The contact with students is much closer and free from the usual anonymity. At the beginning, the law students were excited and a bit frightened as to how it would work for them to act as teachers in schools and in prisons. They also learn that it is not what they're used to. In so many cases they have to use the knowledge from each of the legal branches in the very same case they debate or deal with during class. It is like an opening.
Many newcomers are shy and very fragile during the first meetings.
But afterwards become more assertive, eager to work and fantastically creative. The students want to continue what they have started in the course. Some of them are working with me in the Civic information office, helping people with legal problems. The students admit they understand the people much better and can see the realistic dimension of the theoretical legal knowledge they usually get when studying the law. The law in every day life is a process, and it is important to understand that.