Enhancing Quality Standards of Legal Clinical Education in Ukraine
The Association of Legal Clinics of Ukraine (ALCU) is dedicated to promoting high-quality legal clinical education in the country. They have established standards and assessment tools to ensure the effectiveness of legal clinics, with a focus on providing free legal aid and raising legal awareness. The ALCU has developed an innovative instrument for assessing the quality of legal clinics, emphasizing collaboration with various stakeholders for continuous improvement. Download the standards and assessment tool to learn more about improving legal education in Ukraine.
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Innovative Tools for Legal Clinical Education s Quality Assessment Andrii Halai, ALCU Head of the Board Yuliia Lomzhets, ALCU Executive Director Mariia Tsypiashchuk. ALCU Communication Manager Ashot Agaian, USAID New Justice Program Legal and Judicial Specialist USAID 1
ALCU Background What is the Association of Legal Clinics of Ukraine? the only network of legal clinics in Ukraine. It s a non-governmental organization which aims at the development of legal clinical education and building the network of legal clinics. The ALCU Mission: providing the functioning of legal clinics of high quality in the higher education system in Ukraine. First legal clinics in independent Ukraine appeared during 1996-1999/ ALCU establishment: 2003-2004 2
Standards of Operations of Legal Clinics of Ukraine adopted in 2014 Standards are a set of major characteristics inherent in a legal clinic, organization of its operations and activity on providing legal aid and raising legal awareness. Goal: to improve quality assurance in legal clinics operating and legal education in Ukraine as a whole Download Standards https://legalclinics.in.ua/en/standards-of- the-legal-clinics-in-ukraine/ 3
STANDARDS STRUCTURE SECTION 1. General Provisions SECTION 2. Organization of Operations of Legal Clinic SECTION 3. Support to Educational Process in Legal Clinics SECTION 4. Providing Free Legal Aid n Legal Clinic SECTION 5. Legal Awareness Activity of Legal Clinics 4
Instrument for Assessing the Quality Standards of Legal Clinics in Ukraine developed in 2017 Is first national manual for LC assessment Is based on a friendly stimulating approach Each indicator gets a particular estimation Summing up means getting % of quality for each section and the final percentage rate Final report contains not only assessment, but also detailed recommendations Great value is given to public forum after monitoring with LC and administration, local legal aid authorities, NGOs and media Download the Instrument https://legalclinics.in.ua/en/quality-performance- assessment-tool-for-legal-clinics-in-ukraine/ 5
What are our quality values List of Principles of Organizational Management: LC must be ruled by salaried staff, get engaged sensible amount of students and competent professors, be visible, informative and cooperative in the University and the local community, had proper recourse support Principles of LC Education: proper (modules and methods) LC course/s in the academic curriculum, regarding LC as a base for student s practice, appreciating the calculated activities of engaged professors Principles of LC Legal Aid: regularly made legal consultations on the basis of supervision, providing adequate quality control and honest statistical analysis Principles of LC Legal Civil Society Education: regularly made different types of legal teaching and informing actions on the basis of staff support, use of modern approach, show honest statistics
Monitoring Instrument 4 levels of quality for the legal clinic: 0-30 % organization that is becoming a legal clinic; 31-60 % legal clinic of basic level; 61-80 % legal clinic that corresponds to the Standards; 81-100% legal clinic of high quality. 7
Legal Clinics Monitoring 13 monitoring visits more than 20% of the ALCU legal clinics 6 LCs are of basic level; 7 meet the Standards Practical results 8
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION! Andrii Halai, ALCU Head of the Board, andrii.halai@gmail.com Yuliia Lomzhets, ALCU Executive Director, ylomzhets@gmail.com Mariia Tsypiashchuk. ALCU Communication Manager, masherko@yahoo.com Ashot Agaian, USAID New Justice Program Legal and Judicial Specialist, aagaian@new-justice.com 10
