The Clinics for Law and Social Change

The University of Haifa, Faculty of Law

The Clinics for Law and Social Change combine academic learning with practical action to promote social change through law. Through the work of the Legal Clinics, law students, guided by a team of expert lawyers, serve as advocates, promoting human rights and democratic values on behalf of disadvantaged communities and individuals.

Clinical education is a formative experience for the students who take part in it. The study process in the clinics provides multiple possibilities to examine the ability of law to serve as a tool for social correction as well as an in-depth understanding of the limitations of this tool, provides experience in practical legal practice, writing policy papers and legislative proposals and applied research.

We believe that this process can shape and empower socially aware attorneys, who can make a change and improve Israeli society.

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Special Activity

  • Legal aid to people evicted from their homes and are staying in hotels
  • A petition to the High Court on behalf of the residents of 18 communities in the North of Israel
  • Leading a cooperation to limit lawyers’ fees for terror victims
  • Legal aid and representation for cases of violence against women
  • A unique “agreement building” project for the university community
  • Legal counsel to evicted families and communities concerning education
  • powers of attorney
  • Other clinic activities
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Our Clinics

Law, Technology & Cyber Clinic

Today, in the technological era, many legal questions arise and deal with various areas such as: protection of privacy and big data, intellectual property and civil rights, cyber attacks and national security, copyright in the Internet age, suppliers' liability for cyber abuse, cyber and human rights, artificial intelligence and human rights, and more. Some of the legal questions are entirely new and have not received full attention from the legal community in Israel and around the world.
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The Conflict Resolution Clinic

In a world where most conflicts are resolved out of court or in preliminary proceedings, the Conflict Resolution Clinic for disadvantaged populations, under the guidance of mediator Dana Gilo, is an innovative clinic whose goal is to provide students with in-depth knowledge and significant practical experience in the field of mediation. It also exposes them to additional procedures and tools within this field.
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The Clinic for Legal Feminism

The Clinic for Legal Feminism examines how Israeli society, which is perceived as a modern, democratic and egalitarian society, relates to women living in it in different contexts.
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The environmental justice clinic

The environmental justice clinic offers a unique combination of legal research and practical work, focusing on the pressing issues of our time - the climate crisis and the protection of natural resources. As part of the clinic’s activities, students will work to promote environmental justice by reducing power disparities between polluters and affected communities, emphasizing the increased responsibility of corporations and polluting entities for the environmental damage caused by their ongoing activities.
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The Civil Litigation Clinic

The Clinic for the Exercise of Human Rights through Civil Law is an innovative clinic that aims to provide tools – theoretical and practical – for promoting human rights through civil law – tort proceedings, class actions, insolvency and execution proceedings, remedies for violation of consumer rights, discrimination in standard contracts and more.
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The Clinic for Human Rights

The Human Rights Clinic was established out of a need to introduce students to the various power gaps in society and the resulting human rights violations. Disadvantaged and excluded populations (such as women, people with disabilities, the homeless, children, foreigners, and incarcerated people) need more help than others in exercise of human rights from the social and legal aspects, and in helping to make the justice system accessible for this purpose.
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The Clinic for Public Defender’s Office

The Public Defender's Office operates under the Public Defender Law and is responsible for providing appropriate legal representation to defendants and suspects who are entitled to receive the assistance of a public defender, i.e., a lawyer whose salary and expenses are paid by the state. Among the prominent population types that the defense attorney represents are the disadvantaged, minors, and mentally or mentally impaired. The clinic combines theoretical lessons and practical work.
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The clinic for legal aid in times of war

A unique clinic that deals with social and legal issues and dilemmas that arise and are created during wartime. The clinic will address the conceptualization of new legal dilemmas, provide legal assistance to war victims, whether in realizing their rights or in their rehabilitation, and more.
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