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Right:<\/strong> 2007 class member Barbara Barker enjoying the culture of Inuvik<\/strong><\/p>\nUnder the co-direction of Osgoode Professors Shin Imai and Benjamin Richardson, the Intensive Program in Aboriginal Lands, Resources & Governments, which is part of Osgoode’s larger Clinical Education & Intensive Programs, offers a unique experience. Enrolling a maximum of 16 students, both Indigenous and non-Indigenous from Osgoode and other Canadian law schools, the program, established in 1993, provides theoretical and practical information and skills to enable students to work in a collaborative and culturally sensitive way on Aboriginal legal issues. The students spend four weeks in the classroom and seven weeks in a placement experience. <\/p>\n
Placements, in Canada and abroad, are arranged with Aboriginal organizations, environmental groups, reserves, law firms and government departments. Among the many international placements, students have worked in Botswana, Costa Rica, Argentina, the United States, Australia and New Zealand. Some previous student placements included working as a clerk to judges of the Isleta Pueblo tribal court in the US; researching land rights of the Kalahari Bushmen in Africa; and helping draft facta for the Supreme Court of Canada for First Nations. <\/p>\n Apart from Professors Imai and Richardson, the success of Osgoode’s Aboriginal Intensive Program is indebted to many, including former Professors John Borrows, Gordon Christie and Kevin Bell, administrative assistant Natia Tucci, and the generous financial support of the late Milton Harris. Former Osgoode Deans James MacPherson (now a judge with the Ontario Court of Appeal) and Marilyn Pilkington, who still teaches at Osgoode, along with former Osgoode Professor Alan Grant, also played key roles in the establishment of the program. Susan Hare (LLB ’93), now a bencher of the Law Society of Upper Canada, was the first graduate of the program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Intensive Program in Aboriginal Lands, Resources & Governments at Osgoode Hall Law School has won a 2007 Canadian Bureau for International Education Excellence Award... <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"yfileauthor":[],"qualifier":[],"yfile-author":[],"tags-to-show":[],"workflow":[],"class_list":["post-9141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news"],"acf":{"internal_publish_date":null,"original_image":null},"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/yfile\/photos\/20070927\/2osgoodepair.jpg\")
Right: Shin Imai (right) and Benjamin Richardson<\/strong><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/yfile\/photos\/20070927\/2OsgoodestudentMichelleManiago.jpg\")
Left:<\/strong> 2007 class member Michelle Miniago in the hills of New Zealand<\/strong><\/p>\n