Law Student Gazette

1. Oaktree Foundation is Seeking a New National Director of Legal

The Oaktree Foundation is Australia’s foremost youth-run aid and development organisation, we are young people working together to end global poverty and we want you to join us!

Since 2003, The Oaktree Foundation has created and implemented initiatives and projects to raise awareness, educate, empower and motivate communities to improve their future.  For more information on The Oaktree Foundation, please see our website http://theoaktree.org/

We are currently looking for a new National Director of Legal. This is an exciting and rare opportunity for law students in their third (or higher) year and under the age of 26, to gain valuable professional experience. All applicants are required to submit a current CV (of no more than 4 pages) and a cover letter outlining the applicants characteristics and skills (of no more than 2 pages). For further information about the role and application process please see National Legal Director Position

Please send all applications to the Victorian Human Resources team at:
recruitment@theoaktree.org

Applications close 5pm, Friday April 29, 2011.

2. Winter Clerk Work Experience Opportunity

Belbridge Hague Solicitors are seeking a highly motivated 2nd or 3rd Year Law Student over the coming mid-term holidays to assist solicitors and gain invaluable experience in applying legal knowledge and skills to the resolution of real-life legal problems.

A great opportunity to gain practical work experience and observe the different roles in a legal office.

Duties include research, work on client files*, witnessing legal documents, sit in on interviews and Court appearances and using the language of Law in real situations.

To commence Monday 20 June – Friday 22 July, 2011

Apply now at www.bhlaw.com.au/careers and download the Winter Clerk Work Experience Application Form

Applications close 12 Noon Monday 23 May, 2011

*Successful Applicants must be prepared to sign a Confidentiality Agreement

1. Book Launch – Current Trend in Regulating Same-sex Relationships

For further information please see Invitation

2. Castan Centre for Human Rights Law Annual Human Rights Conference 2011

Registration

The conference sells out more than a month in advance each year, so be sure to get your tickets early.

Registration costs for the conference are:

• $170 Full registration – “early bird” rate until Monday 23 May ($200 registration fee after that date)
• $100 NGOs/Concession (Multiple registrations $80)
• $50 Full-time students (limited no of seats available, ID will be requested at the conference)

Registration for the conference is now available online at –
http://ecommerce.law.monash.edu.au/product.asp?pID=188&cID=4&e=1.

Alternatively, credit card registrations can be made by calling 9905 3327 (due to university policy, we can no longer accept registration by fax or email).

For full details please visit the conference website at –
http://www.law.monash.edu.au/castancentre/events/2011/conference-2011.html

3. Castan Centre for Human Rights Law Presents – Perspectives on the International Intervention in Libya

Join our expert panel to explore the legal and political issues surrounding the intervention in Libya.

Panelists

• Professor Donald R Rothwell, Australia National University College of Law
• Associate Professor Gideon Boas, Monash University Law School
• Jeff Sparrow, Writer and Research Fellow at Victoria University

Donald R Rothwell is a Professor of International Law at the ANU College of Law, Australian National University. His research includes a specific focus on the use of force. He is an active media commentator and in 2008 he was awarded the Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Community Outreach at the ANU. He is the current Co-Editor in Chief of the Australian Year Book of International Law.

Gideon Boas is an Associate Professor in the Law Faculty at Monash University. He is an expert in international criminal justice, international law and international humanitarian law. Prior to Monash, he was a Senior Legal Officer at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. He is regularly consulted by the media for his views on international law, politics and criminal justice, including recently in relation to the situation in Libya.

Jeff Sparrow is an Australian writer, editor and activist, currently working as a Research Fellow at Victoria University and is the editor of the literary journal Overland.  Sparrow has authored a number of books most recently Killing: Misadventures in Violence, which was a finalist in the Melbourne Prize for Literature Best Writing Award 2009.  He contributes regularly to Crikey, New Matilda, ABC The Drum Unleashed and other online outlets.

