The Theory of Legal Clinic in Education of Law

Abstract

“The Legal Clinic”, as a definition, is to teach law students how they can use their abstract and theoretical information while solving juridical disputes. Although the idea of legal clinic dates back to the past, the notion of legal clinic is a recent one. It is the reason of emerging of legal clinic that law students must get in touch with practical law comprised of activities of courts and disputes among people. About legal clinic, institutions were established and books were written in developed countries. Thus, law students became skilful at carrying out what they learn at their faculties. Nevertheless, this method being valued very much at an international level is not, unfortunately, implemented in Turkey. Hence, law students in Turkey are graduated from their faculties with only theoretical information. Consequently, they cannot make use of their information when they faced with real cases and a disconnection between theory and practice shows up. Here, this study deals with activities necessary to implement legal clinic in Turkey. In this way, the law students will learn how to use their theoretical information in practice and the partway to justice will become easy and fast.