Criminal Law Clinic
A.Y. 2024/2025
Learning objectives
Through the Legal Clinic of Criminal Justice, we intend to offer students the opportunity to combine the theoretical study of law with practical experience, through contact with 'real cases'. The Legal Clinic is inspired, with the appropriate adaptations to the Italian system, by the model of the Legal Clinics established in the Law Schools of the United States since the 1970s and which is now spreading to various European universities.
In the specifics of the Criminal Justice Legal Clinic proposal, students will be involved in the handling of real cases, devising defence strategies, conducting research and drafting the necessary documents.
Involvement in real cases, by promoting student empowerment, ensures a very effective way of learning, which is aimed not only at developing knowledge, but also skills (problem solving) and values.
In addition to being a tool for the development of professional skills, the clinic - operating in areas of severe social hardship - also aims to make future jurists aware of social justice issues and to empower them, enabling them to become aware of not only the technical but also the social dimension of law.
In the specifics of the Criminal Justice Legal Clinic proposal, students will be involved in the handling of real cases, devising defence strategies, conducting research and drafting the necessary documents.
Involvement in real cases, by promoting student empowerment, ensures a very effective way of learning, which is aimed not only at developing knowledge, but also skills (problem solving) and values.
In addition to being a tool for the development of professional skills, the clinic - operating in areas of severe social hardship - also aims to make future jurists aware of social justice issues and to empower them, enabling them to become aware of not only the technical but also the social dimension of law.
Expected learning outcomes
The student will train to frame real situations within the relevant legal institutions, developing a problem-solving mindset, using legal skills to solve concrete cases.
The student will also develop the ability to carry out regulatory and case law research and try his/her hand at drafting the necessary documents.
Working in groups with other students, the students will have to test their ability to collaborate with others in order to achieve a common goal.
Where there will be an opportunity to come into contact with 'users', the student will be able to begin to acquire those professional skills useful in managing the relationship between lawyer and client.
Through dedicated lessons and through contact with professionals in the management of the assigned case, the student will have the opportunity to learn the deontological principles and see their concrete application.
The student will also develop the ability to carry out regulatory and case law research and try his/her hand at drafting the necessary documents.
Working in groups with other students, the students will have to test their ability to collaborate with others in order to achieve a common goal.
Where there will be an opportunity to come into contact with 'users', the student will be able to begin to acquire those professional skills useful in managing the relationship between lawyer and client.
Through dedicated lessons and through contact with professionals in the management of the assigned case, the student will have the opportunity to learn the deontological principles and see their concrete application.
Lesson period: Second semester
Assessment methods: Esame
Assessment result: voto verbalizzato in trentesimi
Single course
This course can be attended as a single course.
Course syllabus and organization
Single session
Responsible
Lesson period
Second semester
Course syllabus
Analitical program:
- Legal clinic methods;
- principles of professional ethics;
- Submission of the cases and cases assignement;
- Legal questions related to the cases;
- Working in groups;
- Final presentation and sharing of the group works.
- Legal clinic methods;
- principles of professional ethics;
- Submission of the cases and cases assignement;
- Legal questions related to the cases;
- Working in groups;
- Final presentation and sharing of the group works.
Prerequisites for admission
To take the exam of Clinica legale di giustizia penale, the student must have already passed the following exams: Diritto costituzionale, Istituzioni di diritto privato, Diritto penale, Procedura penale.
Only students enrolled in 4th and 5th year are admitted.
Only students enrolled in 4th and 5th year are admitted.
Teaching methods
The Criminal Law Clinic offers the opportunity to experience a 'learning by doing' approach.
In facts, students will work on real cases, meeting people who need legal support and offering legal assistance under the supervision of the teacher and the attorneys working with the Clinic.
The teacher will choose the cases and the activities of the Clinic, on the bases of the training value and social interest. Students will work in small groups.
The Clinic provides pro-bono services in particular for 'vulnerable people' (migrants, prisoners, people with mental illnesses or addiction ).
The activities and projects of the Criminal Justice Legal Clinic can be found on the website: penale.clinicalegaleunimi.it
In facts, students will work on real cases, meeting people who need legal support and offering legal assistance under the supervision of the teacher and the attorneys working with the Clinic.
The teacher will choose the cases and the activities of the Clinic, on the bases of the training value and social interest. Students will work in small groups.
The Clinic provides pro-bono services in particular for 'vulnerable people' (migrants, prisoners, people with mental illnesses or addiction ).
The activities and projects of the Criminal Justice Legal Clinic can be found on the website: penale.clinicalegaleunimi.it
Teaching Resources
Considering the specific features of the course there is not a text-book, but specific material will be used for dealing with the assigned cases.
Assessment methods and Criteria
Students evaluation (on a 0-30 scale) will be at the end of the course on the bases of participation in the activities, accomplishment of tasks assigned, final interview about the legal issues raised during the course.
IUS/17 - CRIMINAL LAW - University credits: 6
Lessons: 42 hours
Professor:
Della Bella Angela Paola Anna
Shifts:
Turno
Professor:
Della Bella Angela Paola AnnaProfessor(s)
Reception:
on Wednesday from 12.15 p.m.
Dipartimento Cesare Beccaria