scholarly journals Law School Legal Aid Clinics: A Sample Plan; Their Legal Status

1969 ◽  
Vol 117 (7) ◽  
pp. 970 ◽  
Author(s):  
Herbert M. Silverberg
Author(s):  
B. Drychyk

The article describes and analyzes the peculiarities of the legal status of the defendants in criminal proceedings. There is a need for a thorough legal analysis of the legislative consolidation of the rights and guarantees of participation of this category of subjects both at the stage of pre-trial investigation and at trial. The result of the work is the conclusion about the possibility of the defendant's participation in criminal proceedings, his release from legal liability, the use of legal aid, confidentiality, provision of information, provision of information on the status and results of the examination, inspection and / or investigation, lodging an appeal.


Author(s):  
Richard A. Rosen ◽  
Joseph Mosnier

This chapter describes Chambers's creation of a black-led and racially integrated law firm, for all intents the first such institution in the United States. In 1967, Chambers recruited two junior attorneys to his office: Adam Stein, a white George Washington University Law School graduate who had interned with Chambers in the summer of 1965, and James Ferguson, an African American from Asheville, North Carolina, who had just graduated from Columbia Law School. The three would form the nucleus of a powerful civil rights law practice for years to come. In 1968, after recruiting a young white Legal Aid attorney, James Lanning, Chambers formally created Chambers, Stein, Ferguson & Lanning. In 1969, African American attorney Robert Belton, a North Carolina native who was LDF's leading Title VII litigator, also joined the firm. So highly reputed was Chambers as a civil rights litigator, and so central was his firm to the wider LDF campaign in these years, that the firm was informally acknowledged as "LDF South."


2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (3(65)) ◽  
pp. 211-224
Author(s):  
Марина Сергеевна ТРОФИМОВА

Practice shows that a legal clinic is the most effective element of practical-oriented education in a law school today. Despite the introduction of project activities into curricula, the development of cooperation programs with employers, the harmonization of curricula and teaching materials with employers’ representatives, it is the possibilities of clinical education that enable future lawyers to acquire practical skills even before graduation. Nevertheless, some distance of clinics from employers' practice bases and sites does not allow full benefit of clinical training. Purpose: to examine possible mechanisms for interaction between legal clinics and governmental bodies, primarily courts. Methods: the national and world experience of legal clinics is studied, the level of legislative regulation of their activities and the degree of their involvement in national systems of free legal aid are determined by applying comparative legal, specific legal methods, analysis and synthesis. Results: the author substantiates that the program of clinics should include measures to provide free legal assistance to the public at employers' venues. The opinion is expressed that such work can contribute to the involvement of students in the practice of judicial representation of clients' interests, as the most professional element of free legal aid. The article identifies possible ethical and organizational problems that may arise in the implementation of such interaction, and suggests ways to overcome them on the example of the activities of the legal clinic of the Novgorod State University.


2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 38-65
Author(s):  
K Rajashree ◽  
Sonika Bhardwaj

The law schools legal aid activities conducted through its clinics has come a long way in India especially since its inception in the early 1970’s. Its evolution has been gradual, intermittent and varied. Although The Bar Council of India (BCI) has mandated, establishing legal aid clinics as a pre-requisite for granting the necessary permissions before law schools start functioning, there are limited ideas of its purpose and objectives. An inherent lack of understanding its importance in terms of teaching, learning and research, the legal aid practices are largely left to the discretion of the individual law schools and interpretations of the individual faculty members. Combined with ideas heavily borrowed from the law schools in the US and individual experiences of the faculty members, legal aid practices in India are diversified. In the backdrop of this, the author intends to explore and map the aspiration of legal aid through an analysis of the key policy documents of legal education since India’s independence through an ontological framework. The ontology maps the aspirations of the legal aid clinics that was intended through these documents. Additionally, a case study of two important institutions have been taken as the case in point in order to verify whether the practices match such aspirations. Thereby, putting forth arguments that are critical for understanding the gaps between the aspiration and the state of reality. Key words: Legal aid Clinics, Law schools, Clinical, Legal education, Social justice


2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dixie Morrison

Student Editor Dixie Morrison (JD Candidate, Harvard Law School) examines how the Indian Supreme Court’s reasoning in Shamim Ara v. State of U.P. & Anr. (Supreme Court of India 2012) influenced the legal status of triple ṭalāq and Islamic divorce in India.


