What is a legal clinic?

Clinical legal education began in the United States in the 1960s. Clinical legal education is also called "clinical legal education". It refers to the practice of imitating the clinical practice of medical students in medical clinic. In principle, under the guidance of teachers with lawyer qualifications, law students are arranged in "legal clinics" to provide legal advice to people in urgent need of legal aid, "diagnose" their legal problems and prescribe "prescriptions". In order to promote students' in-depth understanding of legal theory. Its advantage lies in cultivating the professional skills and professional ethics consciousness of law students, especially the professional skills of lawyers, so as to realize the unity of legal theory and legal practice.