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Formation and Advocacy

  • Participants to the Summer Internship Program (SIP) are incoming 2nd and 3rd year students of the College of Law
  • Resident interns are those enrolled and have residency with Xavier University College of Law
  • Volunteer lawyers are alumni of XU College of law of have undergone training with XUCLA’s SIP.
  • First year students who are enrolled to Human Rights will be exposed to actual human rights issues.

Legal Aid and Case Management

  • Clinical Legal Education Program (CLEP) is the venue for fourth year law students for practical case handling and litigation.
  • Fourth year law students are conducting legal consultations to various communities through outreach.

Legal and Policy Research

  • Fourth year law students with the CLEP are conducting policy inventory, policy analysis, formulating policy outlines, as well as policy recommendations.
  • First year law students who are enrolled to Legal Research can take part in the University’s policy development and policy agenda.
  • Convergence with RSO units in the RSO cluster
  • Policy Inventory (local, national and international)
  • Community visits for data gathering
  • Policy Analysis
  • Policy Development
  • Policy Recommendations

Formation

  • Summer Internship Program every summer
    • Orientation and Skills Training
    • Immersion
    • Internship
  • Summer Internship for Resident Interns
    • Ateneo Human Rights Center Internship (Ateneo de Manila University)
    • Internship with the Alternative Law Groups, Inc. (ALG, Inc.
  • Resident Internship, of student volunteers who are still enrolled with XU College of Law
  • Continuing Training for lawyers relevant advocacies

Advocacy

  • Human rights advocacy
  • Networking with LGUs on relevant matters, like, but not limited to women rights, rural poor and environmental issues
  • Networking with NGOs and local CSOs on defined advocacies, such as, among others, women trafficking, prostitution,
  • mining and logging.
  • Roundtable discussions
  • Focused Group Discussions
  • Brown bag discussions
  • Symposia and Fora
  • Photo Exhibits

Legal Aid

  • Legal outreach
  • Free legal consultations
  • Community visits

Case Management

  • Case handling and litigation
    • Case inventory
    • Case brief
    • Legal Assessment
    • Evidence gathering
  • Clinical Legal Education Program

Mission

The promotion and protection of the rights of the poor and marginalized for a just society and sustainable Mindanao, through legal and policy research and advocacy.

Vision

A leading Legal Aid Center in Mindanao, as well as a recognized legal and policy research and advocacy Center in Cagayan de Oro by 2016.

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