KIULJ Volume. 7, Issue 1 (2025)

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Olawunmi Opeyemi Obisesan, Nyapidi Brenda, Ifesinachi Charles Okonji, Namaganda Zawena & Muyinga Samuel
 

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Clinical Legal education Gender-based violence Law Students Survivors
 

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Comparative analysis of the role of clinical legal education in addressing gender-based violence in Uganda and Nigeria

Abstract: Direct participation of law students in pro bono community-based courses is seen as key for training within the legal education field, in order to provide students with a basic understanding of the social nature of law and the tools to ensure that law will serve as an instrument of justice. The facilitation of partnerships between higher education institutions and the community in which students learn about gender-based violence through courses offered during the clinical year should become the main objective of clinical education. These efforts form part of the broader social struggle against the establishment of the systems that facilitate the continuance of violence, aimed at changing societal norms and facilitating attitudinal changes, in turn aimed at minimizing gender-based violence. The study aimed to explore the experience of domestic violence survivors in educating clinical law in Uganda and Nigeria. To achieve this, the research used a qualitative method by employing the use of comparative research of different CLE methods aimed at exposing law students to the problem of domestic violence in Nigeria and Uganda. The study found that one of the leading reasons for the ineffective enforcement of laws protecting survivors of gender-based violence is that legal professionals seldom have training on this matter. Interestingly, these professionals are the first individuals whom survivors of gender-based violence encounter when they report the crimes. In addition to numerous other challenges, confidentiality is indispensable, a training that medical students do not traditionally receive. The study concludes and recommends that interdisciplinary education may resolve problems and gaps that experienced professionals encounter in their daily work with survivors of gender-based violence.
 
 
 

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