Events
1. Symposium – Recent developments concerning the Convention on the Rights of the Child
Date: Tuesday 24 April 2012
Venue: Monash University Law Chambers, 555 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne
Time: 9:00am to 2:45pm
This symposium will consider three important current issues in children’s rights, from Australian and international perspectives.
This informative and thought-provoking event will bring together some of Australia’s leading child rights advocates, academics and organisations. It will be an invaluable occasion for those working or studying in the area, as well as anyone with an interest in children’s rights.
Confirmed speakers:
The Hon Alastair Nicholson AO RFD QC, Chair of Children’s Rights International
Associate Professor John Tobin, University of Melbourne
Associate Professor Paula Gerber, Monash University
Chris Varney, Former Australian Youth Representative to the United Nations
Registration
Registration fees for the symposium are:
Full price: $75
Concession full price: $35
To register and pay online, please go here.
For more information on the event, please see Convention on the Rights of the Child.
2. Law Beyond Practice 2012 – Law Careers Beyond Commercial Firms
Date: Thursday 19 April, 2012
Venue: Monash University Law Chambers Auditorium, 555 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne CBD
Time: 6pm – 8pm
Ticket: $10 (Drinks & Canapés provided)
More information: Here
Seats are strictly limited, so be quick to secure your place by booking online.
Thinking about clerkships and the conventional pathway of commercial law firm practice? Having doubts and wanting to know other options for your hard-earned law degree?
Law Beyond Practice 2012 aims to provide ambitious law students with an insight into an array of career opportunities to use your law degree outside commercial practice. Connect with successful professionals who have chosen less traditional law-related careers, from government departments, not-for-profit organisations, to leaders of the criminal law. Hear their ‘100 Second Pitch’ and then have the opportunity to chat with them – in an informal setting – to discuss legal career insights that are rewarding in both the personal and professional sense.
Confirmed speakers so far:
The Hon. Robert Richter QC
Ms Joh Kirby, Executive Director of Victoria Law Foundation
Cr Charlotte Baines, Monash City Council
Senior Sergeant Therese Fitzgerald, Police Prosecutions Division
Ms Madeline Keating, Carina Ford Immigration Lawyers
Mr Nikolas Tumbri, Associate to The Honourable President Maxwell of the Supreme Court of Victoria
Mr Khoi Cao-Lam, Manager of North Melbourne Legal Service Inc
Professor Arie Freiberg, Dean of Law Faculty at Monash University
Mr Paul Horvarth, Sports Lawyers
Representatives from:
The Legal Services Commission
The Asylum Seeker Resource Centre
The Environmental Defender’s Office
3. Meeting Challenges in the Civil Justice System by Professor Dame Hazel
How has the landscape altered? What are the challenges and opportunities? How does the justice system need to change to stay relevant to the people it serves?
The lecture will focus on current civil justice policy in England and Wales and argue that, as a result of trends over the last fifteen years, the value of a public civil justice system is being challenged, while access to that system is being inhibited both by new procedural and funding measures.
Accompanied by a profound change in civil justice discourse, the relevant interdependent justice policy strands involve the promotion of mediation and the withdrawal of the State from civil disputes; the removal of legal aid from most non-criminal issues; and a reduction in resources for the courts.
Date: Tuesday 17 April, 2012
Time: 6:00pm
Venue: Monash University Law Chambers, 555 Lonsdale St, Melbourne
RSVP: See attached information for booking form
For more information please see Critique of Civil Justice Reforms in England.
4. 2012 Law Malaysia Program Information Session
Date: Tuesday 17 April, 2012
Venue: Building 12, L2
Time: 1 – 2pm
Please come along and hear all about this wonderful program (lunch provided)!
Malaysia offers a fun time whilst basking in the sunshine enjoying the food and culture from one of Asia’s most multicultural societies. Enrich your education by studying at the Monash Malaysia campus where you will have the chance to experience the law in a comparative context including studying
with students from different parts of the world.
- Find out how you can study overseas in 2012 at the Sunway Campus, Malaysia without adding any time to your degree.
- Listen to students share their experiences from the 2011 program.
- Hear about the application process, units offered, funding and more.
This session will not be recorded but all information presented including eligibility will be available on the Malaysia program website.