Law Student Gazette

1. NSW Law Reform Commission

The NSW Law Reform Commission operates a winter internship program for law students in their final year of study, or entering their final year of study in 2014.

While this opportunity is unpaid, it does provide access to a range of professional development opportunities including working with their Commissioners.

Details can be found on the website at this link.

If you have questions you can email or call Abi Paramaguru on (02) 8061 9263 or abi_paramaguru@agd.nsw.gov.au.

Department of Attorney General and Justice – Promoting a Just and Safe Society.

Visit at www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au.

2. Professional Transitions

Delivered with support from legal industry representatives, the Professional Transitions – Law Program aims to enhance your career transition to professional employment with a Law degree. To book please visit the Monash Careers Gateway.

3. YouthLaw

There are limited volunteer positions available and we are looking for volunteers who are committed to social justice and have a particular interest in young people and the law. New volunteers must be available to start the week commencing 25 March 2013. All volunteers are based in our CBD office and we require a minimum 12 month commitment for half a day a week.

For more information please see here.

1. The 3rd Annual Legal (r)Evolution Conference

The Progressive Law Network presents their 3rd annual Legal (r)Evolution conference People. Planet. Project on the 15th March at Melbourne Law School.

The People Panel will discuss Gene Patenting, the Planet Panel will look into Corporate Environmental Responsibility, and the Project Panel will focus on Building Grassroots Social Justice Programs. Speakers include Bob Brown (Sea Shepard Conservation Society), Denis Nelthorpe (founder of the Taxi Driver Legal Clinic), Dr Luigi Palombi (Genetic Sequence Rights Project, ANU), Rebecca Gilsenan (Principal, Maurice Blackburn Lawyers), David Ritter (Greenpeace) and many others.

To book tickets or for more information visit www.progressivelawnetwork.org.au

1. FLAP

Volunteering at the (FLAP)

If you are in your second year of your law degree (and above), we encourage you to put your name on the waiting list to volunteer at Family Law Assistance Program.

For an application form please email the Volunteer Coordinator at mols-volunteer@monash.edu

Please note that FLAP recruits on an as-needed basis several times a year. All students will be placed on a waiting list and will be contacted and provided with information prior to recruitment. Please email Cara at mols-volunteer@monash.edu if you have any further queries.

2. Volunteering at MOLS

Are you a first to third year Law student or JD student in your first six trimesters of your degree and looking for the opportunity to gain some invaluable practical legal experience?

Applications for the Wednesday Night Advice Only Session will open 8am 25 February 2013 until 5pm 10 March 2013, please note that late applications will not be accepted.

You are applying to be part of the Wednesday night volunteer team, which provides advice to clients experiencing a wide range of legal problems.

Students are rostered to volunteer on Wednesday nights on a fortnightly basis from 6:15pm until approximately 8:30pm. Commencement date is April 2013.

In each session you will:

• Interview clients along with another law student
• Develop practical legal skills as well as research skills
• Have the opportunity to learn and work under the supervision of qualified lawyers and barristers.

For more information, please see here and here.

1. 2013 Dual JD Program with Washington College of Law

Do you wish to study in Washington for another JD? We are calling applications for 2013 Dual JD program with Washington College of Law?

Detailed information can be accessed online. Application closing date: 29 March 2013

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1. Australian Government – Rio Tinto NTRB Scholarships

Two Australian Government-Rio Tinto NTRB Scholarships are again being offered by Rio Tinto, FaHCSIA and the University of Dundee to lawyers who are currently working or interested in working in the NTRB system. The timing of the scholarships will correspond to the European academic year, commencing in September 2013. The two scholarships cover all the expenses involved in undertaking a one year Masters in Mining Law and Policy at the University of Dundee, Scotland (approx. A$43,000) and are open to any Australian resident with a law degree with no age restriction. The successful candidates will commit to work within the NTRB system for a minimum period of two years on completion of their studies.

FaHCSIA has agreed to continue to provide A$15,000 towards the living expenses of each scholarship recipient who is working within the NTRB system at the time they receive the scholarship. On-line applications can be found here, and will be open from Monday 18th February through to Friday 15th March, 2013. The LLM in Mineral Law and Policy Program is found here.

1. Seeking Security: Refugee Policy in a Time of Complexity and Change

Castan Centre for Human Rights Law, proudly presents:

Associate Professor Harry Minas
Centre for International Mental Health
Melbourne School of Population Health, University of Melbourne
Alex Pagliaro
Campaigns Coordinator, Amnesty International

Date: Wednesday, 13 February 2013
Time: 6:00pm to 7:15pm
Venue: Monash University Law Chambers, 555 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne
RSVP: castan.centre@monash.edu or telephone 03 9905 3327

Public lecture – all welcome. For more information please see here.

1. Smoking

The rear doors are the only entry to the Law Building until the end of the Law Faculty Entry Remodelling Project in late March. Smoking is prohibited throughout the university within 10 metres of an entrance so there should be no smoking at the rear of building 12. Anyone who smokes anywhere in the university should always place fully extinguished butts in bins.

1. Call for application: 2013 Dual JD Program with Washington College of Law

Do you wish to study in Washington for another JD? We are calling applications for 2013 Dual JD program with Washington College of Law?

Detailed information can be accessed online. Application closing date: 29 March 2013

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1. Right Now Seeking Arts Editors

Right Now is a volunteer, not-for-profit media organisation led by young people focused on human rights issues in Australia. We are committed to covering human rights issues through free, accessible, creative and engaging online, print and radio media. Our work begins with the belief that creating a positive, rights-respecting culture in Australia begins with the flow of information.

Right Now is currently accepting applications for volunteer Arts Editors. To apply, please send your CV to Cat Pelling at info@rightnow.org.au by Friday, 15 February 2013.

A detailed position description can be found here.