GAJE incorporated as a tax-free NGO in the United States
GAJE is now non-profit corporation (Global Alliance for Justice Education, Inc.) registered in the US with tax-free status granted by the Internal Revenue Service. As a result, contributions to GAJE can be claimed as a deduction on federal income tax returns for any US taxpayer, corporation, or foundation.
The corporate legal work was provided pro bono by the New York law firm Sullivan & Cromwell, under the leadership of firm Associate Joseph E. White. Others at the firm working on GAJE’s incorporation were Associate Kathleen DeMamiel and Special Counsel Nelle Jennings. GAJE members working with the law firm included Barbara Schatz, Clinical Professor at Columbia University Law School, and Bruce Lasky, Co-Director of Bridges Across Borders-Southeast Asia (BABSEA).
The Board of Directors of Global Alliance for Justice Education, Inc. is the membership of GAJE’s Steering Committee. The Bylaws of the new corporation track the relevant provisions of the GAJE constitution and various administrative policies and procedures adopted by the Steering Committee. The President is the current Convenor of the Steering Committee, Filip Czernicki (Poland); the Secretary is Steering Committee member Celeste Romero (Argentina); the Treasurer is Steering Committee member Frank Bloch (United States).
6th Worldwide Conference to take place in Valencia, Spain on 11th-15th July 2011
The Global Alliance for Justice Education (GAJE) announces its 6th Worldwide Conference “Combatting Social Injustice Through Justice Education” to be held on 11th-15th July 2011 in Valencia, Spain. The conference will be hosted by the Institute of Human Rights at the Faculty of Law, University of Valencia, and will be held in partnership with The 9th International Journal of Clinical Legal Education (IJCLE) Conference on 11th -12th July at the same venue. For more information, click here.
Oxford University Press Publishes book by GAJE members
Oxford University Press has just published THE GLOBAL CLINICAL MOVEMENT: EDUCATING LAWYERS FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE (Frank S. Bloch ed. 2011), an edited volume with contributions by GAJE members from around the world. 
THE GLOBAL CLINICAL MOVEMENT describes the central concepts, goals, and methods of clinical legal education from a global perspective, with a particular emphasis on its social justice mission. With chapters written by leading clinical legal educators from every region of the world, the book demonstrates how the emerging global clinical movement can advance social justice through legal education. The book also examines the influence of clinical legal education on the legal academy and the legal profession and charts the global clinical movement’s future role in educating lawyers for social justice. Part I (The Global Reach of Clinical Legal Education) describes clinical legal education programs from every region of the world and discusses those qualities that are unique to a particular country or region. Part II (The Justice Mission of Global Clinical Education) discusses the various ways that clinical programs and the clinical methodology advance the cause of social justice around the world. Part III (The Global Clinical Movement and Educating Lawyers for Social Justice) analyzes the current state of the global clinical movement and sets out an agenda for the movement to advance social justice through socially relevant legal education.
All royalties from the book have been assigned to GAJE.
For more information about the book, including the Table of Contents, go to: http://www.us.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Law/GeneralAcademic/?view=usa&sf=toc&ci=9780195381146
The book can be purchased with a discount at: http://www.amazon.com/Global-Clinical-Movement-Educating-Lawyers/dp/0195381149