Upcoming Events
1st Southeast Asia Pro Bono Conference/Workshop – 28 & 29 Sept 2012
BABSEA CLE has worked on access to justice and pro bono programmes in Southeast Asia since 2003. Working with law students, faculty, academics, law firms, government and non-government organizations, BABSEA CLE has developed and implemented university-based clinical legal education programmes and grassroots community legal education programmes. These programmes support local struggles for social justice, equitable development, rule of law and protection of human rights while simultaneously imbuing future lawyers, leaders and policy makers with a...
Building Bridges Quarterly Newsletter
* Special guests Frank and Melissa Bloch visit Viet Nam * Visiting Volunteer Clinician Liubou Krasnitskaya in Hanoi * Visiting Clinicians David McQuoid-Mason and Luba Krasnitskaya * The First BABSEA CLE Singapore Conference * Indonesian Law Lecturers on Externship in Thailand * A Special Relationship with Central European University * Bruce Lasky reports from USA Pro-Bono Conference * FLP-CLE in Laos holds an important planning workshop * University of Malaya representatives at Singapore Conference * Hien of Hanoi is star speaker...
International experience gives students career edge
Marisha Sieradzan took her Australian nationality for granted growing up in Brisbane. But a recent trip to Thailand opened her eyes to the problems facing hundreds of thousands of Thai people without nationality. “There are about 400,000 people in Thailand without nationality at the moment,” Ms Sieradzan said. “A lot of births were never recorded so many Thais have no documents legally identifying who they are. “It means they can’t travel or gain citizenship. I was hit by how big of an issue it is.” Ms Sieradzan,...
