STRATEJİK DAVALAMA VE İNSAN HAKLARI SAVUNUCULUĞU İÇİN BİR MODEL OLARAK HUKUK KLİNİĞİ EĞiTİMİ

In this paper I focused on designing a new structure through clinical legal education for promoting strategic litigation in law schools. My main aim is achieving a model for social justice and rights-based legal activism and mainstreaming an attitude of rights advocacy among law school students. I also examined how and why the legal education still does not implement sustainable strategies and learning environment for positive change against inequalities and discrimination. In order to contest that, I started a project on a clinical model namely “Fundamental Rights Advocacy Legal Clinic”. In this clinic, students worked on human rights violations especially related to “children” as a disadvantaged group with the experts and lawyers. Afterwards they developed the process of how to use legal mechanisims and tactics about chosen cases by focusing on legal strategies which improve access to justice of children.