Ethics of the Legal Clinicians Working at the Chiang Mai University Legal Clinic under the Chiang Mai University’s Code of Ethics for Administrative and Professional Staff Members 2023: A Case Study of Legal Clinic Staff
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Ethics, Legal Clinicians, Regulations, Code of Ethics, Chiang Mai UniversityAbstract
The Chiang Mai University’s Code of Ethics for Administrative and Professional Staff Members 2023 is a regulatory framework for declaration of the ethical standards which govern members of administrative and professional staff in the practice of their profession at the Chiang Mai University. It sets out great expectations of professional behaviour and conducts for administrative, academic, and support practitioners affiliated in their institutional professions. The paper analyses the ethics of the legal clinicians working at the Chiang Mai University Legal Clinic under the Chiang Mai University’s Code of Ethics for Administrative and Professional Staff Members 2023. This paper also examines how this regulatory framework develops an ethical approach to developing pro bono service actions in response to the public's moral legal service needs. This paper identifies an important set of key principles under the regulatory framework which will equip legal service officials to determine appropriate models of the ethics of pro bono for volunteer law student clinicians best suited to the needs of the CMU Faculty of Law.
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