Volunteering: ‘You know your Housing Rights Project’

By Caroline Jixin Gao  A second year UCL Law student, was one of eight students to volunteer for the pilot project, in partnership with Haringey Citizens and Hodge Jones & Allen. In this blog post, she reflects on her experience delivering public legal education on housing law in Haringey and the wider implications of the…

Human Rights as a Western Construct: India as an Example

By Ila Tyagi  LLM student, Ila Tyagi, argues against ‘universal human rights’ as they are typically understood, drawing from cultural relativist arguments and using India as an example. In many developing countries, human rights are often considered to be western concepts imposed on them by foreign governments and treaties. The problem lies in the narrow…

Reflecting on my experience as a Grassroots Project Volunteer

By Ila Tyagi In this blog post Ila Tyagi, an LLM student at UCL, reflects on her experience volunteering for the Grassroots Human Rights Project and how the education system in the UK compares to the education system in her home country, India. When I first entered the state school in Eastlea, I couldn’t believe…

Volunteering for the Grassroots Human Rights Project

By Clement Cheung A first year Law student undertaking the UCL Dual Degree Programme with Hong Kong University. The mandatory Access to Justice placement, organised and overseen by the CAJ, forms an important part of the first year of the programme. Perhaps this blog post can begin with how disappointed I was initially, when assigned to the…