Details for LAW309 Clinical Legal Education

The classroom prepares you; practice tests you. Clinical Legal Education lets you integrate what you have learned into real client work: drafting documents, attending interviews and court hearings, and evaluating complex legal materials. You’ll navigate supervision, ethics, confidentiality and conflicts, and reflect on public interest lawyering. You’ll finish with professional experience and a clearer sense of your responsibilities as a future lawyer.

Quick Stats

• Currently offered by Alphacrucis: Yes
• Course code: LAW309
• Credit points: 20

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Prerequisite

LAW205 Torts; LAW202 Constitutional Law 2; LAW303 Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility 

Unit Content

Outcomes

1. Integrate your legal and professional knowledge acquired earlier in the degree and apply it to real-life situations.
2. Draft legal documents and attend client interviews and court hearings.
3. Critically evaluate complex legal documents.
4. Work and communicate effectively and reliably in a professional environment, both individually and as a member of a team.
5. Critically reflect on your roles and responsibilities as future members of the legal profession.

Subject Content

1. Introduction – Understanding
2. Learning from Supervision
3. Effective Communication and Professional Relationships
4. Ethical Issues: Confidentiality and Conflicts of Interest
5. Duties to Tribunals and Third Parties
6. Learning about Lawyering and Client Relationships
7. Collaboration and Teamwork
8. Writing for Practice
9. Making Presentations
10. Public Interest and Public Service Lawyering
11. Your Future as a Lawyer
12. Feedback Session

This course may be offered in the following formats

Face to Face on site

Please check the timetable to see when this subject will next be offered at Alphacrucis University College.

Assessment Methods

1. Active Participation in Weekly Seminars (20%)
2. Reflective Research Paper (30%)
3. Clinical Legal Evaluation (50%)

Prescribed Text

• Reid Mortensen et al., Private International Law in Australia (5th ed., LexisNexis 2023) 
• Melbourne University Law Review Association, Australian Guide to Legal Citation (Melbourne University Law Review Association, 4th ed, 2018) 

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