Demand for Justice Live Legal Clinic hosts lawyers, Dardan Morina and Driton Shehu, at the University of Prizren for a lecture on “Pretrial and trial advocacy”

On March 15, 2017, Students in the Demand for Justice Live Legal Clinic engaged in discussions and interactive activities with practicing attorneys Mr. Dardan Morina and Mr. Driton Shehu during their lecture on the subjects of “Pretrial and trial advocacy”.

In addition to theoretical concepts in the investigation of facts, negotiation and examination of witnesses; the lawyers demonstrated advocacy skills with examples from real cases they have worked on during their practice as lawyers. The lecture was delivered in an interactive manner enabling students to participate in the discussion and in the end of the lecture to work on a simulation of a hypothetical case by practicing the theory gained from the lecture. The clinic’s students were very satisfied with this method of lecturing as well as with knowledge acquired from the elaborated topics.

The University of Prizren’s Live Criminal Law Clinic is supported by the D4J Program and offers students of the Faculty of Law the opportunity to assist KBA advocates in their pro bono representation of poor criminal defendants. The Clinic serves 12 students, each of whom will have the opportunity to apply their academic knowledge in practice by working on live legal cases under the mentorship of a KBA advocate during their fourth year of law school or Master’s program.

The Demand for Justice Program is funded by the U.S. Department of State/INL and implemented by the National Center for State Courts to support the development of robust, evidence-driven demand for justice in Kosovo. Through D4J, NCSC is mobilizing CSO partners to act as agents of change to foster accountability, transparency, and integrity in the justice sector.