Law Clinic Centre
Centre for Clinical Legal Education
He, who wants to build high towers, must devote a long time to the foundations… (Mathy)
Give man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. (Chinese proverb)
Among all the Czech law Schools, the Law Faculty of Palacky University in Olomouc offers the most complex system of skill-oriented practical education. In order to practice any profession successfully, you need to know not only what to do, but also how and why you should do it. Contrary to rapidly changing legal regulation, skills and values are permanent qualification prerequisites which are needed for practical use of expert knowledge and for orientation in variable, multi-level and pluralistic legal environment.
Importance of skills for competitiveness and professional employment is emphasized on many levels, e. g. Recommendation of European Parliament and the Council no. 2006/962/EC on key competencies for life-long learning and Report of the Task Force on Law Schools and the Legal Profession: Narrowing the Gap, elaborated by the American Bar Association in 1992.
The Centre for Clinical Legal Education covers clinical education at the Faculty of Law since 2006. Currently offers one compulsory and several voluntary courses developing legal skills and values.
The Team of Centre for Clinical Legal Education (“CCLE”)
The Director of CCLE:
JUDr. Maxim Tomoszek, Ph.D.
Assistant professor, lecturer and supervisor at CCLE:
JUDr. Lucia Madleňáková, Ph.D.
Phone: 585 637 673
Office No. 7 (building B PF UP)
email: lucia.madlenakova@upol.cz
Lecturer and Supervisor at the CCLE
JUDr. Bronislava Wittnerová, MSc.
Office No. 1 (building A PF UP)
email: judr.wittnerova@seznam.cz
Head of the Office of Legal Clinics and Lecturer at CCLE
Mgr. Lucia Valentová
Phone 585 637 616
Office of Students' Law Office (building A PF UP)
Email: lucia.valentova@upol.cz
Organizational Assistant and Lecturer at CCLE:
Mgr. Veronika Pochylá
Phone 585 637 616
Office of Students' Law Office (building A PF UP)
Email:veronika.pochyla@upol.cz
Secretary of CCLE
Alena Opichalová
Phone 58563 7537
Office No. 65 (building B PF UP)
email: alena.opichalova@upol.cz
Courses offered by the CCLE
Compulsory A courses:
Legal Skills Course
Voluntary B courses
Legal Skills Course (English)
Advanced Skills Courses
Legal Research Seminar
Professional Ethics
Legal Clinics
Students' Law Office
Consumer Law Clinic
Administrative Law Clinic
Social Security Law Clinic
Human Rights Clinic¨
Students' Human Rights Lab
Anti-Discrimination Clinic
Refugee Law Clinic
Environmental Law Clinic
Construction Law Clinic
Clinic of Law and Business
Street Law
Courses offered to the ERASMUS Students
Legal Skills Course
Summer Semester
Every week
Approximately for 15 students
Teachers: Mgr. Lucia Valentová, JUDr. Maxim Tomoszek, Ph.D.
Legal skills course taught in English aims to implement legal skills development into the curriculum and to prepare students for legal practice, presenting a practical element accompanying substantive law subjects. The education will be aimed at training of communication, presentation and analytical skills, with focus on their legal aspects. The course does not focus only on advocacy skills. It aims to develop skills important for all legal profession and already in legal studies. The course will be based on interactive modern methods of education, active involvement of students, their individual work and exercise of acquired skills.
The students will be assessed according to number of points they obtain for various activities throughout semester. Students will pair to interview and council a client and to prepare a legal advice for his case.
