Panel VII

Panel VII: Legal Clinics as transformative components in the learning process (III): teaching-learning methods and Legal Clinics Models

Chairs: Pilar Fernández Artiach, director of the Clinic on Migrants’ rights (Universitat de València), Ruth M. Mestre i Mestre, director of the Public Interest Law Clinic (Universitat de València)

Clinics may vary in many aspects: their cases, the methodology followed, their scope, their litigation capacity or not… The aim of the panel is to show how differently clinics work and how the development of the idea of what is the best clinic in a certain place depends on the means, the problems and cases dealt with, the context… Through practical cases and analysing the experience of solid clinics we will discuss different models, aims, methodologies, legal skills to be developed with students (interviews, bargaining, mediation…), and so on. A practical case will be proposed to be dealt with/ “solved” by the different clinics, methodologies and approaches, best showing the challenges, potentials and limitations of each clinical experience (Street law, litigation clinics, non-litigation clinics).

Participants:

Catherine F. Klein, Director of the Columbus Community Legal Services. The Columbus School of Law. The Catholic University of America

Leah Wortham, Columbus School of Law. Catholic University of America

Alicia Álvarez, Director of the Community and Economic Development Clinic. University of Michigan Law School

Richard Grimes, Director of Clinical Programmes, York Law School. The University of York