Law Student Gazette

1. Charlie Perkins Scholarship Trust

Following the success of the November 2011 trip to the UK, the Charlie Perkins Scholarship Trust and the Aurora Project are delighted to announce the opening of the application period for another exciting opportunity to participate in an overseas visit to Cambridge and Oxford universities in the UK in October this year. The visit may also include Harvard and New York University in the US.

For more information please see here.

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1. Employment and Career Development Activities

2012 dates for career fairs and forums, seminars and workshops, and availability of the education consultant.

The current program running for the month of July is ‘Targeting your Clerkship or Traineeship Applications’.

For further information please see here.

2. Faculty Managed Internship: Skrine – Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Applications are now open and close Friday 17 August 2012. The internship is a minimum of 4 weeks from mid November to mid February.
Application & Eligibility details can be found here. Student Mobility Funding may be provided, please see eligibility criteria.

Queries: cathy.meredith@monash.edu or 9905 3311

1. 6th Annual Castan Centre Human Rights Moot

The Castan Centre for Human Rights Law is hosting the sixth annual human rights moot competition, which is open to law (JD/LLB) students at all Victorian universities. The competition will address issues associated with the Victorian human rights legislation and will give students the opportunity to hone their skills in this important area of law. The event is proudly sponsored by Clayton Utz, who is providing generous prizes:

• $3000 to the winning team
• $1000 to the runners-up

Competitors must be in the equivalent of at least third year of a combined law degree, or in any stage 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 more information please see here.

The Castan Centre wishes to thank the moot competition sponsors Clayton Utz.

2. The Australian Centre for Court and Justice System Innovation (ACCJSI) is Proud to Present the Public Lecture by the President, American Bar Association Wm. T. (Bill) Robinson III.

Title of Lecture: Justice Delayed is Justice Denied?
Date: Wednesday, 4 July 2012
Time: 5.30pm for refreshments and a 6pm start
Venue: Monash University Law Chambers, Ground floor auditorium, 555 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne
RSVP: Nina.massara@monash.edu

1. 2013 UNSW Vice-Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Fellowships

The University of New South Wales has a vibrant research culture and a strong research record: both Law and Criminology received ERA ratings of 4, indicating world-class research. There are policies to actively support and encourage research, and to attract international visitors, postgraduate students and post-doctoral fellows.

Applications for the award of up to 12 Vice-Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Fellowships will open on 18 June and close on 23 August 2012. The application process is aimed at selecting a shortlist of about 40 high quality applications which will be considered for the Fellowships.

Full details on eligibility, application process, and an information pack are available here. Successful fellowships will be announced in November to coincide with the announcement of new ARC and NHMRC Fellows.

Criminal Justice or Criminology applicants interested in pursuing this opportunity may do so in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (please contact : Professor Eileen Baldry e.baldry@unsw.edu.au) or the Faculty of Law (please contact: Professor Janet Chan J.Chan@unsw.edu.au)

For more information about Criminal Justice and Criminology at the University of New South Wales see here.

2. Call for Agenda Items

The next Postgraduate Consultative Committee meeting is on the 17th July. Any matters that you would like your elected student representatives to raisethis meeting must be emailed to them no later than the 9th July. Your student representatives can be contacted on their student email addresses below . Please clearly indicate in the email subject heading that it is information/matters for the PCC meeting.

Elected JD Student Representatives:

Mr Aaron Sudholz – adsud1@student.monash.edu
Ms Alicia Chisholm – alchi5@student.monash.edu
Mr James Skerrett – jbske1@student.monash.edu
Vice President – JD Representative Monash Law Students’ Society.
Collette da Silva – cmde6@student.monash.edu

Elected Student Representative for Graduate Programs (LLMS and Graduate Diplomas)
Alexandra Heath – ahea11@student.monash.edu

Unfortunately Alexandra is an apology for the meeting. If you do have any matters you would like raised these can be emailed to Kathleen Howard on Kathleen.howard@monash.edu Alternatively if you feel they are not pressing matters, you can still email Alexandra and she can raise them at our October meeting.

3. JD Students

If you haven’t finalised your trimester 3 enrolment, please log onto WES and confirm your T3 enrolment online no later than Friday 6 July.

This will help the Faculty to finalise the planning for T3, and enable us to open Allocate+ on 23 July 2012.

Students who have (or will have) 72 credit points by the end of Trimester 2 2012, can enrol in electives. Elective units timetable can be accessed online.

4. New Semi-Intensive Elective Unit LAW7485

For All Postgraduate Students, the new semi-intensive elective unit ‘LAW7485 Managing High Conflict Personalities’ is now on offer for September/October. For more information please see here.

5. Your Participation in the MULC Online Survey is Invited!

The Faculty of Law is keen to ensure that your experience in our postgraduate programs is a high-quality one. Now that our new facility has been open for a year, we are interested in your feedback, and invite you to complete an online survey, located here.

The more participants we have, the more we can rely on the information that we receive, so please participate in this survey. It should take no longer than ten minutes to complete.

The closing date will be Friday 6 July. Participants who choose to provide their student number can go into the draw to win a Village Cinemas Gold Class double pass. Your responses are confidential. Please see the privacy statement at the end of the survey.

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