Clinical Legal Education Program
The University Legal Clinic recognizes and supports its students' critical need to enhance their prospects of gaining employment within the legal sector by adding strong academic performance with a good record of practical experience and skills. The Legal Clinic offers a wide variety of Clinical Legal Education opportunities that allow students to build valuable skills through experiential learning. This free-of-cost program is particularly designed to support students from low-income families and enhancing their employability, and assisting them complete the University.
The clinical education program is a dynamic, interactive teaching experience that complements the faculty's rich classroom curriculum and provides students with the opportunity to learn about the law and legal institutions' social reality, explore ethical issues, and hone crucial professional skills. Clinical Legal Education is an excellent way for students to gain insight into what it takes to be a lawyer and aims to help students become better lawyers by involving them in the whole process of providing legal advice to actual clients. Clinic students gain real-world legal experience by assuming the lawyer's role under the expert guidance of the Legal Clinic's instructors and licensed lawyers, allowing them to hone their legal skills and delve into particular areas of law.
Through the program, students are given a real and practical understanding of the practice of law by being "directly and personally" involved in addressing legal problems and situations. The Clinical Legal Education program allows students to integrate their knowledge of substantive and procedural law with practice skills, including problem identification and solving, legal analysis, legal research, interviewing, investigation, counseling, negotiation, drafting, case planning and management, and the recognition and resolution of ethical problems.
Clinical Legal Education program is offered for academic credit on a pass/fail basis, and students may enroll for one semester.
Legal Services & Advice Center
The University Legal Clinic reflects its commitment to a vibrant and thoughtful relationship with the local community and students in alignment with SDG:1, No Poverty, SDG 4: Quality Education, and SDG 16: Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions by establishing the Legal Services & Advice Center at the University. To provide free legal services and advice, particularly for those not studying at the University, Kardan University's Legal Clinic's Legal Services & Advice Center offers free legal services and advice to the general public, low-income families, and students to get legal advice and enhance their understanding of the laws. As a part of the Legal Services & Advice Center Services, the Legal Clinic also provides community legal education and outreach capacity building and upskilling activities to the local community, policy, and lawmakers regarding various legal topics and issues, including law reform activities.
The University's on-campus Legal Services and Advice Center is a free public service staffed by law students working under the supervision of licensed lawyers. Legal Services and Advice Center contributes to improving access to justice by providing lower-income persons and students with the means to enforce existing legal rights and promote a community-wide understanding of the laws in the community.
The center's services include legal advice, settlement negotiations, representation at hearings or trials, and the drafting of legal documents, all under the supervision of licensed lawyers. Other services may involve public education workshops, pamphlets, law reform activities, community legal education, and outreach activities to community groups and organizations regarding various legal topics and issues.