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Legal Internship (LAWS50059)
Graduate coursework level 5Points: 12.5On Campus (Parkville)
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About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
- Timetable(opens in new window)
Contact information
January
Email: law-wil@unimelb.edu.au
Phone: +61 3 8344 6190
Website: law.unimelb.edu.au/students/jd/enrichment/mls-clinics
Semester 1
Email: law-wil@unimelb.edu.au
Phone: +61 3 8344 6190
Website: law.unimelb.edu.au/students/jd/enrichment/mls-clinics
June
Email: law-wil@unimelb.edu.au
Phone: +61 3 8344 6190
Website: law.unimelb.edu.au/students/jd/enrichment/mls-clinics
Semester 2
Email: law-wil@unimelb.edu.au
Phone: +61 3 8344 6190
Website: law.unimelb.edu.au/students/jd/enrichment/mls-clinics
November
Email: law-wil@unimelb.edu.au
Phone: +61 3 8344 6190
Website: law.unimelb.edu.au/students/jd/enrichment/mls-clinics
Overview
Availability | January Semester 1 June Semester 2 November |
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Fees | Look up fees |
The aim of this subject is to provide students with the opportunity to gain practical legal skills and undertake a public interest or community-focused legal workplace experience that complements and deepens their coursework learning in the Melbourne JD.
Internships can be hosted by any public interest organisation that will facilitate the student undertaking legally-oriented work, including government departments, regulatory and statutory bodies, courts and tribunals, legal assistance sector organisations such as legal aid or community legal centres, and non-government or not-for-profit organisations. Host organisations can be locally based, interstate or international and can be in person or remote/virtual (with approval).The proposed internship must be approved by the Subject Coordinators.
The internship experience should build on a students’ studies to date in the Melbourne JD and be of an appropriately demanding standard to model professional legal work or practice.
Students must complete at least 15 days of unpaid practical legal experience at the host organisation.
Intended learning outcomes
A student who successfully completes this subject will have:
- an enhanced understanding of professional legal practice through engaging directly in legally-oriented work.
- an enhanced understanding and critical appreciation of the role and value of public interest lawyering.
- an enhanced practice-based understanding of a particular legal area relevant to the internship.
- enhanced insight into their own learning and professional identity.
- critical insight into some of the challenges and opportunities facing public interest lawyers and/or organisations and the social and legal framework within which they operate.
- a deeper understanding of, and increased capacity to engage with, law, policy and reform in the area of the internship.
Generic skills
Upon successful completion of the subject, students will have developed and demonstrated the following skills:
- Thinking skills, including the ability to gather information, understand context, apply knowledge and convey law or law related concepts in a way that is useful and effective to a variety of audiences;
- The ability to identify, research, evaluate and synthesise relevant factual, legal and policy issues in a practical context;
- Personal and professional skills, including learning autonomously, being accountable for work, self-reflection on performance;
- Skills required for effective workplace performance, such as communication, time management, co-worker collaboration and office organisation;
- An increased capacity to reflect on their own professional competencies, including an awareness of current aptitudes and identification of areas where skills need to be consolidated; and
- The ability to engage with colleagues and develop professional networks.
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
All of
Code | Name | Teaching period | Credit Points |
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LAWS50023 | Legal Method and Reasoning | Summer Term (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS50024 | Principles of Public Law | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS50025 | Torts | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS50026 | Obligations | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS50029 | Contracts | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS90140 | Disputes and Ethics | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Only approved applicants can enrol into this subject.
Some internship host organisations may have specific requirements regarding prerequisite subjects.
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
None
Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)
The University of Melbourne is committed to providing students with reasonable adjustments to assessment and participation under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). Students are expected to meet the core participation requirements for their course. These can be viewed under Entry and Participation Requirements for the course outlines in the Handbook.
