1. School of Law Oxfam Junior Lawyers Against Poverty Action 4 Justice
Hackathon
December 2017
Hosted by Oxford Brookes School of Law

2. Junior Lawyers Against Poverty at Oxford Brookes
Vision: to build a global community of lawyers to relieve poverty through access to justice
Brookes JLAP
60+ student members
History: LAP close affiliation with Oxfam founder of LAP and with Oxford LAP; two student members on national steering committee of JLAP, research for project on women and law, hosted academic seminar: potential for links with under-resourced law schools
60+ members – difficulty of managing project for significant number of students across programmes, with demands of courses: Hackathon – one-off event, time limited, situated away from exams and after coursework submission

3. Hackathon
Who:
School of Law undergraduate, postgraduate students, academic colleagues, legal professionals, land rights and women’s rights groups, website designer

4. Hackathon
What:
12 hour event to build content for Action 4 Justice website on land rights and women’s rights
Content: required ID of relevant law and cases, provision of reliable links for further information and to relevant research

5. Hackathon
How: legal research skills, information verified by academics/legal professionals, input into website

6. Aim
To see that they can make a difference using their legal skills and engage with social justice issues
Law in the context of assistance to those without access to lawyers but able to use internet. So building an internet connection for those persons in Uganda for example who need to know about their land rights

7. Added Benefits Impact on employability
Example
Application of legal research skills
Team work
Students from different year groups and programmes working together on a joint cause and project
Engagement with wider community
Added sense of maturity and purpose
Eager to repeat it!

8. What we did! https://action4justice.org/legal_areas/land-rights/