Legal regulation of activities of legal clinics in Ukraine and foreign countries
Keywords:
legal clinic, legal clinical education, legal regulation of legal clinics, association of legal clinics, legal clinical movementAbstract
The article considers the preconditions for the emergence of legal clinics in Ukraine and the world, analyzes trends in the development of legal clinics today. A general theoretical review of the main regulations that are designed to regulate the activities of legal clinics. The issue of practical professional training of Ukrainian lawyers is one of the main issues of legal education in general. The idea of using legal clinics for the practical training of young lawyers was brilliantly implemented in countries with the Anglo-American legal system. In the According to some American scientists, legal clinical education on the basis of a legal clinic was perhaps the best way to train qualified lawyers. Over the more years, legal education gained a significant number in the United States, and the American Bar Association began to apply the recommendations, which began to learn as soon as practical work. The emergence of legal clinics has not escaped Central and Western Europe, Central, South, East Asia, Latin America and Africa. With the support of the Ford Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation in South Africa, one of the universities formally recognized the first law clinic.
Much attention was paid to the development of new teaching methods that would be closest to the conditions of legal clinical education. Representatives of the legal clinical movement in Ukraine often have to look for new normative sources in the legal space, the legal structure of which allows at least indirectly to be included in the list of acts to be used by students-consultants of legal clinics in carrying out their activities. Decisions of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine, which are a valuable source for clinical students and heads of such clinics, also play an important role in organizing the work of legal clinics in Ukraine.
In addition, in some regions of Ukraine the activities of legal clinics are regulated by decisions of regional interdepartmental coordination and methodological councils on legal education of the population, which are formed at regional state administrations to ensure interaction of executive authorities, local governments, associations of citizens, schools and cultural institutions etc.
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