ALRC internship program

The ALRC offers internships to students in their penultimate or final year of an undergraduate or graduate law degree, from any university including overseas institutions. An internship at the ALRC provides professional development opportunity for students to increase their awareness of law reform processes and improve their research and writing skills, while contributing to an ALRC inquiry. Interns join a team for a current ALRC inquiry and are supervised by the Commissioner in charge and/or legal officers.

Internship with the ALRC are highly sought after and the ALRC has a competitive selection process that includes a formal application and interview. The number of interns accepted at any one time depends on the current work program of the Commission. In 2013–14, 16 internships were offered to local students and the ALRC was pleased to include students of an exceptionally high standard from around Australia.

In 2013–14 the ALRC also welcomed Hagen Sporleder from Münster University in Germany. Hagen spent three months with the ALRC as part of the Attorney-General’s referender program.

All our interns provided an excellent standard of work across the ALRC inquiries. They were involved in a range of ALRC activities, including attending consultation meetings with inquiry stakeholders, Advisory Committee meetings and inquiry team meetings.

The ALRC captures the intern experience through interviews with students at the completion of their internship. They discuss the work they have been undertaking and describe the experience of interning at the ALRC. These podcasts are available on the ALRC website.

Policies in relation to the student internship program are available on the ALRC website.

Interns July 2013 to June 2014

Table 11: Interns 2013–14

* Interviews with these interns are published on the ALRC website.