The Legal Clinic for Human Rights of the University of Palermo (CLEDU) is the result of the agreement between the Department of Law of the University of Palermo and the l’Altro Diritto onlus. In September 2016, the Department of Law at the University of Palermo signed a Memorandum of Understanding with “L’Altro Diritto, Interiniversity Research Center on Prison, Deviance, Marginity and Migration Governance “, whose purpose is to promote and coordinate legal clinics in Italy. Legal clinics are a widespread initiative in jurisprudence universities to allow students (especially foreign ones) to practice law practice while at the same time offering a free legal counseling service, promoting social justice. Present throughout the world, legal clinics seek to bridge the gap between academic education and the complexity of reality and living law. One particular session of CLEDU works with migrants.
Website: https://www.unipa.it/dipartimenti/dipartimentogiurisprudenza/clinica-legale-per-i-diritti-umani/
Email: cledu@unipa.it