Capacity of legal professionals enhanced
PROLoG works to enhance the capacity of Georgian legal professionals through wide-ranging activities designed to strengthen legal education at the university level and provide more opportunities for continuing legal education for judges and lawyers. PROLoG’s many activities include:
- Ensuring that the university-level legal education system prepares graduates with practical skills and knowledge, and addresses legal ethics, human rights, and barriers to justice for women and other marginalized groups by improving teaching methodology.
- Enhancing professional skills training by supporting improved trainings related to legal research, analysis and writing, and legal ethics.
- Supporting clinical legal education, mock trials and moot court competitions.
- Supporting human rights and gender scholarship.
PROLoG also works to strengthen the governance of legal professionals by strengthening the Georgian Bar Association (GBA), improving the process of admission to the Bar, and helping to support the development of a formal internship program. PROLoG also supports the strengthening of the GBA Ethics Commission and institutional development of the GBA. In addition, PROLoG works to strengthen judicial associations and the law firm association.
PROLoG also supports Continued Legal Education programs for judges and lawyers to sustainably address issues related to the ethics, human rights law, and barriers to justice for women and other marginalized groups. In addition, PROLoG supports gender awareness training and commercial law trainings, often in conjunction with the High School of Justice.