A case study on the impact of a capstone Street Law teaching project

The aim of this paper is to investigate the utility of a small-scale Street Law project as a capstone service-learning course in one Irish university. It begins with a discussion of Street Law as an aspect of clinical legal education in Ireland and considers the aims and objectives of Street Law pedagogy. It then describes the development of a Street Law project at the School of Law, University of Limerick (UL) and explains how the approach taken in this project differs from that in other institutions. The paper will then outline a study undertaken with UL Street Law students. The results of the study are presented and critically assessed to consider the contribution and sustainability of the project in its current form.