Commonwealth Legal Education Association Archive
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History of the Association
The Commonwealth Legal Education Association (CLEA) was founded during the Fourth Commonwealth Law Conference in New Delhi in 1971. The idea was initiated by Indian lawyer Dr Laxmi Singhvi, CLEA's first chairman. The Association's objects were to foster high standards of legal education and research in Commonwealth countries; to build up contacts between interested individuals and organizations, and to disseminate information and literature concerning legal education and research.
CLEA established its headquarters in the offices of the Legal Division of the Commonwealth Secretariat in Marlborough House, London, and with the Legal Director as its Honorary Secretary and Treasurer. In 1973 it obtained a grant from the Commonwealth Foundation; this funding, plus subscriptions from members, enabled the CLEA to embark on the projects planned on its establishment. It has received further long term grants from the Commonwealth Foundation to continue its activities.
CLEA's structure, objectives and functions are set out in its Constitution, adopted soon after its foundation. Membership is open to individuals, schools of law and other institutions concerned with legal education and research. Patrons are appointed from various Commonwealth countries. The affairs of the Association are managed by an Executive Committee, drawn from the Commonwealth regions, which meets annually; its actions are reviewed at 5 yearly General Meetings, the first of which was held in Edinburgh during the Fifth Commonwealth Law Conference in 1977. There is an Advisory Panel in the United Kingdom. The administration of the Association was carried out by a chairman and two secretaries, one in London and one abroad. In 1990 the office of chairman was replaced by a president and executive chairperson (since renamed vice president). The President may be elected from any part of the Commonwealth; the Vice President must be established in the UK. In 1994 a South Asian regional chapter was formed.
The information for this entry was taken from Commonwealth Legal Education, the newsletter of the CLEA
Records of the Association
The records listed below comprise:-
a) files collected in the UK from the Secretary of the Association:
b) collections of papers dating from their time as an officer of CLEA received from Professors William Twining and James Read;
c) some printed papers, including copies of CLEA directories, from Dr S B Marsh.
Financial records and current files are with the current CLEA officers. There are no separately maintained minute books for CLEA; minutes, agenda and papers relating to Executive Committee and Advisory Council meetings and meetings of special committees etc will be found in the secretary's files.
CLEA ARCHIVES: CLASS LIST
quantity: 19 boxes
access : open
Class ref Dates Class description
A.CLEA 1 1971-1991 Secretary's correspondence and papers, alphabetically arranged
A.CLEA 2 1973-1994 Papers of W L Twining as a CLEA officer
A.CLEA 3 1974-1995 Papers of Professor James Read as CLEA Chairman, and other papers
A.CLEA 4 1974-1995 CLEA Newsletter
A.CLEA 5 1979-1988 CLEA Directory of Schools of Law in the Commonwealth
A.CLEA 6 1978-1992 Miscellaneous CLEA publications and offprints
CLEA ARCHIVES : HANDLIST OF RECORDS
A.CLEA 1: SECRETARY'S CORRESPONDENCE AND PAPERS, ALPHABETICALLY
ARRANGED, 1971-1991
7 boxes
This class comprises a series of files, listed in alphabetical order, maintained by the CLEA Secretary, who passed them to the Records of Legal Education Archives in 1996. The following list gives the file title as it appeared on the original folders (underlined), covering dates and a brief description of contents. Accounts records appear primarily in the Commonwealth Foundation file and in Executive Committee minutes file. Minutes and agenda of committees will be found in the relevant correspondence file. Some ephemeral material and information copies of papers readily available elsewhere have been destroyed.
