The Role of Clinic in Linking Law and Justice
AbstractThis paper argues that clinical legal education programs in Australian law schools serve to integrate law and justice in the legal education curriculum. The author considers the links between law and justice and the meaning of clinical legal education in Australia. She notes the connection between legal clinics and the community in which they are based and examines the goals of clinical legal education in Australia. The paper notes that the clinics' goals are both educational and service oriented and depend on several assumptions about the law, justice, law school, law students and lawyers. The author asks some difficult questions about how much reflection clinicians do before suggesting several practical ways that clinics can link law and justice. The key to this project she concludes is collaboration between clinicians and other law school academics. |