3rd Asia Clinical Legal Education Conference
“Collaboratively Institutionalizing CLE Locally, Regionally, and Globally”
23 – 25 May 2025
Chiang Mai, Thailand
Call for Presentations is Now Open
This conference will feature a wide range of discussions focusing on the development, institutionalization, and expansion of CLE programs both locally, regionally and globally.
Paper sessions
Paper sessions are 30-minute presentations, designed to engage participants actively and in an interdisciplinary way, inclusive of a brief question-and-answer session at the end of the presentation.
Interactive sessions
60 or 90-minute interactive sessions that show and describe a technique for clinical legal education, where participants may be involved in a variety of ways, such as small-group activities, role-playing, case studies, problem-solving, and hands-on instructional activities, providing attendees with the opportunity to broaden their clinical legal education horizons.
Session Themes
- Building and Maintaining CLE Community Partnerships
- Building and Sustaining CLE Networks
- CLE Ethical Practices
- CLE Lessons Learned: Historical Experiences Fostering Future Successes
- CLE Policies and Procedures
- CLE Scholarship and Writings
- CLE Supervision
- CLE through Students’ Perspectives
- Cross-border CLE Programs and Partnerships
- Delivering CLE in Rural Communities
- Establishing and Sustaining CLE Programs
- Exploring the Various Models of CLE
- Institutionalizing CLE
- Introduction to CLE Methodology
- Measuring the Impact of CLE
- Rationale for Developing CLE Programs
- Successful CLE Advocacy
- The Academic Value and Pedagogical Method of CLE
- The Context and Environment of CLE in Asia and Internationally
- The Diversified Goals of CLE
- The Intersection of CLE and Pro Bono
- Thematic and Specialized CLE Programs
- Virtual Clinical Legal Education Initiatives
- What is CLE
Proposals must be submitted online via the conference proposal submission portal.
Submission Deadline: 14 February 2025 (11:59 pm Bangkok Time)
This is a presentation only, and the papers, as well as non-publication presentations, will not be included in the conference proceedings.
Registration Fees
In-Person Attendance: (General Public)
Early Bird
Now - 28 Feb 2025- Access to all 3 days of conference sessions.
- Daily lunch and two refreshment breaks each day.
- Conference dinner on one evening.
Regular
1 Mar - 14 Apr 2025- Access to all 3 days of conference sessions.
- Daily lunch and two refreshment breaks each day.
- Conference dinner on one evening.
Late
15 Apr - 15 May 2025- Access to all 3 days of conference sessions.
- Daily lunch and two refreshment breaks each day.
- Conference dinner on one evening.
In-Person Attendance: (Student)
Early Bird
Now - 28 Feb 2025- Access to all 3 days of conference sessions.
- Daily lunch and two refreshment breaks each day.
- Conference dinner on one evening.
Regular
1 Mar - 14 Apr 2025- Access to all 3 days of conference sessions.
- Daily lunch and two refreshment breaks each day.
- Conference dinner on one evening.
Late
15 Apr - 15 May 2025- Access to all 3 days of conference sessions.
- Daily lunch and two refreshment breaks each day.
- Conference dinner on one evening.
Virtual Attendance:
Early Bird
Now - 28 Feb 2025- Access to all live-streamed sessions.
Regular
1 Mar - 14 Apr 2025- Access to all live-streamed sessions.
Late
15 Apr - 15 May 2025- Access to all live-streamed sessions.
Clinical legal education (CLE) is a progressive educational system most often implemented through university-based faculty of law programs to help develop better-trained, more socially conscious legal service providers. It is a process whereby students learn by doing. It is an experiential problem-solving based model, in which students actively involve themselves in either real client/personal interactions or simulation case studies set up to mirror real client/personal scenarios. This process is conducted under the supervision of experienced clinicians and legal practitioners. CLE also involves a variety of community outreach programs.
As a teaching device, this type of experiential problem-based learning is considered a highly effective means of adult learning where students learn and importantly retain a vast amount of what is taught. The use of this interactive method of teaching focuses students on becoming more able, thorough and ethical advocates, attorneys, governmental and private employers/employees.
“Clinical Legal Education (CLE) programs provide pro bono services to the community while educating the next generation of social justice, pro bono champions.”