Ref Dates Description
A.CLEA 1/1 1987 Accounts; mainly relating to access projects. File marked confidential
A.CLEA 1/2 1979-1988 Advisory Panel; minutes, agenda, papers and correspondence concerning meetings of the Advisory Panel and the Executive Committee, plus some General Meetings, seminars, working parties and statements of financial affairs (included as appendices to minutes)
A.CLEA 1/3 1989 African law faculty problems; circular to African law schools seeking their response to a suggested survey on resources. With replies
A.CLEA 1/4 1984-1986 Access to legal education; correspondence and papers concerning CLEA's project on access to legal education and the legal profession
A.CLEA 1/5 1986-1989 British Council; correspondence including overseas visitors, discussions and comments on courses and working parties, and information papers from BC's Education Information Service and Law Advisory Committee
A.CLEA 1/6 1985-1986 Commonwealth Law Teaching Clinic; correspondence and papers on a law teaching workshop co-sponsored with Warwick University, 1986
A.CLEA 1/7 1986-1987 Commonwealth Institute - CILET (Commonwealth Institute for Legal Education and Training, Ontario); correspondence with CILET on projects partly sponsored by CLEA
A.CLEA 1/8 1976-1984 Commonwealth Lawyers' Association; correspondence with the Commonwealth Legal Bureau and other Commonwealth organisations on forming an association
A.CLEA 1/9 1983-1984 Commonwealth Magistrates' Association; agenda, minutes and papers of meetings on legal training attended by CLEA, with related correspondence
A.CLEA 1/10 1983 Community legal education; note by Chairman W Twining, plus a copy of his paper to the 1983 meeting of Commonwealth Law Ministers in Sri Lanka
A.CLEA 1/11 1976-1987 Continuing legal education; correspondence and papers on continuing legal education throughout the Commonwealth
A.CLEA 1/12 1987-1988 Council of Legal Education; correspondence
A.CLEA 1/13 1981-1989 Commonwealth Foundation; correspondence and submissions concerning funding, including financial statements, reports on CLEA activities and audited accounts
A.CLEA 1/14 1984-1989 Commonwealth Law Conference; papers and correspondence, especially concerning arrangements for mooting competitions
A.CLEA 1/15 1984-1989 Cumberland Lodge; letters concerning
(Pts 1-2) attendance and agenda topics for annual seminars for Commonwealth Law Teachers; programmes; lists of participants; related papers and correspondence and seminar papers and reports
A.CLEA 1/16 1975-1976 Executive Committee arrangements for meetings; papers and accounts circulated to Committee members, with some correspondence
A.CLEA 1/17 1971-1988 Executive Committee minutes; minutes, agenda and papers, including the report of a conference held in 1971 to discuss CLEA's formation. Some Advisory Panel minutes and accounts are also included
A.CLEA 1/18 1984 Funding of Legal Research; correspondence
A.CLEA 1/19 1977-1986 General Meeting; notices of general meetings of CLEA, minutes, related correspondence and papers
A.CLEA 1/20 1986-1988 Human Rights; Part 1: correspondence and
(Pts 1-2) papers relating to a seminar on promotion of human rights and the Commonwealth
Part 2: correspondence and papers relating to an initiative for human rights - meeting at the Royal Commonwealth Society, 1988
A.CLEA 1/21 1975-1985 International Third World Legal Studies Association; correspondence with the International Legal Center on legal education in the third world, including workshops, meetings, papers
A.CLEA 1/22 1985-1987 Training of judicial officers; correspondence and papers, including summaries of situation overseas, plans for training courses and workshops and Commonwealth Magistrates Association Training Committee meetings and agenda
A.CLEA 1/23 1988-1991 Distance learning; correspondence and papers (possibly part 2 to A.CLEA 1/22)
A.CLEA 1/24 1986-1988 Law Book Project; correspondence and papers on various projects on information resources in the Commonwealth
A.CLEA 1/25 1981-1983 Law teaching in a second language; correspondence and articles (includes confidential reports)
A.CLEA 1/26 1985-1987 Law Foundations; correspondence relating to a proposed project
A.CLEA 1/27 1981-1988 Legal Literature; correspondence (Pts 1-2)
A.CLEA 1/28 1974-1985 Miscellaneous; letters concerning policy, appointment of officers, seminar papers, descriptive papers on CLEA's functions
