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Consequently, from the above, Social Justice and Public Interest lawyering is
important not only because of its effect upon clients and community at large, but also
because it takes students out of their comfort zone and puts them in a place where
they are not familiar which inevitably, enables them to interact with indigenous
people. It teaches them to face certain human rights issues and basically the realities
of life; such as the consequence of Statelessness. This in turn will help achieve the
general outcome and objectives of Clinical Legal Education- to develop the perception,
the attitudes, the responsibility and the skills to become a lawyer after completion of
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5. Recommendations
Finally, based on the above analysis, this a paper recommends the following;
a) Partnership: This paper recommends that UNHCR should partner with
Law Clinics in Nigeria for the fight against Statelessness. This partnership
is recommended for a number of reasons
i)
The UNHCR has already mapped out some strategies like
sensitization and awareness in their effort to combat statelessness in
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