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Russia

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Programs

Law School Programs

Since 1972, law schools around the world have developed Street Law programs that teach young people in school, community, and corrections sites about the law, while providing law students with a unique, powerful educational opportunity. Street Law, Inc. provides program resources and teaching materials, connects participating law schools, and... Read more

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

Deliberating in a Democracy

Deliberating in a Democracy (DID) is an international program to teach students how to deliberate controversial public issues. The program challenges students in U.S. classrooms to tackle current civic issues with partner schools in Latin America, Central/Eastern Europe, and North/Western Asia. Through classroom deliberations and videoconferences, students learn more about critical... 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 Center of Clinical Legal Education participated in the Building A Network and Open Society Institute/Street Law program from 1997–2002. The Center collaborated with Street Law, Inc. to develop “Living Law”—a practical law education program for high school students. A Living Law textbook and teacher manual were developed and 25,000 copies distributed across Russia.

Russian practical law text

Multiple Russian law schools began Living Law clinics that followed the original Street Law model and placed law students in community settings to teach practical law lessons.

The staff and teachers Center of Clinical Legal Education at St. Petersburg Institute of Law are leaders in the fields of law-related education and civics, providing training and materials development to all regions of Russia and around Eastern Europe.

The Civic Education Center, located in Moscow, is the leading civics education agency in Russia. Under the Democracy Education Exchange Project (DEEP) from 2001–2003, the Center greatly increased the number of teachers trained in democracy education in Russia.

The Center now participates in the Deliberating in a Democracy program and coordinates the participation of five schools in Moscow, Russia. Visit the Moscow section of the Deliberating in a Democracy web site to learn more.

Kaluga Open University also participates in Deliberating in a Democracy and coordinates the participation of ten schools in Kaluga, Russia. Visit the Kaluga section on the Russia page to learn more.

Contacts

St.Petersburg Institute of Law (Center of Law-Related and Civic Education “Living Law," Center of Clinical Legal Education)
Arkady Gutnikov, vice president, director of centers

agutnikov@gmail.com
Victor Prokin, author and trainer
vpronkin@gmail.com
V.O., Maly Prospect, #34
Saint-Petersburg, 199178
Russia
Phone: +7-812-323-9070
Fax: +7-812-328-7144
Web: www.law.spb.ru
www.lawclinic.ru

The Civic Education Center
Ms. Tatiana Bolotna, DEEP contact
Ms. Svetlana Pantyukhima, DID contact
ja33@yandex.ru
8-2, Golovinskoye Shosse
Moscow, 125212
Russia
Kaluga Open University
Petr Simonenko
S_petr@hotmail.com
Kirov St. 29
Kaluga, 248601
Russia