UCL Pro Bono – encouraging law students to put their knowledge and skills to practical use in the community, learning how to use the law as an effective instrument for social change.
This blog provides an online space for students to engage with each other and the public on issues relevant to their pro bono and clinical work in the community.
April 2, 2012
The Grassroots Project is an initiative by the UCL Student Human Rights Programme which aims to build a stronger awareness of fundamental human rights among schoolchildren through interactive lessons delivered by our volunteers.
Langdon Park School, 7th March 2012
Our lesson today focused on the difficulty in enforcing human rights law and the conflict between some of these rights. We started by giving the students a pop quiz on the enforcement of human rights and revealed through the answers that the international sphere of human rights law wasn’t as rosy as they had expected. The students were genuinely surprised, for example, to learn that the number of people publicly indicted by the International Criminal Court was roughly a tenth of the figure they thought it would be.
February 22, 2012
Rachel Knowles, Community Care Solicitor at Just for Kids Law, recently delivered an excellent training session on Education Law and Advocacy to ten UCL law students. The training covered exclusions, special educational needs and appeals procedures for young people in respect of their schooling.
February 22, 2012
On Tuesday 31st January a training event took place at Bentham House for the new “CITIZENS Legal Referral Service”. As part of the project UCL law students will be investigating claims of bad immigration advice with a view to improving the level of advice available for vulnerable clients.
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