Forty-five years of clinical legal education in South Africa

In the fourth century BC, Socrates and Aristotleand in the thirteenth century AD, Roger Bacon -viewed "induction or experimentation as the sine qua non of all knowledge". In the nineteenth century, John Dewey proposed that true education is derived from reflective life experience, rather than from merely memorising facts. These views, over centuries, still underscore the clinical legal education (CLE) methodology. A comparative analysis indicates the development of legal education and CLE in the USA and South Africa.