Fitnat Adjetey

Fitnaty Adjetey is co-director of Law and Advocacy for Women – Ghana, an NGO in Accra, Ghana, which undertakes local projects and participates in regional consultations on issues affecting women’s human rights in Africa. Currently, she and her colleagues are working on a collaborative project with the International Women’s Human Rights clinical program at the Georgetown University Law Center (USA).

Margaret Barry

Margaret Barry is Associate Professor of Law, Catholic University, in Washington, D.C., USA. She is the current President of the Clinical Legal Education Association and previously chaired the Section on Clinical Education of the Association of American Law Schools. She has held leadership positions on issues of family law and domestic violence in the District of Columbia Bar Association and has served as a legislative counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives.

Frank Bloch

Frank Bloch is Professor of Law and Director of Clinical Education at Vanderbilt University Law School, in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. He was a directing attorney with California Rural Legal Assistance before beginning his teaching career at the University of Chicago Law School’s Mandel Legal Aid Clinic. He has taught at Delhi University as a Visiting Professor and Senior Fulbright Lecturer, and he has collaborated on a number of clinical legal education projects with the National Law School of India University in Bangalore. He has written extensively on clinical legal education, including contributions to texts for clinical programs in India and the United States.

Martin Bohmer

Martin Bohmer is Professor of Law, Universidad de Palermo Law School, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is the Argentina coordinator for the University Development Linkages Project, Agency for International Development.

Dora Byamukama

Dora Byamukama is Director/Consultant at Law and Advocacy for Women – Uganda (LAW-U), an NGO in Kampala, Uganda, focused on issues of domestic violence, women’s reproductive rights, and women's property rights. As part of this work, she has collaborated with the International Women's Human Rights Program at Georgetown University (USA), where she was named a Law And Advocacy for Women in Africa Fellow. She has written extensively in the area of women’s human rights and is currently engaged in research on domestic violence in Uganda. Previously, she collaborated on a World Bank source book on women's economic empowerment in Africa.

Jeremy Cooper

Jeremy Cooper is Dean of the Law Faculty and Professor of Law at Southampton Institute, in the United Kingdom. Previously, he worked at a community law centre in London. He is co-founder of the International Working Group on Social Values in Law, an international group of scholars and activists dedicated to exploring, through action research and transnational networking, the interface between legal education and radical lawyering for the dispossessed and underprivileged. He has written extensively in the area of public interest law and social justice.

Clark Cunningham

Clark Cunningham is Professor of Law and Israel Treiman Research Fellow at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, where he has directed both the Urban Law Clinic and Criminal Justice Clinic. He has been a visiting scholar at the Indian Law Institute, Sichuan University (China), the University of Sydney (Australia), University of Palermo (Argentina), and the National Law School of India. He is currently co-directing an international research project on lawyer-client communications with participants from England, Scotland, Australia, South Africa, the United States, and India.

Judith Dickson

Judith Dickson is a lecturer and clinical supervisor in the School of Law and Legal Studies at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia, where she teaches legal ethics and professional conduct in a clinical legal education programme based in a local legal aid office. She also coordinates a court-based mentoring programme for students and is involved in the School's other clinical programme based in a community legal centre. Her research interests are supervision in clinical legal education and the legal profession.

Nigel Duncan

Nigel Duncan is Principal Lecturer at the Inns of Court School of Law in the United Kingdom. He is currently Chair of the Association of Law Teachers and a founder member of both the Clinical Legal Education Organisation and the Practice, Profession and Ethics Subject Section of the Society of Public Teachers of Law. His main area of substantive interest is employment law, and he has introduced a live clinical course where students under supervision undertake representation of applicants to employment tribunals. He is editor of the peer-reviewed academic journal, The Law Teacher, and co-editor of a text on clinical legal education.

Adrian Evans

Adrian Evans is Senior Lecturer at Monash University School of Law in Clayton, Victoria, Australia, where he received the Vice-Chancellor’s award for teaching excellence. He is also coordinator of Springvale Legal Services, the largest community-based legal services centre in Australia. He is one of three members of a committee advising the Attorney General of Australia on a new national clinical legal education quality project.

Neil Gold

Neil Gold is Academic Vice-president of the University of Windsor, Canada, where he has also served as dean of law, dean of humanities and social sciences, and dean of student affairs and continuing education. He has researched, written and consulted on legal education, development, and dispute resolution in Asia, the UK, the US, Australasia, South America and Africa. He has also written commissioned reports on the legal system and legal education reform in British Columbia, Hong Kong, Zimbabwe, New Zealand, Australia, Argentina, Ecuador, Peru and England and Wales.

