Law Student Gazette

1. 2015 Traineeship at Rotstein Commercial Lawyers

Rotstein Commercial Lawyers are inviting students graduating in 2015 to apply for a traineeship for the 2015 year at our firm.

We have one traineeship position available for a student who is at least in their 3rd year to do part time (up to 3 days per week, minimum 2 days) to provide para-legal and admin support at our firm. This will be a paid position. We are a commercial law firm so looking for candidates who have a commercial law focus – IP, property law, business law and commercial litigation.

The deadline for applications is Thursday 30 October, 2014.

For further information please see the flyer.

2. Employment Opportunity – Judicial Clerk (Tipstaff)

Applications are invited for the position of Judicial Clerk to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, the Honourable T. F. Bathurst.

Applications close on Friday 21 November, 2014.

For further information please see the flyer.

1. Book Launch – “The Good Lawyer”

By Prof Adrian Evans

To be launched by Mr Michael McGarvie, Legal Services Commissioner and CEO, Legal Services Board Victoria.

“The Good Lawyer” explores the ethical and professional challenges that confront people who work in the law – or are considering it – and offers principled and pragmatic advice about how to overcome such challenges.

This book takes a holistic approach that begins with your innate humanity. It urges you to examine your motives for seeking a career in law, to foster a deep understanding of what it means to be ‘good’, and to draw on your virtue and judgement when difficult choices arise, rather than relying on compliance with rules or codes.

The Good Lawyer analyses four important areas of legal ethics – truth and deception, professional secrets, conflicts of interest, and professional competence – and explains the choices that are available when determining a course of moral action. It links theory to practice, and includes many examples, diagrams and source documents to illustrate ethical concepts, scenarios and decision making.

Date: Wednesday, 12 November 2014
Time: 5.30pm (for 6pm start) – 7pm
Venue: Monash University Law Chambers, 555 Lonsdale St Melbourne
RSVP: Wednesday,5 November to law-marketing@monash.edu or 03 9905 2630 (for catering purposes)

Further information available on the website

2. Book Launch – “Human Rights in closed environments”

By Bronwyn Naylor, Julie Debeljak & Anita Mackay

La Trobe and Monash University present the launch of Human Rights in Closed Environments edited by Bronwyn Naylor, Julie Debeljak and Anita Mackay and published by Federation Press.

Professor Gillian Triggs, President of the Australian Human Rights Commission will officially launch the book.

Human Rights in Closed Environments stems from an Australian Research Council Linkage grant examining the implementation of human rights in six specific Australian ‘closed environments’ – prisons; police cells; forensic psychiatric institutions; closed mental health units; closed disability units; and immigration detention centres.

The publication highlights rights concerns common across the different types of environments, such as the vulnerability of persons held in detention the tension between respect for rights and safety concerns, and securing a human rights culture in the context of significant power imbalances. It also draws comparisons between the same closed environments in different jurisdictions, examining the ‘value add’ of formal rights instruments.

Finally, it considers the role of external monitoring mechanisms (such as, Ombudsmen and Human Rights Commissions) in securing rights respecting environments, in the context of Australia signing, but not yet ratifying, the Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture (OPCAT).

Date: Tuesday 25 November, 2014
Time: 5:30pm (for 6pm start)
Venue: La Trobe city campus, Floor 20, 360 Collins Street Melbourne
Cost: Free
RSVP: Tuesday 18 November, 2014, latrobe.edu.au/business/ human-rights-book

For further information please see the website

3. Public Lecture: “IP in Transition: desperately seeking the Big Picture”

Presented by Melbourne Law School in conjunction with the Institute of Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys of Australia

Date: Wednesday 12 November
Time: 6:15-7.45pm
Venue: Melbourne Law School, 185 Pelham Street, Carlton

For further information please see the flyer

1. 2015 Younger Comparativists Committee Fourth Annual Conference

The Younger Comparativists Committee of the American Society of Comparative Law is pleased to invite submissions for its fourth annual conference, to be held from Thursday 16 until Friday 17 April, 2015, at Florida State University College of Law in Tallahassee, Florida. The purpose of the conference is to highlight, develop, and promote the scholarship of new and younger comparativists.

To submit an entry, scholars should email an attachment in Microsoft Word or PDF containing an abstract of no more than 750 words no later than Saturday 1 November, 2014, to the following address: ycc.conference.2015.abstracts@gmail.com

For further information please see the flyer.

1. 2015 Prato Program

The 2015 Prato Program applications will open on Thursday 30 October, 2014 and strictly close on Friday 5 December, 2014.

Please note: All applications will be assessed together after the closing date of Friday 5 December, 2014.  They are assessed on the basis of the Law average and not first in, first served.

