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- Before joining the University of Tasmania as a Lecturer in Transnational Crime, Dr Gwynn MacCarrick was a law lectur... moreBefore joining the University of Tasmania as a Lecturer in Transnational Crime, Dr Gwynn MacCarrick was a law lecturer at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland.
Dr. Mac Carrick was admitted as a legal practitioner in 1997 and has a Doctorate in international law. Dr MacCarrick holds a Bachelor of Laws and a Bachelor of Arts (with Honours in International Politics) and a PhD from the University of Tasmania.
Dr MacCarrick was former Defence Counsel for a high profile Militia Commander indicted for 23 counts of crimes against humanity before the United Nations Special Panel for Serious Crimes in Dili.
She has also worked as a Legal Officer with the Office of the Prosecutor at the UN Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), attached to the Dokmanovic and Aleksovski prosecution trial teams.
In addition, Dr MacCarrick has also taken up international postings with the United Nations as a refugee lawyer with the UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) in central Bosnian refugee camps and on the border between East and West Timor.
Domestically, Gwynn has also worked as a criminal defence lawyer with Australian Legal Aid representing indigent clients and with Aboriginal Legal Aid covering the remote courts in central New South Wales as counsel for indigenous clients in criminal trials. She has also worked as a discrimination lawyer putting complaints to the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission
Gwynn is a visiting lecturer for the International Institute for Humanitarian Affairs (IIHA), Fordham University and lectures in New York, Geneva and Nairobi.
Most recently, Dr MacCarrick was Amicus Curiae to the International Monsanto Tribunal advising on the question of Ecocide (Environmental Crime).edit
Clinical Legal Education (CLE) is now a well-established movement in Australian law schools and law clinics are now an integral part of the legal education landscape. This paper will discusses the merit of adopting a nationalised set of... more
Clinical Legal Education (CLE) is now a well-established movement in Australian law schools and law clinics are now an integral part of the legal education landscape. This paper will discusses the merit of adopting a nationalised set of learning outcomes for all clinical law subjects taught in law schools, across Australia. It will be argued that it is both prudent and timely for Australian clinical legal education to achieve greater coherency between learning outcomes and assessment practices.
A recommendation is made that Clinical Legal Education, as sub-set of legal education, adopt the nationally approved Threshold Learning Outcomes (TLO’s) for law, as a means of aligning clinical methods of teaching and learning with contemporary reform in Australian undergraduate legal education. As a corollary of this, CLE would be further integrated into mainstream undergraduate law program, and be well placed to defend their learning and teaching practices, in an age of increasing demands for compliance with accreditation, and quality assurance frameworks
A recommendation is made that Clinical Legal Education, as sub-set of legal education, adopt the nationally approved Threshold Learning Outcomes (TLO’s) for law, as a means of aligning clinical methods of teaching and learning with contemporary reform in Australian undergraduate legal education. As a corollary of this, CLE would be further integrated into mainstream undergraduate law program, and be well placed to defend their learning and teaching practices, in an age of increasing demands for compliance with accreditation, and quality assurance frameworks
