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.

Session Themes

Presenters for the 3rd Asia CLE Conference are expected to present in person; however, some presenters may attend virtually as long as the substantial majority of the session is conducted in person.

Moreover, presentations cannot be delivered in a lecture style or simple a PowerPoint/lecture style. Rather they must be interactive and what we refer to as “Far Reaching/Flexible/Fun”.

As a means to assist you in this process, we are offering you some “suggestive” guidelines on ways and means to present at your session.  We also are here to assist you, and provide “tips” that have worked in the past that have helped to have us reach our session goals, both related to substance and delivery. As we wrote above, the Access to Justice Thematic Sessions strives to bring greater depth and continuity to existing access to justice initiatives by encouraging creative techniques and attitudes, with the hopes of encouraging new and innovative designs to the international access to justice framework. We are confident that you and your team of co-presenters will succinctly mold and develop upon ideas for your topic to create an interactive session which is both fun and educational.

We would like to suggest the following guidelines when preparing for your session:

• Please avoid the extensive use of PowerPoint slides and absolutely avoid PowerPoint slides with a great amount of text writing.
• Work with your team to generate impactful discussion questions relevant to the topic. Do not be afraid to be provocative and bold, as that is exactly how we want the audience to respond!
• Inject the session with valuable nuggets of information which you envision your session’s delegates to take away with them.
  Please remember to apportion a good amount of time for audience interaction and Q&A. The total time given for each panel/breakout session is 60-90 minutes.

The deadline for submitting a session application is 14 February 2025 (11:59 pm Bangkok Time). 

NOTE: Lead presenters will be notified by email as to whether your submission is accepted between 28 February – 7 March 2025. Accepted presenters are required to register for the conference within 2 weeks of being accepted. No individual can be listed as a presenter for more than two presentation submissions.

Session presentations must be proposed between 60-90 minutes in length, and interactive presentation methods to be used to actively engage the audience.

The format for session plan proposals can be downloaded below.

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.