1. Clinical Education in China: The Next Steps Brian K. Landsberg 1July 2011

2. Number of Law Schools with Clinics [Based on membership in CCCLE] Growth of Clinical Education in China 2

3. Nature of Clinical Education in China: Phase One, the first decade Wide range of programs – Live client clinics – Student legal aid programs – Mock trial programs – Simulation courses Often low status Wide range of faculty competence and availability Some similarity with U.S. clinics forty years ago 3

4. Issues in Phase Two, The Second Decade of Chinese Legal Clinics Objectives of clinical legal education – Serve legal needs of the disadvantaged? – Improve students’ understanding of doctrine? – Mold students’ professional skills and values? – Help students get jobs? – A combination of the above objectives? 4

5. Issues in Phase Two China’s evolving definition of “clinical legal education” – Professor-led clinics – Hybrid clinics? – Lawyer-led clinics [such as Legal Aid]? – Externships? – Simulation courses? Place in the curriculum – Units – Undergraduate, graduate, or both 5

6. Issues in Phase Two Faculty – Status? – Teaching load? – Competence? – Scholarship? Teaching methods – Import from common law countries? – Home grown? – A mixture? Assessment methods? 6

7. Issues in Phase Two Resources for further development – Committee of Chinese Clinical Legal Educators [CCCLE] – Chinese government – Regional conferences E.g., Zhejiang Province law school conference – Ford Foundation – Pacific McGeorge project – Yale China program 7

8. Materials CCCLE web site [in Chinese] Pacific McGeorge web site – http://www.mcgeorge.edu/Experiential_Education_in _China.htm http://www.mcgeorge.edu/Experiential_Education_in _China.htm Lists articles and books about clinical legal education in China Contains training materials from our train the trainers program Will soon link to a Sakai site of curricular materials How develop more of the materials clinicians need? 8

9. Today’s Program The speakers and commentators have all been participants in the Pacific McGeorge educate the educators program. They will address at least some of the questions I listed above and will tell us how their law schools are responding to the questions. We encourage interchanges of ideas. How have law schools in other countries approached these issues? 9