The School of Law runs four student clinics per semester under the auspices of the UQ Pro Bono Centre. Each of these clinics aim to provide students with work experience in a legal setting for academic credit (LAWS5180/7180). Clinics are currently run out of the Queensland Public Interest Law Clearing House (QPILCH), Caxton Legal Centre and Legal Aid Queensland. Students spend one day per week during semester undertaking legal work supervised by lawyers. Students must apply for a place in the clinical legal education program. The clinics currently include:
- the Consumer Law Advice Clinic at Caxton Legal Centre;
- the Homeless Persons' Legal Clinic at the Queensland Public Interest Law Clearing House (QPILCH);
- the Public Interest Research Clinic at QPILCH;
- the Legal Aid Clinic at the Brief Services Unit at Legal Aid Queensland.
The Centre will also work with the community legal sector to expand the clinical program. Some expansion has already occurred: in semester 2 of 2009, the School will be running the Prisoner Law Clinic for the first time. In time, we hope that the UQ clinical legal program will provide an opportunity for all law students to undertake valuable work experience in a legal setting for academic credit.
The staff contact regarding the clinical legal education program is Dr Tamara Walsh, Director, UQ Pro Bono Centre.
Applications for LAWS5180/7180 (Clinical Legal Education) – Semester 2 2009
Applications have closed.