Richard Grimes

Richard Grimes is a consultant to The College of Law, England and Wales, in the United Kingdom, where he is advising on establishing a range of clinical programmes for integration across the curriculum. He has a wide range of experience of working in clinical legal education both at home and abroad, and he has published extensively on clinical education and on legal skills. He was until recently Head of Law and Professor of Legal Education at the University of Derby (UK).

Jan Hrubala

Jan Hrubala works for the Centre for Environmental Public Advocacy, a public interest law firm dealing with environmental issues. He is a former judge and former local director of Partners for Democratic Change, an alternative dispute resolution NGO in Banska Bystrica, Slovakia. He has conducted numerous Street Law training workshops and has authored two texts on Slovakian Street Law.

Philip Iya

Philip Iya is Dean of the University of Fort Hare Law School in the Province of the Eastern Cape, South Africa. He has also worked as Clinic Supervisor at Wits Law School in Johannesburg. As Dean of the law school at University of Fort Hare, he has been deeply involved in the planning and establishment of the Department of Legal Skills Development Studies, of which clinical programmes occupy a central focus.

Ved Kumari

Ved Kumari is Reader at the Campus Law Center, Faculty of Law, University of Delhi, in India. Her primary areas of interest are criminal law and juvenile delinquency. She also teaches a course on clinical education and practical training. She focuses her work on the hierarchical positions of different groups and the exclusion of the perspectives of the less powerful, namely, women in criminal law, children in juvenile delinquency and clients in legal profession.

Marlene Le Brun

Marlene Le Brun is Associate Professor and foundation Deputy Dean of Griffith University Law School, Queensland, Australia. She is also the Director of the Client-Centered Legal Practice Unit and a National Teaching Fellow. She has been awarded numerous grants for her work in legal education and law teaching, and she is the co-author of books on legal education and legal interviewing. She has worked as a consultant on legal education and law teaching in Australia, Hong Kong, Viet Nam, and the UK.

Titi Liu

Titi Liu is an American lawyer funded by the Ford Foundation to work with Chinese law schools on developing clinical legal education and university-based legal aid programs. She is affiliated with the East China Institute of Law and Politics at Fudan University, China. She has worked with a number of law schools in China trying to encourage them to focus on legal aid as an educational tool for training more ethical, competent, public interest minded lawyers.

Beth Lyon

Beth Lyon is Practitioner-in-Residence in the International Human Rights Law Clinic at American University's Washington College of Law in Washington, DC, USA. Before joining the law school faculty she was a staff attorney with the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights. While in law school she served as a Ford Foundation fellow in the Lima, Peru office of the Comision Andina de Juristas.

Peggy Maisel

Peggy Maisel is Associate Professor of Law at the University of Natal-Durban, where she designed and teaches two new core courses for first year students and supervises the juvenile and administrative justice units of the Campus Law Clinic. She is the former dean of the New College of California School of Law in San Francisco, California, USA, and has taught at Antioch School of Law, the University of Maryland School of Law, and Harvard Law School. She has also worked with public interest projects in the US, and she was a Regional Training Coordinator for the US Legal Services Corporation.

N.R. Madhava Menon

N.R. Madhava Menon is the Founder Director of the National Law School of India, which pioneered a variety of socially relevant legal education schemes in the country. He is now a member of the National Law Commission and the Vice-Chancellor of the National University of Juridical Sciences at Calcutta. He is the teacher representative to the Legal Education Committee of the Bar Council of India and Co-Chair of the GAJE Conference Planning Committee. He has edited the first book in India on clinical legal education, published in 1999.

Sheila Minkah-Premo

Sheila Minkah-Premo is a women's right activist in Ghana, and a member of Law and Advocacy for Women – Ghana (LAWA-GH), a Ghanaian NGO. She is currently co-director of a collaborative project that is being undertaken by the International Women's Human Rights clinical class at Georgetown University Law Center (USA) and LAWA-GH, in which Georgetown law professors and students and Ghanaian women's rights activists promote the rights of women in Ghana.

N.L.Mitra

N.L.Mitra is the Director of the National Law School of India, in Bangalore, and a law teacher with nearly three decades of experience in teaching and research. He has taught business law courses through clinical methods and popularised the distance education programmes of the National Law School. He has done a study on Law in Development with an economist for the Harvard Law School.

Christopher Mulei

Christopher Mulei is Lecturer in Law at the University of Nairobi in Kenya, where he is in charge of the African International Human Rights Moot Court. He is also on the Board of Directors of the Citizens Coalition for Constitutional Change, an NGO in Nairobi.

