Video: Driving social change with the law

How a former Supreme Court Judge is helping a law student share news from the streets of Cairo

Former Victoria Supreme Court judge Bernard Teague AO and Melbourne Law School student Mohamed Khairat share their love of the law and how they’ve used it to create social change; from making legal judgements in Melbourne to reporting news from the streets of Cairo, Egypt.

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This video explores a special bond shared by two generations of change makers and their lessons learned from being paired as part of the Melbourne Law School mentor program.

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