A.CLEA 1/29 1974-1985 Membership; Policy and analyses of membership
A.CLEA 1/30 1985-1988 Mooting competition; correspondence, procedure, rules, programmes, reports (one marked confidential), photographs
A.CLEA 1/31 1983 Newsletter; circular asking for subscriptions
A.CLEA 1/32 1980-1983 Overseas students; statistics and analyses of overseas law students at UK universities
[Overseas legal education]:-
A.CLEA 1/33 1976-1988 Australasia; [includes New Zealand, but see also A.CLEA 1/46]; articles, correspondence, prospecti, syllabi etc
A.CLEA 1/34 1975 Bangladesh; correspondence
A.CLEA 1/35 1988 Botswana; correspondence
A.CLEA 1/36 1983-1986 Canada; reports, articles, correspondence
A.CLEA 1/37 1981-1985 Cayman Islands; reports and correspondence
A.CLEA 1/38 1981-1984 Caribbean law schools; reports and correspondence
A.CLEA 1/39 1974-1985 Hong Kong; reports and correspondence. Contains some confidential material
A.CLEA 1/40 1975-1987 India; reports and correspondence
A.CLEA 1/41 1974-1987 Kenya; reports and correspondence
A.CLEA 1/42 1985 Lesotho; correspondence
A.CLEA 1/43 1977-1984 Malaysia; reports and correspondence
A.CLEA 1/44 1982-1984 Malta; reports and correspondence
A.CLEA 1/45 1984-1987 Mauritius; reports and correspondence
A.CLEA 1/46 1986 New Zealand; correspondence [see also A.CLEA 1/33]
A.CLEA 1/47 1974-1988 Nigeria; reports and correspondence
A.CLEA 1/48 1975-1984 Papua New Guinea; reports and correspondence
A.CLEA 1/49 1985-1986 South Africa; copies of articles concerning law and apartheid, notes, statutes
A.CLEA 1/50 1974-1987 Sri Lanka; reports, articles, correspondence
A.CLEA 1/51 1987-1988 Tanzania; reports and correspondence
A.CLEA 1/52 1974-1988 Uganda; reports and correspondence
A.CLEA 1/53 1977-1984 USA; reports, articles, correspondence
A.CLEA 1/54 1975-1985 Zambia; reports and correspondence
A.CLEA 1/55 1985-1986 Zimbabwe; reports and correspondence
A.CLEA 1/56 1983-1984 Paralegals; correspondence relating to training
A.CLEA 1/57 1983-1986 Postgraduate level courses taught; correspondence. Includes papers concerning the CLEA/Cwealth Secretariat Commonwealth Directory of Post-Graduate Legal Programmes; drafts, press cuttings, lists of contributors
A.CLEA 1/58 1984 Post-graduate students; papers and correspondence relating to CLEA's Directory of Postgraduate Courses in the Commonwealth
A.CLEA 1/59 1976-1984 Reciprocity and minimum standards; correspondence and information
A.CLEA 1/60 1987 Servicing the Legal System; correspondence
A.CLEA 1/61 1987-1988 SPTL; papers on impressions of speakers at conferences
A.CLEA 1/62 1980 Staff exchange schemes; financial aid schemes; collected material on postgraduate study in different countries, plus staff exchanges
A.CLEA 1/63 1984-1985 Teaching professional skills; correspondence
A.CLEA 1/64 1979-1987 Women in Law; articles, correspondence,
(Pts 1-2) papers, including material on CLEA's domestic violence survey, 1987
A.CLEA 1/65 1985 Women and the Law in the Commonwealth; articles, correspondence, background papers for CLEA brochure
A.CLEA 1/66 1986-1987 Women and violence; bibliography, background papers, papers relating to conferences, correspondence
A.CLEA 1/67 1987-1988 Working party on overseas students problems; minutes, agenda, correspondence, background paper, surveys (CLEA was represented on the working party)
A.CLEA 2: PAPERS OF W L TWINING AS A CLEA OFFICER, 1973-1994
8 boxes
Professor William Twining was a CLEA officer as follows:
Advisory Panel member 1977-1983
Executive Committee member 1980-1983
Chairman/President 1983-1990
Executive Chairman 1990-1994
The papers were deposited in the Records of Legal Education Archives in 1996 by Professor Twining. They comprise the following files, arranged chronologically:-
i) Papers as a member of CLEA committees, including ad hoc committees, Advisory Panel (1977-1978) and Executive Committees (1980-1983), 1973-1983;
ii) papers as Chairman 1983-1990;
iii) papers as Executive Chairman 1990-1994;
iv) papers relating to the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI), 1988-1990. CHRI was an area in which the CLEA was involved primarily as a member and supporter. CLEA nominated one member to CHRI and had representatives on the CHRI's Advisory Commission and Steering Committee; William Twining was one of those representatives. CLEA also played a major role in drafting the CHRI report Put our World to Rights.
