General Notices
1. Call for Papers – Federal Law Review
The Zines Prize for Excellence in Legal Research – ANU College of Law
The Federal Law Review is pleased to announce an annual prize to be awarded for excellence in legal research. The prize will be awarded to an author whose is published in the Federal Law Review.
The intention of the prize is to encourage and reward outstanding legal scholarship in Australia and to recognise the many contributions Professor Zines has made to the better understanding of areas of law of interest to the Federal Law Review.
The inaugural winner of the prize was Dr Patrick Emerton, for his article ‘Political Freedoms and Entitlements in the Australian Constitution – An example of Referential Intentions Yielding Unintended Legal Consequences’ (2010) 38Federal Law Review 169.
We welcome submissions to: flr.law@anu.edu.au
2. Call for Papers – Law and Its Accidents: Melbourne Doctoral Forum on Legal Theory
Thursday 15 – Friday 16 December, 2011
The fourth annual workshop will again bring together higher research students and early career researchers, who in different disciplines and across diverse fields of scholarship, engage with law and its theoretical and methodological questions.
This year we embark on an investigation of law and its accidents, because to critically engage with legal theory is not only to track the modalities of law, but also to probe its interstices. It is to expose law’s fault-lines and its exceptions, its interruptions and its crises, but also its coincidences and serendipities. This workshop will try not just to prod those fragile points where law buckles and sways, but attempt to build new jurisprudential approaches to understanding the happenstances of law.
Relevant areas of law may include (this list is not exhaustive): law and culture, law and technology, law and the humanities, environmental law, employment law, tort law, international law, military law, migration law, and law and economics.
A limited number of bursaries will be available for interstate and international presenting participants who are unable to claim funding to cover the full cost of travel from their home institution. The bursaries are intended to contribute towards travel expenses. Please indicate in your application whether you would like to be considered for a bursary.
For further information and possible topics please see Law and Its Accidents
Conference Organisers: Jake Goldenfein, Laura Petersen and Marc Trabsky
Send abstracts of 500 words and biographies of 100 words to law-mdflt@unimelb.edu.au by Monday 19 September, 2011.
3. Mental Health First Aid
Mental health first aid is the help given to someone with a mental health problem before they get professional help.
Training in mental health first aid
The training for Monash staff and students will help you:
- Help people in the early stages of mental health problems
- Recognise the signs and symptoms of these problems
- Know where and how to get help
Understand what types of help are effective
Faculty is offering to pay for Mental Health First Aid Training if you are a 2011 Peer Mentor.
This is a two day course and participants will receive a certificate upon completion.
More information is available at:
http://www.monash.edu.au/health-wellbeing/staff/mental-health-first-aid.html
Please email expressions of interest to lloyd.england@monash.edu if you would like to take part and a date will be arranged early in Semester 2.
4. The Victoria Law Foundation’s Small Grants Now Available
The Victoria Law Foundation’s Small Grants are available to organisations for legal projects and programs in Victoria.
Grants of up to $5000 may be used for law-related projects that will benefit the people of Victoria including:
- reprinting of legal publications;
- seed funding;
- community education programs; and/or
- other projects in relation to the law that benefit Victorians.
Small Grants have a rolling deadline with applications accepted any time throughout the year. The application form is easy to complete and decisions are usually made within two weeks.
For more information and an application form visit:
www.victorialawfoundation.org.au
If you have an idea for a project, please contact the Grants and Awards Manager on 9604 8100 to discuss.