Legal Aid and global justice lawyering: Issues in practice - JURD7983
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: 0
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.
Equivalent: LAWS3383
CSS Contribution Charge: 3 (more info)
Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule
Further Information: See Class Timetable
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Description
This course is part of a general offering of human rights and social justice topics within the UNSW Law School and aims to provide students with an engagement with the substance, institutions and techniques of justice lawyering. Students will be able to build on and incorporate experiences in other clinical courses and internships.
The specific topics covered will vary from year to year and may include:
- introduction to the roles and functions of legal service providers in Australia and internationally,
- current issues and challenges in global justice lawyering,
- theoretical models of justice lawyering and how these provide access to justice,
- acting for and working with communities including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, NGOs and individual clients,
- change lawyering in legal careers in social justice (complex multi-layered case studies drawn from legal practice),
- public service lawyering,
- human rights, and
- public advocacy
The courses 'Public Interest Litigation: Origins and strategies' and 'Legal aid and global justice lawyering: Issues in Practice’ are complementary courses and interested students are encouraged to enrol in both.
The course will be taught intensively over the summer period. This course will be particularly useful for students considering a career in global justice lawyering.
More information can be found on the 'Law in Action' in Law Website.