Events
1. Australia’s Biggest ‘Afternoon’ Tea
Nina Massara asks for your help in raising vital funds for Cancer Council, through Australia’s Biggest Morning Tea. With your help, we can make this year’s event the biggest yet! You can attend Nina’s Afternoon tea for staff and students and donate in person:
Date: Wednesday 7 May, 2014
Time: 2pm
Venue: Level 2 Student Kitchen, MULC
RSVP: nina.massara@monash.edu by Monday 5 May for catering purposes.
Bring your own cuppa – treats will be supplied.
Or you can make a tax-deductible donation online, even before the Morning Tea date listed above. Simply go to Nina’s donation page
Once you have donated, you will receive a tax deductible receipt via email.
Your donation will help fund Cancer Council’s research, prevention and support services. So gather your friends, raise your cup and together let’s do all we can to beat cancer.
Please spread the word and invite others.
2. Clinics, Professional Competence and Social Responsibility
Presented by: Professor Frank Bloch, Professor of Law Emeritus, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee.
Date: Wednesday 30 April, 2014
Time: 6pm – 7.30pm (including refreshments)
Venue: Courtyard of Monash-Oakleigh Legal Service, 60 Beddoe Avenue, Clayton
Cost: Free
RSVP: Thursday 17 April, 2014 via e-mail law-marketing@monash.edu or call 03 9905 2630
Professor Frank Bloch Frank S Bloch is Professor of Law Emeritus at Vanderbilt University Law School in Nashville, Tennessee, where he served as Director of Clinical Education and as Director of the Social Justice Program. Currently he serves as Executive Secretary of the Global Alliance for Justice Education (GAJE). Professor Bloch is an internationally prominent expert on legal aid and clinical legal education, as well as social security, disability, and other public benefit programs. He is the author or editor of nine books and has published over 35 articles and book chapters, focusing most recently on the global movement in clinical legal education. He was a Fulbright Professor at Delhi University and has served as a consultant to the International Social Security Association, the Administrative Conference of the United States, the Social Security Advisory Board, and the US Agency for International Development. Before joining the faculty at Vanderbilt, he taught at the University of Chicago Law School and practised law with California Rural Legal Assistance. Professor Bloch is a member of the National Academy of Social Insurance. He holds a BA and a PhD (Politics) from Brandeis University and a JD from Columbia University Law School.
3. The Great Law Week Debate – “The more laws, the less justice” (Cicero)
As part of Monash Law Faculty’s 50th Anniversary celebrations the Annual Great Law Week Debate will see a team of prominent Monash Law Alumni battle it out with current Monash Law Staff, over the highly controversial topic “The more laws, the less justice”(Cicero)
Monash Law Alumni Team
Mr Richard Attiwill QC
Ms Catherine Dunlop, Partner at Maddocks and lifelong member of Monash Association of Debaters (MADS)
Ms Liz King, Barrister and Chair of the Human Rights Sub-Committee of the LIV
Monash Law Staff Team
The Honourable Professor Nahum Mushin, retired Family Court Judge
Associate Professor Paula Gerber, President at Kaleidoscope Human Rights Foundation and Deputy Director of the Castan Centre for Human Rights Law.
Associate Professor Adam McBeth, Deputy Director of the Castan Centre for Human Rights Law and Convenor of the mooting program
Date: Wednesday 14th May, 2014
Time: 6– 7.30pm
Venue: Monash University Law Chambers 555 Lonsdale St, Melbourne
Cost: Free
RSVP: Tuesday 13th May, 2014 to law-marketing@monash.edu or (03) 9905 2630
4. Walk for Justice
The 2014 Walk for Justice will be held on Tuesday 13 May and will raise funds for Justice Connect.
The law firm and university members’ support of and participation in the Walk has been critical to its success since the event began in 2008.
For further information please see the flyer