Law Clinics

The Equality Law Clinic and the Refugee Law Clinic at ULB are legal clinics that give students an opportunity to serve society through innovative teaching.

This learning method, based on collective intelligence, enables future legal professionals to learn by grounding their work in real-world practice. Using a transdisciplinary approach that places legal problems in their socio-economic context, the clinics offer students a unique opportunity to learn and develop their skills by working on real cases with lawyers, NGOs and national or international institutions. The work is supervised by a specialised academic team and draws on the concept of legal clinics that emerged in the United States in the early twentieth century.

There are several types of legal clinic. Some conduct action research in collaboration with associations and examine structural cases: this is the approach of the Equality Law Clinic in the field of non-discrimination law. Others deal with individual cases alongside people seeking justice who are often at the margins of society, as does the Refugee Law Clinic.