Street Law
Swansea Law Clinic
Street Law expanded rapidly during 2023-24 with over 60 students engaged in research and the delivery of interactive sessions for diverse lay audiences, on topics from assault, battery and theft to protest, discrimination, women in the law, freedom of information and police powers. Street Law student trainers Elenor Marano and Sa’d Khalayleh presented to the Association of Law Teachers Conference on the potential for integration of Street Law methods in core law subject teaching. Street Law intersects with the delivery of clinical services at Swansea Law Clinic, for example with local charities supporting people with dementia, children not accessing a full education, and their carers. Street Law is supporting the Children’s Legal Centre Wales to deliver an externally funded project on children’s rights education. Professor Jane Williams, with Professor Yvonne Vissing (Salem State University), is developing a pilot project in online international peer-to-peer learning on human rights, deploying Street Law approaches, on which they jointly presented to the Conference of the International Association of Human Rights Education.
Swansea Law Clinic has continued to advise members of the public mainly on housing, immigration, family breakdown, employment, equality and consumer issues.
In November 2023, students participated in the 5th Global Day of Action for Climate Justice. This is an annual event when university law clinics from across the globe take part in action to raise awareness of the climate emergency, and to think about the role law teachers, lawyers and law students can play in tackling major societal changes such as climate change. The Clinic hosted a ‘Climate Walk & Talk Day’ to discuss the theme ‘The Right to a Healthy Climate’, with our focus on transportation and its pollution impacts. This involved an eight mile walk from the Singleton Campus of Swansea University to Mumbles Pier, along the waterfront promenade, and back again. Upon return to Singleton Campus there was a talk and presentation given by Environmental Law Professor, Karen Morrow.
The event started a conversation amongst students and staff on the issues with transit and how transportation pollution challenges our right to a healthy environment and what we can do.
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