Professor Twining also passed copies of various CLEA publications to the Archives. They have been added to the relevant publications classes.
Ref Dates Description
Papers as a member of CLEA committees, including ad hoc committees, Advisory Panel and Executive Committees:
A.CLEA 2/1 1973-1975 Correspondence and papers relating to moots and meetings
A.CLEA 2/2 1978-1979 Advisory Panel minutes and correspondence
A.CLEA 2/3 1979-1981 Advisory Panel minutes and correspondence
A.CLEA 2/4 1981 Miscellaneous minutes and correspondence
A.CLEA 2/5 1981-1983 Advisory Panel correspondence
A.CLEA 2/6 1981 Correspondence relating to legal literature seminar
A.CLEA 2/8 1981 Papers relating to post graduate degrees
A.CLEA 2/9 1982 Letters from CLEA Secretary concerning Bar examinations for overseas students
Papers as Chairman:
A.CLEA 2/10 1982-1984 General correspondence and papers
A.CLEA 2/11 1983 General correspondence and papers
A.CLEA 2/12 1984 General correspondence and papers
A.CLEA 2/13 1984-1986 General correspondence and papers
A.CLEA 2/14 1985 General correspondence and papers
A.CLEA 2/15 1986 Miscellaneous correspondence
A.CLEA 2/16 1986 Miscellaneous correspondence
A.CLEA 2/17 1986 Miscellaneous correspondence
A.CLEA 2/18 1987 Miscellaneous correspondence
A.CLEA 2/19 1987 Miscellaneous correspondence
A.CLEA 2/20 1987 Miscellaneous correspondence
A.CLEA 2/21 1988 Miscellaneous correspondence
A.CLEA 2/22 1988-1990 Miscellaneous correspondence
A.CLEA 2/23 1988-1990 Miscellaneous correspondence
A.CLEA 2/24 1990-1993 Miscellaneous correspondence
A.CLEA 2/25 1993 Miscellaneous correspondence
A.CLEA 2/26 1983-1984 Papers relating to Cumberland Lodge seminar
A.CLEA 2/27 1984 Cumberland Lodge seminar
A.CLEA 2/28 1985 Cumberland Lodge seminar
A.CLEA 2/29 1985 Cumberland Lodge seminar
A.CLEA 2/30 1986 Cumberland Lodge seminar
A.CLEA 2/31 1987 Cumberland Lodge seminar
A.CLEA 2/32 1988 Cumberland Lodge seminar
A.CLEA 2/33 1989 Cumberland Lodge seminar
A.CLEA 2/34 1989-1993 Correspondence concerning the Constitution and membership
A.CLEA 2/35 1984 Chairman's notes on CLEA policy and activities
A.CLEA 2/36 1984-1985 Papers concerning a meeting with Professor Elton on formal training in professional skills
A.CLEA 2/37 1984-1990 Papers relating to law foundations research funding
A.CLEA 2/38 1989 Papers relating to law foundations
A.CLEA 2/39 1986 Papers relating to Ocho Rios conference
A.CLEA 2/40 1986 Papers relating to moots
A.CLEA 2/41 1986 Papers relating to post graduate seminar
A.CLEA 2/42 1986-1987 Papers relating to CILET (Commonwealth Institute of Legal Education and Training)
A.CLEA 2/43 1987 Papers relating to awards schemes
A.CLEA 2/44 1987-1991 Papers relating to Commonwealth book scheme
A.CLEA 2/45 1988 Notes and correspondence on continuing legal education
A.CLEA 2/46 1988-1989 Papers concerning books for Africa
A.CLEA 2/47 1988 Papers concerning distance learning
A.CLEA 2/48 1989 Miscellaneous correspondence
A.CLEA 2/49 1989-1991 Papers relating to Zimbabwe working party
A.CLEA 2/50 1989-1991 Papers relating to Zimbabwe working party
A.CLEA 2/51 1989-1992 Papers concerning distance learning
A.CLEA 2/52 1989-1991 Correspondeence concerning CLEA publications
