Asia Regional Student CLE Training Workshop at the Prince of Songkla, Hat Yai, Thailand
By: Nattakan Chomputhong, Legal Trainer, BABSEACLE On the 20th of August, 2014, BABSEACLE conducted a one day Clinical Legal Education (CLE) Training Workshop , in Songkla, Thailand. The participants, who were mostly students participating in a regional student initiative organized by PSU each year, came from throughout Asia. They included students from the University of Malaya, University of Pancasila (Indonesia), Oxbridge College...
A moment in time: Experiences of a Malaysian Intern at BABSEACLE Chiang Mai
Fatin Nadhirah Binti Othman Hasbi, Faculty of Law, University of Malaya, Malaysia I was over the moon when my lecturer offered me the chance to do my internship with BABSEACLE. In my home country, Malaysia, I have been exposed to clinical legal education through a programme called Community Outreach Programme (COP). To be able to do an internship with such an established organisation like BABSEACLE is a great honour for me. Prior to...
Growing Pro Bono in Southeast Asia
BABSEACLE 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...