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Clinical legal education has the potential to both utilise law students as agents of social change in India and create future lawyers dedicated to social, economic, political and legal justice. However, to serve these ends, the current system of clinical legal education requires a fundamental transformation. This article advocates legal education in which clinical components involve intense action aimed at positively serving traditionally marginalised segments of society and in which social justice principles permeate the entire law school experience. The article thus hopes to spark a conversation about steps to take towards such a transformation by outlining and discussing multiple alternative models and ideas related to a clinical legal education programme.

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Legal education law school social justice clinic

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Transforming Clinical Legal Education: An Opening for Dialogue

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