On the 16th of January 2013, BABSEA CLE volunteers (Queensland University of Technology (QUT) internship students and others), joined by a CLE Foundation legal fellow and BABSEA CLE Co-director/Co-founder, Wendy Morrish set off to North Chiang Mai University for three days of Community Legal Education (CLE) workshops. Not counting the lesson preparation undertaken days before, for many this experience was to be the first the interns had with teaching CLE or teaching in general.

Another, yet equally as important goal, of the visit to North Chiang Mai University was to collect further data for an active research project of BABSEA-CLE.The project, ‘BABSEA-CLE Development of Clinical Legal Education (CLE) in Thailand’, aims to evaluate the effectiveness of current CLE programs in order to make data-driven recommendations to implement, support and further improve CLE programs in the future. The basis for understanding the effectiveness stems from interviews conducted with students and lecturers involved with the CLE programs.