General Notices
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
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.