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Coordinated by student volunteers, the Law Mentoring Program functions through 60 volunteer student mentors. It is also supported by the Law Faculty and UNSW Law Society as well as the Counselling Unit. The program is dedicated to facilitating adjustment to university life and more specifically, to prepare first year entrants to the Law School via mentoring. This program has been established to reinforce the unique student culture of the law school that underpins our teaching model based on discussion and the numerous additional programs and activities within the law school. The mentoring program aims to encourage inter-year student involvement to establish an inclusive and welcoming school environment. The Law School experience is distinctive and contrasts greatly with other degree programs, thereby delivering its own brand of stresses and opportunities. Law Mentoring aims to prepare first year students so as to ensure that new students enrich and maximise their first year of university. The program runs through Session One, involving weekly meetings within small groups of students. Mentors within each group act as facilitators for discussion. The purpose of the program is to ease new students through the transition from high school, workplace or another field of study into Law School. It is also an aim of the program to encourage the development of interpersonal relationships and establish a mentality inclusive of both the social and academic spheres of university life. All first year law students in 2007 (undergraduate, transfer and graduate law) are strongly encouraged to sign up for the Law Mentoring Program. Registration opens on Thursday 22 February at the Law Faculty welcome. Throughout Week 1 registration will also be available during first year law classes. If you have any questions or concerns, or would simply like to find out more about Law Mentoring, do not hesitate to email lawmsn@unswlawsoc.org. 2007 Law Mentoring Co-ordinators
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