Transcript 8th WORLDWIDE GLOBAL ALLIANCE FOR JUSTICE EDUCATION 13th INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLINICAL LEGAL EDUCATION INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2015 ESKISEHIR, TURKEY Tribe Mkwebu, PhD Candidate, School.

8th WORLDWIDE GLOBAL ALLIANCE FOR JUSTICE EDUCATION
13th INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLINICAL LEGAL EDUCATION
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2015
ESKISEHIR, TURKEY
Tribe Mkwebu, PhD Candidate, School of Law,
University of Northumbria, United Kingdom
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Clinical Legal Education
Understanding Establishment and Sustainability
Factors in Setting up and Running Law Clinics through
a Systematic Review Method that Identifies
Knowledge Gaps: A Method with Benefits
Tribe Mkwebu, PhD Candidate, School of Law,
University of Northumbria, United Kingdom
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Introduction
• Consider the economic meltdown in many
countries around the world
• Think about the continued need for access to
justice in light of legal aid funding cuts
• Consider the un-employability of our law
graduates upon completion of their studies
• Think about the law clinic and the factors
affecting its creation and sustainability
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University of Northumbria, United Kingdom
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Research Background
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Research on clinical legal education
Focus is on the clinic in Zimbabwe
Why I am at a GAJE conference
GAJE conference connection with my research
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University of Northumbria, United Kingdom
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Objective of Inquiry
• To provide insights into the contributing factors
to the success and/or failure of clinical legal
education
• To explain and understand the factors relevant
in the creation and sustainability of clinical
legal programmes from a Zimbabwean context
• To make a contribution to knowledge and to
the global clinical movement
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University of Northumbria, United Kingdom
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Systematic Literature Review
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What are these relevant factors?
How do we identify them?
What do we do with them?
The concept of a Systematic Review method
(Mkwebu, T. 2015a, ın press)
• The concept of Grounded Theory method
(Mkwebu, T. 2015b, ın preparatıon)
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University of Northumbria, United Kingdom
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Systematic Review Results
• What the Systematic Review of Literature has
revealed
• 20 factors identified and categorised as
influential factors relevant in the establishment
and sustainability of clinical programmes
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University of Northumbria, United Kingdom
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Influential Factors
Attitudes of the more
traditional law academic
staff
Integration of clinic within
curriculum
Views of clinical legal
education as untested and
unorthodox
The
global
clinical
Collaboration of the law clinic
movement as a knowledge
with different stakeholders
resource platform
The notion that clinical legal
Research-intensive institution
education is a form of legal
and clinical pedagogy
imperialism
Student enthusiasm or lack
thereof
Political/governmental
and/or external interference
Retention and status of
clinical faculty
Resistance from the legal
profession
Availability of financial and
human resources
Ties with the community
served by the institution
Socio-economic-cultural and
political issues
Legal service delivery policy
Jurisdictional policy on
higher education
Relationship between the
legal academy law clinic
and the judiciary
Tension between education
and service objectives
Types of students chosen
for clinic
Tribe Mkwebu, PhD Candidate, School of Law,
University of Northumbria, United Kingdom
Staff-student power
relationships
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Thematic Issues
• Resources
• Institutional
• Relational
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University of Northumbria, United Kingdom
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Thematic Issues
• Regulation may be another category to
consider
• There is obviously a gap between reality and
literature
• Write
• Systematic Review of literature has shown that
resources are there but who has time to read
9000 articles
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University of Northumbria, United Kingdom
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Knowledge Gaps
• Beyond establishment to sustainability and
finances
• Partnership and stakeholders
• Clinic as mainly a social justice vehicle or clinic
primarily as a pedagogy
• Geographical spread of articles
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University of Northumbria, United Kingdom
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Questions
• What do we know?
• Where do we go from here?
• How do we get there?
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University of Northumbria, United Kingdom
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References
• Mkwebu, T. (2015, ın press). A Systematıc Revıew of
Lıterature on Clınıcal Legal Educatıon: A Tool for
Researchers ın Respondıng to an Explosıon of Clınıcal
Scholarshıp, Internatıonal Journal of Clınıcal Legal
Educatıon, Vol.22, No.3
• Mkwebu, T. (2016, ın preparatıon). Understandıng the
Establıshment and Sustaınabılıty Factors ın Settıng up
and Runnıng Law Clınıcs through a Systematıc Revıew
Method that Identıfıes Knowledge Gaps: A Method
wıth Benefıts
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University of Northumbria, United Kingdom
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