Law Student Gazette

1. National Graduate Law Conference

The ANU College of Law invites graduate research students Australia-wide to attend the eighth National Graduate Law Conference 2012. The 2012 conference will enable Higher Degree Research students to present papers in a range of legal research disciplines including: public law, private law, criminal law, international law, regulation and law, and legal theory. Alternatively, students may also come as an attendee to participate in discussions about the presentations from students and some invited guest speakers. Students are encouraged to present work-in-progress papers related to their doctoral research.

For more information please see here.

1. 2012 Careers Fair

12 July, 5pm – 8pm, Olympic Room MCG

The 2012 Careers Fair will be held as part of the ALSA Clayton Utz Conference. The event will be held at the MCG from 5pm till 8pm on the 12th July. Just in time for clerkship applications, this is a great opportunity to meet employers and ask those final few questions to ensure your CV stands out. For those of you in first to third year, this free event provides a great opportunity to view the field, start to learn about the various firms in Melbourne and stock up on a year’s supply of stationary.

Please visit here to see a full list of firms attending.

1. Student Charter

Monash University has recently published its Student Charter. This sets out the key expectations of all students with regard to academic engagement and integrity; and behaviour and wellbeing to foster the learning community. It can be found here.

2. Student Emails

Some student may not be aware that they can link their student email address to a non-Monash email address. Information on how to set this up can set up can be found below:

Follow the instructions on the ITS website to forward your email.

You can also find information on how to set up Google Apps on your iPhone or iPad here.

1. Learning Skills Seminars for JDs Held at the Chambers

Time: 1 – 2 pm & 4:30 – 5:30 pm
Date: Tuesday, 8 May

and again at;

Time: 12 – 1 pm
Date: Friday, 11 May

Topic: Legal Reasoning and Law Assessment Tasks

Become familiar with the predictable structures of legal assignments (legal problem-solving, argumentative essays, case studies and memos) and develop approaches to planning your writing task.

1. FEE/HECS-HELP

Postgraduate law students who have any queries regarding FEE-HELP or HECS-HELP should now be going to www.studyassist.gov.au.

For specific queries on your HELP account, including how much your HELP debt is, should call the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) on 13 28 61. You will have to advise the ATO of your tax file number (TFN) before they will disclose any personal information to you.

2. Postgraduate Consultative Committee

The recent inaugural meeting of the Postgraduate Consultative Committee was held in late March, and proved to be a very useful and productive sharing of ideas between academic and professional faculty staff and a range of student representatives. The minutes have now been published on the Law Current Students website (authcate required).

Its next meeting will be on July 17th.

3. UNSW Public Law Workshop

Please see 2012 PG Workshop Flyer for details and a call for abstracts for a postgraduate research workshop dedicated to the field of public law, being hosted by the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law at the Faculty of Law, UNSW on 12-13 July.

Registration for this event is free, but spaces are limited. The call for abstracts is open until 25 May.

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