Abstract
Experiential erudition is the spirit of Clinical Legal Education which provides opportunity to coalesce theory with practice and helps to expand professional skills in law students. Clinical Legal Education is an innovative development in Nepal’s legal education, the subject and arena is new to the legal fraternity of Nepal. The understanding, concept and approach of clinical legal education are not uniform among law schools and legal fraternity. The aspects of clinical legal education are inserted and reflected in the curriculum however approach and understanding remains different. The paper aims to provide uniform understanding of approaches of clinical legal education, principles and prominent activities along with scenario of clinical legal education in Nepal and its blemish.
Highlights
The term ‘clinical’ is a medical term, meaning ‘pertaining to and founded on actual observation and treatment of patients, as distinguished from theoretical or experimental’[1]
Experiential learning is the spirit of Clinical Legal Education which provides opportunity to combine theory with practice and helps to develop professional skills in law students
Student centric approaches and prominent activities like simulations, case study method, role-play and client centric approach with activities like live clinics, externships, street law programs, and outreach mobile clinics etc, clinical legal education emerged as the part and parcel requirement of law degree
Summary
The term ‘clinical’ is a medical term, meaning ‘pertaining to and founded on actual observation and treatment of patients, as distinguished from theoretical or experimental’[1]. The easy being of professional from student without any intensive preparation and practice in the crucial fields like, medical profession and law profession is detrimental and unacceptable. Realizing this need the medical profession all over the world has set the criteria of clinical practice and experiential learning within their course of study to make students experienced and skillful. The problem with the Legal education in Nepal today is lack of experiential learning, students are taught the theories and principles that fits only in books and universities whereas the practice, procedure and tendency on the other hand is other way. Universities of Nepal for its meaningful implication and sustainable institutionalization
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