Student Activities

Melbourne Law School students are actively involved in human rights activities on campus and in the wider community.


Melbourne Law Students' Society Equality

The Melbourne Law Students' Society Equality section is led by two Equality Vice-Presidents. Equality facilitates and coordinates a number of student activities each semester. It focuses on raising student awareness as to volunteering opportunities and students' ability to pursue a range of different careers, as well as promoting equal access to facilities for every member of the law school community. Equality publishes the Equality Handbook each year.


Melbourne Law Students' Society Social Justice

The Melbourne Law Students' Society Social Justice portfolio organises and facilitates a variety of student-led human rights related initiatives. In 2006 the Social Justice Portfolio held ballroom dancing lessons in the law school to raise money for Amnesty International.


Law Students for a Just Community

Melbourne Law School students coordinate and participate in the annual Law Students For A Just Community Conference. The Conference was held for its second year in September 2006, in Canberra. Visit the Law Students For A Just Community website for more information and to view a program from the 2006 Conference.


Right Now - Human Rights Law in Australia Magazine

In 2006 a team of undergraduate and postgraduate students of the Melbourne Law School initiated 'Right Now', Australia's first publication to focus exclusively on domestic human rights issues. The pilot edition of Right Now will be launched in early 2007.

Right Now aims to promote and strengthen human rights law discourse in Australia. By taking an innovative and creative approach to the communication of legal ideas and issues, Right Now will appeal to a wide audience and stimulate active and inclusive discussion of human rights in the broader, non-legal community. Publishing articles by persons of all different backgrounds and experiences, Right Now offers Melbourne Law School students unique opportunites to be involved in editing a publication and to have their research published in a refereed publication.

You can download the first issue of Right Now from www.rightnow.org.au

For more information, submissions and subscriptions, please email info@rightnow.org.au


Human Rights Legal Internships

Melbourne Law School students undertake human rights related internships both through the undergraduate subject Legal Internship or as independently organised. Visit the Internship Opportunities webpage for more information.