Program — Global Alliance for Justice Education

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
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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