Carving Your Own Path in Public Interest Law

In this episode, Rosemary is joined by her friend Sophie Chen, a recent UVic Law alumni who is completing their articles at Together Against Poverty Society (TAPS), one of the biggest anti-poverty organizations on Vancouver Island. Rosemary also shares about her experience working as a summer student at West Coast Environmental Law. They both chat about how they sought out opportunities in public interest / social-justice oriented areas of law. Rosemary and Sophie also discuss leaning into mentorship from upper year students, and remind students that the law jobs available through On Campus Interviews (OCI’s) only represent a small portion of all the kinds of law jobs out there. “At the end of the day law is a very privileged profession which I think we all know -and I think it’s something to be conscious of that if you’re in a position to be in law school you’ve probably benefitted from some kind of privilege. And we’ve all entered a system - the legal system - which is a tool for marginalization and harm. And I think once you’ve entered that system, whether you expect it or not, you do have the choice of deciding what you’re going to do with the power that you’ve taken on, by choosing to be a lawyer. And there are always ways to minimize harm that you’re doing with that power.” – Sophie ChenFollow us on Instagram @appealpodcast for more updates.Positive Morning Vibes by Universfield -- https://freesound.org/s/746212/ -- License: Attribution 4.0 Hosted and edited by Rosemary Hu.Recorded at, and distributed by, CFUV Radio in Victoria, BC.