International Legal Experience in Your 1L Summer While some 1Ls spent their summers working in law firms or taking courses abroad, I spent this past summer as an International Legal Partnership (ILP) fellow in Kampala, Uganda working at the Foundation for Human Rights Initiative (FHRI). Doing everything from preparing memos to monitoring death row proceedings, I not only gained amazing legal...
CASSIE STEFANNUCI, SUBBAN JAMA, AND ANEESHA LEWIS <Contributors> Project: We worked for an NGO called Defence for Children International (DCI) in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Our area of focus was juvenile justice and we were tasked with producing reports relating to children in conflict with the law, child labour and female empowerment. While on our fellowship, we visited the various...
FATEMA JIVAJI <Contributor> I, like many first year law students, did not have any legal experience in any capacity prior to the first day of Ethical Lawyering. And although there are so many opportunities at Osgoode to get involved during the school year, I knew I had to make my summer count. Something to challenge me, yet set me apart. It was my chance to get some legal experience under...