ABSTRACT
This chapter describes aspects of the Central and Eastern European legal education systems, highlighting similarities and making comparisons across the civil and common law worlds. Funding education is like investing in the future economy of the country. Belarus is a country at the centre of Europe, pan-jurisdictional influence and innovation in education is rarely discussed, at least at the levels of power and influence. The implementation of the National Qualifications Framework re-focused attention from education based on topics to education based on "learning outcomes". The content of a set of new legal study programmes needs to be agreed in the Czech Republic by the Accreditation Commission, an independent organ established by the Higher Education Act of 1998. The value and significance of clinical legal education in the education of lawyers is commonly acknowledged on the international stage, legal clinics in Belarus still operate as extra-curricular activity. The chapter looks at one particular form of interactive learning – the law clinic.
