Manual on Street Law-type Teaching Clinics now available on-line

Manual on Street Law-Type Teaching Clinics at Law Faculties, written by Felisa Tibbitts of HREA and distributed by the Constitutional and Legal Policy Institute (COLPI) in Budapest, is now available in English and Russian. The manual was developed by HREA in cooperation with Street Law, Inc., an international NGO dedicated to educating young people about law, human rights and democracy.

The 92-page manual draws heavily from experiences in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union in providing practical suggestions for setting up a teaching clinic at law schools, where law students teach everyday law to the public. These clinics typically have a human rights education component. The manual was written for law faculty and others interested to initiate a program.

The chapters are:

1. Using this manual
2. Origins of street law-type teaching clinics
3. Key issues for law school teaching programs
4. Rationales for street law-type teaching clinics
5. Administrative structures of teaching clinics
6. Partnerships with the community
7. Development of syllabus and lessons
8. Supervision and evaluation within the program
9. Funding and sustainability of the program
10. Additional resources and contact information

HREA is an international non-governmental organisation that supports human rights learning; the training of activists and professionals; the development of educational materials and programming; and community-building through on-line technologies. COLPI is the legal reform support program of the Open Society Institute. The agency operates programs in Central and Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and Mongolia that aim to strengthen the rule of law, respect for human rights, and modern democratic institutions.

The manual is part of the COLPI Paper Series, and can be downloaded in PDF format in English and Russian.