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CLINICAL LEGAL
EDUCATION AT MATS LAW SCHOOL
Professor
Woodhouse puts it this way: "the disease of disjunction
between legal education and the profession is not caused by
too much theory or too little doctrine and practice, but by
too little attention to their essential interplay in a complex
and interconnected world."
 According
to Professor Barbara Woodhouse, "[p]erhaps one of the most
serious failings in contemporary legal education is that all
too many students graduate with a vast doctrinal base of
knowledge sealed within a context that is not translatable
into practice."
Hence, MATS Law
School had adopted the "clinical method" for exposing "the
student to actual problems confronting him with actual people
who are in actual trouble" and for furthering "equality of
justice" by helping to set up "an adequate system of legal aid
offices.
Through
the Clinical courses students of MATS Law School are exposed
not only to lawyering skills but also the essential values of
the legal profession: provision of competent representation;
promotion of justice, fairness, and morality; continuing
improvement of the profession; and professional
self-development. Clinical programs meld legal theory with
lawyering skills, and students learn lawyering values by
providing legal assistance to clients who would otherwise lack
access to justice.
 The
students of MATS Law School have the privilege and honour of
working very closely with the Judicial Officers associated
with the Raipur District Legal Services Authority. The
District Legal Services Authority involve the students of MATS
Law School in all their Legal Aid programs, by which the
students get immense benefit by a close interaction with the
clients, legal practitioners and judicial officers.
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