Full Description
European legal teaching - historically formalistic, doctrinal, hierarchical, and passive - is coming under increasing pressure to reimagine itself as pragmatic, policy-aware, and action-oriented. Out of this context, a bottom-up movement of university law clinics appears to be emerging in Europe. Although intellectually indebted to the US model, the European variant reflects legal education and practice in Europe, specifically the multi-layered and multi-genetic legal landscape resulting from the Europeanization and internationalization of national legal systems, the globalization of European legal markets, and the growing demand for civic engagement in view of increasingly powerful supra-national institutions. Through the prism of clinical legal education, Reinventing Legal Education is the first attempt to gather scholarly and systematic reflections on the developments taking place in European legal teaching and practice. This groundbreaking book should be read by anyone interested in how clinical legal education is reinventing legal education in Europe.
Contents
Introduction; Part I. Where Have We Come From and What Have We Learned? Reflections on the First Wave of Clinical Legal Education in Europe (Mid 1990s to mid 2000s): 1. Reflections on US involvement in the promotion of clinical legal education in Europe; 2. Poland as the success story of clinical legal education in Central and Eastern Europe. Achievements, setbacks and ongoing challenges; Part II. Where Are We Now and Where Are We Going? Insights into the Second Wave of Clinical Legal Education in Europe (Mid 2000s into the Present): A. National Perspectives on Clinical Legal Education in Europe: Exploring the Strength and Diversity of National Clinical Movements: 3. The emergence of an Italian clinical legal education movement: the University of Brescia law clinic; 4. A new dawn in the Czech clinical movement: the clinical programme at the Law School of Palacký University in Olomouc; 5. Towards the institutionalization of legal clinics in Spain: the Environmental Law Clinic at Universitat Rovira i Virgili; 6. Law clinics in France through the prism of the Fundamental Rights Law Clinic University of Caen Normandy; B. The Europeanisation of Clinical Legal Education: How Clinical Legal Education is being adapted for European Law and European Issues: 7. On the front line of the migrant crisis: the Human Rights and Migration Law Clinic (HRMLC) of Turin; 8. The Refugee Rights Movement and the birth of clinical legal education in Germany: Humboldt Law Clinic Human and Fundamental Rights, Berlin and Refugee Law Clinic Hamburg (Germany); 9. The EU Public Interest Clinic and the case for EU law clinics; 10. The EU Rights Clinic at the University of Kent in Brussels: EU free movement law in action; C. Between Europe and the World: Exploring Internationalisation within the European Clinical Movement: 11. The Human Rights Law Clinic at Ghent University; 12. Clinical legal education at Central European University, Budapest: a small project with big ambitions in a supportive institution; 13. The International Human Rights Clinic at SOAS; 14. The experience of the Åbo Akademi University International Human Rights; 15. The International Economic Law Clinic at the Graduate Institute in Geneva; 16. The Amsterdam International Law Clinic; Conclusion.
