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We partner with a wide range of community legal centres to offer you one of the most diverse clinical legal education programs in Australia. Each clinic offers you the opportunity to work in a social justice setting for academic credit through the elective law course, LAWS5180 Clinical Legal Education.

During your clinical placement, you will spend one day per week during semester undertaking legal work under the close supervision of experienced lawyers.

You must apply for a place in the Clinical Legal Education Program for the next semester. 

The majority of clinics will only take undergraduates that have completed at least sixteen (16) units of LAWS courses, however, there are clinics that may take third year students. There is no minimum GPA required to participate in LAWS5180. Priority is given to students who are soon to graduate, and who demonstrate a genuine interest in social justice (including through participation in UQ Pro Bono Centre projects).

This page is for our semester-based clinical program. If you would like to read about our regional clinical program, please click here. 

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Application dates

You must apply for a place in the Clinical Legal Education course (LAWS5180) for the next semester. 

Applications for Semester 1 2025 closed 12 noon, 4 February 2025. Thank you for your applications which are currently being assessed.

Notifications will be sent out to successful applicants on 7 February 2025 to align with the timetable preferencing period. Timetable preferencing closes Tuesday 28 January 2025 with personal timetables released on 3 February 2025. 

Semester 2 applications will open in May 2025. We look forward to receiving your applications at that time.

Please reach out to the Pro Bono team if you have further queries via email probono@law.uq.edu.au

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Overseas opportunity

Through the elective law course LAWS5233 Transnational Perspectives in Law, students have the opportunity to engage in inter-jurisdictional learning in different parts of the world.

New Columbo Plan grants are available for a limited number of law students to undertake LAWS5233 internships.