For further information please visit:
http://www.law.monash.edu.au/castancentre/events/2011/libya.html

4. Compete in the Castan Centre’s Human Rights Moot Competition

Applications are now being accepted for the 2011 Castan Centre Human Rights Moot Competition, which will be held from Monday 15 August through Monday 22 August, 2011. Monash University will be entering two teams of three students (Senior Counsel, Junior Counsel, Solicitor).

The event is sponsored by Clayton Utz who will provide the following prizes:

Winning team: $3000
Runner-up: $1000

How to Apply

Interested students should apply by 5pm on Friday 6 May by sending a short cover letter, CV and academic transcript (WES version is fine) via your student email to:

Erica Contini
Project Officer, Castan Centre for Human Rights Law
erica.contini@monash.edu

To be eligible, students must be in the equivalent of at least third year of a combined undergraduate law degree, or any year of a JD degree but must not have completed their degree. It is preferable that competitors have completed some studies in human rights law.

For further information please see:

For more information about the moot generally go to –
http://www.law.monash.edu.au/castancentre/events/2011/moot.html

For more information about applying to be on Monash’s teams go to –
http://www.law.monash.edu.au/castancentre/events/2011/monash-team.html

5. International Criminal Justice Project

International Criminal Justice concerns the response of the international community to mass atrocity. How such ruptures between people and communities arise, are addressed or are left unaccounted for, raise serious questions for the international community, as they do for Australia. This Symposium brings together national and international experts (including keynote speakers Lord Iain Bonomy of the Scottish Supreme Courts and Judge in the Miloševic´ Trial, Professor William A. Schabas of the National University of Ireland, Professor Rob Cryer from Birmingham

University and Dr Daryl Mundis, Chief of Prosecutions at the Special Tribunal for Lebanon) to consider the coherence and legitimacy of this complex area of international law and justice.

For flyer please see International Criminal Justice Project

6. Join the Castan Centre Team in the Walk for Justice

The Castan Centre is organising a contingent of Monash students and staff to participate in the Walk for Justice on the morning of Monday 16 May, 2011 at 7.30am. The walk kicks off Law Week each year, and we would love to have a large group of Monash people walking in support of human rights and justice in Victoria.

The Walk for Justice, now in its fourth year, raises much needed funds for PILCH organisations and their various legal assistance schemes in Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland. This year’s Victorian Walk for Justice will raise funds to establish a pro bono disbursement fund.  The Castan Centre believes that this is a very worthy fundraising cause.  The walk goes from Parliament House to the County Court, where a breakfast is served.  The event attracts hundreds of participants each year, and this year walkers will include the Attorney General, the Shadow Attorney General and the Chief Justice of the County Court.

The cost of walking is $10 for students and $20 for staff.  You can either fill out the form available on the PILCH website (below) or you can drop your money to Janice Hugo (room 350) and she will organise registration for you.

Full details of the event, and the booking form, are available at:
http://www.pilch.org.au/walk/

7. Monash Criminology Seminar Series 2011

‘The changing role of intimacy in law: Understanding the geographic and temporal aspects of society’s response to intimate partner homicide.’

For further information please see Monash Criminology Seminar Series

1. Garma Applications Due

For those interested in applying to participate in the Castan Centre’s trip to the Garma Festival 2011, please remember that applications are due by Thursday 21 April, 2011.

For further information, please see:
http://www.law.monash.edu.au/castancentre/internships/garma-festival.html

1. Learning Skills Seminars

Analysing a Research Essay Question and Building an Argument

Longer research essays need a different structure and approach from legal problem-solving responses and short reports.  Firstly, understand the question words and then move into analytical argument.

The Writing Process

Effectively organising your time around assignments, what steps to follow, and what to expect at each stage.

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1. Oaktree Foundation is Seeking a New National Director of Legal

The Oaktree Foundation is Australia’s foremost youth-run aid and development organisation, we are young people working together to end global poverty and we want you to join us!

