# Legal clinics

**Source**: https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/law/clinical-education
**Parent**: https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/

Bringing reality in the classroom enhances student employability. We established two clinical education programmes that offer live-client or other real-life practice, reaching out to NGOs who need help in problem-solving and community-building.

[**Maastricht Mediation Clinic**](https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/about-um/faculties/law/education/moot-courts/maastricht-mediation-clinic)\
In collaboration with Monique Benning and Mardoeka Christensen of [Trajekt](https://www.trajekt.nl/) (a Maastricht based youth neighborhood mediation organisation), the MMC offers our students the opportunity to become student-mediators and conduct actual mediation sessions with the guidance of professional mediators. In addition to offering hands on clinical education, we also offer workshops and Master Classes on the issue of mediation, dispute resolution, and negotiations..\
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[**The Innovation Legal Aid Clinic**](https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/about-um/faculties/faculty-law/education/moot-courts-and-clinics/clinical-education/innovator%E2%80%99s)\
The Innovation Legal Aid Clinic provides pro-bono legal advice to independent artists. Participating students work in groups under the supervision of a member of staff and/or a lawyer to give answers to real-life intellectual property questions. Lawyers that collaborate with the IALC work in IP law firms such as Ventoux, AOMB and Ab Ovo.