ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book offers a series of studies in which radical and imaginative uses of selected aspects of legal training can lead to models of group and community empowerment far distant from the traditional concept of the reach of law's empire, as taught in academy. It explains these models in law schools in different countries. The book discusses two approaches to incorporating social values in legal education: the Significant Role of Clinical Education and integration of Social Values through Curriculum. It examines emergence of a cluster of discrete insights and techniques: legal ethics, feminism, research and community linkages. The book focuses on three key elements in approaches to justice: proactivity, globalisation and pluralism. It demonstrates two new trends emerging in the clinical movement: rethinking the 1960s clinical models to reflect a new environment and expanding the teaching of social values beyond the clinic.
