2011 Internship Program

CLA’s 2011 Student Internship Program was a great success! We had an amazing group of students who spent their summers working with CLA’s partner organizations in Africa, Asia and Canada’s north.  Their experiences ranged from assisting criminal counsel at the Maliiganik Tukisiiniakvik Legal Services Centre in Iqaluit, to working with the Federation of Women Lawyers in Kenya on its Transformative Justice program, to conducting research on traditional and restorative justice with the United Nations Development Program in Timor-Leste.  Our students' reflections on their internships are posted on the CLA website here. 

Alison Brown at her internship at FIDA in Kenya 

Also, be sure to check out the blogs from 2011 student interns Stephanie Cox, Jaimie Tax and JoAnne Barnum. You can read about the experiences of Stephanie Cox, a Windsor law student who spent her summer on a CLA internship with UNDP in Timor-Leste here. JoAnne Barnum’s reflections on her internship with the Legal Services Board in Rankin Inlet can be found here and Jaimie Tax’s reflections on working with with The Asia Foundation in Sri Lanka can be accessed here.We want to thank our 2010-11 Student Program sponsors: LexisNexis Canada, The Dominion of Canada General Insurance Company and Weir Foulds LLP. 

Penelope Ma and Megan Strachan, interns at the Yukon River Inter-Tribal Watershed Council

About the CLA Student Internship ProgramEach year CLA offers law students from across Canada the opportunity to spend their summer working at NGOs overseas and in Canada on important legal issues. This experience gives a number of legal students the chance to improve their legal skills while providing valuable assistance to our host organizations. Preparations for our 2012 Student Internship Program are now underway. Our 2012 host organizations and internship application process will be posted on the CLA website in early December. If you are interested in learning more, check CLA's  website here.