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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. 

Round 1 applications are currently being assessed and offers will be made the week of 16 June 2025.

Applications for Round 2, Semester 2, 2025, are now open and will close on Thursday 17 July, 2025. 

Please note the following clinics are full and we are not taking any more applications for: 

  • Tenancy Law (Wednesday clinic)
  • PLS - Prison law and deaths in custody clinic (Tuesday)
  • EDO - Environmental Defenders Office Ltd (Tuesdays)

Personal timetables will be released on 14 July 2025. Round 2 LAWS5180 offers will be sent out to successful applicants on 18 July, 2025.  

We look forward to receiving your applications.

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.