Law Student Gazette

1. Clerkship Masterclass

For Law students undertaking Clerkships or Traineeships

Don’t miss attending these Masterclass workshops, designed to build essential skills for your Clerkship.

Presented by senior partners from Law Firms and expert staff from the Law Library, these workshops are designed to deliver essential, practical skills relating to research, writing, preparing memos and contract negotiation. If possible please ensure that you bring a laptop with you. Law firms use Clerkships to identify students to take into their Traineeship programs.

Date: Thursday 20 November
Time: 10am–3.30pm
Venue: Monash University Law Chambers, 555 Lonsdale Street

Make yours the best Clerkship ever.

A more detailed breakdown of the day will be provided once the program has been finalised. Lunch will be provided.

Please register via the webapge.

1. Allocate+ JD Core Units Trimester 1, 2015

Allocate+ for Trimester 1 2015 JD core units will be opened at 12 pm on Friday 21 November, 2014. Due to the set size of each class, once a stream is full there are no more places available.  There are a few items to note:

• Students are required to complete the self-allocation by Friday 19 December, 2014 and auto allocation into available streams will be made thereafter for those who have not allocated themselves.  Please note that elective units do not need to be allocated.
• Please refer to the Master of Laws (Juris Doctor) timetables prior to allocation to ensure you have the latest version.
• Should you wish to request for a stream change, you may submit a Changing seminar streams or tutorial group application form (doc, 73kb) form to law-pgstudents@monash.edu only after Friday 19 December, 2014.  We will not be managing change stream requests when Allocate+ is open as there is still movement in the streams during this time.  Please make sure that all sections of the form are completed and supporting documentation attached.

2. 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.

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