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For students, the clinic provides an opportunity to experiment with new forms of learning and at the same time, to test themselves doing an activity that requires activation of a complex mix of skills, ranging from the analysis conceptually, to identification of the relevant facts, the drafting of acts and opinions, to the development of social skills and problem solving. In particular, experiential learning and active participation of students are the key words. As well as complementing theoretical approach and traditional classes with a different way of learning the law based on a learning-by-doing methodology, the Clinic pursues further aims such as: • showing the students that law shares not only a “technical” dimension but also a “social” one; • reflecting not only on the legal issues raised by the cases, but also on their ethical and social implications. Students work in small groups (2-3 people), each group being supervised by a professor and a labour consultant.
Legal Clinic is a program of study aimed at teaching law through direct experience, according to a methodological approach of "learning by doing" and through which students are sensitized to legal needs of the disadvantaged people. Work on real cases is accompanied by a course in the law school, taught with experiential methods such as simulation, role-plays and games, which trains students in the skills, values and ethics of law practice. The cases handled by the Legal clinic for Labour Consultants are classified as cases of "public interest" or of “social change”. The services offered by the Clinic are, in fact, directed to persons qualified to be a disadvantaged or at least in a condition of being a "weak party" (women, start-ups, communities). In these cases, the clinic aims to offer a free of charge high quality counselling to which the client would not otherwise have access, or relate to cases in which the protection of collective goods is concerned.
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"Indirect teaching", in which the teacher makes the student find its own answers, using the formulation of new and more specific questions or conduct of further experience, is the teaching methodology practiced in clinic.
The evaluation of students's work takes into account the following factors: • regular attendance at classes; • individual commitment; • quality of documents drafted under the lawyer's supervision (briefs, memos, letters, etc.); • reports on the activity performed, concerning not only the description of the case but also a reflection on the experience made in the Clinic in terms of personal growth and development.
At the very beginning of the course a syllabus is handed out to students. Depending on the development of the cases the distribution of the activities established in the syllabus may be subject to modification. Look on-line: http://www.clinicalegale.jus.unibs