Military wars and additional conflicts of global significance have caused social and humanitarian disasters and destabilized the world order.  Whilst wars and conflicts rage on and refugees seek safety, states break away from the rule of law, democracy is backsliding, civic space is shrinking and the world is struggling to find good answers to climate change. 

Today, these crises and conflicts determine the lives of most people, whether privileged or not. They also change established theoretical frameworks, approaches, and categories, which also have an impact on education and the production of knowledge. Societies need to address the glaring issues of justice, fairness, and the impact of global crises on communities.

Clinical Legal Education and more generally Justice Education, has always demonstrated its potential to confront legal problems societies face and to find innovative solutions. Many of these legal education programs have enhanced social justice worldwide in many ways, both directly and through the emphasis on socially relevant legal education. 

The world-wide conference organized by the Global Alliance for Justice Education (GAJE) together with the European Network for Clinical Legal Education (ENCLE) and the Polish Legal Clinics Foundation (FUPP) at the Lazarski University’s Faculty of Law in Warsaw (Poland) will once again be an important meeting point for critical reflection about the power and role of legal education to transform societies and to defend the values of justice. 

The main goal of this conference is to provide law teachers, law students, legal practitioners, jurists, and social activists from around the world the opportunity to share and acquire new ideas, models, and skills for the use of education to promote social justice. In a range of plenary, small‐group, and workshop sessions, delegates will explore justice education as a concept for presenting, discussing, and creating innovative ideas for promoting social justice through legal education, including new and existing university legal clinics. There will also be organized site visits to local justice education projects and a social calendar.

The General Conference, from 23 to 26 July 2025, will be organized to facilitate as much participation as possible by those attending. While there will be a small number of plenary sessions, including a few keynote speeches, most of the conference will consist of parallel interactive sessions/workshops or lightning talks, providing many opportunities for delegates to share ideas, experiences, and teaching methods, and materials. The General Conference structure prioritizes sessions using interactive methods.

The Train the Trainer (TOT) workshops will be held on two days: the first and last days of the conference (22^nd July and 27^th July 2025). The TOT is designed for both relatively new teachers and more experienced teachers who will be going back to their institutions to use and share what they have learned at the workshop. The TOT will focus on active learning with an emphasis on experiential education. It will be led by an international group of highly experienced justice educators.