Students work for public interest.Pro Bono Short for pro bono publico [Latin, For the public good]. The designation given to the free legal work done by an attorney for indigent clients and religious, charitable, and other nonprofit entities. Students Canada (PBSC PBSC Peripheral Blood Stem Cell PBSC Performance-Based Service Contracting PBSC Pro Bono Students Canada PBSC Polar Bear Software Company PBSC Public Buildings and Site Commission ) is a new program designed to provide underrepresented un·der·rep·re·sent·ed adj. Insufficiently or inadequately represented: the underrepresented minority groups, ignored by the government. and disadvantaged community organizations with pro bono (free for the public good) legal services. Co-ordinated from the University of Alberta Faculty of Law Established in 1912, the University of Alberta Faculty of Law is the oldest faculty of law in western Canada and one of the leading law schools in Canada. It is located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. , PBSC will also allow law students to gain practical experience while contributing to the community. PBSC is a national network of law schools, law students, community organizations, and lawyers. It matches law students interested in pro bono work with non-profit agencies, public interest organizations, and government organizations. Students may become involved in legal or policy research and writing, assisting with client intake, and public legal education. Projects have included law reform, incorporation of non-profit societies, briefs for domestic and international litigation An action brought in court to enforce a particular right. The act or process of bringing a lawsuit in and of itself; a judicial contest; any dispute. When a person begins a civil lawsuit, the person enters into a process called litigation. , development of public legal education materials, and providing legal information directly to clients of agencies. The only real limits to the scope of projects are that they should be legal in nature and qualify as work in the public interest. Although PBSC is a new initiative in Alberta, it has existed since 1996 at the University of Toronto Research at the University of Toronto has been responsible for the world's first electronic heart pacemaker, artificial larynx, single-lung transplant, nerve transplant, artificial pancreas, chemical laser, G-suit, the first practical electron microscope, the first cloning of T-cells, . The success experienced by that program convinced the Law Foundation of Ontario to fund an expansion to all Ontario law schools in 1998. This year, thanks to a generous grant from the Kahanoff Foundation, PBSC is being expanded nationwide. Students perform their duties without monetary compensation or academic credit; thus, there is no charge to organizations for membership nor for the matching service of students to organization. |
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