Current UQ Law Society (UQLS) president and UQ law student Ms Verity Doyle has been elected to lead the Australian Law Students� Association (ALSA) for the next 12 months.
Ms Doyle said she was looking forward to working with law students from around Australia to continue to improve the representation of Australian law students internationally.
�I am proud to be leading the national peak body for law students and I'm very excited about working with a great executive and committee to help ALSA achieve its potential in the year ahead,� she said.
�We are committed to improving every aspect of what ALSA does, from making ALSA a more useful knowledge sharing forum for individual law student societies, to improving the quality and frequency of our publications, to ensuring Australian law students are represented on the international stage.�
UQ students have been represented on the Association's committee for the past four years.
ALSA is the national peak body for law students and its objectives are:
� to represent and promote the interests and concerns of Australian law students
� to gather and disseminate information of interest and concern to Australian law students
� to promote and facilitate communication and the exchange of information between law student societies, particularly within Australia, and
� to promote and facilitate interaction and activities of a social, intellectual and competitive nature among law students generally
Media:Teola Marsh, Acting Marketing Manager, TC Beirne School of Law, UQ, phone 07 3365 2523.
