A group of law students, through the Legal Clinic for Social Justice (CJJS) of the University of Valencia, have started a campaign of legal literacy aimed at long-term unemployed, young people with no work experience and immigrants, to be developed In Red Cross during the months of April and May.
The Legal Clinic for Social Justice of the Universitat de València is a teaching innovation project of the Faculty of Law in which students, tutored by teachers, face real situations, cases and clients. Thus, explains Professor Ruth Mestre, director of the Legal Clinic and member of the Human Rights Institute of the University of València, “the University of Valencia diversifies its commitment and fulfills its social function of knowledge return.”
Legal literacy campaigns – known as Street Law in Anglo-Saxon law – are a new approach to teaching law based on interactive methods and new forms of learning. In Valencia, under the supervision of Pilar Fernández Artiach, professor of labor law at the Universitat and Asunción Colás Turégano, professor of criminal law and member of the Institute of Human Rights, has been set up in Valencia.
Students participating in the project have to give sessions as trainers on basic notions of labor law and will also dedicate a specific session to discuss the issue of gender violence and against women in the field of labor law. During the two months that the project will last two sessions per week of four hours, simultaneously, one in the classrooms of the headquarters of Red Cross and the other in the headquarters of the clinic in the Faculty of Law. The students who participate in the project are students of the Legal Clinic for Social Justice, who are studying the degree practicum (Law Degree, double degree ADE-Law), students of practical of the degree in Pedagogy and students of the Master In Human Rights, Democracy and International Justice at the University of Valencia.
