Events
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.
Deacons – Open Day for Students – HK
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
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.
Registration is required:
http://www.deacons.com.hk/graduaterecruitment/Forms/PD20111116/
Places are limited. Successful students will receive an email confirmation prior to the open day.
Registration Deadline: 17 December 2012, 5:00pm (HKT)
Professor David Cole
Georgetown Law, Washington
‘Where Liberty Lies: Civil Society and Individual Rights in America’s “War on Terror” after 9/11’
Date: Tuesday, 18 December 2012
Time: 12:45pm to 1:45pm
Venue: Monash University Law Chambers, 555 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne
RSVP: castan.centre@monash.eduor telephone 03 9905 3327
Full details: http://www.law.monash.edu.au/castancentre/events/2012/war-on-terror.html
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.
New York Times columnist Anthony Lewis has called David “one of the country’s great legal voices for civil liberties today,” and Nat Hentoff has called him “a one-man Committee of Correspondence in the tradition of patriot Sam Adams.” David has received numerous awards for his human rights work, including from the Society of American Law Teachers, the National Lawyers Guild, the ACLU of Southern California, the ABA Section on Individual Rights and Responsibilities, and the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee.