Special Issues – Clinical and Public Legal Education: Responses to Coronavirus.

International Journal of Clinical Legal Education

The International Journal of Clinical Legal Education is an international peer-

reviewed open access journal devoted to the innovative field of clinical legal
education.

International Journal of Public Legal Education

The International Journal of Public Legal Education is an international peer-

reviewed open access journal devoted to the field of public legal education (PLE).

Call for Papers – IJCLE Special Practice Report Issue

Clinics in Time of Crisis: Responding to the COVID-19 Outbreak

Background information

Clinicians have faced, and continue to face, the unprecedented challenge of how to
adapt their teaching practice in response to the COVID-19 outbreak. Many clinics
suspended all face to face attendance with students and clients as the pandemic took
hold and rapidly moved to online teaching. During the next academic year, clinical
legal education will need to be adjusted to ensure that social distancing
requirements are observed. In this context, how are legal clinics adapting to the
challenges presented and have sufficient lessons been learned in anticipation of the
further disruption that a second wave of COVID-19 may bring?

Call for Papers

This peer-reviewed special practice report issue will focus on clinical responses to
the COVID-19 outbreak and debate the opportunities, challenges and
solutions.  Potential contributors may want to consider the following issues as
relevant to this general topic:

 Adapting teaching practice within clinical legal education

 Using technology to support clinics and facilitate learning
 Building an effective collaborative working environment for students
 Providing online legal advice to members of the community and public legal
education
 Using simulated case work and policy work

We invite submissions covering any of these issues. This is an open call.

 Call for papers- IJPLE Special Practice Report Issue

In these difficult times, inequalities in our legal system are highlighted and there is
an increasing need for individuals to have access to legal information, guidance and
support. Equipping individuals with the skills and capability to access and assert
their rights as well as knowing when and how to seek support is vital and public
legal education has a valuable role to play in this. Many of us will be re-visiting our
PLE programmes and activities in the current climate - developing new ways of
delivering PLE, in different environments and to audiences with different needs and
resources. It is important that we share our ideas, successes and challenges and the
next issue of the journal will focus on these.

Submissions

Any proposals submitted for the special practice report issue of the International
Journal of Clinical Legal Education will, if suitable, also be considered for alternative
publication in the International Journal of Public Legal Education. The same
timescales and process referred to above will be followed. Editorial options will be
discussed with the authors.

All expressions of interest

Please contact the guest editors Hugh McFaul and Francine Ryan, (in the first
instance by email Open-justice@open.ac.uk) . Deadline for proposals is 24/08/20.
Proposals should include the following information:

Title

Name of author[s], including title[s], role and organisation

Contact details: email, phone

Abstract:  300 words maximum

We will then invite authors to submit full texts of proposals.  Full text submissions
should be marked Special Edition: Clinics in Time of Crisis and be submitted in
Microsoft Word on the IJCLE website
at: http://www.northumbriajournals.co.uk/index.php/ijcle/about/submissions#autho
rGuidelines. Word limit: 5,000-6,000 words.
 

Date Deadline

24/08/2020 Deadline for initial proposals (including abstracts)

31/08/2020 Final notification regarding proposals

12/10/2020 Deadline for practice report

25/10/2020 Referee reports on papers submitted to editors and passed to

authors for second drafting

16/11/2020 Submission of second drafts to editors

1/12/2020 Editorial work completed and special edition submitted to

journal editor

Stylesheet and further information

Style sheet, referencing guide, and background information for the journal is
available at:
http://www.northumbriajournals.co.uk/index.php/ijcle/about/submissions#authorG
uidelines