VP (Education) | Tuned In For Suls

Vice President (Education)

Dani Christelis

While the study load and content at law school can be difficult to grapple with, students should be provided with the resources, support systems and communications that will enable them to succeed.

As students should be aware, the work of the education portfolio over the past few years have seen introductions of initiatives such as the academic pilot program, to better cater for students’ needs and respond to gaps in the Law School’s treatment of students.

The goal here, is not to remove the initiatives that are already succeeding, but expand upon them, with further advocacy and new events and initiatives to better cater for students’ needs, address gaps in the current SULS education programme and Law School-run initiatives.

My policies target the four areas of making students feel supported, liaising and working with the law school, keeping students informed, and helping you stay on track and forge new paths forward.

My Vision

Layla

Eric Clapton

Making You Feel Supported

Collaborate with Higher Degree by Research Students to create APP resources to give HDR students experience teaching for those who want to enter academia and to make teaching resources more streamlined.
Expand APP to include student drop-in sessions in STUVAC for compulsory units
Train the education committee on special consideration, inclusion and disability plans and academic honesty so that students can come to SULS for advice.
- A supplementary to the SRC Casework Service, specific to law-students, working with members of the law school who are involved in these processes.

Liaising With & Working With Faculty

Dialogue:

Offer and advertise student consultative forums (“SCF”) with the VP(Education) and Education Committee before the monthly faculty education meetings to understand their concerns as a substitute for the Student Staff Consultative Forum.
Continue the work of the current VP (Education) to re-establish a means of direct student-faculty dialogue accessible by all students.
Work with the school board members (undergraduate and postgraduate) to provide additional platforms for student concerns.

Resources:

Continue the work of the current VP (Education) to get exemplar responses and marking rubrics and ensure that all assessment tasks have general feedback sheets when marks are released

Unit Management:

Advocate to remove enrolment caps on masters-level intensive units to provide greater access to the existing intensives while pushing for the return of intensive compulsories.
Work with the Law School to streamline policies for informal rescheduling of on-calls.

Keeping Students Informed

Diversify platforms by using social media to inform on administrative requirements such as elective enrolment deadlines and academic advice.
Advertise existing masters/elective intensive units on SULS social media.

Providing Opportunities to Stay on Track and Create Your Own Path Forward

Expand student-staff coffee catch-ups to include those in charge of degree administration to get your questions answered from the source.
Collaborate with careers to create a “Future Study Panel” with Sydney Law Alumni who have had a variety of different careers paths to inform students of their options for postgrad (both in Australia and overseas) and the opportunities it brings for your career.
Use our connections with the Law School to bring you the “Academic Night” talk.
Establish an “Intro to Law” week for first-year students.
Create a “So You Just Started Fourth Year” event with the Careers Portfolio to help students ease into full-time law studies with the demands of clerkships and career planning.
Run subject-specific post-mid-semester sessions to understand where you went wrong, how to improve before finals and cope better with exams and results releases.

Dani's CV

Sole Undergraduate Student Representative on the Academic and School Boards for Sydney Law School (2025)

Providing reports to the school board ahead of meetings
Writing the staff trivia questions for student-staff trivia
Assisting in the co-design of the new Law School Careers Program
Providing student feedback to the Unit of Study Coordinators Committee

SULS Academic Pilot Program Tutor (2025)

Team Australia Tokyo Intecollergiate Negotiations (2025)
Multiplier - Global Youth Call to Action on Mental Health (2025-2026 mandate)
Research Assistant (2024 - Present)
Former Civil Litigation, Criminal Law and Commercial Law Paralegal (2023 - 2025)
Negotiations and Client Interviewing Judge (2023 - Present)
Academic and Faculty Board for Faculty of Science (2024)
Clayton Utz Introductory to Negotiations Program Mentor (2024)
SciSoc Women’s Officer (2024)
Ashurst Client Interviewing Competition Semi-Finalist (2024)
King & Wood Mallesons SULS X UNSW Rainbow Moot Finalist (2023)
Corrs Chambers Westgarth Winter Break Negotiations Competition Convenor (2023)
Corrs Chambers Westgarth Junior Negotiations Competition Grand Finalist (2022)