Les McCrimmon

Les McCrimmon is Director of Clinical Programs and Director of Teaching Development at the University of Sydney Faculty of Law in Australia, where he also established the External Placement Program. He is also a senior instructor with the Australian Advocacy Institute, a member of the New South Wales Bar Practice Course sub-committee, and a facilitator with the Australasian Law Teachers Association Law Teaching Workshop. He is the co-author of two texts advocacy and real property. Prior to joining the University of Sydney, he was an Associate Professor at Bond University in Queensland, Australia, and practiced law in Canada.

David McQuoid-Mason

David McQuoid-Mason is Professor of Law, and former Dean, of Howard College School of Law at the University of Natal in South Africa, where he was the founder of the Law Clinic. He was also the founder of the Street Law programme in South Africa. He has run Street Law, human rights, democracy and alternative dispute resolution training workshops throughout the world, and he is the author of books on Street Law and human rights. Professor McQuoid-Mason is President of the Commonwealth Legal Education Association.

V. Nagaraj

V. Nagaraj is Associate professor of Law and Coordintor of Clinical Programmes at the National Law School of India University, Bangalore, India. He structured the University’s clinical programme, in which students are involved in conducting mediations and legal literacy projects. He organized a training programme in clinical legal education for law teachers from SAARC countries in 1995, and has conducted a number of training programmes for law teachers, practicing lawyers and paralegal personnel in justice education. He visited at Vanderbilt University Law School (USA) and Warwick University (UK) on clinical legal education and human rights exchanges.

Zaza Namoradze

Zaza Namoradze is the Deputy Director of the Constitutional and Legal Policy Institute (COLPI) in Budapest, Hungary, which is affiliated with the Open Society Institute and implements regional law reform projects for the Soros network of foundations. He is also responsible for the Soros network’s program in legal education.

Edward O’Brien

Edward O'Brien is co-director of Street Law, Inc., in Washington, DC, USA, where he is also an Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center. He was co-founder of the Street Law program in the United States, and has wide international experience in developing Street Law programs in different parts of the world. He has been involved extensively in developing suitable law-related education materials for developing countries, in particular with colleagues from South Africa. He is co-author of texts on Street Law and human rights.

Don Peters

Don Peters is a Professor of Law and a Trustee Research Fellow at the Levin College of Law of the University of Florida, USA, where he directs the Virgil Hawkins Civil Clinics and the Institute for Dispute Resolution. He has taught clinically in many regions of the world, and has presented lawyering skills workshops at law faculties and bar groups in Australia, Haiti, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Poland, the Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand, Uganda, and South Africa. While in Malaysia as a Senior Fulbright Lecturer, he helped create one of the first clinical courses in Southeast Asia. He has published several articles and book chapters dealing with aspects of clinical legal education.

Monica Platek

Monika Platek is Associate Professor of Law at Warsaw University, Poland, and the President and founder of the Polish Association of Legal Education. She has published widely and is a well-known penologist. She founded the Street Law program in Poland, known as Everyday Law. She is the co-author of the Everyday Law textbook, which is used by students in the Street Law programme.

Poonam Puri

Poonam Puri is an Assistant Professor of Law at the Osgoode Hall Law School at York University, Toronto, Canada. Professor Puri teaches in the areas of corporations, corporate governance, corporate crime and white-collar crime. Her research focuses on the legal profession, the delivery of legal services, the economics of litigation, corporate governance and corporate social responsibility. One of her current projects involves constructing an alternative model for teaching corporate law that places the corporation in its political and social context.

Mizanur Rahman

Mizanur Rahman is a Professor of Law at the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. He founded the first law clinic in Bangladesh, and he established a Street Law program in Dhaka. Recently, he worked in Russia, where he helped the Ford Foundation in Moscow train clinicians and also advised on setting up of law clinics.

Asha Ramgobin

Asha Ramgobin is Director of the Howard College School of Law Campus Law Clinic at the University of Natal in South Africa. She has been responsible for revamping the Clinic's service operations to bring them into line with the demands of the new Constitution. The clinic has been dealing with large numbers of land restitution claims. She was also instrumental in setting up the Association of University Legal Aid Institutions Trust, which provides limited funding for law clinics at South African law schools.

Ravi Rebbapragada

Ravi Rebbapragada is Executive Director of SAMATA Centre for Advocacy and Support, an NGO in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India, that he and others formed with the aim of mobilizing tribal peoples and advocating their interests. SAMATA works with tribals in approximately 200 villages, with a focus on land alienation and providing legal aid for test case litigation, and organizes communities to meet basic needs either through self-reliant institutions or as pressure groups for mobilizing government machinery. Before setting up SAMATA, he worked for other non-government and social welfare organizations.

