Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Legal Aid Clinic

In a bid to provide a platform to inculcate the spirit of public service among the buddy lawyers, Xavier Law School (XLS) of St. Xavier's University, Kolkata inaugurated the Legal Aid Clinic on August 25, 2022. The clinic has been named as Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Legal Aid Clinic as an honour to the great Indian personality, who was the Chairman of the Drafting Committee of the Indian Constitution.

As a part of the social responsibility of professional legal education, the Legal Aid Clinic is available at XLS with the following objectives:

• Simulation through practical exposure
• Connecting law to the community at large. In its essence, LAC is of the students, by the students, for the students; with hand-holding facilities extended by members of the faculty

The Legal Aid Clinic aims to realize the end of making the right to free legal aid as promoted by the Constitution available to underprivileged sections of the local community in a meaningful manner, by undertaking legal literacy drives and offering free client counseling services through the Legal Aid Clinic of the School.

The Legal Aid Clinic seeks to provide a platform to inculcate students of XLS with the spirit of socially responsible lawyering, enabling them to learn law in action through the empowerment of the community at large. The Clinic undertakes the responsibilities of conducting the following activities:

• Conducting training workshops for students in social justice advocacy,
• Promoting legal literacy through outreach programs, organizing legal awareness camps, and conducting street play on socio-legal issues,
• Client counselling,
• Conducting field research on socio-legal issues,
• Preparation and dissemination of legal-aid literature.

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