AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION CENTRAL EUROPEAN AND EURASIAN LAW INITIATIVE (ABA/CEELI)

The Legal Profession Reform Index

In order to monitor the legal profession reform progress in the countries of merging democracy, the American Bar Association Central European and Eurasian Law Initiative (ABA/CEELI) program has developed an Index of legal profession reform (LPRI). The basis for the index has been given by 24 factors having the source in internationally accepted standards of Legal profession defined by such structures as United Nations Organization and the Council of Europe.
Factors of LPRI may become a reference point for valuating situations with such important questions as freedoms and guatantees of implementation of professional activity; acquirement of education, special training and acces to implementation of professionanl activities; conditions nad requirements necessary forpractical activity; rendering legal services and activity of professional associations. 

Accreditation of Law Schools and Faculties in the New Independent States of the Former Soviet Union: What Steps for the Future?  (2003)

Reform of legal education has been marked a key component in promoting supremacy of law in ex-Soviet republics, currently sovereign and independent states, referred in the document to as Newly Independent States (NIS).
Scientists’ articles and international forums follow the opinion that legal education reform may progress through development and implementation of accreditation of law schools, refreshment of standards of educational programs offered by law schools and faculties, creation of clear standards of grading knowledge, as well as through retraining of law departments teachers. The present document reviews one of the abovementioned measures, that is development and implementation of coordinated procedures of attestation and accreditation of law schools and faculties in the NIS region.

PUBLICATIONS

Forging the Future: Engaging Law Students and Young Lawyers in Publlic Service, Human Rights and Poverty Alleviation. Stefan Golub.  An Open Society Justice Initiative Issues Paper (2004)

This material is an attempt to fill in informational vacuum that makes legal clinics education a resource of little value and use.