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a community while addressing their legal problems; it is used by clinical law teachers
to teach students on how to educate clients on their rights 61 .
The service component of Clinical Legal Education, (law clinics) using Social Justice
and Public Interest Law, requires the students to carry out the following law clinic
activities like; interviewing, counselling, research, writing 62, community based
services and street law 63, and eventually to learn ethics and professional
responsibility. 64. To emphasise and elaborate this point further, an example of a project
carried out by students using social justice and public interest law will be given and
discussed.
The CLE programme at the Faculty of Law of Baze University 65 requires students to
take the following mandatory courses under its Clinical Legal Education programme:
Ethics and Professional Responsibility; one of these three courses- Social Justice and
Public Interest Law (I & II), Human Rights Law (I & II), Environmental Law (I & II);
and Clinical and Moot Court Practice (I & II). There is a service component attached
to the CLE program which is the Law Clinic of the Faculty. In the Law Clinic, students
are engaged in a project called Reforming Pre-trial Detention in Kuje Prison Project
ibid
Stuart H. Smith Law Clinic and Center for Social Justice retrieved from
http://www.loyno.edu/community/stuart-h-smith-law-clinic-and-center-social-justice last visited 1st
July, 2019
63 Social Justice Initiative-In-house pro-bono Projects 2018-2019 https://www.law.columbia.edu/socialjustice/students/pro-bono/in-house-pro-bono-projects last visited
64 Ojukwu E. et al Clinical Legal Education : Curriculum lessons and materials Network of University
Legal Aid Institutions(NULAI Nigeria),Abuja, 2013
65 Baze University is a private University located in Abuja, Nigeria. The writer of this paper is
affiliated with this University. She is also a supervisor of the Law Clinic and has supervised students
on the LCPK project.
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