Note:
• Enrollment in ALL the clinics for credit is limited to upper year students.
• Interested students must apply to the appropriate clinic prior to the deadline for course selection in July.
• If necessary, students will be interviewed for the available positions.
• Exchange Students are not eligible to participate in clinics.
To register for this course: you must email a one-page statement of interest to Mary Ellen McIntyre at mcintyrm@lao.on.ca well before the deadline date for selecting courses indicating why you wish to register for this clinic, what relevant background or skills you have for the clinic and how you see the Centre for Spanish Speaking Peoples clinic within your overall University of Toronto Faculty of Law experience.
Note: You may select the clinic on the on-line course system but will be waitlisted until the clinic has provided approval of your participation to the Assistant Registrar Records, Celia Genua at celia.genua.utoronto.ca. This approval should be provided by no later than the course selection deadline of June 20, 2012.
C.S.S.P. advises and represents Spanish speaking peoples in immigration, employment rights, tenant, human rights and income maintenance matters. Knowledge of Spanish is not a requirement for participation in the clinic.
Second and third year students may receive two ungraded credits for non-DLS clinic work and either six or fifteen credits for DLS clinic work upon satisfactory completion of the requirements described below. First year students do not receive course credits for clinic participation, but will receive a volunteer notation on their transcripts if they fulfill a clinic’s volunteer requirements. Volunteer notations are not available for upper year students.
In second and third year, a student is able to allocate two clinical work credits in each year towards his or her academic program (one per term or two in one term), subject to meeting the requirements. However, clinic work is a program which extends over both terms and to receive credit, students must enroll for the entire academic year. Accordingly, no credit will be shown on the academic transcript or interim Statement of Grades until the program has been successfully completed.
Students may list clinic credit on their Course Selection Forms and must indicate the clinic in which they propose to work. Since course selection is settled in each term prior to actually satisfying the requirements of the clinic program, students who plan to earn academic credits through clinical work must ensure that they will either fulfill the requirements of the program or otherwise meet the credit requirements of the J.D. program. As with other courses in the academic program, students may not withdraw from the clinic program after the deadlines for adding/dropping courses.
