The academic year of the 18/19 season of the Migration Law Clinic has ended with two great legal opinions.
During the past year, two legal opinions on EU law and two amicus curiae briefs on human rights law have been drafted. Three of these opinions will be used in pending cases before the European Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights.
The students involved in the projects had their final meeting to present the year's work to their peers and the staff of the ACMRL. At this meeting, the students also reflected on the previous year, sharing their enthusiasm for the projects, the experience of working on these difficult cases, the challenges of working in a diverse group of students, and the differences in the procedures before the European Courts and in drafting opinions or amicus curiae letters. There was a general feeling that they had developed many skills that could not normally be learnt from standard academic teaching, such as the ability to decide how to deal with the complexity of problems as they manifest themselves in practice, or to find a common focus in a process of group thinking. The International Migration and Refugee Law Moot Court Competition and the seminar on law clinics organised by the MLC to mark its 5th anniversary were also highly appreciated.