Edwin Rekosh

Edwin Rekosh is Director of the Public Interest Law Initiative in Transitional Societies (PILI) at Columbia University Law School in New York City, USA, where he is also an adjunct faculty member. He has worked at PILI on developing stronger human rights institutions in Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia. He has also worked for the International Human Rights Group in Bucharest, Rumania.

Susan Deller Ross

Susan Deller Ross is Professor of Law and Director of the International Women's Human Rights Center at the Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, DC, USA. Her areas of expertise include international and comparative law on the rights of women, and gender and the law. She runs a clinical program on international women's human rights in which supervising lawyers and law students at Georgetown work via internet and teleconferencing with African women's rights lawyers to advance the legal status of women in their countries using local, regional, and international human rights law.

Jane Schukoske

Jane Schukoske is Associate Professor of Law at the University of Baltimore School of Law in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, where she directs the Community Development Clinic. She was a Senior Fulbright Scholar in Sri Lanka and has consulted for the Ford Foundation in India on its Human Rights Project. She has conducted research and has collaborated on law teacher training in many countries, and she has conducted workshops at universities in India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Ukraine. She has published on housing law, environmental law, and legal education methodology.

Brenda Smith

Brenda Smith is Associate Professor at the Washington College of Law of American University in Washington, DC, USA, where she teaches in the Community Economic Development Clinic. She was formerly Senior Counsel for Economic Security at the National Women's Law Center, where she developed and directed the Center's Women in Prison Project.

Andrea Seielstad

Andrea Seielstad is Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Dayton in Dayton, Ohio, USA, where she teaches in the law clinic. She is currently visiting at the University of Idaho College of Law (USA), where she is supervising student interns in a criminal defense public defender program with the Nez Perce Tribe. She has worked as a staff attorney for a legal services organization that provides legal representation to indigent members of the Navajo Nation. Her research and scholarly interests are in indigenous sovereignty and jurisdiction, as well as clinical education, community lawyering, and inter-cultural communication and studies.

Dima Shabelnikov

Dima Shabelnikov is a consultant/program assistant with the Ford Foundation in Moscow, Russia, where he works with grantees in the field of human rights, legal reform and legal education. He also studies at the Moscow State University Law Faculty. He was a project assistant with the American Bar Association’s Central and Eastern European Law Initiative (ABA/CEELI) in Moscow, where he worked primarily on commercial law reform and legal education reform. He has helped organize and implement a number of projects, including seminars on clinical legal education and legal aid, teacher training seminars on clinical methodologies, and a "human rights academy" summer school for law students working for law clinics or human rights NGOs.

Ekaterina Shugrina

Ekaterina Shugrina is Professor of law at the Altay Academy of Economy and Law in Barnaul, Siberia, Russia, where she is also the head of the Department of Constitutional and Municipal Law and the director of the clinical program. She has participated in many seminars and workshops as participant, trainer, and co-organizer, usually related to teaching legal writing skills. She has collaborated on publications for the American Bar Association’s Central and Eastern European Law Initiative (ABA/CEELI), including a model for using clinical elements for teaching courses such as constitutional and administrative law, and a textbook on legal writing.

Kulsum Wakabi

Kulsum Wakabi is an experienced feminist attorney with a general practice in Kampala, Uganda. She is also the Chairperson of Law and Advocacy for Women – Uganda (LAW-U), a Ugandan NGO engaged in research, advocacy, litigation and lobbying for law reform relating to laws that discriminate against women in Uganda. She has done extensive research on violence against women and on property, family law, and inheritance laws which adversely affect women in Uganda. She is currently engaged in a joint project with the International Women’s Rights Clinic at Georgetown University Law Center (USA), in which Georgetown law professors and students work with African women’s rights attorneys to launch test cases, develop new legislation, and engage in justice education.

Eleonora Zielinska

Eleonora Zielinska is on the faculty at the Warsaw University School of Law in Warsaw, Poland. She has collaborated on clinical projects in many countries in Eastern Europe.

Fryderyk Zoll

Fryderyk Zoll is Adjunct (Professor Assistant) at the Chair for Private Law at the Jagiellonian University Law School in Cracow, Poland, where is also coordinator of the Civil Law Clinic. He is also project director of the School of German Law at the Jagiellonian University and he serves as the Polish representative at the Center of Legal Competence in Austria.