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11 Mizan L. Rev. 1 (2017)

handle is hein.journals/mizanlr11 and id is 1 raw text is: Advancing Access to Justice for the Poor and Vulnerable through Legal Clinics in Ethiopia: Constraints and Opportunities Mizanie Abate, Alebachew Birhanu, and Mihret Alemayehu Abstract The right of access to justice, inter alia, enjoins states to provide legal aid services and employ legal literacy programs. It also ensures access to legal and justice institutions or legal remedies to the indigent and the vulnerable. Although the right of access to justice is guaranteed in Ethiopian laws, it continues to be unavailable to most citizens particularly to the indigent and the vulnerable because the different mechanisms (designed to ensure access to justice to these groups) have not been accorded sufficient legal recognition and are poorly implemented. We argue that law school legal clinics could be among the viable pursuits in addressing the gap. However, this study reveals that legal clinics per se are non-existent. In many law schools, the establishment of legal clinics has been hindered by lack of expertise, commitment of law schools to run clinical programs and financial problems. Law schools can meaningfully contribute to fill the gaps of access to justice in Ethiopia, if their legal aid centers are consolidated and used as legal clinics, and if clinical legal education is provided in accordance with the curricula designed in 2006 and 2013. Key terms Legal clinics, legal aid, access to justice, law schools, Ethiopia DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/mir.v1 li 1.1 This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial- NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND) Mizanie Abate: LL.B (Addis Ababa University), LL.M (University of Pretoria), PhD (the University of Alabama), Assistant Professor at Addis Ababa University, School of Law. Email: <mizanie.abate @aau.edu.et> Alebachew Birhanu: LL.B (Addis Ababa University), LL.M and M.Phil (University of Oslo), Assistant Professor at Bahir Dar University, School of Law. Email: <Alebe2007 @gmail.com> Mihret Alemayehu: LL.B (Addis Ababa University), LL.M and M.Phil (University of Oslo), Lecturer at Bahir Dar University, School of Law. Email: <mhret06@yahoo.com>

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