Law Student Gazette

1. Deacons HK – Open Day for Students

Deacons is the largest full service independent law firm in Hong Kong. It provides an extensive range of legal services to local and international corporations with business interests across Asia.

Deacons is running an Open Day & Cocktail Reception for students studying overseas on 19th December 2012. This event would allow you to gain greater insights into life at Deacons and give you a chance to talk to partners, associates and trainee solicitors. We welcome students of law degree/juris-doctor degree/combined law degree and non-law students who have taken the Graduate Diploma in Law (Common Professional Examination) with a view to applying for a trainee solicitor position in Hong Kong to attend.

Date: 19 December 2012
Time: 5:00pm – 7:00pm
Venue: Deacons office, 5th Floor, Alexandra House, 18 Chater Road, Central, Hong Kong
Registration: Required (here) by 17 December 2012, 5:00pm (HKT)

Part One – Discover Deacons

Speaker: Charmaine Koo (Partner, Intellectual Property; Graduate Recruitment Partner)
Our associates, trainee solicitors and former vacation students will also share with you their experience with the firm.

Part Two – Cocktail Reception

Come and chat with our partners, associates and trainees who were once in your position. Our graduate recruitment team will be present at this event.

Places are limited. Successful students will receive an email confirmation prior to the open day.

2. Where Liberty Lies: Civil Society and Individual Rights in America’s “War on Terror” After 9/11

Presenter: Professor David Cole, Georgetown Law, Washington
Date: Tuesday, 18 December 2012
Time: 12:45pm to 1:45pm
Venue: Monash University Law Chambers, 555 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne
RSVP: castan.centre@monash.edu or telephone 03 9905 3327
Full details: Castan Centre website

Public Lecture- All Welcome

David Cole is a professor at Georgetown University Law Center, a volunteer attorney for the Center for Constitutional Rights, the legal affairs correspondent for The Nation, and a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books. He is the author of six books. His first book, No Equal Justice: Race and Class in the American Criminal Justice System was named Best Non-Fiction Book of 1999 by the Boston Book Review, and best book on an issue of national policy in 1999 by the American Political Science Association.Enemy Aliens: Double Standards and Constitutional Freedoms in the War on Terrorism, received the American Book Award in 2004. Less Safe, Less Free: Why America Is Losing the War on Terror, published in 2007, and coauthored with Jules Lobel, won the Palmer Civil Liberties Prize for best book on national security and civil liberties. His most recent book is The Torture Memos: Rationalizing the Unthinkable (2009).

He has litigated many significant constitutional cases in the Supreme Court, including Texas v. Johnson and United States v. Eichman, which extended First Amendment protection to flagburning; National Endowment for the Arts v. Finley, which challenged political content restrictions on NEA funding; and most recently, Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project, which challenged the constitutionality of the statute prohibiting “material support” to terrorist groups, which makes speech advocating peace and human rights a crime. He has been involved in many of the nation’s most important cases involving civil liberties and national security, including the case of Maher Arar, a Canadian citizen rendered by U.S. officials to Syria and tortured there.

2. Student Success Stories

Have you won an award/scholarship, been recognised for community service/leadership, or experienced a significant success whilst studying at Monash Law? If so, we want to hear from you! We would love to feature successful students and alumni in our many publication faculty publications; if you are willing to share your story with us please contact Lauren in the marketing department on either lauren.miller@monash.edu or 9905 2326.

3. Trinity College Law Review

The Trinity College Law Review is now accepting submissions for publication in Volume XVI. TCLR is Ireland’s leading and oldest student edited law journal. We accept submissions, both articles and casenotes, from all undergraduate students, postgraduate students and graduates, on all areas of law.

The Submission Deadline for Volume XVI is Friday 11th January 2013 at 12pm (noon).

Submissions may be in English, French or German.

Maximum Word Counts:

• English article: 10,000 words
• French or German article: 5000 words
• Casenote: 4000 words

The Gernot Biehler Casenote Competition, open to all Junior and Senior Freshman Students who submit a casenote of 3000 words or less, features the same submission and deadline process as all other TCLR submissions. Casenotes should be 3000 words or less and critique a recent case. Authors who wish their submissions to be considered as part of this competition should indicate this in their submission email and state their year of study. There is a supplementary deadline for this competition, available only to those students that are taking the Foundation Scholarship Examinations in 2013: Friday 18th January at 12pm (noon).

The winning casenote from 2012 can be viewed in the TCLR from that year: “Extra-Territorial Claims for the Irish Constitution – The Supreme Court’s Approach in the Case of Nottinghamshire County Council v B” 15 TCLR 127.

Authors are required to prepare their manuscripts in the House Style of the TCLR, which can be found in the Author’s Guide (available onwww.trinitycollegelawreview.org).The editorial process will be collaborative, with any edits or preparations made with the cooperation of the Authors. We regret that manuscripts cannot be returned. Article selection and editing procedures are summarised in the Author’s Guide. Articles should be submitted by email in DOC or DOCX format to: lawreview.trinitycollege@gmail.com.