For further information and application form, please see the Prato Program application process website and note the application form will not be available until Thursday 30 October, 2014.

2. China Law International Winter Camp

The program is sponsored by China Law Society. China Law Society is the largest nationwide legal organization of the legal professionals in China. It has established good relationship with the Law Council of Australia and signed the Memorandum of Mutual Cooperation with the Law Council.

China Law International Winter Camp will be held from Sunday 7 until Saturday 20 December, 2014 in Beijing and Xi’an, China. It is designed to give foreign law school students a great chance to learn Chinese legal system, culture and society.

The deadline for applications is Friday 31 October. Students wishing to apply for the camp or who have any questions, please contact the China Law Society directly.

For further information and registration please see the flyer and registration form.

3. EDO NSW – Impact Issue No. 96

EDO NSW has released the latest edition of Impact, our national journal of environmental law.

This edition of Impact contains articles on:

• Ongoing litigation in Queensland to protect the World Heritage Listed Great Barrier Reef, which UNESCO is considering placing on its endangered list;
• The increasing use of strategic assessments under the EPBC Act;
• The fundamental principles for best practice biodiversity offsets; and
• The implications of funding cuts for access to justice and the future of community-based public interest environmental law.

Your assistance in circulating this journal to your students would be appreciated.

The journal can be downloaded from the website.

4. Mindful Learning Forum: The Role of Mindfulness in Education.

Presented by Dr Craig Hassed and Dr Richard Chambers.

The forum will explore the following topics:

• The latest research on mindfulness and its role in education
• The importance of mindfulness for teachers
• How to use mindfulness to facilitate student learning and wellbeing
• Effective ways to introduce mindfulness into school and university environments
• Designing and running effective programs
• Organisational approaches to mindfulness: getting it in the curriculum and culture

It includes interactive presentations, Q&A sessions, discussion groups and networking opportunities.

The program outline can be found here (pdf, 92kb)

When: Wednesday 19 November, 1 – 5pm (registrations begin 12.30pm)
Where: Monash University –  Caulfield Campus, Building B, Theatre B214
Cost: $80 (includes morning tea and copy of the book Mindful Learning)
Register: Register and make payment online by Monday 17 November

5. Monash Warwick Alliance Funding Schemes 2014

The second round of funding in 2014 for collaborations between Monash University and Warwick University is open.

The following scheme offers a targeted funding opportunity to students at both universities.

Alliance Student-Led Activity Scheme: open to students from undergraduate to PhD level to support activities that integrate students and transfer knowledge and innovation across institutions.

Applications close Monday 10 November

Visit the Monash Warwick Alliance site for more information.

Application forms are available by visiting Monash Memo

6. Pink Ribbon Day

Please help us raise funds for The Cancer Council by supporting Pink Ribbon Day on Monday 27 October by purchasing one of the items on display at the Undergraduate Student Services counter – Bears $10, Bracelets $7, Pens $6, Enamel pins $5.

Every dollar raised will fund life-saving cancer research, prevention programs to help women reduce their cancer risk, and support services for women facing cancer and their families.

We ask that you think of our colleagues, friends and families who have been affected by cancer when deciding to purchase one of these items.

Thank you in advance for your support.

7. S2 SETU Surveys

Please complete these S2 surveys:

• S2 LLB Units – open Sunday 12 October and close on Sunday 2 November
• T4-57 LLM Units – open Monday 27 October and close on Monday 17 November
• T3 JD Units – open Sunday 2 November and close on Sunday 23 November

You can access these surveys via your my.monash portal or go to the website

The Law Faculty believes that the SETU surveys are very important as they help us to continually improve our Units and Teaching so that we can offer you a high quality legal educational experience. We rely on your feedback and comments to let us know not only what we are doing well in the Units but also what still can be improved and your suggestions as to how these improvements might be achieved.

1. LAW5448 – Copyright x: Monash

The Law School will be offering the subject LAW5448 – Copyright x: Monash in conjunction with the Harvard Law School. The subject commences late January 2015 and is open as an elective for JD and Masters students. The subject can also be undertaken by non-Monash students as a single subject or as a cross-institutional subject.

Students will be required to view each week a video lecture by Prof William Fisher of the Harvard Law School. He will be concurrently teaching the subject to his Harvard law students, as well as offering the subject as a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), and as a subject taught in conjunction with Monash Law School. Monash students will also be required to attend a seminar held on Tuesday evenings, which will be convened by Dr George Raitt.

For further information please see the flyer or visit the website.

1. New Unit in Semester 2, 2015: LAW4538 – Lawyers, Literature and Cinema

This unit is being offered in Semester 2 of 2015.

If you have an interest in how literature and cinema both influence and are influenced by the law and lawyers, please read the flyer for details.

