scholarly journals Legal Aid and Clinical Legal Education in Europe and the USA: Are They Compatible?

2017 ◽  
pp. 263-285
Author(s):  
Richard J. Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Legal Education ◽  
Legal Aid ◽  
The Usa

AALS Panel – Global Legal Education – Legal Education in the New Europe and the USA: Shall the Twain Ever Meet?

2004 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 321-328
Author(s):  
Tadas Klimas
Keyword(s):  
Legal Education ◽  
The Usa

There are a myriad of avenues that could be taken by every person and organization each and every day. While perhaps opportunities should be taken advantage of, one must see the need. Some interests are not vital; whereas others are and should not be risked save in cases of grave necessity. And it is morally difficult to require heroism, such that some roads are not taken judiciously and others through lack of awareness or through the lack of requisite heroism.

scholarly journals Clinical legal education in Croatia – from providing legal assistance to the poor to practical education of students

2014 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. 373
Author(s):  
Barbara Preložnjak
Keyword(s):  
Practical Knowledge ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
Legal Education ◽  
Practical Training ◽  
Legal Aid ◽  
Procedural Cost ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Law Faculty ◽  
The University

<p>Although clinical legal education has a long tradition in common law countries, the countries of the continental European legal system, to which the Republic of Croatia (hereinafter Croatia) belongs, have recognized its importance in the last few years. The first established legal clinic in Croatia was the one of the Faculty of Law at the University of Rijeka. It has been implemented as part of the curriculum for the academic year 1996/1997 and offered to the fourth year students as an elective course entitled “Clinic for Civil Law”. Within the Rijeka Clinic, law students were able to acquire theoretical and practical knowledge, by resolving hypothetical cases, under the supervision and with the support of teachers, lawyers, judges, notaries public and state attorneys. In 2002, with the support of the Institute Open Society from Budapest, the Faculty of Law at the University of Osijek established a legal clinic in the form of practical training for students of the third and fourth year of legal studies. By participating in the clinic’s activity, students of Osijek Law Faculty helped provide legal aid to citizens of lower economic status. This included help in providing general legal information and legal advice, as well as help in covering procedural cost from the funds donated to the Clinic. The lack of financial means that were needed for daily expenditures meant that the Legal Clinic in Osijek was temporarily closed. Nowadays, faculty members of Osijek Law Faculty are trying to solve financial problems and to continue previous good practice in providing legal aid to the poor citizens.</p>

scholarly journals To the question on rendering free legal assistance to the population

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Natal'ya Olegovna Sabanina ◽  
Dmitrii Sergeevich Ermakov ◽  
Sergei Anatol'evich Popov
Keyword(s):  
Legal Education ◽  
Legal Assistance ◽  
Complex Mechanism ◽  
Legal Aid ◽  
Federal Level ◽  
Internet Resources ◽  
Information Awareness ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
To Receive

Rendering legal assistance to the population is one of the crucial vectors in the activity of legislative and executive branches, as well as local self-governance in different countries. The subject of this research is the formulation of recommendations aimed at elimination of gaps in the current legislation in the area of rendering free legal assistance to the population of the Russian Federation. The article presents an analytical overview of the peculiarities of rendering free legal assistance to the citizens in Russia and abroad. Emphasis is placed on analysis of the current legislation that regulates the indicated area of legal relations, effectiveness of its application, and further improvement. The novelty of the acquired results consists in the use of comprehensive approach towards examination of theoretical and empirical materials, as well as in proposing ways to improve the mechanism of rendering free legal assistance to the Russian population. As there is currently a complex mechanism for the lawyers to provide reports in order to be paid for their assistance, it is offered to develop requirements on the federal level to receive compensation for their work. It is also essential to establish on the federal level the minimum compensation for each type of legal aid. For increasing information awareness of the citizens on the possibilities of receiving free legal aid, it is necessary to give closer attention to legal education (availability of mass media and Internet resources, creation of thematic sections and banners, publication of information of websites and at the premises of multifunctional centers, etc.). The made proposals and recommendations can be used as the theoretical framework for solution of practical problems associated with rendering free legal assistance to the population.

scholarly journals Establishing An International Human Rights Clinic in the New Zealand Context

2014 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. 295 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kris Gledhill
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Legal Education ◽  
Law Schools ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
Tier System ◽  
Core Feature ◽  
Structural Differences ◽  
The Usa ◽  
International Human

<p>Whilst clinical programmes are an established and core feature of legal education in the USA, and play a significant role in various other jurisdictions, they are essentially absent from New Zealand. The existence of a marked difference is itself a reason to investigate whether experiential learning should have a place in the curriculum of New Zealand’s law schools. This is done by examining briefly the growth of clinical legal education in order to illuminate its purpose; and then considering whether structural differences mean that this does not resonate as much in New Zealand. It is suggested that there are indeed some reasons for caution, in particular that there is a concern around having a two-tier system of legal provision. But it is also suggested that an international human rights clinic could surmount these reasons for caution; and a prospective design for such a programme is developed and its ability to secure the needs of students and clients is assessed.</p>

Clinical Legal Education: A Virtual Mode of Access to Justice

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 62
Author(s):  
V.S. Gigimon ◽  
Shruti Nandwana
Keyword(s):  
Legal Education ◽  
Access To Justice ◽  
Practical Training ◽  
Legal Assistance ◽  
Legal Aid ◽  
Virtual Classrooms ◽  
Dual Purpose ◽  
Working Model ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Virtual Mode

Legal education, all over the world uses a mix of practical and theoretical means to train students. For purposes of practical training, specialized legal clinics are established by legal education institutions to train the students to apply the classroom learnt law in live cases. These legal clinics serve dual purposes, first, of training students in the practical aspects of the law and second, providing access to justice to people in areas where it is difficult to get legal help and where reaching institutions of justice delivery is difficult. The pandemic situation prevailing world over now has had deep impacts in imparting legal education. The physical classrooms have turned into virtual classrooms, delivering only theoretical education and leaving doubts in the mind of students due to lack of practical training resulting from non-functioning of legal aid clinics in this situation. In order to ensure access to justice in India during the time of pandemic, the judiciary has taken recourse of virtual courts, whereby the listing and hearing of cases which require urgent hearing are done online. The same methodology has also been adopted by the National Legal Aid Service Authority by conducting virtual Lok Adalats where cases are entrusted to them . By studying the same mode of virtual courts and virtual Lok Adalats, the present paper aims to devise a working model to ensure that clinical legal education is continued in India during these times of pandemic, and that legal aid clinics work efficiently to ensure that people are not deprived of their right to legal assistance. The working model proposes a collaboration between the legal aid clinics of the universities and colleges and the justice delivery institutions to ensure dual purpose of legal aid clinics is met. The model will also be tested in the institution, and a pan India plan of action for implementing this model would be devised.

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