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Office of the Vice Dean of Clinical Legal Education
Clinical Legal Education needs to be reflective and transformative, forming a basis for faculty and students to collaborate with local communities by centering their identities, needs, unique systemic experiences, and challenges in the work that is carried out. There is no ‘one size fits all’ approach for legal empowerment or access to justice for communities that invariably experience intersectional discrimination based on various aspects of their identities. There is a need to reimagine clinical legal education beyond the ‘sensitization’ of students, to make it reflective for students and therefore, sustainable for communities. This systemic change-making in conversation with communities is the primary goal for clinical legal initiatives at JGLS.
The Office of Vice Dean of Clinical Legal Education at Jindal Global Law School (JGLS) was established in August 2020 to institutionalize this vision for Clinical Legal Education (CLE).
Clinics
The clinics at JGLS have always adhered to the values of mutual respect and trust as well as the ethics of confidentiality while dealing with power asymmetries in communities and society. They create opportunities for students to associate themselves with lawyers and social workers who have championed the causes of social justice. At JGLS, we believe that community outreach is the responsibility of lawyers and consequently, the clinics are designed to enable students to imbibe the values required from socially responsible legal practitioners.
