Thanks to partnerships with local educators, attorneys, law schools and non-governmental organizations, Street Law international programs have expanded to over 30 countries worldwide.

Many of the international programs are coordinated by law school faculty with assistance from law students. Similar to the aim of U.S. law school-based Street Law programs, the aim of the international programs is to help foster effective citizenship by educating about law, democracy, human rights, violence prevention, and conflict resolution. Through Street Law programs, citizens acquire the necessary knowledge, skills, and outlook to succeed as participatory, active members of a pluralistic, law-based society. Each program, designed with input from Street Law, local educators, and lawyers, reflects each country's unique laws and culture.

Many opportunities exist for U.S. and international law schools to partner on exciting projects. For example, both U.S. and international law schools could:

• conduct a faculty exchange where experienced Street Law professors provide technical assistance to new Street Law programs.
  
• host law students to learn about an established Street Law program (Law students would attend seminar, visit or teach classes, review curricula, and plan with clinical staff how to adapt the model for use in their home country.)
  
• collaborate on creating a unit within a curriculum (Professors from two different countries could create lessons examining how a legal issue such as domestic violence is treated in the two countries.)
  
• create a digital dialogue where either law students or high school students could "chat on line" about cross-cutting legal issues.
  
• encourage a law student to apply for summer fellowship funding aimed at helping a law school with its Street Law program.
  
• invite professors and law students to attend a conference.

These are just a few ideas for collaboration.

What follows is a partial listing of law school-based international programs:

Albania
University of Tirana, Law Faculty, Tirana

Belarus
Grodna State University, Grodna

Czech Republic
Charles University, Prague
Pilsen University, Pilsen
University of Brno, Brno

Hungary
ELTE University Law School, Budapest

Kazakhstan
Kazakh State University, Almaty

Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyz State National University, Bishkek

Latvia
University of Latvia, Law Faculty, Riga

Macedonia
University "Ss. Kiril and Methodius", Skopje

Mongolia
State Pedogogical University of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar

Nigeria
Abia State University
Ahmadu Bello University
Bayero University
Imo State University
Rivers State University
University of Lagos

Poland
University of Warsaw, Warsaw

Russia
St. Petersburg Law School

The Manual on Street Law-Type Teaching Clinics at Law Faculties was developed for the Constitutional and Legal Policy Institute (COLPI) by Human Rights Education Associates and Street Law, Inc. The manual, created through support from the Soros Foundation, draws heavily on the two organizations' experiences in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, and provides practical suggestions for setting up clinical law school programs. It is available, in English and Russian, at
http://www.osi.hu/colpi/research/RDpaperse.htm.

Street Law programs in law schools also exist in other African countries and Central and South America.

If you are interested in learning more about any of these law school-based international programs, please contact Street Law at 301-589-1130 or send us an e-mail at clearinghouse@streetlaw.org and ask for the international programs coordinator.

If you are interested in learning more about Street Law's international networks, please click here. Many thanks!