2025 Susan Campbell Oration: Development of Policy Clinics in Europe

Clinical legal education has been growing rapidly in Europe in the past 15 years. Policy clinics represent important aspect of European approach to clinical legal education, which differs from traditional live-client clinics: students focus on empirical or desk-based research with the aim to contribute to law reform. Policy clinics allow law schools to focus on underserved communities, unaddressed social justice issues and contribute to fulfilment of their third role, while creating safe space for students to develop their analytical skills, critical and creative thinking and engage with global issues.

The Susan Campbell Oration will focus on the experience of law schools, which are already running policy clinics, in order to:

• Highlight the relevance of policy clinics for today’s society and legal education.
• Propose strategies to evaluate the impact and quality of policy clinics.
• Discuss ethical aspects and professional values involved in policy work and
• Identify best practices and key challenges in policy clinic design and methodology

📅 Date: 19 November 2025

⏰ Time: 6 pm – 7 pm AEST (registration from 5.30 pm)-Followed by light refreshments 📍 Venue: Monash University Law Chambers, 555 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne

Registrations Close: COB Thursday 13 November 2025

Maxim Tomoszek serves as Vice-dean for Education at the Palacký University in Olomouc, Faculty of Law. He was the director of Center for Clinical Legal Education there from 2008 to 2016. He teaches the Human Rights Policy Clinic, Patients’ Rights Clinic, Protection of Fundamental Rights, Professional Ethics, and is also a supervisor in Student Law Office. He represents Palacký University in European University Alliance “Aurora”, where he coordinates implementation of Aurora Competence Framework tools. He was a president of European Network for Clinical Legal Education from 2013 to 2019.

About the Susan Campbell Oration

Susan Campbell AM was the first Professorial Fellow in legal practice at Monash University. For 24 years she contributed great leadership to the Clinical Legal Education Program at Monash University. She was an inspiration to generations of clinic teachers and students.

Since 2014, Monash Law has honoured Susan's memory by hosting the Susan Campbell Oration, a series of public lectures by leading clinical legal education scholars.

In delivering the Susan Campbell Oration, scholars have spoken on issues relating to extending the reach and impact of clinical programs, enabling experiential education to achieve its great potential.

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Monash University Law Chambers, 555 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne, Australia

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