Events
1. Careers@Singapore 2013 : Legal Services
Date: Saturday, January 5, 2013
Time: 10 am – 11.30 am
Venue: SMU Administration Building, Level 4, Function 4.1, Singapore Management University, 81 Victoria Street, Singapore 188065
The participating legal organisations are: Baker & McKenzie, KhattaWong, Rodyk & Davidson and the Singapore Legal Service. The event will comprise a presentation and panel discussion followed by networking opportunities.
Attendance is free although you will need to register. For further information, please visit here.
2. Opening of the Legal Year
Celebrate how the community and the legal System work together towards achieving a just society.
Patron
The Honourable Marilyn Warren AC
Guest speakers
The Honourable Diana Bryant AO
The Honourable Lex Lasry
Professor Peter Norden AO
Date: Tuesday 29 January, 2013
Time: 9am for 9:30am
Venue: Waldron Hall, Level 1, County Court of Victoria, Cnr William and Lonsdale Streets
Cost: Free
RSVP: Wednesday 23 January, 2013
Further details can be found here.
3. 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).