Law Student Gazette

1. Graduate Positions

Maloney Anderson is a progressive legal practice servicing North West Victoria and Western New South Wales.

We provide a diverse range of legal services to an extensive client base. Our firm currently comprises three principals, six solicitors and 19 staff members.

Maloney Anderson is looking for graduates interested in pursuing a career in:

• Family law; or

• Personal Injuries Law

Those expressing their interest should be prepared to move to regional Victoria, should be well-organised, highly motivated and wish to have a broader exposure to either of these areas of law. Excellent career growth and prospects await you.

Please address all enquiries, large or small by 15 November 2013 to:

Lauren Droffelaar

0419 514 647

lauren@droffelaar.com.au

1. Courageous Conversations about Race

We have the great fortune to have Mr Glenn Singleton visiting Australia from the USA. Glenn is a leading expert in racial awareness and co-author of the Courageous Conversations about Race (CCAR) Program which has been specifically adapted for the Australian Higher Education setting.

The Equity & Diversity Centre will be facilitating a CCAR program in 2014 in support of the Monash Anti-Racism Campaign pledge in partnership with the Australian Human Rights Commission recently announced by the Vice-Chancellor.

CCAR provides an opportunity for participants to explore race from multiple perspectives, develop language and confidence to engage in complex, challenging and meaningful conversations about race. In the program stereotyping and prejudice are explored through national and international perspectives and personal narratives about racial identity, power and privilege and their impacts on individuals lived experiences.

RSVP is essential as there are limited places. Please circulate this invitation among your work group/network – this event is open to all staff and students.

Mr Glenn E. Singleton presents Courageous Conversations about Race

5. Student Services Closed

Student Services, both at Clayton and Law Chambers, will be closed all day on Tuesday 29 October 2013 due to a Professional Staff Retreat.

The Clayton office will re-open on Wednesday 30 October at 10.30 am and the Law Chambers at 8.30 am.

Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.

1. Internships

The International Bar Association (IBA) is currently seeking high calibre legal interns to work on its International Criminal Court (ICC) Programme in The Hague.

START DATE: January 2014

END DATE: April 2014

APPLICATION DEADLINE: Friday 15 November 2013

The IBA’s ICC Programme monitors fair trial issues at the ICC. Programme information is disseminated through regular reports, expert discussions, workshops and other events and expert legal analysis on relevant issues. Based at the Peace Palace in The Hague, the IBA’s ICC Programme consults and interacts with Court officials, civil society organisations, academics and international lawyers.

Full details and how to apply.

1. 2013 Law Peer Mentor Program Survey

The 2013 Law Peer Mentor Program is seeking your feedback. If you participated in this year’s community building initiative to welcome our First Year Students and to assist your transition into tertiary studies you will be sent an email inviting you to participate. Please help us improve the 2014 Peer Mentor Program; did you enjoy Intro Night? What could be improved? 2 Village Cinema Gold Class Tickets are up for grabs for completed surveys. Thanks!

2. 2014 Undergraduate Law Electives

Please be advised that 2014 Undergraduate Law electives are published on the following 2014 Handbook page.

The above link has also been posted on the Current Students Course and Unit Information web page.

For further inquiries, please contact Undergraduate Student Services via: law-undergraduate@monash.edu or phone 99053300.

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1. 19th Lucinda Lecture -”Section 80 – The Great Constitutional Tautology”

Presented by: The Hon. Justice Virginia Bell AC, The High Court of Australia

Virginia Margaret Bell AC was appointed to the High Court in February 2009. At the time of her appointment she was a judge of the New South Wales Court of Appeal. She graduated from the University of Sydney as a Bachelor of Laws in 1976. After seven years as a solicitor with the Redfern Legal Centre, she was admitted to the New South Wales Bar in 1984 and was appointed a Senior Counsel in 1997. Justice Bell practised as a public defender between 1986 and 1989 before returning to the private Bar. Between 1994 and 1997 she was a counsel assisting the Royal Commission into the New South Wales Police Service. Justice Bell was appointed a judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales in March 1999. She served as president of the Australian Institute of Judicial Administration from 2006 to 2008.

Date: Thursday 24 October
Time: 1-2pm
Venue: Monash University, Clayton Campus, Building 08/R1
RSVP: 21 October (unless sold out prior) by email law-marketing@monash.edu

2. I Can Monash Network: Special Exam Gathering

The I Can Monash Network is a community of Monash students sharing the strengths of the Autism Spectrum. We are all about driving a rethink of the Autism Spectrum among students and the university, away from ‘I Can’t’ to ‘I Can’.

We’re hanging out this Thursday 24 October and anyone with an interest in the spectrum is welcome! Come along to to talk about coping strategies during exams and have a good laugh about the quirks and talents that come with this amazing spectrum.

Learn more about our work in James’ update. Together we can create an enabling Monash experience for all students!

