LEGAL AID: PRACTICAL LEGAL EDUCATION

The practical legal action component comes after the pre-clinic courses. This phase of learning involves work in the actual clinic – a learning by doing experience that exposes law students to real life legal exercise. After having successfully completed the pre-clinic requirements, law students can proceed into the practical component of their learning. The practical learning has a very significant positive externality; legal aid. The law clinic serves both as a law laboratory and an operational, accredited center providing free access to legal services. Law students operated the clinic under the direct supervision of law faculty, licensed lawyers and attorneys. Legal experts sometimes work with the law clinic staff to evaluate and assess the quality of services and provide constructive guidance.

Our legal aid policy gives our law students a sense of real mission and social service. Working with real life cases gives the law clinic team a genuine sense of professional pride. The legal education and legal aid reinforce and augments each other; law students arrive at the clinic prepared and equipped for the challenge of dealing with actual clients and real human life issues at stakes. Law students arrive with a sense of control and a strong belief in system that has been facilitated for them. The legal aid program also serves a crucial part of Bost University’s social responsibility. Participating law students are given academic credits for their work at the clinic.