Book Review: The Global Clinical Movement: Educating Lawyers for Social Justice. Edited by Frank S. Bloch

Abstract

The Global Clinical Movement: Educating Lawyers for Social Justice. Edited by Frank S. Bloch, First Edition, Oxford University Press, Inc., New York, 2011, 400 Pp., $80 (Hard Bound)

This book, edited by clinical scholar Frank S. Bloch, is an important and ambitious dialogue about the spread of clinical legal education worldwide. With contributions from clinicians spanning six continents, this book gives a skilful insight into the programmatic expansion and transformation of clinical ‘legal education into justice education’. We argue how this volume causes us to question the much disputed import and purposes underlying clinical legal education at law schools worldwide. By exploring the different aspects of the social justice component of clinical legal education and the manner in which such social justice is achieved by incorporating certain concepts and techniques in imparting legal education, the authors seek to bridge the gap between legal education, legal profession, experiential learning and the civil society.