The Center for Human Rights and Migration at the Romanian-American University, School of Law, has developed 4 legal clinics: Migration and Refugee Law Clinic, Non-Discrimination Law Clinic, Mental Disability Rights Law Clinic, and Public Integrity and Corporate Social Responsibility Law Clinic. These clinics have done research and provided legal advice to vulnerable groups and lower income clients while offering students practical training to develop their skills and legal competences since 2007.

1. The Migration and Refugee Law Clinic offers students the opportunity to participate in the following activities in order to advocate and support immigrants/asylum seekers/refugees:

1. trainings, visits to institutions, participation in events organized on migration and asylum topics;
2. legal research, including information from the countries of origin;
3. drafting of legal opinions on issues such as statelessness, detention, European standards, Compared Law etc.;
4. counseling and working with lawyers on cases of violation of migrants’ rights, court activities;
5. creating a database with the relevant jurisprudence (ECHR, ECJ, national courts etc.);
6. Moot Court competitions.

This law clinic is developed in partnership with JRS Romania and UNHCR.

2. The Consumers Law Clinic is established within the EU project STARS "Skills Transfers in Academia: a Renewed Strategy Enhancing Legal Clinics in the European Union" as a research and street law clinic. It develops the following activities:

1. teaching, training and practical legal activities.
2. legal research on Romanian and EU legislation and case-law;
3. street law activities;
4. scientific and informal events organised on consumers’ rights.

Anyone interested, being either BA or MA students in any Romanian university, can apply by sending an email to the following address:This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.