2. UG Student Services Counter – Amended Opening Hours

The Undergraduate Student Services Office will be closed for the following dates and times due to staff meetings/training:

• Wednesday 29 October – 9:30 – 1:30pm

3. Undergraduate Student Services Survey 2014

Thank you to all students who participated in the Undergraduate Student Services Survey 2014.  It helps us to continually improve our service to you.

The lucky winner of the double Gold Class Movie pass has been notified by email.

.:End Student Gazette 27/10/14:.

1. 2015 Traineeship at Rotstein Commercial Lawyers

Rotstein Commercial Lawyers are inviting students graduating in 2015 to apply for a traineeship for the 2015 year at our firm.

We have one traineeship position available for a student who is at least in their 3rd year to do part time (up to 3 days per week, minimum 2 days) to provide para-legal and admin support at our firm. This will be a paid position. We are a commercial law firm so looking for candidates who have a commercial law focus – IP, property law, business law and commercial litigation.

The deadline for applications is Thursday 30 October, 2014.

For further information please see the flyer.

2. Employment Opportunity – Judicial Clerk (Tipstaff)

Applications are invited for the position of Judicial Clerk to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, the Honourable T. F. Bathurst.

Applications close on Friday 21 November, 2014.

For further information please see the flyer.

1. 2014 Costello Lecture

“How does fairness fare?”

The role of an Ombudsman is to redress the imbalance of power between individual and state – a fundamentally unfair relationship. With jurisdiction over more than 1,000 public bodies, the Victorian Ombudsman Deborah Glass will reflect on fairness and the role of her office in ensuring it.

Speaker: Monash alumna, Ms Deborah Glass OBE (BA 1980, LLB 1982), The Victorian Ombudsman

Introduced by: Rev. Tim Costello AO (BJuris 1976, LLB 1978, Dip Ed 1979), CEO, World Vision Australia

Date: Tuesday 21 October, 2014
Time: 6pm – 7.15pm (followed by refreshments)
Venue: Monash University Law Chambers, 555 Lonsdale St, Melbourne
Cost: Free
RSVP: law-marketing@monash.edu or (03) 9905 2630

Further information available from the website.

2. Book Launch – “The Good Lawyer”

By Prof Adrian Evans

To be launched by Mr Michael McGarvie, Legal Services Commissioner and CEO, Legal Services Board Victoria.

“The Good Lawyer” explores the ethical and professional challenges that confront people who work in the law – or are considering it – and offers principled and pragmatic advice about how to overcome such challenges.

This book takes a holistic approach that begins with your innate humanity. It urges you to examine your motives for seeking a career in law, to foster a deep understanding of what it means to be ‘good’, and to draw on your virtue and judgement when difficult choices arise, rather than relying on compliance with rules or codes.

The Good Lawyer analyses four important areas of legal ethics – truth and deception, professional secrets, conflicts of interest, and professional competence – and explains the choices that are available when determining a course of moral action. It links theory to practice, and includes many examples, diagrams and source documents to illustrate ethical concepts, scenarios and decision making.

Date: Wednesday, 12 November 2014
Time: 5.30pm (for 6pm start) – 7pm
Venue: Monash University Law Chambers, 555 Lonsdale St Melbourne
RSVP: Wednesday,5 November to law-marketing@monash.edu or 03 9905 2630 (for catering purposes)

Further information available on the website

3. Book Launch – “Human Rights in closed environments”

By Bronwyn Naylor, Julie Debeljak & Anita Mackay

La Trobe and Monash University present the launch of Human Rights in Closed Environments edited by Bronwyn Naylor, Julie Debeljak and Anita Mackay and published by Federation Press.

Professor Gillian Triggs, President of the Australian Human Rights Commission will officially launch the book.

Human Rights in Closed Environments stems from an Australian Research Council Linkage grant examining the implementation of human rights in six specific Australian ‘closed environments’ – prisons; police cells; forensic psychiatric institutions; closed mental health units; closed disability units; and immigration detention centres.

The publication highlights rights concerns common across the different types of environments, such as the vulnerability of persons held in detention the tension between respect for rights and safety concerns, and securing a human rights culture in the context of significant power imbalances. It also draws comparisons between the same closed environments in different jurisdictions, examining the ‘value add’ of formal rights instruments.

Finally, it considers the role of external monitoring mechanisms (such as, Ombudsmen and Human Rights Commissions) in securing rights respecting environments, in the context of Australia signing, but not yet ratifying, the Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture (OPCAT).

