Abstract
This article discusses the resistance experienced by the clinical legal education movement in Italy due to a widespread legal positivist approach which views law as a self-contained technical subject, and excludes interdisciplinarity from the law school curriculum.The choice that the newly-born Italian CLE movement now faces is the option to either become a new socio-legal epistemology of law in action and a social change-maker, or to ascribe to a simple restyling of legal education to include certain practical activities aimed at introducing students to the profession. The future of the movement will depend on whether the rapid increase in the number of clinics will be matched by appropriate reflection on "how clinics might be consciously designed around exposing students to gaps between the law in books and the law in action".
Highlights
His remarks are consequential to the ongoing process of development of the fledgling legal clinical movement in Italy
The establishment of the first legal clinics in Italy1 has been characterized from the outset by an awareness of its potential to combine a practical approach with theoretical considerations, research, education and action
Less than ten years ago, Richard Wilson (2009) pointed out the substantial lack of legal clinics in the continental countries of Western Europe when compared with its global spread elsewhere2
Summary
The relationship between legal clinics and prisons provides a significant opportunity for action for students who would normally have no access to the reality of prison life due to a lack of interest shown in the traditional curricula of law degree courses and of the insular approach that characterises the total institution11.
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