How to Set up and Run a Law Clinic
Principles and Practice
Published on 3. June 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
246 pages
978-1-0353-6907-2 (ISBN)
Description
This accessible How To Guide provides practical, expert guidance on how to successfully set up and run a law clinic. Donald Nicolson, JoNel Newman and Richard Grimes explore the process of designing a clinic to address unmet legal needs, enhance student learning, and maximise the additional benefits of a clinic.
How to Set up and Run a Law Clinic is a comprehensive guide to the theory and practice of running a clinic. Based on the authors' first-hand experience, the book analyses a variety of day-to-day issues that can arise when setting up a law clinic and provides invaluable solutions to these commonly occurring challenges. In investigating how clinics may be run, and what services they can provide, the book investigates possible tensions between educational and social justice objectives, and how they may be resolved to meet these dual aims. The book examines how the expectations of all stakeholders, including those with regulatory oversight of clinical activities, can be managed and met.
Those working within law schools who are wishing to set up or expand law clinics will find this book to be highly useful. It will be a valuable resource for those aiming to enhance employability and experiential learning offerings. Students, and legal practitioners, wishing to gain insight into the value of clinical work will also find this to be a helpful guide.
How to Set up and Run a Law Clinic is a comprehensive guide to the theory and practice of running a clinic. Based on the authors' first-hand experience, the book analyses a variety of day-to-day issues that can arise when setting up a law clinic and provides invaluable solutions to these commonly occurring challenges. In investigating how clinics may be run, and what services they can provide, the book investigates possible tensions between educational and social justice objectives, and how they may be resolved to meet these dual aims. The book examines how the expectations of all stakeholders, including those with regulatory oversight of clinical activities, can be managed and met.
Those working within law schools who are wishing to set up or expand law clinics will find this book to be highly useful. It will be a valuable resource for those aiming to enhance employability and experiential learning offerings. Students, and legal practitioners, wishing to gain insight into the value of clinical work will also find this to be a helpful guide.
Reviews / Votes
'This book is very comprehensive and well-researched. It will be particularly helpful to academics wanting or needing to start a clinic. It shows them the choices they need to make on key issues and the options they have. It will also be a useful resource for those who take clinic design seriously.' -- Jeff Giddings, Monash University, Australia 'How I wish this book had been available when I set up my first clinic! A comprehensive and detailed resource, full of wisdom, experience and practical know-how that will prove a go-to text for clinicians new and experienced alike. I am delighted that I will have it to hand hereafter.' -- Linden Thomas, University of Birmingham, UK 'This book is a tremendous resource for legal educators around the world. It includes a comprehensive examination of the challenges of setting up an effective and sustainable legal clinic, with insightful analysis of often competing academic and public service goals as well as practical approaches to meeting those challenges.' -- Frank S. Bloch, Vanderbilt University Law School, US 'The book is a comprehensive smorgasbord of options for establishing, managing and developing CLE programmes with a social justice service element, based on the extensive international and national experience of the three authors and other clinical law teachers. It provides a valuable addition to the global publications in the field.' -- David McQuoid-Mason, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South AfricaMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cheltenham
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-0353-6907-2 (9781035369072)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Donald Nicolson, OBE, Professor of Law and Director of the Essex Law Clinic, Essex Law School, University of Essex, UK, JoNel Newman, Professor of Law and Director, Health Rights Clinic, University of Miami, US and Richard Grimes, Visiting Professor, Charles University, Czech Republic and New Vision University, Republic of Georgia; formerly Director of Clinical Programmes, York Law School, University of York, UK
Content
Contents: Preface 1 Introducing law clinics 2 Clinic goals and benefits 3 Clinic design: organisational variables 4 Clinic services: what services can clinics provide? 5 Service delivery models: who, how, where, and when? 6 Delivering quality clinical education and services 7 Setting up an effective and sustainable clinic 8 Future perfect: planning your successful clinic Index