Effective natural resource management is an important part of environmental law and policy, in large part because life (both human and non-human) depends on it. Such management will become even more important if pressure on natural resources increases and the depletion rate of stocks and the eco-systems services that they provide continue. Law and policy has a significant role to play in ensuring management is optimal.

The AJNRLP provides a forum for scholars to publish their ideas on the law and policy relating to natural resources. Accordingly, the journal receives and publishes articles on a range of subjects including but not limited to terrestrial water, marine water, eco-system services, land use and planning, threatened species, conservation and mining.

This extension/advanced internship with the AJNRLP (for which completion of the basic internship is a prerequisite) provides the opportunity for the student to be more heavily involved in all aspects of the two key aspects of the journal's management: (a) subscriptions/marketing and (b) production. In relation to production, students will (under the guidance of the editor-in-chief) take on greater responsibility for devising the focus of the volume by researching and conceptualising the topic, deciding from whom articles should be solicited, soliciting articles and sending out a call for papers, liaising directly with authors and managing the production and distribution processes. Accordingly, extension interns will take on high levels of responsibility in their engagement with the journal's authors, designer and printer etc. Interns will also be heavily involved in all stages of editing including the sophisticated process of second-round editing. Interns will be responsible for increasing the subscription base of the journal and developing positive sponsorship and advertising relationships, through compliance with UNSW's marketing policy; a responsibility which will cause interns to interact with a range of external law and other professionals. Real-life, practical legal experience will be gained through having to review aggregator and other contracts and drafting in-house 'legal advices' on them, for example. Extension interns will be encouraged to improve database operations and where appropriate may be invited to submit their own articles for review and publication.

The internship, therefore, provides an ideal opportunity for students wishing to extend the skills and experience gained in the basic internship. Interns will have new opportunities to develop a deeper, substantive knowledge of natural resources law while simultaneously developing skills in legal editing, research, drafting, contract review and project management.

Students will work on average one day per week but the hours of work will need to be flexible to cope with the ebb and flow of the production process. This internship gives students the opportunity to work creatively and to gain legal work experience beyond that of legal professional practice.

More information can be found on the 'Law in Action' in Law Website.