The email should contain the Author’s name, year of study or graduation, course and contact details (email, phone number and postal address) in the main body of the email with your article attached. The selection process is entirely anonymous. Other than in the email, please do not include any indications of identity in the submission.

Publication in the Trinity College Law Review represents a significant achievement and the culmination of valuable legal research and writing. As well as this, there are both monetary and internship prizes for the best articles. The Editorial Board looks forward to working with all prospective authors.

1. New Library Website

• The library website has been redesigned. Things that have been updated:
• The URL has changed. The homepage is now: monash.edu/library.
• This means all underlying pages also have new URLS so you will have to update any bookmarked pages you use.
• To access resources like library guides and online tutorials and information on classes, you now go to the Research and Learning Skills ‘tab’ and particularly, the ‘Resources and activities’ section.
• A new ejournal service replaces the old electronic journals page, you now access a list of electronic journals for browsing by clicking on the ‘A-Z ejournals’ link in the Search box on the Library homepage.
• If you know which journal you are after simply put the title of the journal (enclosed in quotation marks) into Search e.g. “law institute journal”
• There is a new ‘Information for – students’ page for general library information.

More details on the new Library website.

2. Westlaw AU

Legal Online is now known as Westlaw AU. All links to Legal Online content (like FirstPoint) will now send you there. Contact the library for any help navigating the new platform.

1. Bill Borthwick Student Scholarships 2013

See the scholarship details attached.

Borthwick Scholarship Application

1. Temporary Relocation of Student Services

Due to construction work of the Law Entry Project, the Undergraduate Student Services Office will be relocated to Room 428 (4th Floor Conference Room) from Friday 23 November 2012 until the construction is completed.

The UG Student Services Office will be closed on Thursday 22 November due to the move and reopened on Friday, 23 November on 4th Floor.

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1. Human Rights Movie Screening

Right Now Radio, Australia’s only human rights focused radio show, has just launched on RRR and we need your support! To make sure Right Now Radio is able to have its most successful and productive year yet, a fundraiser is being held at Loop Bar (23 Meyers Place, Melbourne) on Thursday 22nd November from 6pm.

We’ll be showing a compelling short film by Sian Darling of Whobyfire Productions, which will introduce you to artists who have survived the refugee experience and are exploring freedom and healing through creative expression.

There’ll be a live radio interview by Right Now Radio host Ben Schokman with one of our fantastic guests, plus, movie tickets door prize, and for those feeling extra generous, the chance to donate to the purchase of new recording equipment for the radio team.

Tickets are $20 standard and $10 concession, payable on the night.

Facebook RSVP can be found here, find out more about Right Now Radio here, and listen to the podcasts here.

2. Law Student Colloquium

The fifth annual Law Student Colloquium is now seeking abstracts from students of all levels who wish to present a paper on any legal topic. Submissions by undergraduate students are especially encouraged. If you submitted an abstract before 12th November, please re-submit it because we have experienced some technical difficulties and may not have received your submission as a consequence.

An application can be made to speak at the Colloquium by submitting an abstract. An abstract is a short summary of the paper which the speaker intends to present. Abstracts from prospective speakers should be between 400 and 500 words in length and should be submitted via the Law Student Colloquium website. The deadline for submissions is Thursday, 6th December 2012.

Abstracts may be submitted here.

The Colloquium is an all-day event and will take place at Trinity College Dublin in the Law School and Graduates’ Memorial Building on Saturday, 16th February 2013. Tea/coffee and lunch will be provided and there will be a wine reception after the keynote speech, the Brian Lenihan Memorial Address. The address is in honour of the late Brian Lenihan, a former student of the Law School and Scholar of Trinity College who went on to have a distinguished career as a Senior Counsel and a Minister of the Irish government. The 2012 address was given by Judge Bryan McMahon, formerly of the Irish High Court, and chaired by Mr Paul Gallagher SC, the former Attorney General of Ireland. This year’s keynote speaker has yet to be confirmed.

1. Nomination Open for Chief Justice’s Medal

Nomination is open for the “Chief Justice’s Victoria Law Foundation Medal for Excellence and Community Service” to be awarded to a LLB/JD student expected to graduate in 2012.

This Medal has been awarded annually since 2003. The award aims to acknowledge and encourage a commitment to community service among law students in Victoria. The award is to a LLB/JD 2012 graduate and who is judged to have demonstrated a commitment to community service throughout their law studies as well as excellence in scholarship. 2012 nominations will be closed on Friday 7th December.

Full details are available on the Monash Law website. Please direct further inquires to shufen.lin@monash.edu

1. Missing From the MULC Library Node

Creyke, McMillan, and Smyth (2012). Control of government action : text, cases and commentary. L G5 C927C 2012

It was on hold for a student but not on the shelf when it was to be collected. Please return immediately.