The 2nd Southeast Asia/Asia Pro Bono Conference and Workshop will bring together academics, law students, lawyers, judiciary, pro bono professionals, policy makers, civil society and non-profit representatives to consider the multifarious ways pro bono initiatives can strengthen access to justice in Southeast Asia and internationally. More »
By Bebs Chorak: Volunteer Expert Assisting BABSEA CLE and its Partners Law students are just the best. Street Law works with law students in the USA and in many other countries around the world. In our experience, law students are always enthusiastic, involved, and innovative. We More »
From an Academic Supervisor’s Perspective By Catherine Campbell: Associate Lecturer Law School QUT In January 2013 thirteen Law students from the Queensland University of Technology completed a 3 week internship with BABSEA CLE. This is the third successive year in which students have completed the internship More »
My name is Jason Lilly and I was a volunteer at BABSEA CLE’s Chiang Mai office from September 2012 to February 2013. I came to BABSEA CLE at a very transitional point in my life. I had just finished high school and become an adult (in More »
By Franny Weil: Volunteer While volunteering with BABSEA CLE during March, I had the opportunity to accompany Bruce Lasky, co-director of BABSEA CLE, to the “2nd Middle East Regional Symposium on Clinical Legal Education: Developing Clinical Programs and Expanding Access to Justice,” in Doha, Qatar. Bruce More »
By Jason Lilly, BABSEA CLE Volunteer, Chiang Mai On 30-31 November 2012, Michael Mills and Michelle Fox, two partners specializing in dispute resolution from the international law firm Herbert Smith Freehills, led the second workshop on effective negotiation techniques. The workshop was held at the More »
The 2nd Southeast Asia/Asia Pro Bono Conference and Workshop will bring together academics, law students, lawyers, judiciary, pro bono professionals, policy makers, civil society and non-profit representatives to consider the multifarious ways pro bono initiatives can strengthen access to justice in Southeast Asia and internationally. The conference and workshop will be an exciting mix of keynote speech, panel discussion, poster presentations and interactive workshop sessions. There will be lots of opportunity for participation, collaboration...
The First of Many Steps BABSEA CLE is Walking with Others By Bruce A. Lasky: Co-Director of BABSEA CLE “If you want to go fast you go alone. If you want to go far, you go with others”. This Afghan saying, quoted by Mr. Toily Kurbanov, Myanmar Country Director of UNDP, during the closing remarks at the Promoting Justice Sector Development in New Democracies – a Seminar on Comparative Experiences from the Region’ in Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar 24-25 January 2013 clearly demonstrated the overwhelming intent by the event’s participants to...
By Pham Chung: Vietnam Law Lecturer Intern at BABSEA CLE National University of Laos, Faculty of Law & Political Science. Vientiane , Laos. The Faculty of Law & Political Science (FLP) at the National University of Laos, Lux Development, and Bridges Across Borders Southeast Asia Community Legal Education Initiative (BABSEA CLE) organized a two-day training workshop on “Legal Writing”. The workshop was held at the CLE office in Vientiane from 22nd to 23rd February 2013. The workshop allowed for the exchanging and sharing of experiences...
BABSEA CLE Organize First-Ever Pro Bono Conference in the Region By Laura Milne, Access to Justice and Pro Bono Programme Manager, Hanoi If a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it, does it make a sound? That was the question Malathi Das, President of LAWASIA, the Law Association for Asia and the Pacific, posed to the delegates of the 1st Southeast Asia Pro Bono Conference during her keynote address. Some 150 delegates to the conference — comprising lawyers, civil society organisation representatives, academics, students, bar association...
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