(Skills Transfers in Academia: A Renewed Strategy)
Abstract
Legal clinics provide “community service”, which is an extension of university expertise to the world outside the university. They allow students to put their skills at the service of the community while fostering their own growth as future legal practitioners, under the careful supervision of both academics and lawyers.
Our project has brought together five European Universities: Luxembourg, Roma 3, Brescia, the Palacký University of Oloumouc and the Romanian-American University of Bucharest, in order to develop clinical legal teaching across Europe, through the organisation of Summer and Winter Schools allowing both students and teachers to share their experience in legal clinics.
The result of these exchanges and fruitful discussions has led to the drafting of Standards of Quality for clinical legal teaching, encompassing the best practices of each partner University.
These Standards, as well as all pedagogical materials used by these legal clinics were made available to the public through our dedicated website so as to be helpful to entities wishing to create and/or develop their own legal clinics. Lastly, this project aimed to establish a legal clinic at the Romanian-American University.
The final conference will allow to summarise, present and reflect on the outcomes of the project, as well as envision the future of clinical teaching within Europe.