A.CLEA 2/53 1989-1991 Papers relating to funding of Commonwealth law books project
A.CLEA 2/54 1989-1991 Papers relating to African law books project (Dartmouth publications)
A.CLEA 2/55 1989-1991 Papers relating to African law books project (Dartmouth publications)
Papers as Executive Chairman:
A.CLEA 2/56 1990 General correspondence
A.CLEA 2/57 1991 General correspondence
A.CLEA 2/58 1992 General correspondence
A.CLEA 2/59 1993 General correspondence
A.CLEA 2/60 1991-1992 Correspondence concerning CLEA administration
A.CLEA 2/61 1991-1992 Miscellaneous correspondence
A.CLEA 2/62 1990-1991 Papers relating to transfer tests for qualified lawyers
A.CLEA 2/63 1991 Papers concerning CLEA Secretary's responsibilities
A.CLEA 2/64 1991 Papers relating to establishment of a human rights database, University of Dar es Salaam
A.CLEA 2/65 1991-1993 CLEA notices and leaflets, annotated
A.CLEA 2/66 1991 Correspondence and papers relating to meetings with Overseas Development Agency
A.CLEA 2/67 1991-1992 Correspondence and papers relating to meetings with Overseas Development Agency
A.CLEA 2/68 1991 Information on Commonwealth law schools
A.CLEA 2/69 1992 Papers relating to Cyprus mooting competition
A.CLEA 2/70 1993 Papers relating to Cyprus mooting competition
A.CLEA 2/71 1993 Papers concerning Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative
A.CLEA 2/72 1994 Printed papers on CLEA meetings and conferences, plus handwritten notes on CLEA's activities
A.CLEA 2/73 1994 Notes on CLEA meetings
Papers concerning the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI):
A.CLEA 2/74 1988-1989 Letters to other CLEA officers ON sponsoring CHRI
A.CLEA 2/75 1988-1990 Papers relating to the setting up of CHRI
A.CLEA 2/76 1989 Folder containing UN material on human rights and related CLEA papers
A.CLEA 2/77 1989 Background papers and notes on CLEA's role
A.CLEA 2/78 1989 "Right to development" - Seminar papers
A.CLEA 2/79 1989 Correspondence with CHRI; survey and background papers
A.CLEA 2/80 1989-1990 Correspondence relating to financing CHRI, organisation, programme etc. Includes steering committee reports and minutes
A.CLEA 2/81 1989 Correspondence, with minutes and agenda of meetings
A.CLEA 2/82 1989 Copies of UN documents on human rights, agenda and minutes of meetings, supporting documents and articles
A.CLEA 2/83 1990 Steering committee agenda and notes for meetings
A.CLEA 2/84 1990 Background papers and correspondence
A.CLEA 2/85 1991 "CHRI for Hong Kong": correspondence, papers, reports, minutes of steering committee
A.CLEA 2/86 1991-1992 Reports, agenda and minutes of steering committee
A.CLEA 2/87 1992-1993 Folder with CHRI operating procedures and principles, plus correspondence
A.CLEA 2/88 1992-1993 Background papers
A.CLEA 3: PAPERS OF PROFESSOR JAMES READ AS CLEA CHAIRMAN,
AND OTHER PAPERS, 1974-1995
1 box
These papers, together with some copies of the Newsletter, were deposited in the Records of Legal Education Archives in 1996 by Professor Read, CLEA Chairman from 1977-1983. He also served from 1974-1975 on the CLEA Planning Committee for a proposed Workshop on Legal Training, and from 1983 as a member of the Advisory Panel.
