CCCLE 2009 Forum on Clinical Education
Conference: August 9-11, 2009
Training: August 12-13, 2009
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The Committee of Chinese Clinical Legal Educators [CCCLE], an organization of over 100 Chinese law schools, invited our program to participate in their annual conference and training, which took place in Harbin, China in August 2009.
Program Director Brian Landsberg spoke to the conference on the relationship of clinics and lawyering skills courses, the two branches of experiential legal education. He suggested that China had the opportunity to avoid mistakes of U.S. legal education, by carefully sequencing traditional classes, lawyering skills classes, and clinical classes, so that students could systematically obtain the benefits of the three apprenticeships, knowledge, skill, and professional identity.
At the invitation of the CCCLE we also presented a two day training for 35 junior Chinese law professors from western provinces.
The training was taught by Chinese professors from Phase I of the program along with American professors. The professors involved were:
Liu Jianming, Zhejiang Gongshang University
Xu Shenjian, China University of Political Science and Law
Zhou Shiwen and Teng Hongqing, South China University of Political Science and Law
Han Guijun, CCCLE and Zhongnan University of Economics and Law
Elliott Milstein, American University
Jay Leach, Jarrod Wong and Brian Landsberg, Pacific McGeorge
The training introduced basic concepts, such as the objectives of experiential learning, teaching theory of the case, teaching of client interviewing, teaching client-centered lawyering and ethics, design of clinical programs and use of simulation to teach doctrinal law.
.JPG "Trainers and Participants in Harbin")