Department

Center for Clinical Legal Education

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About the center

The Centre's objectives are
  • introducing advanced and improving existing forms and methods of student education;
  • strengthening and developing the connection between legal theory and legal practice;
  • participation in solving social problems of society in the city of Bishkek and the Chui region by providing free legal assistance to socially vulnerable segments and groups of the population.

The center implements two areas:

A daily law clinic that carries out the following activities:

  • increasing knowledge and improving skills on clinical methods of learning and work, human rights and freedoms, democracy, law, mechanisms and procedures for their implementation and protection among target groups (schoolchildren);
  • promoting the development of institutions of human rights and freedoms, democracy, law;
  • assisting target groups in the implementation of human rights and freedoms, protecting human rights and freedoms and democratic values at the state and international levels.

A common law clinic that carries out the following activities:

  • admission and consultation;
  • providing written consultations;
  • drawing up procedural and other documents;
  • development of constituent documents;
  • representing the interests of clients in judicial and other government bodies

As part of the activities of the common law clinic, students are provided with legal advice in various fields of law, legal information, drawing up legal documents, as well as services for representing clients’ interests in judicial bodies in civil cases.

The Everyday Law Clinic imparts practical skills to students to implement legal education programs in secondary schools. So, in the period 2012-2024. More than 3,000 students from secondary schools in the city of Bishkek and Chui region were trained as clinical students in the subject «We and Law». For example, in the 2024-2025 academic year, 21 clinical students of the everyday law clinic conduct classes for 11th grade students at the Ecological and Economic Lyceum № 65.

A brief history of the center

In the legislation of Kyrgyzstan and Russia, in special regulations on free legal assistance, it is determined that legal clinics are created in the higher education system for the purpose of legal education and developing students’ skills in providing legal assistance in terms of legal advice and drawing up legal documents. Therefore, in the State educational standards in the field of Jurisprudence, a legal clinic is included in the mandatory list of material and technical support for the implementation of OBOR for the training of bachelors and masters (in the Kyrgyz Republic).

In January 2001, the Center for Clinical Legal Education (legal clinic) was created on the basis of the Faculty of Law of the Kyrgyz-Russian Slavic University with the financial support of the foundation «Soros-Kyrgyzstan». In 2005, the Center for Clinical Legal Education was approved as an educational, methodological, and production division of the Faculty of Law of KRSU. In September 2009, by order of the rector of KRSU, the Center for Clinical Legal Education, in order to optimize its activities, was transformed into a laboratory of clinical legal education, which became part of the Center for Expert Research and Educational Technologies of the Faculty of Law of KRSU (order № 357-P dated September 4, 2009). In September 2012, the Centre underwent structural changes and is implementing two areas: the everyday law clinic and the common law clinic.

From the moment of formation to the present day, more than 2,500 clients in various categories of cases have received legal assistance at the Center. Students of the Center also provide services for representing clients’ interests in judicial bodies in civil cases.

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