Get the deets…

Thursday 24 October, 1pm – 2pm

Building 6 (Faculty of Education), Room G08, Monash Clayton Campus

RSVP to penny.robinson@monash.edu

BYO Lunch

Twitter: @I_CAN_Network

3. Information Session – Pathways to Oxford and Cambridge

We will be holding an information session about pathways from Monash law to further study at Oxford and Cambridge.

The session will provide guidance, tips and insights and highlight important considerations in planning for further study at Oxford or Cambridge.

Speakers will include the Dean of law – Professor Bryan Horrigan (PhD, Oxford – Rhodes Scholar), Law Lecturer Colin Campbell (LLM and PhD, Cambridge), and recent Monash law, Oxford or Cambridge graduates.

The session will be held twice at different locations:

•1pm – 2pm – Tuesday 22 October, L2, Building 12, Clayton Campus
•5:30pm – 6:30pm – Tuesday 29 October, Seminar Room 3, MULC, Melbourne city

At the session to be held on 22 October, Associate Professor Moira Paterson, Director of Graduate Studies, will also be speaking about options for Post Graduate studies at Monash University.

Please RSVP to Elana.Pose@monash.edu by Thursday 17 October for the session on 22 October and by Wednesday 23 October for the session on 29 october.

4. Marriage Equality in Australia. Where to from here?

The Castan Centre for Human Rights Law proudly presents

The Hon. Adam Bandt MP, Federal Member for Melbourne
Rodney Croome, National Director of Australian Marriage Equality
The Hon. Clem Newton-Brown MP, State Member for Prahran

Date: Thursday 24 October 2013
Time: 6pm to 7:15pm
Venue: Monash University Law Chambers, 555 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne
RSVP: castan.centre@monash.edu or telephone 03 9905 3327
Full details

Public forum – All welcome

Marriage Equality is now recognised in more than a dozen countries around the world, including our neighbour New Zealand, however it remains unrecognised in Australia. In the aftermath of the federal election, how should supporters proceed? Can states fill the breach if the federal government won’t step in? Come and listen to these prominent supporters of marriage equality as they discuss the future of equal love in Australia.

1. ISI Travel Scholarship

The Italian Services Institute is an association dedicated to providing welfare and education services for disadvantaged persons of Italian descent resident in Australia who would not otherwise have access to those services.

The Institute is offering a one off payment of $3000 for up to 13 students in 2014 to Monash University to support Monash students of Italian descent in Australia to travel overseas to Monash University’s Prato Centre or other destinations in Italy.

If you are considering applying for the 2014 Law Prato Program and you meet the criteria for the Italian Scholarship it is recommended you apply for the Scholarship as applications close on 31 October 2013.

For more information, please contact or visit Coursework Scholarship unit website.

2. Paris in the Spring!

The Faculty of Law and the Australian Centre for Justice Innovation are proud to announce that Monash University has been selected to participate in the 9th Annual International Chamber of Commerce mediation competition to be held in Paris on 7 -12 February 2014. The lucky students to represent the first Monash University team at this prized competition must be chosen no later than 3 November 2013. We are accepting applications from students who have taken Collaborative Law, Mediation, or Negotiation units. Although, the cost to participate in the competition (travel and accommodation) is largely self-funded, ACJI will help students raise money to put towards those expenses. We will also help explore sponsorship opportunities. ACJI will provide two coaches to assist to prepare the team and will provide on the ground support. Students will need to be available for coaching sessions at least once a week for the six weeks leading up to the competition. Please submit your CV, a short biography and a two-hundred word essay telling us why you would like to participate in the competition. Please submit these materials to suzanne.gremaux@monash.edu by midnight Friday 25 October 2013.

SETU surveys

The Student Evaluations of Teaching & Units (SETU) surveys are open for

• FY-01 Units – survey closes on 31 Oct

• S2-01 UG Units – survey closes on 3 Nov

* T3-38 JD Units- survey opens on 28 Oct and closes on 21 Nov

* T4-57 LLM Units – survey closes on 17 Nov.

The University will email you each week at your Monash email address to remind you to complete the SETU survey and they will do this until the survey closes or you complete it. SETU is an online survey of students each Semester that provides our staff with helpful information which they then can use to make informed decisions about continually improving the quality of their Units. Please note that Units in different teaching periods will get surveyed online at different times. We do value your feedback about our Units and we would really like to hear about what you think we are doing well and what still needs improving in each of our Units. We would really appreciate it please if you could complete a SETU survey for each Unit in which you are enrolled. Thank you very much for your assistance with this important quality process.

1. Research Scholarships

Doctoral Research Scholarships at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore

The NUS PhD comprises: (i) coursework (up to 6 graduate courses, taken in the first year), followed by (ii) a thesis of not more than 80,000 words. Successful applicants will commence their candidature as probationary PhD students and will work under the supervision of a Faculty member at NUS Law. Within 12-18 months of their candidature, probationary PhD students must orally defend an outline of the proposed PhD thesis at the Doctoral Candidate Qualifying Examination (DCQE). Candidates who succeed at the DCQE will have their PhD candidature confirmed and may proceed to write the thesis.

