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…
Category: Pro Bono Experiences
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…
Volunteering with the City of London Criminal Appeals Clinic
By Nora Wannagat Nora Wannagat is a UCL LLM student that previously completed a BA in Jurisprudence with Law Studies in Europe at the University of Oxford. In this post, she summarises her experience volunteering for a new project at UCL CAJ this year. The City of London Criminal Appeals Clinic is a new pro bono project…
Working with MIFUMI to abolish the bride price in Uganda
By Sarah Waliwo Kagale Kulubya A first year LLB student at UCL, writes about her experience volunteering with MIFUMI – a women-led organisation based in Uganda that seeks to end domestic violence. Indigenous customary law defines some social and domestic arrangements, namely marriage, in certain Ugandan tribes.[1] However, the rules of customary law perpetuate inequality in…