The Urgency of Clinical Legal Education through Developing of Legal Aid on Campus as an Effort to Realize a Humanist Law

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Winarsih Winarsih
Cahya Wulandari

Abstract

Legal education is an important things for law enforcement in Indonesia because
law enforcers were born from a legal education. Nowadays in the law enforcement
there are many problems, one of which is the law enforcement that do not provide
a justice because law enforcer only became the implementer of law. These
conditions make a law could not fulfill the needs of society. Law tend to be rigid
and interpreted as a regulations, whereas according to Satjipto Rahardjo stated that
the law qualities are determined by the ability to serve the society. Law
enforcement nowadays are inseparable from the legal education, where the
students are taught with a variety of legal theories, judicial practices in several
courses and internship. However, this is not able to result the graduates who are
able to put a law to serve the society. In addition, the students tend to be begin by
the difference between theories and legal realities. Basically, there are legal aid on
campus that can be used as a means to solve these problems, but the existence of
legal aid cannot be utilized properly. Therefore clinical legal education through
developing of legal aid are needed to solve these various problems. This paper
discusses two main issues: the first, how are the urgency of clinical legal education
through developing of legal aid on campus? The second, how are the
implementation of clinical legal education through developing of legal aid on
campus? The results of this paper are: the first clinical legal education through
developing of legal aid on campus is important to make the students understand
the society problems. Additionally after graduation, the students are expected
becoming law enforcer who provide justice. Furthermore the graduates of the legal
education are expected to enforce the law progressively based on the value of
justice. The second, clinical legal education are implemented through the student
with given more time to practice in the society so that the students know the
various problems in society and compare with the legal theories. Furthermore
paradigm of the lecturer is also need to be changed with directed to give practical
courses so that the students know the case directly in the society. Optimizing the
existence of legal aid on campus also become important things because it can be
used to the students to provide services toward the society on campus. These ways
are expected to the students who are able to practice in the society and make
humanist law.

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Winarsih, W., & Wulandari, C. (2019). The Urgency of Clinical Legal Education through Developing of Legal Aid on Campus as an Effort to Realize a Humanist Law. The Indonesian Journal of International Clinical Legal Education, 1(3). https://doi.org/10.15294/iccle.v1i01.20708
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Research Article