Lawyers Without Borders Partnership

The Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London is pleased to announce a new partnership with Lawyers Without Borders. 

Lawyers Without Borders is a charitable organisation based in the US that harnesses the pro bono work of practicing lawyers and law students into a volunteer service in global rule of law, access to justice and capacity building initiatives all over the world. 

Its work falls into four main categories; trial advocacy training for lawyers and judges, community outreach projects, neutral trial observation and capacity building. The organisations works within a variety of human rights and humanitarian areas, such as; human trafficking, inheritance and succession rights, gender violence, electoral corruption and participatory democracy. Examples of Lawyers Without Borders' recent work includes the provision of trial advocacy training to Kenyan lawyers and judges in relation to anti-corruption and the production of an educational board game that aims to teach the importance of civil rights.  

Lawyers Without Borders has a growing student network across universities in the UK and students play a vital role in supporting the work of the organisation by acting as on-call research teams, in addition to helping to spread the culture of pro bono. A Lawyers Without Borders Student Division is currently being established at King’s in 2016 (for more information, contact the President, Farnush Ghadery, farnush.ghadery@kcl.ac.uk). 

The Dickson Poon School of Law continues to offer generous support to the work of Lawyers Without Borders and shares the same determination to ensure that law students are exposed to a wide range of ideas and opportunities in the international human rights field. 

The Dickson Poon School of Law and Lawyers Without Borders are working together to bring a number of engaging events to students at King’s College London. These include a Human Rights Symposium scheduled for February and a Rule of Law Innovation Competition due to take place in March. 

For more information about the partnership please contact Adam Tupper, Senior Partnerships & Projects Officer at The Dickson Poon School of Law.

Further information about Lawyers Without Borders can be found on their website.