Further details on how to seek academic adjustments can be found on the Student Equity and Disability Support website: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/student-equity/home
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Assessment
Description | Timing | Percentage |
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Completion of pre-internship orientation session or online equivalent Hurdle requirement | N/A | |
Legal internship activity log Hurdle requirement: 15 days (minimum) placement, evidenced by the signed Legal Internship activity log | Upon completion of internship placement | N/A |
Hurdle requirement: Satisfactory performance on placement. | N/A | |
Engagement and contribution to mid and end-point meetings and online discussion boards | Throughout the teaching period | 10% |
Oral Presentation: To be uploaded electronically (video)
| Due dates will be advised via the LMS for each offering. | 30% |
Reflective Portfolio
| Due dates will be advised via the LMS for each offering. | 60% |
Additional details
Further information on due dates will be provided to students upon enrolment.
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Dates & times
- January
Principal coordinator Kate Fischer-Doherty Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Students must complete at least 15 days of placement at an internship host organisation. Total time commitment 145 hours Teaching period 3 January 2023 to 24 February 2023 Last self-enrol date 13 November 2022 Census date 20 January 2023 Last date to withdraw without fail 24 February 2023 Assessment period ends 24 March 2023 January contact information
Email: law-wil@unimelb.edu.au
Phone: +61 3 8344 6190
Website: law.unimelb.edu.au/students/jd/enrichment/mls-clinics - Semester 1
Principal coordinator Erin Buckley Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Students must complete at least 15 days of placement at an internship host organisation. Total time commitment 145 hours Teaching period 27 February 2023 to 28 May 2023 Last self-enrol date 13 November 2022 Census date 31 March 2023 Last date to withdraw without fail 5 May 2023 Assessment period ends 23 June 2023 Semester 1 contact information
Email: law-wil@unimelb.edu.au
Phone: +61 3 8344 6190
Website: law.unimelb.edu.au/students/jd/enrichment/mls-clinics - June
Principal coordinator Erin Buckley Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Students must complete at least 15 days of placement at an internship host organisation. Total time commitment 145 hours Teaching period 26 June 2023 to 21 July 2023 Last self-enrol date 13 November 2022 Census date 7 July 2023 Last date to withdraw without fail 28 July 2023 Assessment period ends 18 August 2023 June contact information
Email: law-wil@unimelb.edu.au
Phone: +61 3 8344 6190
Website: law.unimelb.edu.au/students/jd/enrichment/mls-clinics - Semester 2
Principal coordinator Kate Fischer-Doherty Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Students must complete at least 15 days of placement at an internship host organisation. Total time commitment 145 hours Teaching period 24 July 2023 to 22 October 2023 Last self-enrol date 13 November 2022 Census date 31 August 2023 Last date to withdraw without fail 22 September 2023 Assessment period ends 17 November 2023 Semester 2 contact information
Email: law-wil@unimelb.edu.au
Phone: +61 3 8344 6190
Website: law.unimelb.edu.au/students/jd/enrichment/mls-clinics - November
Principal coordinator Kate Fischer-Doherty Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Students must complete at least 15 days of placement at an internship host organisation. Total time commitment 145 hours Teaching period 20 November 2023 to 22 December 2023 Last self-enrol date 13 November 2022 Census date 8 December 2023 Last date to withdraw without fail 5 January 2024 Assessment period ends 26 January 2024 November contact information
Email: law-wil@unimelb.edu.au
Phone: +61 3 8344 6190
Website: law.unimelb.edu.au/students/jd/enrichment/mls-clinics
Time commitment details
145 hours (including 15 days internship placement, preparation for and completion of all assessment tasks)
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Additional delivery details
This subject is taught both on-campus and through a practical placement at an internship host organisation.
This subject is an application-based enrichment subject. More information about the application process can be found on the JD LMS Community.
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
- There are no specifically prescribed or recommended texts for this subject.
- Specialist materials may be made available via the LMS.
- Related Handbook entries
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Type Name Course Juris Doctor
Last updated: 31 January 2024