We’ve asked some CLA interns to do a guest post about their summer experiences. The post below is from Stephanie Cox, a Windsor Law student who spent the summer on a CLA internship with the UNDP in Timor-Leste.

We've asked some CLA interns to do a guest post about their summer experience.  The post below is from Jaimie Tax, a McGill law student who spent the summer on a CLA internship with  The Asia Foundation in Sri Lanka.  You can read JoAnne Barnum's reflections on her internship with the Legal Services Board in Rankin Inlet here.

We've asked a few of the CLA interns to share some thoughts about their experiences this summer.  This first post (below) is from JoAnne Barnum, a UBC law student working with Keewatin Legal Services in Rankin Inlet.

Happy Canada Day!  My name is Ebenezer Adjei Bediako.  I’m from Kumasi, the second biggest city in Ghana.  I studied law at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (or KNUST) in Kumasi and am now a teaching assistant at the Faculty of Law as part of my national service.  I plan to remain at KNUST as a Faculty member.

A few months ago I drafted an article for Precedent Magazine on the Responsibility to Protect and Libya.  It was tricky because the situation in Libya was very fluid and I was submitting almost a month ahead of time.  Also, Precedent Magazine had a hard limit of 620 words which meant that a lot of the interesting background was left out (such as the Security Council dynamics, and the surprising lack of debate in our Parliament and then during the election).  However, I think the premise of the article still stands.  You can find the article

Our first big event in Toronto, our "Rights of Spring" cocktail party, was a big success! Over 200 people joined us, and we had a great mix ranging from senior members of the legal and business community to law students, media, academics, and members of NGO community.

As it's voting time in the 2011 Law Society of Upper Canada's Bencher election, I thought it would be useful to see what candidates are saying about articling. At the end of this post you'll see a chart where we've listed all the candidates that mentioned articling in their profile in the 2011 Bencher Election Voting Guide and included a brief summary of what they said. [Special thanks to aspiring law student Teja Garisa-Reddy for collecting this information!]

The school year is coming to an end and so is this year’s Student Program. Our Student Chapters have been busy holding conferences, film festivals, panel discussions, and publishing a law journal to raise awareness about this year’s theme on children’s rights.

In my first post on this topic, I focused on what you should do before you start looking for a job. Below are my tips for finding that dream job (eventually).

I often get asked the question: “How do I become an international lawyer?” It’s actually a tough question to answer.  The reality is that there are so many ways for lawyers to have an “international” career today, that it really depends on what you're looking for.   However, I’ve got a few tips.  In this post, I list the first three which focus on things that you should be doing before you even start applying for jobs.

Although it’s a new year and I should be focussed on new things, I’m stuck grappling with the same issue that’s bothered me for years. What to do about articling.

I imagine that many Canadian law students and law grads will be reading yesterday's New York Times article “Is Law School a Losing Game?” with some concern. While the job situation for new grads is definitely worse in the US, we've got a problem in Canada as well - at least in Ontario. Just how much of a problem? Who knows?