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As a developing country with a growing economy, Thailand needs lawyers who are equipped to serve the growing needs of the country.1 Thailand is a member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), a coalition of countries in Southeast Asia that have agreed to cooperate in multiple areas, including economic integration. As the country continues to grow, a strong legal system and legal profession are essential to its success. Clinical legal education (“CLE”) has long been accepted in other parts of the world as a method for training law students to become competent, ethical professionals. This chapter will describe the implementation of CLE in Thailand. The chapter begins by introducing the Thai legal and legal education systems, and the history of CLE in Thailand. CLE began with the community legal service initiative of a group of Thammasat University female law students in 1949, and continues today through multiple CLE initiatives, many of which are supported through the activities of an NGO, Bridges Across Borders Southeast Asia Community Legal Education Initiative2 (“BABSEA CLE”), which began working to introduce CLE throughout the region in 2005.
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Lisa R. Bliss et al., “Moving into the Future: Legal Education in Thailand,” in Shuvro P. Sarker (ed.) Legal Education in Asia (Eleven International Publishing, 2014) 214.
S. Boonchalearmwipas, The Thai Legal History 5th ed. (Winyuchon, 2005) 114.
P. Boondechet al., The Judicial System in Thailand: An Outlook for a New Century (ASEAN Law Association, 2005) 62, www.aseanlawassociation.org/docs/Judicial_System_in_Thailand.pdf.
Ibid. 66; T. Chuerboonchai and P. Srivanit, Challenges to Legal Education in a Changing Landscape: The Case of Thailand (ASEAN Law Association, 2003) 1, www.aseanlawassociation.org/docs/w3_thai.pdf.
Panarairat Srichaiyarat, Clinical Legal Education: An Option for Thai Legal Education Reform (Winyuchon, 2012) 242–245.
Malee Pruekpongsawalee, “Thammasat Clinical Education and the Delivery of Legal Services: A Historical and Personal Perspective,” in Louise G. Trubek and Jeremy Cooper (eds.) Educating for Justice Around the World (Ashgate, 1999) 127.
Lauren Donnison, “Clinical Legal Education in Thai Law Schools and Access to Justice” (Master of Arts thesis, Chulalongkorn University, 2013) 31.
Pichaisak Horyangkul, “A New Approach to Legal Education” (1971) 8 Soc. Sci. J. 128–138.
Panarairat Srichaiyarat, “Thai Qualifications Framework for Higher Education and Clinical Legal Education” (2012) 3 Assumption University Law Journal 18–31; and Panarairat Srichaiyarat, “Clinical Legal Education: An Option for Thai Legal Education Reform” (December, 2012) Naresuan U.L.J. 80–108.
See, for example, Lisa Bliss, “Lessons Learned from Teaching Clinical Legal Education in Thailand” (February, 2014) 63 (3) J. Legal Educ. 524;
Lisa R. Bliss and Supamas Chinvinijkul, “Preparing Law Students for Global Practice: An Innovative Model for Teaching Lawyering Skills and Social Justice in a Large Enrolment Law Course” (2014) 1 Asian J. Legal Educ. 1.
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Srichaiyarat, P., Bliss, L.R., Taloodkum, W. (2015). Clinical Legal Education in Thailand: A Pedagogy Whose Time Has Come. In: Sarker, S.P. (eds) Clinical Legal Education in Asia. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137517531_9
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