Since 2003, The Oaktree Foundation has created and implemented initiatives and projects to raise awareness, educate, empower and motivate communities to improve their future.  For more information on The Oaktree Foundation, please see our website http://theoaktree.org/

We are currently looking for a new National Director of Legal. This is an exciting and rare opportunity for law students in their third (or higher) year and under the age of 26, to gain valuable professional experience. All applicants are required to submit a current CV (of no more than 4 pages) and a cover letter outlining the applicants characteristics and skills (of no more than 2 pages). For further information about the role and application process please see National Legal Director Position

Please send all applications to the Victorian Human Resources team at recruitment@theoaktree.org

Applications close 5pm, Friday April 29, 2011.

1. Book Launch – Current Trend in Regulating Same-sex Relationships

For further information please see Invitation

2. Castan Centre for Human Rights Law Annual Human Rights Conference 2011

Registration

The conference sells out more than a month in advance each year, so be sure to get your tickets early.

Registration costs for the conference are:

• $170 Full registration – “early bird” rate until 23 May ($200 registration fee after that date)
• $100 NGOs (Multiple registrations $80)
• $50 Full-time students and concession (limited no of seats available, ID will be requested at the conference)

Registration for the conference is now available online at –
http://ecommerce.law.monash.edu.au/product.asp?pID=188&cID=4&e=1.

Alternatively, credit card registrations can be made by calling 9905 3327 (due to university policy, we can no longer accept registration by fax or email).

For full details please visit the conference website at –
http://www.law.monash.edu.au/castancentre/events/2011/conference-2011.html

3. The Castan Centre for Human Rights Law presents – Perspectives on the International Intervention in Libya

Join our expert panel to explore the legal and political issues surrounding the intervention in Libya.

Panelists

• Professor Donald R Rothwell, Australia National University College of Law
• Associate Professor Gideon Boas, Monash University Law School
• Jeff Sparrow, Writer and Research Fellow at Victoria University

Donald R Rothwell is a Professor of International Law at the ANU College of Law, Australian National University. His research includes a specific focus on the use of force. He is an active media commentator and in 2008 he was awarded the Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Community Outreach at the ANU. He is the current Co-Editor in Chief of the Australian Year Book of International Law.

Gideon Boas is an Associate Professor in the Law Faculty at Monash University. He is an expert in international criminal justice, international law and international humanitarian law. Prior to Monash, he was a Senior Legal Officer at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. He is regularly consulted by the media for his views on international law, politics and criminal justice, including recently in relation to the situation in Libya.

Jeff Sparrow is an Australian writer, editor and activist, currently working as a Research Fellow at Victoria University and is the editor of the literary journal Overland.  Sparrow has authored a number of books most recently Killing: Misadventures in Violence, which was a finalist in the Melbourne Prize for Literature Best Writing Award 2009.  He contributes regularly to Crikey, New Matilda, ABC The Drum Unleashed and other online outlets.

For further information please visit http://www.law.monash.edu.au/castancentre/events/2011/libya.html

4. Compete in the Castan Centre’s Human Rights Moot Competition

Applications are now being accepted for the 2011 Castan Centre Human Rights Moot Competition, which will be held from Monday 15 August through Monday 22 August, 2011. Monash University will be entering two teams of three students (Senior Counsel, Junior Counsel, Solicitor).

The event is sponsored by Clayton Utz who will provide the following prizes:

Winning team: $3000
Runner-up: $1000

How to Apply

Interested students should apply by 5pm on Friday 6 May by sending a short cover letter, CV and academic transcript (WES version is fine) via your student email to:

Erica Contini
Project Officer, Castan Centre for Human Rights Law
erica.contini@monash.edu

To be eligible, students must be in the equivalent of at least third year of a combined undergraduate law degree, or any year of a JD degree but must not have completed their degree. It is preferable that competitors have completed some studies in human rights law.

