1. English Language Assistance

The English Connect program is Monash’s new English language assistance program. It is aimed at international undergraduate and postgraduate students. English Connect is an expanded version of the Conversational English program trialled last year.

A new website will be up soon, but at the moment, program dates and times can be found on the old website here.

The free programs consist of:

• Let’s Chat – conversation in a fun environment – 1 hour each week over weeks 3-11, with over 40 sessions per week offered
• Peer Support – one on one help with academic English (written and oral), 20 minutes, no need to book. Held at John Medley Library, Mon-Thurs 10am to 2pm
• Workshops – Grammar workshops, 2 hours, register online

The Library also maintain a Building English Skills guide, available here.

2. Faculty Managed Internship Opportunity – Kuala Lumpur Regional Centre for Arbitration (KLRCA) Internship

Applications are now open and close Thursday 14 April 2016 for a three month internship from September to November 2016.

For further information please see application process and eligibility criteria.

Student Mobility Funding may be provided. Please see eligibility criteria.

3. Leap into Leadership and boost your employability today

Offered exclusively to Monash students, Leap into Leadership Online (LiLO) is a suite of free, self-paced online modules designed to maximise your employability and understanding of the skills, knowledge and behaviours required to be an effective leader.

Modules take about 1 to 2 hours to complete, and you can do them any time, at any stage of your degree.

Modules on offer:

• Committees 101: Meetings, minutes and management
• Personal Brand: Stand out from the crowd
• Goal Achievement: Strategies for success
• Communicate with Impact: Make yourself heard
• Event and Project Management: Get the results you want
• High-performing Teams: Work and win together
• Strategic Thinking: Solve complex problems

After completion, you’ll receive a personalised certificate outlining your new skills, which you can then add to your CV.

Don’t wait – Leap into Leadership now and get started!

More info can be found here.

4. International Trade and Business Law Review – request for submissions

The Editorial Board of the International Trade and Business Law Review (‘the Review) are now inviting submissions for Volume XX of the Review.

The Review publishes leading articles consisting of original research, case notes, comments, and book reviews concerning international trade and business law, arbitration law and comparative law.

Academic staff and students now have the opportunity to make a submission to the Review.

Please find more information including submission details in this letter here.

Please note submissions close Friday 1 July 2016.

For more details contact Editor Tracy Albin: tracy.albin@student.curtin.edu.au

1. Entrepreneurship and Commercialisation Lecture Series

Registrations are now open for the Monash Entrepreneurship and Commercialisation lecture series.

Interested undergraduate and postgraduate students and staff are all welcome to attend the lectures.

Further information on topics, speakers and registration can be found here.

2. generationYOU

Is your career freaking you out?

generationYOU is a one day event that aims to help you stand out of the crowd and become the exception to the rule, not the stereotype.

Meet community and industry speakers who run hands-on and honest sessions around employer expectations and skills such as problem solving, networking, building a personal brand, communication and more.

Featuring speakers from companies such Etsy, Australia Post, Ashurst, Arup, Melbourne University, The Foundation for Young Australians and more.

Date: Friday 22 April 2016

Time: 8.30am – 4.30pm

Location: Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre

Price: Concession $75; Full $99

More info here and generationyou.com.au

3. Intimidation and repression in Uganda – Castan Centre event

Uganda’s February elections saw President Yoweri Museveni win his fifth term as president, extending an uninterrupted 30-year stint in office.

Worsening restrictions on freedom of speech and assembly in the lead up to the elections cast serious doubt over whether they were conducted in a free and fair manner.

Join Ugandan human rights lawyer Nicholas Opiyo and Human Rights Watch Senior Africa Researcher Maria Burnett as they examine Uganda’s failure to make progress on human rights issues, and what can be done to ensure its citizens can freely exercise fundamental human rights.

Date: 19 April 2016

Time: 6.00pm to 7.15pm

Venue: Monash University Law Chambers, Seminar Room 3, Level 2, 555 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne

RSVP: castan.centre@monash.edu or telephone 03 9905 3327

For full details please click here.

4. The inaugural Sue Campbell Oration presented by Professor Peter Joy

Published by the Journal of Professional Legal Education in 1991, Sue Campbell’s Blueprint for a Clinical Program highlighted the benefits of clinical legal education to both students and staff alike.

At the time of publication there were only two full-scale clinical legal education programs operating in Australian Law Faculties – one at Monash, established in 1975 and the context of Sue’s discussion, and one established in 1981 at the University of New South Wales.

Since that time, however, over 70% of Australia’s thirty-six law schools have developed clinical programs, with Sue’s article – and the strategies it offered other faculties – truly serving as a blueprint for this expansion. Not only has clinical legal education expanded greatly in Australia, it has now spread throughout the world.

The Susan Campbell Oration will review the state of clinical legal education in Australia and elsewhere; evaluate the impact of the strategies that Sue set forth; discuss where clinical legal education is today; and suggest a blueprint for a robust and innovative future.

Date: Wednesday 11 May 2016

Time: 5:30-7:30pm

Venue: Monash Law Chambers, 555 Lonsdale St, Melbourne

RSVP: Wednesday 4 May 2016, register HERE

Light refreshments will be provided.

For further information please click here.

