Events
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