LEGAL EDUCATION

Legal clinic as a factor in improving the quality of higher legal education

Abstract

One of the university's objectives is to meet the needs of society and the state for qualified specialists with higher professional education and highly qualified scientific and teaching staff. Universities that train highly qualified lawyers should pay sufficient attention to various forms and methods of training future lawyers. At Caspian University, future lawyers gain deep theoretical knowledge. However, the provision of high-quality educational services at Caspian University is carried out not only by attracting leading scientists and practitioners in various fields of law to conduct classes or by organizing internships for students in well-known international or Kazakhstan companies, law enforcement agencies, courts, etc., but also by instilling in students the skills of future practical work through such an institutional departments such as the Law Clinic named after an outstanding Scientist – The founder of the Kazakh civilistic school, Yuri Basin. At Caspian University, one of the conditions for a student to become a full-fledged lawyer is to work in a legal clinic. The Y.G. Basin Law Clinic was established to provide free qualified legal assistance to socially vulnerable segments of the population, and over the seventeen years of its operation, hundreds of low-income citizens of our country have received the necessary legal assistance at the highest level and completely free of charge.