In 2006 the Legal Clinic for Social Justice (CJJS: www.uv.es/clinica ; http://www.uv.es/clinica/clinica/inicio.html) was created as a project for teaching innovation that brings together a particular vision about law teaching and the social function of public University. Following a consolidated model in different countries, both Common Law and Civil Law, the Clinic guarantees the law learning through practical work with projects and real cases, urgent in most cases. According to professor Ruth Mestre, the Clinic is an area for the promotion of excellence in degree and postgraduate, in which students offer free legal advice supervised by professors and professionals related to the university, in cases related to Social Justice matters, in such way that students not only learn how to work with real legal problems, but also how to use law to protect the right of groups and the most vulnerable people; and everything for free. The Legal Clinic does an advocacy work with NGOs and non-profit making associations, both national and international. The project has been included in the programme Campus of International Excellence VLC/CAMPUS. Valencia, International Campus of Excellence, developed with the help of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports. (http://www.vlc-campus.com).

The Clinic is opened to participation of all law professors and it reaches Master’s degree students in the Faculty of Human Rights, Democracy and International Justice, and degrees’ students of the centre. Law, Criminology, Double Degree in Law + Business Management and Administration, Political Science-Law and Criminology-Law in the form of practicum.

Nowadays ENCLE organizes training courses for trainers and other kind of meetings, as for example the debate session in the European Parliament about clinical legal education in Europe developed together with ARDI (European Parliament Anti-racism and Diversity Intergroup) in May 2016. It also organizes annually an International Conference to ease contact, exchange of ideas and collaborative and online work among clinics from different universities.

In 2011 the Faculty of Law of the UV was the headquarter of the World Congress of GAJE (Global Alliance for Justice Education) in which around 300 clinics’ representatives of more than 45 countries participated.

The conference programme is available at http://www.encle.org/