The Ulster Law Clinic has published LLM Clinical Legal Education: Annual Report 2013-2014. The Ulster Law Clinic is a core part of the LLM Clinical Legal Education at the University of Ulster, which focuses on access to justice for those with unmet legal need. The programme trains post-graduate law students to provide advice, and representation for members of the public who need help with social security and employment law problems, while encouraging students to think strategically about how legal problems might be resolved on an individual and systematic level.
At this year’s PILA conference on ‘Using the Law to Challenge Injustice’ LLM CLE student Allison McAreavey led the Conference discussion on the innovations in clinical legal education at Ulster, generating a lively debate on the achievements and potential for clinical legal education to deliver mutually supporting benefits to students and members of the public.
The Ulster Law Clinic also partnered with University College Dublin and the Public Interest Law Alliance for the Irish Clinical Legal Education Association Conference on ‘Law in Action: Reimagining Clinical Legal Education in Ireland’. The conference gave students the chance to discuss their experience of clinical legal education with the keynote speaker, Professor Michael Martin from Fordham Law School, New York, as well as clinical legal education practitioners from the Northern/Irish Law Schools. All of these opportunities have increased the capacity of LLM CLE students to develop their academic expertise beyond the traditional confines of taught postgraduate programmes.
Click here to read LLM Clinical Legal Education: Annual Report 2013-2014.
Click here to read a previous Bulletin article on the ICLEA Conference held this June.