Vision

We at JGLS-CLE take a human rights approach and hope to have an intersectional framework in our work. Further, we imbibe trauma-informed approaches in our practice so that we can cultivate in our student community qualities of empathy and humanitarianism. Our policies are designed to orient the students towards fieldwork so that they can positively contribute towards the resolution of the social problems that exist in India.

Our faculty in particular is trained to sensitise the students and shape them into empathetic professionals. There is a discomfort in society today over the slow dispensation of justice, and a culture of shame among legal professionals regarding issues about human rights. In involving our students with the workings of the judicial system, therefore, we hope to create a straightforward mechanism that can help the judicial system not merely from the peripheries but centrally.

Legal reforms are often the products of years of unceasing involvement and labor. Obligated as we are to make our students aware of the role they can play and the services they can offer, we wish to revisit and reframe the legal infrastructure in our University to shift the dynamics played by theory and the increasing role that legal aid has to play in India.

We take from global literature and theories for legal clinics that work on experiential aspects as pronounced by Paulo Freire and Kolb.