Epistemic communities at the boundaries of law : : clinics as a paradigm in the revolution of legal education in the European Mediterranean context / / edited by Cecilia Blengino and Andrés Gascón-Cuenca.

• Superior document: Quaderni del Dip. Giurisprudenza UniTo
• TeilnehmendeR: Blengino, Cecilia,; Gascón Cuenca, Andrés,
• Place / Publishing House: Milano, Italy : : Ledizioni,, [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Quaderni del Dip. Giurisprudenza UniTo
• Physical Description: 1 electronic resource (166 p.)

“As richly described in the various chapters of this book, we see that clinics can act as a window to the functioning of law and the legal system. Clinics allow students and faculty to see how laws and the legal system are functioning for groups of people who otherwise likely would not be a part of the common experience of professors and their students: poor people generally, migrants and refugees, women and children exploited by trafficking, people with disabilities, ethnic minorities, prisoners, and so on. Legal systems the world over tend to give less care and attention to the problems of the poor and other disempowered groups, and such people usually lack access to well-educated legal advocates to help them fight to make the legal system work for them. Through clinic cases, students and faculty see the day-today lives of people marginalized by the society, see how the law affects and influences their lives, and see how it serves or fails to serve them. For law professors involved in clinical education, such as the authors of this book, heightened awareness of the law’s operation for poor people adds another important perspective to the subjects of their research and work as commentators on the law. Students can also be inspired to select topics for research papers, master or PhD theses by exposure to problems in the law and legal system as it functions for their clients.” (Dall’introduzione)

Table of Contents

Legal clinics as a paradigm in the revolution of legal education in the European Mediterranean context / Cecilia Blengino and Andrés Gascón-Cuenca -- Clinical legal education and reflective practice: the epistemology of practice on the boundaries of law / Cecilia Blengino -- The crisis of the welfare state and the worsening of access to justice: the role of the university and of the clinical legal movement in Spain and Italy / Andrés Gascón-Cuenca -- Access to justice and the impact of the European legal clinics in case law / José García-Añón -- Legal clinics as a training methodology in human rights / Jose Antonio García Sáez -- The community lawyering clinic in prison / Silvia Mondino -- Carceral tours and penal tourism: a didactic tool for the understanding of the total institution / Claudio Sarzotti -- Chronicles of a legal scandal. Migrant detention and the power of education / Maurizio Veglio -- How clinical legal education is crossing borders? / Ulrich Stege.