Bridges Across Borders Southeast Asia co-organizes the 5th Worldwide Conference of the Global Alliance for Justice Education (GAJE)

“Justice Education in a Community Context”
The Philippines – December 7-13th, 2008

Hosted in Manila, the Justice Education Initiative (JEI) Conference will be an opportunity for law teachers, law students, legal practitioners, jurists and social activists to acquire new ideas, models, and skills for the use of education to promote justice. The Conference will also play a key role in the implementation of the new GAJE Justice Education Initiative. Workshop sessions during the Conference will attempt to define justice education in terms generally applicable in every country of the world, and to produce a model statement of the content and procedures of a comprehensive justice education program, supported by examples of existing justice education programs from around the world.

Regarding Conference Structure
The aim of the conference is to facilitate interaction and participation between the conference leaders and the attendees. While there will be a small number of plenary sessions, including a few key note speeches, most of the conference will consist of workshops, small group sessions, and other opportunities for sharing ideas, materials, etc.

The Conference Themes
Interested persons are invited to submit proposals on any of following themes
• New initiatives in justice education;
• Developing and mainstreaming justice education in the law school and other curricula;
• Teaching social justice through experiential learning;
• Clinical legal education, including street law, legal awareness and live-client clinics;
• Justice education and professional responsibility;
• Special areas of concern, such as human rights and violence against women and children.
Presenters are requested to make their presentations participatory and should indicate in their proposal how they would achieve this. Presentations by teams from different regions will be favoured.

The Conference Hosts
The Manila Conference will be hosted by the Ateneo Human Rights Center (AHRC), a university-based institution engaged in the promotion and protection of human rights in the Philippines, in collaboration with Bridges across Borders Southeast Asia (BABSEA), with Bruce A. Lasky, Co-Founder and Director of BABSEA, serving on the Conference Planning Committee. The primary venue for the Conference will be the Law School of Ateneo de Manila University, located in the City of Makati in metropolitan Manila.

Conference Registration Information

The conference fee is $US 350 (which includes all lunches and several dinners) and increases to US $450 after October 1. Persons who cannot pay the full conference fee can request a fee reduction. Options for conference housing range from $5/night to $150/night. A limited number of grants for costs of travel and/or accommodation will be given, generally only to persons playing a specific role at the conference, such as a session organizer, program speaker, or workshop leader. Therefore, unless you already have a confirmed conference role, you should submit a proposal to participate at the same time as your grant application. The deadline for conference proposals and grant applications is 15 September 2008, although later submissions may be approved at the discretion of the Conference Planning Committee.

For more information about this Conference and/or to register, go to the Justice Education Initiative at www.gaje.org/JEI or contact Bruce A. Lasky at blasky@babasea.org.

Register for the Conference:
http://www.gaje.org/Conf08-home.htm