Università Roma Tre

The course:

The Legal Clinic on Migration and Asylum is a complementary course (7 CFU), structured in three modules, with mandatory class attendance.

The first module (3 CFU) includes 24 hours of lessons dedicated to immigration and international protection laws, both domestic and supranational.

The second module (3 CFU), formed by 24-hour seminar lessons, provides students with an introduction to critical studies on citizenship, migration, and borders.

The third module provides an 8-hour internship at the Clinic's Legal Helpdesk, in which students are engaged in activities of legal advice to migrants and asylum seekers under the supervision of lawyers specialized in immigration law.




The project:
Founded in 2010, the Roma Tre Legal Clinic on Migration and Asylum (Clinica del Diritto dell’Immigrazione e della Cittadinanza) is one of the first clinical courses established in Italy. It combines experimental learning, research, and public engagement.

First in Italy, in 2012 the Clinic set up a public “Legal Helpdesk" where law students are directly involved in providing information and legal assistance to migrants and asylum seekers under the supervision of immigration lawyers. Each year, the Clinic’s Front Office follows up on an average of 120 asylum claims and immigration cases. Thanks to the support of private foundations and European funding, the Clinic provides annual scholarships that allow selected students to collaborate with the Clinic’s Front Office as Junior Assistants and tutors of the new students.

Since its establishment, the Clinic has carried out several research projects and advocacy activities that have had an impact at the national and international levels. Between 2014 and 2016, the Clinic coordinated the ‘Lexilium project’, a national research on judicial decisions on migrant detention. The results of the research have been quoted by the 2014 International Commission of Jurists’ report ‘“Undocumented” Justice for Migrants in Italy’. The Clinic was also heard by the Group of Experts on Trafficking of the European Council (Greta) and by the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food. In 2022, the Clinic engaged with the UN Special rapporteur on the situation of the human rights defenders resulting in a joint statement by three UN Special rapporteurs calling on the Italian Government to stop criminalizing solidarity with migrant people.

The Clinic is a member of the Italian Network of Law Clinics and of the European Network for Clinical Education (ENCLE), and it collaborates with several law firms, NGOs, and associations at the national and international levels.

The study of textbooks is not foreseen. The lecturer will provide students with teaching materials and documents in support of clinical-legal activities.