General Notices
1. 2011 Sydney Law School Postgraduate Students Conference – Call for Papers
| Venue: | Sydney Law School New Law School Building, Eastern Avenue, University of Sydney (Camperdown campus) For directions please click here |
| Date: | Thursday 27 – Friday 28 October, 2011 |
Participation in the conference will provide an opportunity to present research projects to students and academics from a diverse range of backgrounds. The conference will also act as a forum to explore broader issues around the research process, including research methods and theory, critique and the culture of law. Day one will include the keynote address and concurrent presentation sessions. Day two will run as a half day and involve discussion sessions on the PhD experience facilitated by leading academics.
Call for Papers
We invite postgraduate research students in law and related fields from universities across Australia to submit an abstract for consideration. The conference will cover topics including:
- Climate & Environmental Law
- Commercial, Contract & Property Law
- Constitutional, Administrative & Public Law
- Criminal Law, Criminal Justice & Criminology
- Family & Child Law
- Health & Medical Law
- Indigenous Persons & the Law
- International & Human Rights Law
- Law in the Asia Pacific Region
- Legal, Socio-legal & Regulatory Theory
Keynote Speaker
Professor Gerry Simpson, Melbourne Law School, the University of Melbourne
Deadlines
- Submission of abstracts: Monday 29 August
- Early bird registration: Monday 19 September
- Submission of written papers: Thursday 13 October
Applicants will be required to complete an Abstract Submission Form available on the Postgraduate Conference website.
Prizes, bursaries and financial assistance
A prize of $500 will be awarded for the best written paper presented at the conference.
Financial assistance for travel, accommodation or fee relief is available upon application for students who demonstrate need. For further information please refer to the Postgraduate Conference website.
Registration
A light lunch and post conference drinks is included in the registration fee. Please note there is no registration fee applicable for those presenting a paper at the conference.
- Early bird registration: $11 (inc GST)
- Full fee registration: $22 (inc GST)
Registrations and secure online payment can be made via the conference online registration form.
For further information
Conference details are available via the Postgraduate Conference website.
For further enquiries, contact Belinda Reeve: law.pgrc@sydney.edu.au
2. PASS program in Contract B
This semester, the Law Faculty is introducing Peer Assisted Study Sessions (PASS) to Contract B. PASS is built around group discussion and active participation under the guidance of the PASS mentors, 2nd and 3rd year students who have been successful in the unit. The goals of PASS are to help you develop both confidence in Contract B but also the study strategies that will assist you in all your units. It’s all about effective and efficient study, and having the opportunity to talk to your peers about any concerns you may have with Contract B or more generally about being a successful uni student.
PASS is new to Law, but not new to Monash, and the evidence shows that regularly attending PASS sessions not only significantly improves your chances of achieving a high grade in the unit but also improves the quality of your university experience.
We will offer ten one-hour study sessions each week. You will be able to sign up for PASS in Contract B from 9.00am on Monday. Just go to the Contract B Allocate+ page and choose the PASS session that best fits your timetable. PASS sessions start in Week 3, and will run through to Week 12.
Please see attached slides for more info!
For further information please see PASS program for Contract B
3. T2-58 Units -SETU Surveys Closing Soon
Could those students enrolled in the T2-58 Units, which are the Prato, Malaysian and T2 JD Units, please note the SETU surveys for these Units which opened on the 22nd July will close shortly on Friday 5 August. Can you please ensure that you have complete all of your online SETU surveys for the T2-58 Units before this deadline? You can access these SETU surveys via your my.monash portal. You may not realise this but if the student responses in a Unit are below 5 then the University will not give us a Unit evaluation report for that Unit So if you really want to make your voice heard then you need to get online and tell us what you think!
We do appreciate you making some comments about what you thought about the Unit. However, this needs to be constructive praise and and criticism about things like the Unit design and not comments about the individual teachers please. We particularly do not want you to write any comments of an offensive nature that are in breach of the University’s Equal Opportunity Policy :
http://www.monash.edu.au/equity-diversity/policies/equal-opportunity-policy.html or comments that refer specifically to individual teachers. If you stick to just writing comments about the Unit design then you should be OK. Currently the SETU survey does not ask for any student comments about the teachers.
Many thanks for helping us with this as we do use your comments about the Units and the SETU reports to help us to continually improve the quality of our Units.
Don’t forget that you can look at the Unit evaluation reports for each Semester online at:
https://emuapps.monash.edu.au/unitevaluations/wr/uewr_rp1_public_yearseme.jsp
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