Date: Tuesday 25 November, 2014
Time: 5:30pm (for 6pm start)
Venue: La Trobe city campus, Floor 20, 360 Collins Street Melbourne
Cost: Free
RSVP: Tuesday 18 November, 2014, latrobe.edu.au/business/ human-rights-book

For further information please see the website

4. Public Lecture: “IP in Transition: desperately seeking the Big Picture”

Presented by Melbourne Law School in conjunction with the Institute of Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys of Australia

Date: Wednesday 12 November
Time: 6:15-7.45pm
Venue: Melbourne Law School, 185 Pelham Street, Carlton

For further information please see the flyer

5. VADR: Mental Health Complaints Commissioner

You are cordially invited to a VADR CPD event will take place on Tuesday 28 October, 2014when Lynne Coulson Barr, the new Mental Health Complaints Commissioner will speak on the topic “New approaches to resolving mental health services complaints.”

The need for an independent specialist mental health complaints body was identified from community consultations and feedback in the context of mental health legislative reforms consultations. The Mental Health Complaints Commissioner was established under the Mental Health Act 2014, and commenced operation on Tuesday 1 July, 2014. Lynne Coulson Barr is Victoria’s first Mental Health Complaints Commissioner and will provide an outline of the role of the office and approaches to resolution of complaints about mental health services.

Date: Tuesday 28 October
Time: 5.30pm for a 6pm start
Venue: 2014 Coopers Inn (2nd floor), corner of Exhibition and Little Lonsdale Streets
Cost: Free to current VADR members, $20 for non-members. Finger food is provided. Drinks are available at the bar.

If you would like to attend, please email admin@vadr.asn or president@vadr.asn.au.

Further details are provided in the flyer

1. 2015 Prato Program

The 2015 Prato Program applications will open on Thursday 30 October, 2014 and strictly close on Friday 5 December, 2014.

Please note: All applications will be assessed together after the closing date of Friday 5 December, 2014.  They are assessed on the basis of the Law average and not first in, first served.

For further information and application form, please see the Prato Program application process website and note the application form will not be available until Thursday 30 October, 2014.

2. EDO NSW – Impact Issue No. 96

EDO NSW has released the latest edition of Impact, our national journal of environmental law.

This edition of Impact contains articles on:

• Ongoing litigation in Queensland to protect the World Heritage Listed Great Barrier Reef, which UNESCO is considering placing on its endangered list;
• The increasing use of strategic assessments under the EPBC Act;
• The fundamental principles for best practice biodiversity offsets; and
• The implications of funding cuts for access to justice and the future of community-based public interest environmental law.

Your assistance in circulating this journal to your students would be appreciated.

The journal can be downloaded from the website.

3. Monash Warwick Alliance Funding Schemes 2014

The second round of funding in 2014 for collaborations between Monash University and Warwick University is open.

The following scheme offers a targeted funding opportunity to students at both universities.

Alliance Student-Led Activity Scheme: open to students from undergraduate to PhD level to support activities that integrate students and transfer knowledge and innovation across institutions.

Applications close Monday 10 November

Visit the Monash Warwick Alliance site for more information.

Application forms are available by visiting Monash Memo

4. Pink Ribbon Day

Please help us raise funds for The Cancer Council by supporting Pink Ribbon Day on Monday 27 October by purchasing one of the items on display at the Undergraduate Student Services counter – Bears $10, Bracelets $7, Pens $6, Enamel pins $5.

Every dollar raised will fund life-saving cancer research, prevention programs to help women reduce their cancer risk, and support services for women facing cancer and their families.

We ask that you think of our colleagues, friends and families who have been affected by cancer when deciding to purchase one of these items.

Thank you in advance for your support.

5. S2 SETU Surveys

Please complete these S2 surveys:

• T3-58 LLM Units & 3 UG Clinical Units – open Thursday 25 September and close on Thursday 16 October
• S2 LLB Units – open Sunday 12 October and close on Sunday 2 November
• T4-57 LLM Units – open Monday 27 October and close on Monday 17 November
• T3 JD Units – open Sunday 2 November and close on Sunday 23 November

You can access these surveys via your my.monash portal or go to the website

The Law Faculty believes that the SETU surveys are very important as they help us to continually improve our Units and Teaching so that we can offer you a high quality legal educational experience. We rely on your feedback and comments to let us know not only what we are doing well in the Units but also what still can be improved and your suggestions as to how these improvements might be achieved.

1. New Unit in Semester 2, 2015: LAW4538 – Lawyers, Literature and Cinema

This unit is being offered in Semester 2 of 2015.

If you have an interest in how literature and cinema both influence and are influenced by the law and lawyers, please read the flyer for details.

2. UG Student Services Counter – Amended Opening Hours

The Undergraduate Student Services Office will be closed for the following dates and times due to staff meetings/training:

• Wednesday 22 October – 9:30 – 1:30pm
• Friday 24 October – 9:30 – 2pm
• Wednesday 29 October – 9:30 – 1:30pm

.:End Student Gazette 21/10/14:.