Law Student Gazette

1. Summer Vacation Employment and Internships Fair

Date: Thursday 5 August 2010,
Time: 1 pm – 4 pm
Venue: Monash Sport (Building 1), 
              Clayton Campus

Seize the chance! If you are seeking work experience opportunities this summer, get the info you need from over 35 employers at the Summer Vacation Employment and Internships Fair.

For more information see:
careers.monash.edu.au/students-grads/events/summer-vacation-fair.html
Summer Vacation Advert for Law Faculty

Entry with your Monash ID Card

1. Comparative Corporate Governance, Postgraduate Unit, Places Available

Places available for lawyers and non-lawyers to undertake this postgraduate single unit.

Lecturer: Professor Bryan Horrigan
Unit details: LAW7344 Comparative and corporate governance
Teaching period: Tuesdays, 20 July – 12 October (Except 28 September)
Time: 6 pm – 8 pm
Location: Monash University Law Chambers, 472 Bourke Street, Melbourne
Cost: Assessed: $2,850 Non Assessed: $2,138

This unit explores contemporary thinking, regulation, and practice surrounding the connected areas of corporate governance, responsibility, and sustainability in Australia and comparable corporate regulatory systems worldwide, with particular emphasis upon corporate regulatory systems in Anglo-Commonwealth countries, the EU, and North America.

For further information and to apply:
www.monash.edu.au/pubs/handbooks/units/LAW7344.html
graduate@law.monash.edu.au
LAW7344 Comparative and corporate governance

2. Semester 1 Unit Evaluations

The S1 UE reports are now online at:
emuapps.monash.edu.au/unitevaluations/wr/uewr_rp1_public_yearseme.jsp

The Law Faculty got an average:
Student response rate of 50.17% – compared with the University’s rate of 47.82%
Rating on Q5 – Overall Satisfaction of 4.04 – compared with the University’s rating of 3.96.

 The Law Faculty was ranked 2nd in the University – just behind the Arts Faculty who got 4.06 on the Q5 rating. 

 Thank you very much for your participation in the Semester 1 Unit evaluation process. We do really value your input and take your feedback on board when redesigning our Units for the next time that they are run.

3. Undergraduate Essay Competition

The Governor-General’s Undergraduate Essay Competition is Australia’s most prestigious civics essay competition. It is open to Australian undergraduate students (including LLB, JD and Honours students) studying in all faculties at universities across Australia and includes questions that are related to law, politics and other contemporary issues facing Australia.

The 2010 Competition is offering up to $33,000 in cash prizes to the winning authors of 2,500 word essays.

Every year the Competition is judged by a panel of distinguished individuals including a High Court Justice and prominent academics. The final judging panel this year is being chaired by The Hon. Robert French AC, Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia.

This prestigious competition provides students with the opportunity to be further recognised for their academic skill, talent and research.

For more information see:
www.essaycompetition.com.au

The competition closing date is Friday 17 December, 2010 at 5 pm.

For queries contact:
jwilliams@cefa.org.au

END OF GAZETTE 12/7/10

1. Secondment Opportunity To Work On Criminal Appeals

Salary: VPS 6 level (salary range $90,789-$121,495)
Duration: Thursday 29 July, 2010 for 6 months

Job Description:

An exciting opportunity exists for a short term secondment or appointment as Deputy Registrar in the Court of Appeal, to work on the preparation and management of criminal appeals.

The work will involve the oversight and management of applications for leave to appeal conviction or sentence, bail applications and applications for leave to appeal interlocutory decisions in criminal trials.

Applicants should have:

Substantial experience in criminal trial and, ideally, appellate work, be able communicate well both in writing and orally, and have skills in prioritising and meeting deadlines.

It would also be desirable to have experience in working in a team environment and/or managing staff.

Expressions of interest (attaching a resume) should sent by email to:
Ms Scamangas
paula.scamangas@supremecourt.vic.gov.au
By Thursday 15 July 2010.

For personal enquiries contact:
Paula Scamangas, Acting Human, Resources Manager,
9603 4692,

For enquiries about the content of the role contact:
Adam Cockayne, Deputy Registrar
9603 6180.

For more information see:
EOI – Deputy Registrar Legal COA

1. National Youth Summit

Date: Wednesday 29 September – Saturday 2 October, 2010
Venue: University of Technology, Sydney

Wish you could participate in a national conference specifically aimed at passionate and engaged tertiary students who want to make difference? Well look no further and make history by registering as a delegate as part of United Nations Youth Association’s first, inaugural National Youth Summit!

This four day conference will bring together around 200 of Australia’s most engaged and intelligent tertiary minds, will expose students to experts in the field of Human Rights, and will allow for designated policy workshops where you will be able to discuss matters of domestic and international importance with the aim of developing a ‘Youth Declaration’.

