: Concurrent Sessions (Street Law Workshop only)
- 20:00 : Conference Dinner
Wednesday, 13 July 2011
- 9:00-10:00:Plenary Session
- Presentation of candidates for GAJE Steering Committee election; Discussion of various issues that will be considered at GAJE General Meeting
- 10:00-11:30 :Concurrent Sessions
- Redefining Human Rights Lawyering Through the Lens of Critical Theory: Role of Transnational Partnerships in our Pedagogy and Practice
- Teaching Through Clinics in Civil Law Systems: the Case of Italy ; Clinic and the Law curriculum : student and faculty attitudes to clinical learning
- Addressing Bias in Legal Education for Promoting Justice
- Beyond Lessons: Street Law at Young Offenders Institutions ; What Attracts Law Students to Teaching Law at Schools in Street Law Programme and How Teaching Law Changes their View of Law and Lawyers in Society?
- Towards a Pedagogy of Diversity ; What is the role of the legal clinic, and should it be influenced by the desire to achieve social justice?
- Freedom of Information: An Essential Foundation for the Protection of Other Fundamental Rights
- 11:30-12:00: Break
- 12:00-13.30: GAJE General Meeting
- 13:45-15:15: Lunch
- 15.30-17:00 :Concurrent Sessions
- Recent Developments in Clinical Legal Education in the Middle East
- Innovative Solutions to Challenges Facing Criminal Defense Clinics
- Transforming Students, Transforming Selves: Teaching and Learning about Social Change in Context. Three Models of International Comparative Clinical Cooperation
- Crossing Borders: Creating an American Law Clinic in China ; A Clean Slate: What shall I draw? Establishing a New Legal Advice Clinic in a New Law School
- Fostering an Ethic of Pro Bono: Developing a Culture of Pro Bono within Law Firms ; Fostering an Ethic of Pro Bono: Establishing and Teaching a Lawyer’s Public Citizen Responsibilities
- Legal Aid and Access of Women to Justice
- 17:00-17:30: Break
- 17:30-19:00 :Concurrent Sessions
- Global Mapping of Research and Curriculum for Paralegal Related Legal Education
- Transforming Students, Transforming Selves: Teaching and Learning about Social Change in Context. Three Models of International Comparative Clinical Cooperation
- Community Outreach Program: The Aftercare of Juveniles from the Kajang Integrity; The Riverhouse Law Clinic: Providing Free Legal Advice and Assistance for People with HIV
- Marginalizing Discrimination : How Social Justice, Advocacy and LGBT Awareness on a Clinical Level Can Make Equality More of a Reality ; Building Local Capacity to Protect Public Health and Promote Social Justice through Online Peer Education
- And Justice [Education] for All: Integrating and Assessing Justice Education in the Traditional Law School Curriculum
- 19:30: Visit the College, Seminar and Church of the Patriach San Juan de Ribera
- 20:15: Visit to Old University Building: La Nau
Thursday, 14 July 2011
- 9:00-10:00:Plenary Session
- Inspirations, ideas, intentions: taking Conference Themes back home. Kevin Kerrigan, Northumbria University
- European Human Rights Protection: teaching with racial profiling cases. José García Añón, Universitat de València
- Spanish experiencies on Legal Clinics. Ruth Mestre i Mestre, Universitat de València
- 10:00-11:30 :Concurrent Sessions
- What should be the role of Legal Clinics within systems of subsidized and free Legal Aid?; Social Justice Towards Gender Equity: Securing Gender Justice
- Reflecting on Ethical Aspects of Students Work in Legal Clinic
- Reforming the curriculum – Models, challenges : Social justice and curriculum development – the case for problem-based learning ; The Way to Legal Practice Education in Zhejiang Gongshang University ; Clinical Education in China: The Next Step
- The Use of Virtual Law Programs to Support Access to Justice Education Initiatives
- Clinical Legal Education and Cultural Relativism: The Realities in the 21st Century ; Administering Legal (Pro-Bono) Clinic: Challenges and Prospects ; Understanding Clinical Legal Education and the use of ADR in traditional matrimonial case: The University of Ibadan Women’s Law Clinic Experience; Advancing Justice Education in customary courts through participation of clinical students in judicial proceedings as friends of the courts
- Common law and civil law systems: skills and challenges for CLE ; An Examination of the Challenges, Successes, and Setbacks for Clinical Legal Education in Eastern Europe
- 11:30-12:00: Break
- 12:00-13.30:Concurrent Sessions
- The Days of Law as a Form of Legal Enlightenment ; Performance theme: The street right in activity of legal clinics of Byelorussia
- Legal Clinics and Socio-Economic Rights- The Street Law Approach in Ebonyi State Nigeria; Mediation Clinics in Societies in Conflict: Case of El Salvador
- A Treaty to Secure the Right to Food ; Just Enough Science to Make You Dangerous: Integrating Forensic Science Into the Law School and Legal Clinic Curriculum
- Human rights and immigration detention centres around the world: exchanges and experience
- Clinical Theory v. Theoretical Clinic
- Rural Communities Criminal Justice Awareness Project
- 14:00: Conference Luncheon at the Malvarrosa Beach
- Afternoon free
Friday, 15 July, 2011
- 9:00-10:30 :Concurrent Sessions
- Access to Human Rights: Lawyering for Drug Users and Sex Workers
- Mainstreaming Human Rights and Justice Concerns in the Law Department Curriculum
- Building on Best Practices and Educating Lawyers to Be Public Citizens
- The clinic and social justice (1) – models and ideas: Enhancing Legal Education’s Core Values – Social Justice Apprenticeships/Court Collaborations ; The university at the service of the person: a vision for the upcoming Strathmore University Faculty of Law ; Indebted to the experience: community engagement and the inspired student
- New clinics and new clinicians: Interactions at University ofValencia ; The Impact of Clinical Legal Education Curriculum and Delivery on Students Performance: A Case Study of the Nigerian Law School
- Clinical Legal Education in Jordan: Overcoming the Unique and Common Challenges; An Option for the Thai Legal Education Reform: Learning from CLE in China
- 10:30-11:00 : Break
- 11:00-12:30 :Concurrent Sessions
- Delivering Clinical Legal Education Beyond Geographical and Jurisdictional Boundaries; Technology Transfer and The Challenges of implementing clinical curriculum in Nigerian Law Faculties: Lessons from the Afe Babalola University Experience
- The “New” European Law Clinics: A Roundtable Discussion
- The clinic and social justice (2) Panel Discussion
- A Study and Demonstrations of Cross Border CLE Collaborative Initiatives-The BABSEA CLE Experience
- 14:30-15:30 : Break
- 17:00:Closing Plenary Session
- “Litigating Human Rights in a Law School Clinic: From Pinochet toArbenz”, Professor Rick Wilson, American University, WashingtonCollege of Law;
- “The principle of Universal jurisdiction and its current situation”,Mr. Baltasar Garzón, consultant at the International Criminal Courtin The Hague (Judge in Spain’s Central Criminal Court)
- Closing remarks :: Filip Czernicki, President of GAJE and President of the Polish Legal Clinics Foundation; Kevin Kerrigan, Editor of the International Journal of Clinical Legal Education and Associate Dean, Northumbria University School of Law; José Garcia Añón, Chair of Local Organizing Committee and Vice Dean, University of Valencia Faculty of Law
- 19:00 : Closing Reception in the University Botanic Garden
Saturday, 16 July 2011
- Optional site visits to NGOs and social justice projects
- 10:00: Meeting with Plataforma Cabanyal-Canyamelar
- Walking by the city area of Cabanyal
- Optional Lunch on the Cabanyal (near the beach)