Law Student Gazette

1. Ashurst Clinical Externship

Ashurst is running its Monash/Ashurst Corporate Governance and Responsibility Clinic again in first semester 2015.  The Monash/Ashurst Clinic is a Clinical Externship unit that offers four students practical experience (under Ashurst supervision) assisting small/mid-cap ASX listed companies with corporate governance issues.

For more information about this clinic and how to apply, please read the flyer.

2. 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.

3. Supreme Court of Victoria Externship 2015

Students now have the opportunity to work with judges and other judicial staff at the Supreme Court of Victoria in a new externship program in 2015! This externship is offered under the new unit – LAW4803: Clinical Externship.

Places are very limited and entry will involve an interview with a law school staff member and a staff member from the Supreme Court of Victoria

For further information – go to the “Clinical Legal Education” page on the Law Faculty website and refer to the relevant section under LAW4803, or contact Ross Hyams, Convenor Legal Practice Programs at ross.hyams@monash.edu.

Applications are due by Friday 30 January, 2015.

Application Form

Program Overview

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1. 2015 Osgoode Forum – “Sex, Drugs & Rock ‘n’ Roll: Subversive Sites in the Law”

Date: Friday 15 to Saturday 16 May, 2015 (conference); Friday 15 May, 2014 (Dinner and Reception)

Time: 9am – 5pm (conference); 7pm-10pm (Dinner and Reception)

Venue: Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Cost: $25 – un/under-employed; $50 – Employed (self-declared); Includes conference, dinner and reception

For further information please see the website

2. Commercial CPD Seminar – Arbitration Rules

The new Supreme Court (Chapter II Arbitration) Rules 2014 are scheduled to commence on Monday 1 December, 2014. The new Rules can be accessed online.

Chair

Justice Clyde Croft, Supreme Court of Victoria

Presenters

Martin Scott QC, Victorian Bar
Bronwyn Lincoln, Herbert Smith Freehills

Event details

Date: Tuesday 16 December, 2014
Time: 5:15pm – 6:15pm
Venue: Monash University Law Chambers, 555 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne Victoria
RSVP: Friday 12 December, 2014 (unless sold out prior) law-marketing@monash.edu or (03) 9905 2630

For further information please see the flyer

3. The Principle of Legality in Australian and New Zealand Law

A one-day conference bringing together judges, practitioners and scholars at the Victoria State Library, to consider, what the principle of legality means, when and why antipodean courts invoke it, its impact on drafting legislation and where it is leading our public law.

Event details

Date: Friday 20 February 2015
Venue: Victoria State Library, Conference Centre, 179a La Trobe Street, Melbourne
Time: 9am – 5pm
Registration: Full $175, Concession/ Student $100

Registration includes morning & afternoon tea/ lunch & post conference drinks.

Enquiries: lawevents@deakin.edu.au

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. CAMLA Essay Competition

The Communications and Media Law Association (CAMLA) essay competition to be held over the summer of 2014-15.

The competition has been staged very successfully for a number of years and CAMLA is again offering a prize of $1,000 and a 1-year CAMLA membership.
The winning essay may also be published in CAMLA’s Communications Law Bulletin and will be awarded at a CAMLA function to be held in early 2015.
It’s a terrific opportunity for students and we would be grateful if you could draw the competition to the attention of anyone who may be interested.

The purpose of the competition is to encourage high quality work in undergraduate and post-graduate communications and media law courses
and to improve links between those studying and those practising in the area.

The prize will be given for a previously unpublished essay of between 1,000 and 3,000 words on a subject relating to communications or media law.

Entries close on Wednesday 14 January, 2015.

For further information please see the flyer.

3. Chief Justice Medal for Excellence and Community Service

Nominations have opened for the Chief Justice Medal for Excellence and Community Service 2014.

The prize shall be awarded to a LLB/JD 2014 graduate who is judged to have demonstrated a commitment to community service throughout their law studies as well as excellence in scholarship.

Monash has not had a winner since this medal was set up back in 2004, and we are keen to put forward a strong candidate this year.

Details of the past winners can be found on the website.

Nomination will close on Wednesday 5 December, 2014.

For further information, please visit the website

4. 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.

5. Summer Human Rights Institute

The Leitner Center for International Law and Justice at Fordham Law School has announced the 2015 Summer Human Rights Institute (SHRI), to be held from Monday 20 until Friday 31 July, 2015 at Fordham Law School, Lincoln Center, New York City.

The SHRI is a two-week certificate program offering a comprehensive introduction to the theory and application of human rights law. The Institute provides an overview of international law, as well as focused human rights subject lectures, workshops and fieldwork, with Fordham Law faculty and attorneys in public and private practice here in New York. Suitable for both undergraduate and graduate students, as well as advanced professionals, the SHRI is open to participants from around the world. All courses and activities are conducted in English — no language assessment is required — and the Center will work with participants to secure necessary visas and other arrangements, as needed.

Participants who register by Wednesday 28 January, 2015 will receive a reduced tuition fee of $1700, which covers approximately 60 hours of instruction, course materials, lunch on most weekdays, and extracurricular activities. Limited on-campus housing is also available for an additional $1400 (this must be booked by Wednesday 28 January, 2015).

For further information please see the flyer or visit the website. Alternatively you may contact the Center at shri@law.fordham.edu.

6. Volunteering at Family Law Assistance Program

Applicants who are currently on the wait-list to volunteer at the Family Law Assistance Program (FLAP) will remain on the list until Tuesday 31 December, 2014. After this date applicants will need to re-apply.

FLAP will be accepting new volunteers from Monday 12 January, 2015. Application forms will not be sent prior to this date.

For enquiries please contact Cara at mols-volunteer@monash.edu

7. WM Tapp Studentships in Law

An opportunity is available for Undergraduate and Postgraduate Law students.

Please see the flyer for further information.

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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