Student Pro Bono and its Role in Contemporary Australian Law Schools

Kingsford Legal Centre, Clinical Legal Education Guide 2014 (11th ed, University of NSW).

Evans Adrian , Best Practices: Australian Clinical Legal Education (Office for Learning and Teaching, Department of Industry, Innovation, Science, Research and Tertiary Education, 2012).

Giddings Jeff , Promoting Justice through Clinical Legal Education (Justice Press, 2013); see also The Global Alliance for Justice Education (undated) <www.gaje.org>.

Ibid 68.

National Pro Bono Taskforce, Recommended Action Plan for National Co-Ordination and Development of Pro Bono Legal Services: Report (Australian Law Reform Commission, 2001) 31.

Booth Tracey , ‘Student Pro Bono: Developing a Public Service Ethos in the Contemporary Australian Law School’ (2004) 29(6) Alternative Law Journal 280, 280; De Brennan Sebastian , ‘Rethinking Pro Bono: Students Lending a Helping Hand’ (2005) 15(1&2) Legal Education Review 25; McCrimmon Les , ‘Mandatinga Culture of Service: Pro Bono in the Law School Curriculum’ (2003–4) 14(1) Legal Education Review 53.

Booth and De Brennan both describe the UWS pilot, which is no longer operational (author conversation with former PBSA coordinator).

University of Technology Sydney, Brennan Justice and Leadership Program (2005) <http://www.uts.edu.au/future-students/law/beyond-classroom/brennan-justice-and-leadership-program>.

Chaifetz Jill , ‘The Value of Public Service: A Model for Instilling a Pro Bono Ethic in Law School’ (1993) 45 Stanford Law Review 1695.

Pro Bono Students Canada (2016) <http://www.probonostudents.ca>; Singapore Management University Pro Bono Centre (2013) <http://centres.smu.edu.sg/pbc/>; NYC Pro Bono Centre (2016) <http://www.probono.net/ny/nyc/>; LSE Pro Bono (undated) <http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/law/students/probono/probono.htm>.

Giddings, above n 3, 65. For a recent example, see: Maguire Rowena Shearer Gail Field Rachael , ‘Reconsidering Pro Bono: A Comparative Analysis of Protocols in Australia, the United States, the United Kingdom and Singapore’ (2014) 37(3) UNSW Law Journal 1164.

Nicholson Donald , ‘Legal Education or Community Service? The Extra-Curricular Student Law Clinic’ (2006) 3 Web Journal of Current Legal Issues.

Evans , above n 2, 4.

Lovat Terence Clement Neville , ‘Service Learning as Holistic Values Pedagogy’ (2016) Journal of Experiential Education 1, 2.

Booth , above n 6.

Evans , above n 2.

Shortly after the commencement of Manning St Project, ‘gag clauses’ in service agreements between CLCs and Commonwealth and Queensland governments reinforced the need for an injection of student pro bono support for law reform and policy activities.

Examples include: research conducted for the Prisoners ‘Legal Service which was incorporated into Chapter 3 of the Prisoners’ Legal Service Inc, 2011 Report on Queensland Prisons; a research project on public space which appeared as a student publication in the Council to Homeless Persons, Parity 25(2); research on genocide which culminated in an academic paper: Baldry Hannah , ‘Queensland's Frontier Killing Times – Facing up to Genocide’ (2015) 15(1) QUT Law Review 92; data collected during the Missing Persons project resulted in Online Caxton Self-Help Kit, <https://caxton.org.au/self_help_kits.html> and Gunning-Stevenson Anna Ser Sera Dubois Valentine , ‘Gone Missing: Improving the Law's Response to Missing Persons in Queensland’ (2015) 40(1) Alternative Law Journal 53.

The students whose quotes appear each consented to having their evaluations shared for research purposes.

Kelk Norm , Courting the Blues: Attitudes towards Depression in Australian Law Students and Lawyers (Brain & Mind Research Institute: University of Sydney, 2009).

Australian Learning and Teaching Council, Bachelor of Laws: Learning and Teaching Academic Standards Statement (December 2010) 9.

Knowledge, Ethics and Professional Responsibility, Thinking Skills, Research Skills, Communication and Collaboration, and Self-Management.

James Nick , ‘Logical, Critical and Creative: Teaching Thinking Skills to Law Students’ (2012) 12(1) QUT Law and Justice Journal, 80.

Walsh Tamara , ‘Putting Justice Back into Legal Education’ (2007) 17 Legal Education Review 119.

Booth , above n 6, 282.

100% of students surveyed for the Manning St Project said that they would recommend it to their peers.

Stewart Andrew Owens Rosemary , Experience or Exploitation? The Nature, Prevalence and Regulation of Unpaid Work Experience, Internships and Trial Periods in Australia: Report (Fair Work Ombudsman, 2013).

Education (Work Experience) Act 1996 (Qld).

Volunteering Queensland Code of Practice for Organisations Involving Volunteers (undated) <https://www.volunteeringqld.org.au/resources/code-of-practice>.