Conference Program

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 “6^th 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
11:30-12:00: Break
12:00-13.30: Concurrent Sessions
13:45-15:15: Lunch
15.30-17:00 :Concurrent Sessions
17:00-17:30 : Break
17:30-19:00: Concurrent Sessions
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
13:45-15:15: Lunch
15.30-17:00 :Concurrent Sessions (Street Law Workshop only)
- Street Law Workshop
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)
- Street Law Workshop
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
11:30-12:00: Break
12:00-13.30: GAJE General Meeting
13:45-15:15: Lunch
15.30-17:00 :Concurrent Sessions
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
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)

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