Date: Friday 13 June, 10 am – 5 pm
Location: Arthur Cox Clinical Legal Education Centre, UCD Sutherland School of Law
At a time of legal and social change, the opportunity emerges to reimagine legal education and its contribution to society on the island of Ireland, both North and South. This conference offers participants the opportunity to consider, plan and reflect on the increasing role for clinical legal education in Irish law schools. The impact of clinical legal education on the legal curriculum is something that will be critically considered, as well the impact of clinical legal education on a wider social justice agenda.
The conference builds on ICELA’s previous work in bringing together the experiences of Northern/Irish law schools which engage a range of clinical legal education practices, all connected by an ambition to place experiential learning within law schools and develop public interest law in Ireland.
Our Law in Action conference aims to understand the impact of Irish clinical legal education and its contribution to legal education and social justice in Northern/Ireland.
We invite conference speakers and participants to consider some of the following issues:
· The changing nature of legal education in Ireland, with a consideration of the transformative potential of clinical legal education to the law school curriculum.
· The value – theoretically, practically and pedagogically - of internships as a form of clinical legal education.
· The contribution of organisations, both legal and non-legal, practitioner and non-practitioner, to clinical legal education in Ireland.
· The contribution of client-based clinical legal education in enabling client participation in administrative and legal processes.
· The challenges and opportunities in engaging students in live client work, legal research and public interest law in Northern/Ireland.
· The role of clinical legal education in identifying, supporting and progressing social justice and public interest law in Northern/Irish society.
Audience: This conference will be of interest to a range of audiences, in particular:
· Academics and legal educators who have an interest in legal education generally, clinical legal education, the interaction of law, public interest law and social justice;
· Policy makers in the arena of education in general and legal education in particular;
· Legal practitioners and NGOs working with and interested in working with law student interns, or having such students conduct expert research;
· Students and graduates with an interest in, or experience of, clinical legal education, public interest law or social justice programmes.
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CPD Points Available (4 group hours).