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 Anna Copeland
Senior Lecturer/Clinical Assistant Director
LLB, BA
Anna Copeland has been employed at the Murdoch University law School since 1999. She is the Assistant Director of the School of Law ’s clinical legal education program at SCALES. She is a graduate of the University of Western Australia and is currently completing postgraduate work at Murdoch University . She is a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Western Australia and a registered Migration Agent.
Ms Copeland teaches in the Clinical Legal Education unit and the Advanced Clinical Legal Education Unit where she supervises students in representing and advocating on behalf of clients. She has also taught International Human Rights Law as an adjunct lecturer at Curtin University .
Primary areas of research interest are the law as it affects children and young people, human rights and clinical education. While on sabbatical in 2004 Ms Copeland was able to visit and work with clinical programs in the US , UK , Mexico and Argentina , as well as taking up a visiting scholar position at the International Institute of the Sociology of Law in Onati , Spain .
Ms Copeland has previously worked for the Youth Legal Service, Women’s Legal Service and has acted as a locum at Consumer Credit Legal Service and Legal Aid.
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| 2000 – Present, Murdoch University |
Senior Lecturer/Clinic Assistant Director
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| 1999 – 2004, Murdoch University |
Lecturer/Clinical Legal Education Officer |
| 1999 Women’s Legal Service |
Solicitor |
| 1994 – 1999 Youth Legal Service, WA |
Solicitor/ Community Education Officer |
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2007: National Citation from the Carrick Institute. For Sustained Excellence in Providing an Experiential Learning Environment which Engages Students in a Lifelong Commitment to Social Justice. |
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2007: Vice-Chancellor's Citation for Excellence in Enhancing Learning. |
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2002: National Human Rights Award for Law awarded by the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission. |
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PhD, Murdoch University (continuing)
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LL.B, University of Western Australia
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BA., University of Western Australia
Units taught and co-ordinated
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LAW390 - Clinical Legal Education
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LAW385 - Advanced Clinical Legal Education
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Human Rights Instruments and Institutions (Curtin)
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Young people and the law
- Human Rights
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Clinical legal education
Book Chapters and Loose-leaf Services
- "The Child, the Young Person and the Law" Chapter 7 in Monahan and L Young (eds), Children and the Law in Australia (2008).
- “International Human Rights Remedies” in The Lawyer’s Practice Manual WA, edited by SCALES Community Legal Centre, Thompson 2007. (with Norris, D)
- Young People and Children, Law Handbook, Sussex Street Community Legal Centre. 2005, (co-authored)
- Lawyer’s Practice Manual, SCALES Community Legal Service, 2005, (ed)
Journal Articles
- Participation and the role of public space' (2008) Vol 2 (Art 4) Public Space: The Journal of Law and Social Justice 1.
- with Vivian, A. “Human Rights as the Ordinary Work of Clinics” in Innovation in Clinical Legal Education, Naylor and Hyams (eds.) Alternative Law Journal, Monograph No. 1, 2007.
- “Public Space; A rights-based approach” Youth Studies Australia, v.23, n.3, 2004, pp41-45.
- “Clinical legal Education within a Community Legal Centre Context”, E –Law, Vol 10 No 3 2003.
- with Kenny, M., "Clinical Legal Education and Refugee Cases: Teaching law students about human rights" (2000) 25(5) Alternative Law Journal, 252-253.
Submissions and Issues Papers
- Contributor to the Alternative Report on the Implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
- Contributor to the Alternative Report on the Implimentation of the International Convention on Civil and Political Rights.
- Submission on the proposed Human Rights Act for Western Australia, 2007
- Review Committee and contributor to Alternative Report on the Implementation of the Convention for the Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination, 2005.
- Submission on Proposed Racial and Religious Vilification Legislation, 2004.
- Submission to the Alternative Report on the Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, NGO submission to the United Nations, 2004.
- Submission to the Senate Inquiry into the use of Ministerial Discretion in Immigration Matters, 2003
- Issues paper on the impact of changes to Family Law Act, on Western Australian Women. Women’s Legal Service 1999
- Submission to the ALRC and HREOC report; Seen and Heard – priority for children in the legal process Youth Legal Service, 1997
- Joint NGO Submission to the United Nations
review of Australia ’s implementation of Convention on the Rights of the Child
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