Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part One Goals of Legal Education
- Part Two Law School Governance
- Part Three Optimal Academic Curricula and Teaching Methods
- Chapter 3 Interactive Teaching Methodologies in Ukrainian Legal Education: Balancing between State of the Art and a Newfangled Whim
- Chapter 4 The Challenges of Higher Legal Education in the Kyrgyz Republic and the Peculiarities of Educational Process at the AUCA Law Department
- Chapter 5 The Environmental Law Clinic: A New Experience in Legal Education in Spain
- Chapter 6 The Judicial Practice Center: The Connection between Theory and Socially Responsible Professional Practice
- Part Four The Academic Career in Law
- Appendix
Chapter 5 - The Environmental Law Clinic: A New Experience in Legal Education in Spain
from Part Three - Optimal Academic Curricula and Teaching Methods
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 September 2014
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part One Goals of Legal Education
- Part Two Law School Governance
- Part Three Optimal Academic Curricula and Teaching Methods
- Chapter 3 Interactive Teaching Methodologies in Ukrainian Legal Education: Balancing between State of the Art and a Newfangled Whim
- Chapter 4 The Challenges of Higher Legal Education in the Kyrgyz Republic and the Peculiarities of Educational Process at the AUCA Law Department
- Chapter 5 The Environmental Law Clinic: A New Experience in Legal Education in Spain
- Chapter 6 The Judicial Practice Center: The Connection between Theory and Socially Responsible Professional Practice
- Part Four The Academic Career in Law
- Appendix
Summary
Introduction
In 2006, a group of public law lecturers at Rovira i Virgili University established an Environmental Law Clinic (ELC) with the aim of exploring new, cross-functional approaches to teaching environmental law to students at the master's and undergraduate levels. The ELC offers both high-quality teaching and an exciting, practice-oriented curriculum.
In terms of teaching, students gain diverse insights into environmental law, as they are taught by lecturers from a variety of disciplines within public law: international public law, administrative law, criminal law, constitutional law, and philosophy of law. In terms of the curriculum, the ELC is both a core subject in the syllabus of the master's degree in environmental law and an elective in the undergraduate course in law. The content of the course focuses on real-life examples of institutions that act in the public interest. In particular, cases are drawn from the public administration sector, such as the Vilaseca Borough Council, Reus Borough Council, Tarragona Provincial Government, and the General Council of the Valley of Aran; the administration of justice sector, for example, the Public Prosecutor's Office of Tarragona Provincial Court; and nongovernmental organizations or foundations, such as the Platforms Salvem els Muntanyan and Salvem la Platja Llarga, and the Foundations Nueva Cultura del Agua and La Red de Defensores Comunitarios in Chiapas, Mexico. In Spain, students are not permitted to act in court proceedings.
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- The New Law SchoolReexamining Goals, Organization and Methods for a Changing World, pp. 65 - 72Publisher: Jagiellonian University PressPrint publication year: 2010