More information

For more information about the moot generally go to –
http://www.law.monash.edu.au/castancentre/events/2011/moot.html

For more information about applying to be on Monash’s teams go to –
http://www.law.monash.edu.au/castancentre/events/2011/monash-team.html

5. International Criminal Justice Project

International Criminal Justice concerns the response of the international community to mass atrocity. How such ruptures between people and communities arise, are addressed or are left unaccounted for, raise serious questions for the international community, as they do for Australia. This Symposium brings together national and international experts (including keynote speakers Lord Iain Bonomy of the Scottish Supreme Courts and Judge in the Miloševic´ Trial, Professor William A. Schabas of the National University of Ireland, Professor Rob Cryer from Birmingham

University and Dr Daryl Mundis, Chief of Prosecutions at the Special Tribunal for Lebanon) to consider the coherence and legitimacy of this complex area of international law and justice.

For flyer please see International Criminal Justice Project

2. Monash Golden Key and MUISS Present ‘Your Community’

It’s time to stand up, discuss and resolve at ‘Your Community’ – a panel-style Q&A forum where all students can direct questions at esteemed panellists on issues relating to their student, local and national communities.

‘Your Community’ will be run by Monash Golden Key in conjunction with the Monash University International Students’ Society (MUISS). The theme of the event this year is ‘The Young Mind – What Plagues It?’ Within this theme, there will be five sub-topics up for discussion: Employment, University, Health, Culture and Personal Security.

The panellists:

• Mr Lloyd England – Tutor and Student Experience Manager, Law Faculty (Host of the event)
• Mr Conrado Guimaraes – CEO and Founder of the Asia-Pacific Youth Organisation (APYO)
• Mr Adam Jaffrey – Founder and anti-violence evangelist of Step Back … Think
• Dr Tangerine Holt – Director of International Education and Research at Monash University

Do you have a question relating to the above five sub-topics which you want to ask our panellists? Email them to community@monash.golden-key.org before the event and they may be read out on event day for our panellists to answer. Then attend as an audience member and take part in the discussion.

A $200 voucher will be up for grabs for the most interesting question as judged by the panellists! Free stuff will also be available for all attending students!

For further information please e-mail Richa and Matt at community@monash.golden-key.org.

1. Learning Skills Seminars

Monday 11 April.  Building summaries – different styles. How to turn your notes into summaries for the exams, and how to trace your sources to avoid problems.  12 – 1 pm in the 3rd floor meeting room, Law library, repeated 1 – 2 pm in L5.

Monday 18 April.  Analysing a research essay question and building an argument. Understand the directions given for longer analytical theory essays, and frame your answer accordingly.  12 – 1 in the 3rd floor meeting room, Law library, repeated 1 – 2 pm in L5.

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Oaktree Foundation is Seeking a New National Director of Legal

The Oaktree Foundation is Australia’s foremost youth-run aid and development organisation, we are young people working together to end global poverty and we want you to join us!

Since 2003, The Oaktree Foundation has created and implemented initiatives and projects to raise awareness, educate, empower and motivate communities to improve their future.  For more information on The Oaktree Foundation, please see our website http://theoaktree.org/

We are currently looking for a new National Director of Legal. This is an exciting and rare opportunity for law students in their third (or higher) year and under the age of 26, to gain valuable professional experience. All applicants are required to submit a current CV (of no more than 4 pages) and a cover letter outlining the applicants characteristics and skills (of no more than 2 pages). For further information about the role and application process please see National Legal Director Position

Please send all applications to the Victorian Human Resources team at recruitment@theoaktree.org

Applications close 5pm, Friday April 29, 2011.

1. Castan Centre for Human Rights Law Annual Human Rights Conference 2011

Registration

The conference sells out more than a month in advance each year, so be sure to get your tickets early.

Registration costs for the conference are:

• $170 Full registration – “early bird” rate until 23 May ($200 registration fee after that date)
• $100 NGOs (Multiple registrations $80)
• $50 Full-time students and concession (limited no of seats available, ID will be requested at the conference)

Registration for the conference is now available online at –
http://ecommerce.law.monash.edu.au/product.asp?pID=188&cID=4&e=1.

Alternatively, credit card registrations can be made by calling 9905 3327 (due to university policy, we can no longer accept registration by fax or email).

For full details please visit the conference website at –
http://www.law.monash.edu.au/castancentre/events/2011/conference-2011.html