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Street Law / Countries / Poland / Poland

Poland

Status: Active

Programs

Central Europe and Russia: Building a Network

A grant from the Ford Foundation in 1997 allowed Street Law, Inc. to strengthen and build capacity in existing international law school-based Street Law programs. These successful programs also helped establish continuing partnerships with Constitutional and Legal Policy Institute (COLPI) and the American Bar Association’s Central European and Eurasian Law Initiative... Read more

Open Society Institute/Street Law Network Program

A grant from the Open Society Institute, part of the Soros Foundation network, funded the development of the Open Society Institute/Street Law Network Program. The goal of the program was to develop practical law texts for secondary schools and to train educators in interactive teaching methods in Eastern and Central... Read more

Law School-Based Programs

Public legal education programs—where law students teach the public practical law—exist in more than 70 law schools. Register your law school's Street Law program View the directory of registered law school programs Read more

Democracy Education Exchange Project (DEEP)

Street Law, along with five other U.S. democracy education organizations, designed and operated the Democracy Education Exchange Project (DEEP). The program’s goal was to help students in Central and Eastern Europe and the Newly Independent States of the former Soviet Union develop the knowledge, skills, and character traits essential to... Read more

Background

The Polish Association for Legal Education works to promote civil society by providing legal and human rights education. In the 1990s, the association began working with the South African Street Law program and the Georgetown University Law Center Street Law Clinic.

In 1997, it joined Street Law in Central Europe and Russia: Building a Network and in 1998, the Open Society Institute/Street Law Network programs. Under these programs the Association strengthened the growing law school-based Street Law program and produced a secondary practical law textbook. Ms. Platek is a leader in establishing law school clinics all over Eastern Europe as well as in other Polish universities.

Presently, the Association works with five other educational organizations to run law school-based Street Law programs where law students teach in secondary schools and prisons.