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PILI Hosts First Meeting of New Legal Education Advisory Council |
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On December 11, 2009, legal education experts from Argentina, Hungary, Poland, the UK and the US gathered in New York for the first meeting of the Legal Education Advisory Council to discuss current trends and priorities in legal education.
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Fellows profiles |
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For Rabin Subedi, a 2008-09 PILI Fellow from Nepal, getting involved with public interest law "came easily." Drawn to the study of law while Nepal's multi-party system was in its infancy, Rabin was exposed to public interest law by an inspiring professor.
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Featured publication |
Making Legal Aid a Reality: A Resource Book for Policy Makers and Civil Society
Making Legal Aid a Reality offers practical suggestions for improving systems of publicly funded legal services. Some of them are borrowed from the more advanced and innovative legal aid systems in the world -- England, Israel, Netherlands, South Africa, and the United States. Others represent solutions that have been tested in Central and Eastern Europe. This compilation avoids simplistic solutions and one-size-fits-all guidelines. Instead it offers a great variety of well-tested ideas, which have proven to contribute to the process of making legal aid more accessible, more effective, and more real. |
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PILI is hiring! Click here for job descriptions and how to apply. |
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The 2009-2010 class of PILI Fellows has arrived in New York. Read more about these leaders in public interest law here.
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Pursuing the Public Interest (in Ukrainian) can be downloaded from the publications page.
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Recent events |
Conference Marks Next Stage in Project on Improving Access to Legal Assistance
Representatives of the Russian Presidential State Legal Directorate and the Federal Bar Chamber joined the Public Interest Law Institute (PILI) and its partner, the Dutch Center for International Legal Cooperation (CILC), to examine the newly drafted law on legal aid at a conference held in Moscow on January 26. ... |
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PILI is now on Facebook! |
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