Reviewed Article 4. Nexus between Law Clinics and the fight against Statelessness by UNHCR Recall the definition of statelessness and how its consequences could lead to discrimination and lack of enjoyment of full-blown human rights violation and overall lack of access to justice. This obvious human right issue and lack of access to justice could lead to the conclusion that statelessness could be fought through social justice and public interest law which are embedded in the CLE programme 57. Social Justice and Public Interest law primarily enables students to acquire, by way of experiential learning, the specialised technical knowledge and professional legal skills in social justice and public interest lawyering 58 . Students are engaged in the supervised preparation and carriage of particular public interest cases or projects such as cases involving possible miscarriage of justice, human rights, and assisting persons seeking asylum protection 59 . Their objective has been to teach students to employ legal knowledge, legal theory, and legal skills to meet individual and social needs. The end result is that it instils in students a professional obligation to perform public service; and to challenge tendencies in the students toward opportunism and social irresponsibility 60 . In addition, they are aimed at educating the neglected members of They both have the same objectives and outcomes see Ojukwu E. et al Clinical Legal Education : Curriculum lessons and materials Network of University Legal Aid Institutions(NULAI Nigeria),Abuja, 2013 58 Social Justice and Public Interest Law Clinics Hand book Retrieved from https://www.newcastle.edu.au/course/LAWS6029 last visited 14th October, 2018 59 ibid 60 Ibijoke Patricia Byron The Relationship Between Social Justice and Clinical Legal Education: A Case Study of The Women’s Law Clinic, Faculty of Law, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. Retrieved from http://www.northumbriajournals.co.uk/index.php/ijcle/article/viewFile/22/27 last visited 14th October, 2018 57 29