Facilities
The Center for Clinical Legal Education and Research
An environment in the center of town nurtures a genuine legal profession and familiarizes students with a range of legal issues.
The Center for Clinical Legal Education and Research (Law Center) was established as a clinical department that can provide specialist education and research of clinical law.
Through clinical legal research (legal clinic) conducted at the Law Center, students come into contact with actual cases and come face-to-face with clients, gaining practical experience integrated with theories and learning ethics needed for the legal profession.
Functions
Clinical Education
Gaining hands-on experience of legal practice that targets actual clients, students experience and learn the ways in which legal theory is put into practice, with practical exercises such as listening practice, composing legal documents, and data collection conducted through such areas.
Practical Training
In order to put into practice both theory and education, we provide a practical legal training for our researchers who also serve as teachers, and we also develop the teaching content and methods in collaboration with instructors who are actual practitioners of law.
Function of Clinical Legal Research
As a collection of legal skills comprising researchers and practitioners of law, we actively tackle cases in cutting edge and composite fields and apply the results of this research back into the actual practice of law.
Contribution to the Community
We strive to contribute to the community and society by providing legal aid to those people who lack financial resources and who are troubled with legal issues.
Crisis Management
We aim to contribute to the prevention and solution of disputes regarding a range of problematic legal issues that occur in managing and running a university.
Free Legal Consultation
The Kumamoto University School of Law has established The Center of "Clinical Law Education and Research (Law Center)" To provide clinic education to its students and as well as to provide practical training to its staff, the Law Center offers free legal consultation with attorneys as described below as part of its commitment to contribute to the community. Anyone can make use of the consultation; therefore, please allow us to help you in any way we can.
Free Consultation
To avail of free legal consultation, please make an appointment. Reception is open at all times, with actual consultations held every Friday. Please contact us by either telephone or post when using the consultation service.
Students from our law school will occasionally attend the legal consultations; however, at such times we will always seek the prior consent of the client. We operate under the strictest confidentiality.
We handle everything from general civil cases to domestic issues (marriage, inheritance, etc.) and debt disputes.
TEL:＋81-96-342-2387/FAX: ＋81-96-342-2387
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