Thanks so much for your interest in working at the Human Rights Law Centre.
All opportunities at the Human Rights Law Centre will be listed on this page.
If you are interested in the Human Rights Law Centre’s work, you can sign up to our newsletter and donate to support us.
Thank you for your interest in volunteering with us and supporting human rights. Unfortunately, we are only able to take on a limited number of volunteers. We want to make sure that our volunteers are properly supervised and have interesting, challenging work.
We do take law student volunteers through established programs with universities and organisations, and these programs will be advertised through the relevant organisation.
We do not have the capacity to take on high school work experience placements.
Resources for getting involved
We are sometimes asked for advice about how to get involved in volunteering and human rights law. Some helpful resources and tips are below:
- Volunteering in community legal centres – Federation of Community Legal Centres
- Castan Centre for Human Rights Law & Progressive Law Network – Public Interest Law Careers Guide
- University of Melbourne – Careers in Public Interest Law
- So you want to be a human rights lawyer? RMIT Centre for Innovative Justice video
- Bill Quigley’s Letter to a Law Student Interested in Social Justice
Acknowledgement of Country
We acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the lands across Australia, including the lands of the Wurundjeri, Boon Wurrung, Gadigal, Ngunnawal, Darug and Wadawurrung people where we work from.
We pay our respect to Elders, both past and present.
This land always was, and always will be Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander land. Sovereignty has never been ceded.
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