ABSTRACT
Clinical legal education (CLE) is a tool to show students that the law can be used in many ways and they have to decide what needs to be done. CLE is one of the ways in which public law schools can deliver knowledge to society and help produce valid responses and strategies for the better protection of the country's citizens. In recent years, the number of Spanish universities offering clinical legal education has increased, developed and consolidated incrementally. This chapter focuses on the work done at the Legal Clinic for Social Justice of the University of Valencia, as a mere example of how clinical legal education can be put into place and developed in Spain. The institutional crisis refers to the fact that the autonomy of universities is now subject to growing requirements of competency, effectiveness and productivity, and market criteria like employability.
