Educación legal clínica: una mirada a la experiencia comparada como modelo de formación basado en la justicia social

Abstract

As a result of an academic effort, derived from the work carried out within the Public Actions Group at the Faculty of Jurisprudence of the Universidad del Rosario, in association with the Hanns Seidel Foundation, this text has been conceived to commemorate 22 years of uninterrupted work since the creation of the Group. The book has two purposes: on the one hand, to document the work of the Clinic on various fronts and, on the other, to review in a rigorous and multidimensional way the perspectives of teachers on clinical legal education today, in different regions where the model has existed and been seeking its place, recognition, and positioning. In this sense, when planning the book, the Clinic’s supervisory team developed a bipartite structure, which would allow consolidating some outstanding strategic litigation actions carried out by the Clinic in the period 2014-2021—which coincides with the completion of case reviews covered in the previous book—while also presenting some studies on the current state of the clinical model seen from the experience of professors dedicated to the clinical education of law, who envision the scenario as a true space to generate transformations in the teaching of law, to train social leaders and agents of change, and to bring to life the ethical and social values that are the foundation of the legal profession