Win a Student Pro Bono Guide!
Members of staff at Northumbria University’s award-winning legal clinic, the Student Law Office, have come together to publish A Student Guide to Clinical Legal Education and Pro Bono. It is a guide aimed at YOU - to help you set up pro bono projects, understand the importance of clinics and pro bono and the skills needed to use that experience in your career.
The guide gives a detailed list of further reading and a series of practical activities at the end of each chapter. There is also a companion website that features useful supplementary material www.palgrave.com/law/lawclinic.
Palgrave Macmillan (publishers of A Student Guide to Clinical Legal Education and Pro Bono rrp £19.99) have generously given us some copies to give away. For your chance to win one, just answer the following question:
In what year did Northumbria University first win the award for ‘Best Contribution by a Law School’ at the LawWorks & Attorney General Student Awards? Was it...
a) 2007
b) 2008
c) 2010
THE COMPETITION HAS NOW CLOSED!
The answer was b) 2008.
And the winners are....
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Maria Fatima |
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Tesha Henry |
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Peter Crewe |
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Helena McDermott |
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Zhen Lim |
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Matt Brown |
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Alessandra Oh |
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Ruhina Manek |
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Sean Campbell |
A massive thank you to everyone who entered and congratulations to the winners!
If you want to get your hands on a copy, there is a 30% discount available on the publisher's website. Enter discount code - PROBONO2011a - Grab a copy now and get planning your next activity!
About the authors
Kevin Kerrigan
Kevin is Associate Dean for Undergraduate and Clinical Programmes and is a National Teaching Fellow. He is also a practising solicitor and Human Rights Act consultant with experience of conducting criminal and human rights cases in courts at all levels. He runs a criminal appeal clinic in the Student Law Office, is a co-ordinator of the Clinical Legal Education Organisation and is on the Advisory Board of the United Kingdom Centre for Legal Education. He is the editor of the International Journal of Clinical Legal Education and organises an annual international clinical conference.
Victoria Murray
Victoria is a Senior Lecturer and Deputy Programme Leader of the M Law/Exempting Degree. Her experience of clinical legal education dates back to her student days and she now supervises employment cases in the Student Law Office. Victoria is also responsible for the compulsory clinical module in year 3, which prepares students for the full representation clinic. Victoria was a finalist in the Law Teacher of the Year 2010 and she was highly commended at the Junior Lawyer Division 2008 Pro Bono awards in the ‘Solicitor Team’ Category.