Law Student Gazette

2. P.A Position

Casual position available for a Personal Assistant for Senior Commercial Barrister, Albert Monichino SC.

Position suitable for final year undergraduate students (being final year in 2013) and postgraduate students.

Please find attached a position advertisement describing the nature of the role.

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. 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).

For more information please see here.

1. Faculty Renovations

Work will commence week beginning 26 November 2012 on the renovations to building 12. Renovations are scheduled to be completed 18 March 2013. Please note the following changes during the period of renovation:

• Mail room moved to G17 (previously Law Review office) on ground level. This room has flash card access.
• Deliveries to the building have been redirected to the Administrative Services Unit in room 202 on Level 2. Deliveries requiring lift access are through Diane O’Neill (55136)
• The Law Review editors will move to G18 until mid December and will then be relocated within the building until the end of the renovations.
• Student Services has moved to room 428 (4th Floor conference room). There are direction signs around the Faculty. Shufen Lin (Manager, Undergraduate Student Services) has moved to room 443.
• The food and drink machines have been relocated to the carpeted foyer area on ground level.
• The student/staff counsellors have moved to the campus centre during the period of renovations.
• Once renovations commence, there will be no access via the front of the building for the duration of the project. There will be an emergency egress only. Access to the building will be via the rear doors on both sides of the building. Staff and students can access upper floors via the rear stairs or the temporary stairs inside the front of the building for access to the Dean’s area and Law Library as well as upper levels. Pedestrian access may vary from time to time so staff and students are requested to note directional signage.
• Noisy works will be carried out outside office hours and on weekends but there will be some construction noise at other times.
• There will be weekly progress reports via the Law School Staff and Student Gazettes. Artist impressions of the project will be posted in the building when available.

If students have any queries regarding the renovation work in the building please contact Diane O’Neill (9905 5136).

2. Malaysia Survey

A huge thank you to all students who completed the survey regarding the Monash Malaysia Program! The survey closes tomorrow; if you haven’t had your say yet, you can complete the short, multiple choice survey here.

3. 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.

1. Allocate+

Allocate+ for Trimester 1 2013 JD core units will be opened at 12pm on 17 December 2012 (except for LAW7470* & LAW7264*).

Students are required to complete the self-allocation by 3 January 2013. Due to the set size of each class, once a stream is full there are no more places available. Students who require to change stream must apply in writing to the Faculty by submitting the Changing seminar streams or tutorial group application form along with the supporting documentation by Friday 11 January 2013. Late applications or incomplete applications will not be accepted.

*Please note that Allocate+ will be open for LAW7470 & LAW7264 on Monday 7 January at 12pm, students are required to complete the self-allocation by Friday 18 January.

Allocation is not necessary for LLM/JD elective units as there is only one stream available.

Application to Change Lecture Stream or Tutorial

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