Clinical legal education

Clinical legal education plays an increasingly important role within UK law schools. This page lists some key resources and includes contact details for CLEO, the Clinical Legal Education Organisation.

Resources on clinic

• Can the traditional law curriculum be delivered via clinical and experiential learning? – discussion paper presented at Learning in Law Annual Conference 10
• Model standards for live client clinics (revised June 2007) – download as RTF file at the bottom of the page (23 pages, 197KB)
• Clinical legal education at Northumbria – case studies of the use of clinic as an integral part of the degree programme (2004) and of the use of reflection to support students in becoming lifelong learners (2010)
• Clinical legal education stream at Learning in Law Annual Conference 2007 – summary of papers
• Designing and delivering clinical legal education – teaching resource note providing an introduction to the development of clinical programmes
• Law schools and pro bono work – discussion paper on the benefits of promoting pro bono work in law schools
• Mapping best practice in clinical legal education – UKCLE funded project aimed at identifying models of clinical legal education in UK law schools

CLEO: the Clinical Legal Education Organisation

CLEO is an informal organisation of academics who either already run clinical programmes in their law schools or who are interested in doing so, and others interested in experiential learning. To join simply contact Philip Plowden on philip.plowden@unn.ac.uk.

CLEO resources:

• reports of the 2001, 2002 and 2006 CLEO conferences

Last Modified: 4 June 2010