In cooperation with the Supreme Judicial Council and the National Institution for Human Rights Students Of the Legal Clinic at UoB Discuss The “Right to be Forgotten”

Sakhir _ University of Bahrain _ Mansoor Al-Wanni
16 February 2022
Director of the Legal Clinic and Human Rights Center at the University of Bahrain (UoB), Dr. Saqer Eid Al-Ruwais, stated that: “About 12 students in the College of Law began clinical training and research on the topic of “the right to be forgotten”, during the second semester of the current academic year 2021/2022″.
Dr. Al-Ruwais confirmed that the students began training and research outside UoB, within the course of the “Legal Clinic for Human Rights” (LAW408), in cooperation with the Supreme Judicial Council and the National Institution for Human Rights, noting that the students will be taught and trained in these bodies, according to a scientific and practical methodology that was prepared in advance, and it aims to link theoretical study with practical application.
Moreover, Dr. Al-Ruwais stated that the students in the legal clinic projects will be discussing the topic of “the right to be forgotten”, which is a relatively recent topic, and many problems have risen around it in relation to the right to privacy, and its connection with other human rights, in an attempt to find legal solutions to the problems raised by the topic, in a way that serves public and private institutions, and all segments of society”.
The “right to be forgotten” is a concept imposed by modern digitization, as this reality prompted the legal legislator to look for a legal mechanism that would enable network users to remove informational content spread across all digital sites, whether those that they broadcasted, or those related to them and were published by another party, and the comparative judiciary and jurisprudence did not find a solution to this dilemma, other than inventing the idea of digital erasure. The “right to be forgotten” aims to respect human privacy in the cyberspace, as this right gives the person the right to delete information that he deems a violation of his privacy, through electronic search engines.
Furthermore, Dr. Al-Ruwais indicated that the students of the legal clinic course have started the induction program since the beginning of the current semester, through a month-long program, which includes a series of practical workshops related to the topic of “the right to be forgotten”, and a variety of field visits, aimed at informing the students about the practical legal reality with the authorities cooperating with the Center.
It is noteworthy that the legal clinic course project was launched in 2013 in order to prepare and qualify students of the College of Law to enter the labor market, and to refine their skills, practical abilities, community service, and awareness of legal aspects.

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