Legal clinics
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. Applications open 28 October 2026.
Successful applicants will not be able to enrol in LAWS5180 until they have been permission listed in SI-net. Students will be notified whether they have been successful and that they have been permission listed by early February 2027.
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.
4. Apply
Application dates
You must apply for a place in the Clinical Legal Education course (LAWS5180) for the next semester.
Applications will open soon for Semester 1, 2027 and will close at January 2027. You will be advised of the outcome of your application by early February 2027.
Successful students will be permission listed for enrolment and must then complete enrolment promptly to comply with university deadlines. We may contact you ahead of selection to ask further questions. Please ensure you are checking your UQ email in January 2027.
Personal timetables will be released on 1 February 2027 and allocation adjustment will also open.
Due date to enrol will be advised. Clinic commences week of 22 February, 2027.
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.