2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-94
Author(s):  
K. Rajashree

With the mushrooming of legal aid clinics across institutions imparting legal education, there exists a conundrum as to their actual objectives. With passage of time, social justice theory is losing ground and skill development theory has gained greater predominance. In order to understand the objectives behind establishing legal aid clinics, the article traces its inter-linkages with the theory of social justice. In doing so, an analysis of the context under which legal aid clinics were established and their relevance to the present day is explored through the article. With the passage of 22 years of establishment of law school legal aid clinics in India, there still exists a dichotomy as to their real purpose and objective. These models of legal aid clinics of the past not only offer insights to develop present models of legal aid clinics, but there is also a need to emulate these models as they are relevant and apt even to this day. The article adapts a comparative approach between India and the USA, chronicling the past and present sojourns of the journey of law school legal aid clinics and the suitability of the social justice theory to the current Indian context.


Author(s):  
Mykola Kompaniets

The article examines the theoretical and praxeological issues of organizational and organizational and legal activities of localgovernments in the implementation of free legal aid.It is proved that the most important teleology of local self-government and local self-government bodies formed by the territorialcommunity as a result of democratic procedures and appointments is the realization of constitutional rights, freedoms and responsibi -lities of man and citizen, because local self-government and territorial community-legal status of a person, – therefore, given the ratherhigh potential of their legal “content”, the provision of free primary legal aid within the territorial community and at the level of localself-government is an important, timely and effective factor of local development.It is argued that the implementation of organizational and organizational and legal activities of local governments to provide legalassistance in the local community is an objective and important area of support and implementation of constitutional and legislativeguidelines for such assistance.It is argued that exercising their own (self-governing) competences to provide legal assistance, local governments through thepractical implementation of organizational and organizational-legal activities in the relevant field actually form a local system of suchlegal assistance, in its contextualization as an important segment of local protection. human and civil rights and freedoms within theterritorial community.The author believes that the amount of competence rights granted to local governments to organize free primary legal aid at thelocal level of society within the territorial community – through the construction of an effective and efficient local system of such assistance,has a high organizational, praxeological, normative, normative design. and methodological potential. This conclusion is substantiatedby the fact that such multifactorial potential is not only sufficient and optimal for the members of the territorial community toexercise their constitutional rights and freedoms, fulfill their constitutional duties – in practice it transforms the local self-governmentand authoritative socially responsible and socially legitimate entity. which can really represent, reflect, moderate (in the context of mo -ni toring), protect and guarantee the realization of the rights, freedoms and responsibilities of residents of territorial community members.The implementation of organizational activities of local self-government bodies for the implementation of legal aid in territorialcommunity is not provided by current legislation, it logically follows from the understanding and interpretation of their competence inthe relevant field; implementation of organizational and legal activities of local self-government bodies on the implementation of legalaid in territorial community is regulated by current legislation, as well as regulations and documents developed and adopted by localself-government bodies within the framework of local rule-making.


2019 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 169-186
Author(s):  
Serhii Kivalov

Nowadays, legal clinics exist in almost every country in the world. The article examines the legal status of legal clinics in Ukraine to properly ensure the human right to legal aid. The author emphasizes that legal clinics are an important element of the legal aid institute. Accordingly, there is an urgent need to regulate the legal status of legal clinics, since in this way the state fulfills its obligation to guarantee the constitutional right of every person to receive legal aid. Even though legal clinics perform important social tasks, regulatory regulation of their activity is carried out only at the level of acts of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine. All attempts to consolidate the legal status of legal clinics at the level of the law—for example, the Law “On Free Legal Aid” of June 2, 2011—remain unrealized. The author states that the issue of improving the legal regulation of relations involving legal clinics should be resolved in the near future. Moreover, the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainain Parlament) has recently started reforming its legislation in the field of advocacy. Therefore, there is a chance that the discriminatory norm of the Constitution regarding the lawyer’s monopoly on representation in court will be abolished. Thus, this will open the way to improving the status of legal clinics, as employees of such institutions will have the opportunity, in addition to legal advice, to represent their clients in court.


2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 173
Author(s):  
Farzana Akter

<p align="JUSTIFY">If law students at the formative stage of their career are exposed to legal aid services, they become motivated to deliver the service when they enter into professional life. The purpose of the present article is to examine the current status of the Bangladeshi legal education with regard to the integration of legal aid activity in law school curriculum from international human rights perspective. The article also compares the Bangladeshi legal education with the Indian practice. The article indicates that the Bangladeshi students are not adequately motivated, through academic exercise, to use the law for the poor people. As a result, they learn to become mere lawyers to fight legal cases without acquiring adequate service-mindedness to serve the poor people of the community. The article finally recommends that legal education in Bangladesh is required to explore the potentials of clinical legal education with a compulsory component of legal aid programme. Moreover, Bangladesh can learn from the standard practices of the Indian law schools.</p>


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