Foreword

Abstract

Welcome to the 19th issue of the journal.This issue is a special issue containing papers from our conference in Durham in July 2012� These include the keynote address from Mary Anne Noone which provided a timely reminder that as well as our concerns with pedagogy and social justice, we cannot afford to neglect the practicalities of ensuring clinic continues to grow and thrive� In this, creating a positive and persuasive brand for our work is an important, and overlooked, issue�The papers in this edition reflect the growing true internationalisation of clinic� The conference had delegates from over 25 countries� We had an unprecedented number of submissions to the journal and I am pleased to report that the papers we publish here are written by clinicians practising in Nigeria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Australia, India, and New Zealand as well as numerous papers from our colleagues in the UK� As Clinical Legal Education grows around the World we are witnessing the growth in this journal of international colleagues publishing their work�The papers we publish in this issue are of course a small proportion of the papers presented at the 2012 conference� My colleague Christopher Simmonds chaired many of the sessions at the 2012 conference and the remainder of this foreword is given over to his observations on the themes that he identified while attending those sessions