Ref Dates Description
A.CLEA 3/1 1974-1975 Proposed CLEA Workshop on the Organisation, Content and Techniques of Legal Training: minutes and papers
A.CLEA 3/2 1976-1978 Chairman's correspondence and papers
A.CLEA 3/3 1979-1980 Chairman's correspondence and papers
A.CLEA 3/4 1981 Chairman's correspondence and papers (Pts 1-2)
A.CLEA 3/5 1982 Chairman's correspondence and papers
A.CLEA 3/6 1983 Chairman's correspondence and papers
A.CLEA 3/7 1983-1995 Miscellaneous correspondence and papers, including papers as a member of the Advisory Panel
A.CLEA 4: CLEA NEWSLETTER, 1974-1995
1 box
Most copies of the Newsletter were deposited in the Records of Legal Education Archives by the CLEA Secretary in 1995. Some copies were also deposited by Professor J Read and Dr S B Marsh in 1997. The following issues are extant:-
Issue No. Date Issue No. Date
1 Nov 1974 2 Feb 1975
3 June 1975 4 Sept 1975
5 Dec 1975 6 Mar 1976
7 June 1976 8 Sept 1976
9 Dec 1976 10 Mar 1977
14 Apr 1978 15 July 1978
16 Sept 1978 18 Apr 1979
21 Dec 1979 22 Mar 1980
23 June 1980 24 Oct 1980
25 Feb 1981 26 May 1981
27 Aug 1981 28 Dec 1981
29 Mar 1982 30 June 1982
31 Sept 1982 32 Dec 1982
33 Mar 1983 34 July 1983
35 Oct 1983 36 Jan 1984
37 Apr 1984 38 July 1984
39 Oct 1984 56 Jan 1989
71 Dec 1994 72 July 1995
A.CLEA 5: CLEA DIRECTORY OF SCHOOLS OF LAW IN THE
COMMONWEALTH, 1979-1988
5 volumes
The directories list the schools (defined as universities or educational institutions of comparable status teaching law as the main or whole subject for a degree or similar award), head of school, degrees/diplomas conferred, student numbersand standing of degrees etc in relation to local professional qualification. The following volumes were deposited in the Records of Legal Education Archives by Professor J Read and Dr S B Marsh in 1997:-
1979 Directory
1981 Directory
1983 Directory
1985 Directory
1988 Directory
A.CLEA 6: MISCELLANEOUS CLEA PUBLICATIONS AND OFFPRINTS,
1978-1992
1 box
The items listed below were deposited in the Records of Legal Education Archives by Professor J Read and Professor W L Twining in 1997.
Ref Dates Description
A.CLEA 6/1 1978 CLEA paper: Legal Literature in Small Jurisdictions, W L Twining and Jenny Uglow
A.CLEA 6/2 1979 CLEA paper: A Proposal to Assess the Legal Information needs and practices of the Legal Profession in the Commonwealth Caribbean, and to establish a system for Printing and Publishing the Legal Literature of the Region Velma Newton
A.CLEA 6/3 1981 CLEA paper: Localising Legal Literature, Jenny Uglow
A.CLEA 6/4 1981 CLEA paper: Information need and research practice, Velma Newton
A.CLEA 6/5 1983 CLEA paper: Survey of Vocational Stage Facilities and Practices in Canadiam Provinces, Neal Gold
A.CLEA 6/6 n.d. (c.1987) CLEA Working Paper No 1: Law Foundations in the Commonwealth - a Campaign Strategy, Jeremy Cooper, Polytechnic of East London
A.CLEA 6/7 1988 CLEA paper: Distance Teaching in Law - a proposal for Commonwealth Co-operation, John Goldring, Australian Law Reform Commission
A.CLEA 6/8 1988 Pacific Law Bibliography, compiled by J D Elliott, CLEA
A.CLEA 6/9 1992 Peter Slinn, Conference on Emerging Educational Challenges for Law in Commonwealth Asia and Australasia: the Implications for Legal Education, CLEA
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