Social Justice Internship Program - JURD7307
Faculty: Faculty of Law
School: Faculty of Law
Course Outline: See below
Campus: Sydney
Career: Postgraduate
Units of Credit: 6
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 7
Enrolment Requirements:
Pre-requisite: 36 UOC of JURD courses for students enrolled prior to 2013. For students enrolled after 2013, pre-requisite: 72 UOC of JURD courses.
Excluded: LAWS3307
CSS Contribution Charge: 3 (more info)
Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule
Further Information: See Class Timetable
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Description
This course affords students the opportunity to work in one of the specialist centres within the Faculty of Law which undertakes advocacy or research on aspects of policy and practice relating to an area of social justice. The Program provides formal and informal training, as well as supervised practical experience, in planning and implementing key aspects of research, writing, advocacy and related activities.
The participating Centres where students can complete a Social Justice Internship are as follows:
The participating Centres where students can complete a Social Justice Internship are as follows:
- Australian Human Rights Centre
- Centre for Refugee Research
- Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre
- Diplomacy Training Program
- Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law
- Indigenous Law Centre
- National Children’s and Youth Law Centre
- National Pro Bono Resource Centre
- Social Justice Project
- Criminal Justice Research Network
- Centre for International Finance and Regulation
- Andrew and Renata Kaldor Centre for Refugee Law
AT THE CENTRE
Each successful applicant for participation in the program is allocated as an intern to a particular Centre at the outset of the session. The Centre will assign a supervisor for each intern. Students will work under the supervision of that Supervisor within the Centre for the duration of the internship.
Interns are required to attend their Centre for the equivalent of one day each week over 12 weeks, by arrangement between the intern and the Centre and confirmed with the Program Coordinator.
The range of projects in which the intern will be involved will be determined according to the project priorities of the Centre. However, in general it is expected that an intern’s duties will consist of a combination of research, project administrative, editing, writing, event coordination, preparing background materials, briefing papers, liaising with other organisations and doing relevant work of a substantive nature.
IN THE LAW SCHOOL
Interns will be placed in a class for their social justice internship subject. There will be 6 hours of classes over the semester usually undertaken in 3 times 2 hour blocks.There will also be a presentation session for students to present on their experiences and work at the Centre
Attendance by interns at the Centre and at program seminars is mandatory. Students whose attendance falls below the specified 12 days (or equivalent) or who do not attend Program Seminars without a medical certificate or other adequate evidence will be deemed not to have completed the subject requirements and will not be eligible to pass the course.
More information can be found on the 'Law in Action' in Law Website.
Each successful applicant for participation in the program is allocated as an intern to a particular Centre at the outset of the session. The Centre will assign a supervisor for each intern. Students will work under the supervision of that Supervisor within the Centre for the duration of the internship.
Interns are required to attend their Centre for the equivalent of one day each week over 12 weeks, by arrangement between the intern and the Centre and confirmed with the Program Coordinator.
The range of projects in which the intern will be involved will be determined according to the project priorities of the Centre. However, in general it is expected that an intern’s duties will consist of a combination of research, project administrative, editing, writing, event coordination, preparing background materials, briefing papers, liaising with other organisations and doing relevant work of a substantive nature.
IN THE LAW SCHOOL
Interns will be placed in a class for their social justice internship subject. There will be 6 hours of classes over the semester usually undertaken in 3 times 2 hour blocks.There will also be a presentation session for students to present on their experiences and work at the Centre
Attendance by interns at the Centre and at program seminars is mandatory. Students whose attendance falls below the specified 12 days (or equivalent) or who do not attend Program Seminars without a medical certificate or other adequate evidence will be deemed not to have completed the subject requirements and will not be eligible to pass the course.
More information can be found on the 'Law in Action' in Law Website.
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