1. Apply now for JD Professional Practice LAW 5050

Applications are open for Clinical Period 3 2016 of the Professional Practice Elective Unit which takes place at Monash Oakleigh Legal Service, next to Clayton campus.

Clinical Period 3 2016 dates are:

• Group A: 12 May – 11 August 2016
• Group B: 16 May – 15 August 2016

Applications close on 15 April 2016.

Applications are not done via Wes.

See all further information about the Application process and dates on the Clinical Legal Education website or consult Student Services.

LSS General Notices

1. The L Card

You may be wondering what the new card you received with your membership keyring is.

It is an exciting new initiative with all Victorian LSSs to create one discount card to be used across Melbourne.

On Clayton campus, the card is accepted at Artichoke & Whitebait and Taste Baguette for a 10% discount.

For a full list of discounts, visit thevlcard.com.

2. Discount Comedy Festival tickets

After selling out at Perth’s Fringe World, 3 Course Comedy debuts at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival featuring Monash law graduate Michael Shafar and current student David Rose.

Between them they have made two RAW Comedy State Finals, written for Cracked.com, hosted the TV show The Leak and failed Torts B.

Use the discount code ‘LSS’ for a 20% when booking online here.

3. Law Council of Australia Scholarships: Business Law

Each year the Business Law Section offers three scholarships of $5000 to the writer of the best papers in fields of Competition, Corporations and Taxation Law.

The scholarships are targeted to ‘early career’ legal professionals with less than four years of professional experience in the legal field of their paper. In the past winners have come from across academia, business and government sectors.

These scholarships are well suited to any Honours or research student who has previously written on a topic in one of the available fields.

Entries close Sunday 31 July at 5.00pm.

For more information please click here.

LSS Careers Notices

1. Expert Panel Seminar Series

This series will allow penultimate students to hear from partners from two different practise areas: Transactional and Advisory and Litigation.

The panels will involve a one hour question and answer format with the chance to mingle afterwards.

The Corporate Transaction Law seminar will attended by Ashurst, Corrs Chambers Westgarth and King & Wood Mallesons.

Date: Tuesday 19 April 2016

Time: 6.00pm – 8.00pm

Location: Monash University Law Chambers, Level 1, 555 Lonsdale St, Melbourne

The Litigation/Dispute Resolution seminar will be attended by Baker & McKenzie, Gilbert + Tobin, Herbert Smith Freehills, Allens and Minter Ellison.

Date: Wednesday 27 April 2016

Time: 6.00pm – 8.00pm

Location: Monash University Law Chambers, Level 1, 555 Lonsdale St, Melbourne

To register for either seminar please click here.

Please note: you must be a LSS member to register, and will only be able to attend one of the two seminars. Preference will be given to penultimate students. Confirmation emails will be sent after registrations are processed.

Education

1. Charity Dinner Ticket Sales

2016 sees the return of Charity Dinner, supporting the Tristan Jepson Foundation. It will include dinner, drinks and entertainment.

Date: Thursday 28 April 2016

Time: 7.30pm

Venue: La Di Da, 577 Little Bourke St, Melbourne

Ticket sales will occur on Tuesday 5 April 2016 from 9.00am in the Law Basement, Clayton Campus.

Do not miss this event. For more information, please refer to the Facebook event.

Social Justice & Equity

1. Seminar Series: Domestic Violence and the Law

Domestic violence features heavily in the media every week, with at least 1 in 3 women across the world facing domestic violence in their lifetime.

However, many of us do not understand what domestic violence is in a legal context. What is family violence? How does the law operate to prevent it? What can we do as lawyers to help victims of abuse?

The LSS has organised an informative seminar to educate you of these matters.

Date: Tuesday 5 April 2016

Time: 1.00pm

Location: E6, 23 College Walk (Building 60 – Engineering), Monash Clayton Campus

2. Victorian Women Lawyers event

VWL will be presenting a panel discussion with Maurice Blackburn on legal responses to non-consensual distribution of private sexual material.

This is an issue that disproportionately affects women, and which many of us have only recently begun to understand as an emerging form of family violence and sexual assault.

Proposed reforms to the law intend to make it unlawful to share, or threaten to share, private sexual material.

Our speakers will discuss such reforms and invite you to consider legal amendments.

Date: Wednesday 6 April 2016

Time: 5.30pm registration for a 6.00pm start

Location: Maurice Blackburn, Level 10, 456 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne

For more information and to register for the event please click here.

JD

1. JD Professional Mentoring Program: apply now

Do you want to be mentored by a legal professional?

Are you a keen Monash JD student looking for guidance from some of the most brilliant legal minds in Australia?

If yes, then this program is for you! Places are limited so don’t waste time!

The JD Professional Mentoring Program is back for its third year running, following on from its huge success in previous years.

The program will commence with a Networking evening on Wednesday 25 May 2016 (Location TBC), where mentors and successful mentee applicants will be invited to meet and greet.

Registration is now open.

Students of all year levels are invited to apply, but preference will be given to penultimate year JD students.

Register here.

2. JD Office Hours

The JD LSS office hours are as follows:

Monday: 12.00pm – 5.00pm

Wednesday: 12.00pm – 5.00pm

Thursday: 11.00am – 3.00pm

During these times memberships and event tickets can be purchased.

However if these times do not suit you please contact jd.adminactivities@monashlss.com