The theme for this year’s conference is Human Rights, which will be broken down into smaller focus themes including Conflict, Good Governance, Gender Equality and Minorities.

For more information see:
www.youthsummit.unya.org.au
National Youth Summit
National Youth Summit-2

1. Myth: You save on energy bills by leaving lights on!

Some people believe that the energy to turn on lights exceeds savings of turning lights off.

To test the myth, energy usage was measured during start up, maintenance (steady state), and shutdown.

For steady state energy consumption, several different types of bulbs were turned on for 60 minutes and consumption using a Kill A Watt was measured for the following:

Incandescent 90Wh, Compact Fluorescent (CFL): 10Wh,  Halogen: 70 Wh, Metal halide 60Wh, LED: 1Wh and  Fluorescent: 10Wh.

For start up energy consumption, an inductive current loop was hooked up to a computer.  This measured the amount of energy used when the bulbs were turned on. With an inductive current loop, a wire is run through the centre, which induces a current in the loop. This current is then measured by a digital sampling oscilloscope.

Based on the amount of energy consumed turning on the bulb, calculations were made on how long the bulb would have to be turned off in order to make it worth the energy savings, i.e. ‘It’s best to turn off the bulb if you are leaving the room’:

Incandescent: 0.36 seconds
CFL: 0.015 seconds
Halogen: .51 seconds
LED: 1.28 seconds
Old fluorescent: 23.3 seconds
Modern fluorescent: 0.09 seconds

In other words, it’s almost always best to turn the bulb off.  Even the 23 seconds for the fluorescent lights isn’t very long, and the rest of the times are pretty much blinks of an eye.

1. Legislative Council Standing Committee on Law and Justice

As you may be aware, the NSW Legislative Council’s Standing Committee on Law and Justice is currently conducting an inquiry into whether the existing provisions in the Jury Aa 1977 that make Members of Parliament ineligible for service is appropriate or should be repealed or amended.

The Committee intends to hold public hearings on Monday 20 September and Friday 24 September, 2010.

On behalf of the Committee, I would like to invite you to make a submission to the inquiry. The closing date for submissions is Friday 6 August, 2010.

Submissions can be lodged via the Committee’s website at
www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/lawandjustice
Emailed to:
lawandjustice@parliament.nsw.gov.au
Faxed to:
(02) 9230 3416
Hard copies can be mailed to:
The Director, Standing Committee on Law and Justice,
Legislative Council, Parliament House,
Macquarie Street, Sydney NSW 2000

A list of Committee members, background information about Legislative Council committees and information about making a submission is enclosed to assist you with your submission.

Please note that no one, including the author, may distribute the submission unless authorised by the Committee. Anyone who republishes a committee document apart from the Parliament or its committees is subject to the laws of defamation.

Submissions are confidential until the Committee makes them public. If your submission contains information you do not wish to be made public, please mark it confidential.  The Committee will consider all requests for confidentiality, but is not obliged to keep a submission confidential if it determines that it is not in the public interest to do so.

For background information see:
Terms of Reference

For queries contact:
(02) 9230 2193

For more information see:
www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/lawandjustice

2. Research Participants Needed

As part of my Doctorate of Psychology (Clinical) at Monash University I am currently conducting some research examining eating concerns, attachment quality in romantic relationships, and mating approaches.

The main aim of the research is to advance knowledge of how attachment theory and reproductive strategies are related to levels of eating concerns among male and female university students. In order to collect data for my research, I have posted an online questionnaire at:
spppm-cf.med.monash.edu.au/surveys2010/cdean/

I would like to invite anyone who is aged 18 years or over to participate in my research and it does not matter if you are not a university student. There will be more information about my study on the website if you are interested.

For queries contact:
cassandra.dean@monash.edu

3. Undergraduate Essay Competition

The Governor-General’s Undergraduate Essay Competition is Australia’s most prestigious civics essay competition. It is open to Australian undergraduate students (including LLB, JD and Honours students) studying in all faculties at universities across Australia and includes questions that are related to law, politics and other contemporary issues facing Australia.

The 2010 Competition is offering up to $33,000 in cash prizes to the winning authors of 2,500 word essays.

Every year the Competition is judged by a panel of distinguished individuals including a High Court Justice and prominent academics. The final judging panel this year is being chaired by The Hon. Robert French AC, Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia.

This prestigious competition provides students with the opportunity to be further recognised for their academic skill, talent and research.

For more information see:
www.essaycompetition.com.au

The competition closing date is Friday 17 December, 2010 at 5 pm.

For queries contact:
jwilliams@cefa.org.au

END OF GAZETTE 5/7/10