The closing date for all applications is 1 December 2013. Application instructions can be found at http://law.nus.edu.sg/admissions/app_periods_forms.html.

See attached for further details.

1. 2013 Law Peer Mentor Program Survey

The 2013 Law Peer Mentor Program is seeking your feedback. If you participated in this year’s community building initiative to welcome our First Year Students and to assist your transition into tertiary studies you will be sent an email inviting you to participate. Please help us improve the 2014 Peer Mentor Program; did you enjoy Intro Night? What could be improved? 2 Village Cinema Gold Class Tickets are up for grabs for completed surveys. Thanks!

.:End Student Gazette 21/10/13:.

1. 19th Lucinda Lecture -”Section 80 – The Great Constitutional Tautology”

Presented by: The Hon. Justice Virginia Bell AC, The High Court of Australia

Virginia Margaret Bell AC was appointed to the High Court in February 2009. At the time of her appointment she was a judge of the New South Wales Court of Appeal. She graduated from the University of Sydney as a Bachelor of Laws in 1976. After seven years as a solicitor with the Redfern Legal Centre, she was admitted to the New South Wales Bar in 1984 and was appointed a Senior Counsel in 1997. Justice Bell practised as a public defender between 1986 and 1989 before returning to the private Bar. Between 1994 and 1997 she was a counsel assisting the Royal Commission into the New South Wales Police Service. Justice Bell was appointed a judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales in March 1999. She served as president of the Australian Institute of Judicial Administration from 2006 to 2008.

Date: Thursday 24 October
Time: 1-2pm
Venue: Monash University, Clayton Campus, Building 08/R1
RSVP: 21 October (unless sold out prior) by email law-marketing@monash.edu

2. 2014 Law Prato/Malaysia Information Sessions

• Find out how you can study overseas in 2014 at the Prato Centre, Italy or Sunway Campus, Malaysia without adding any time to your degree.
• Listen to students share their experiences from 2013.
• Hear about the application process, units offered, funding and more.

Date: Monday 21 October 2013
Time: 1.00 pm – 2.00 pm
Venue: Building 12, Ground Floor, Lecture theatre L1, Monash University, Clayton campus

Date: Thursday 31 October 2013
Time: 1.00 pm – 2.00 pm
Venue: Seminar room 6, Second floor, Law Chambers, Marsh Building, 555 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne

These sessions will not be recorded but all information presented will be available on the updated website from the 21 October.

3. Information Session – Pathways to Oxford and Cambridge

We will be holding an information session about pathways from Monash law to further study at Oxford and Cambridge.

The session will provide guidance, tips and insights and highlight important considerations in planning for further study at Oxford or Cambridge.

Speakers will include the Dean of law – Professor Bryan Horrigan (PhD, Oxford – Rhodes Scholar), Law Lecturer Colin Campbell (LLM and PhD, Cambridge), and recent Monash law, Oxford or Cambridge graduates.

The session will be held twice at different locations:

•1pm – 2pm – Tuesday 22 October, L2, Building 12, Clayton Campus
•5:30pm – 6:30pm – Tuesday 29 October, Seminar Room 3, MULC, Melbourne city

At the session to be held on 22 October, Associate Professor Moira Paterson, Director of Graduate Studies, will also be speaking about options for Post Graduate studies at Monash University.

Please RSVP to Elana.Pose@monash.edu by Thursday 17 October for the session on 22 October and by Wednesday 23 October for the session on 29 october.

4. Marriage Equality in Australia. Where to from here?

The Castan Centre for Human Rights Law proudly presents

The Hon. Adam Bandt MP, Federal Member for Melbourne
Rodney Croome, National Director of Australian Marriage Equality
The Hon. Clem Newton-Brown MP, State Member for Prahran

Date: Thursday 24 October 2013
Time: 6pm to 7:15pm
Venue: Monash University Law Chambers, 555 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne
RSVP: castan.centre@monash.edu or telephone 03 9905 3327
Full details

Public forum – All welcome

Marriage Equality is now recognised in more than a dozen countries around the world, including our neighbour New Zealand, however it remains unrecognised in Australia. In the aftermath of the federal election, how should supporters proceed? Can states fill the breach if the federal government won’t step in? Come and listen to these prominent supporters of marriage equality as they discuss the future of equal love in Australia.

5. Law Honours Conference

Law Faculty staff member and external guests (assessors, High Achievers) who would like to attend the Arnold Bloch Leibler Honours Conference are invited to register on this form.

Location: Monash University Law Chambers, 555 Lonsdale St, Melbourne
Date: Thursday 17 and Friday 18 October, 2013