Events
1. Book Launch – United States Migrant Interdiction and the Detention of Refugees in Guantánamo Bay
Australia’s detention of asylum seekers in Nauru and Papua New Guinea is modelled on the long standing US Migrant Interdiction Program which includes the detention of refugees by the US in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
This new book by Dr Azadeh Dastyari examines the US’ compliance with its legal obligations as it interdicts asylum seekers at sea, detains refugees in its immigration detention centre in Guantánamo Bay and resettles refugees in third countries. It asks what lessons can be learned from the world’s longest running offshore processing and detention regime.
To be launched by Senator Sam Dastyari.
Date: Tuesday 17 May 2016
Time: 6.00pm – 7.30pm
Venue: Monash Law Chambers, 555 Lonsdale St, Melbourne
RSVP: Tuesday 10 May 2016, online here
Please find more information here.
2. Castan Centre fundraising film night: ‘Chasing Asylum’
The Castan Centre for Human Rights Law invites you to this powerful fundraising event; the film the Australian government doesn’t want you to see.
Chasing Asylum exposes the real impact of Australia’s offshore detention policies and explores how ‘The Lucky Country’ became one where leaders choose detention over compassion and governments deprive the desperate of their basic human rights.
The film features never-before-seen footage from inside Australia’s offshore detention camps, revealing the personal impact of sending those in search of a safe home to languish in limbo.
Chasing Asylum explores the mental, physical and fiscal consequences of Australia’s decision to lock away families in unsanitary conditions away from media scrutiny, destroying their lives under the pretext of saving them.
Join us for this special screening and fundraising event.
Date: Wednesday 1 June 2016
Time: 6:30pm – 8:30pm
Venue: Classic Cinema, 9 Gordon Street, Elsternwick, VIC 3185
Cost: $24.08 per ticket
Buy tickets here.
Watch the trailer. (MA15+ Strong Coarse Language)
3. Castan Centre Annual Human Rights Conference 2016
Join over 300 attendees from the law, civil society, academia and business at Australia’s only annual human rights conference. Limited student rate tickets are limited.
Speaker line up so far includes:
- Mr Stan Grant, Indigenous Affairs Editor of the Guardian Australia, on the way forward for Indigenous reconciliation
- The Hon Martin Pakula MP, Victorian Attorney-General, on Developments in Human Rights in Victoria
- Professor Anne Aly, Professor at Edith Cowan University and Founding Chair of People Against Violent Extremism, on Radicalisation, Terrorism and Human Rights
- Professor Mary Crock, Professor of Public Law at The University of Sydney, on Making Every Life Count: International Law and The Protection of Persons with Disabilities in Displacement
- Mariam Veiszadah, Ambassador of Welcome to Australia and President of Islamophobia Register Australia, on Islamophobia in Australia
- Julian McMahon, lawyer for Van Tuong Nguyen and members of the Bali Nine, on the executions of Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan and what has followed in the region
Date: Friday 22 July 2016
Time: 9.00am – 5.00pm
Venue: The Edge, Federation Square, Corner Swanston and Flinders Street, Melbourne
Full details on the Castan Centre website. Check it out for up-to-date speaker line up.
4. 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.
5. European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation (EIUC) seminar: Public Health & Human Rights
The importance of public health is growing and this theme has a potential to become one most pressing issues in the future.
This one-day seminar will address current challenges and suggest possible solutions at the intersection of public health and human rights.
The nature of the seminar will be multidisciplinary and its three panels will include experts in areas of public health, human rights, global health governance, health security, mental health, right to health and other disciplines.
Date: Thursday 19 May 2016
Location: Monastery of San Nicolò, Venice Lido, Italy
RSVP: Thursday 5 May 2016 online here
For travel information please see here.
6. The Future of Lawyering: facing the big challenges in the 21st century
This panel brings together a number of professionals from across the legal sector to discuss the future of lawyering in Australia.
The panellists will explore some of the big legal practice challenges of today, including graduate employment prospects in an increasingly crowded market.
The panellists will also explore the global move towards ‘experiential’ and ‘work integrated learning’ and consider how this and other initiatives might help improve law students’ competitiveness in and preparedness for future employment.
Date: Thursday 19 May 2016
Time: 6.00pm
Venue: Monash University Law Chambers, 555 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne
RSVP: Thursday 12 May online here
For full details please click here.
7. 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.
8. University Scholars Leadership Symposium – Hanoi, Vietnam
Humanitarian Affairs UK is selecting internationally minded student leaders to attend the 7th University Scholars Leadership Symposium (USLS), from August 1st to 7th 2016 in Hanoi, Vietnam.
The USLS empowers students not only to become more aware of current humanitarian crises, but to do something about them.
Please find further information about the event here and application form here.
Applications are open to Monash Law students until Sunday 15 May 2016.
9. Young people & the law
Migrant Resource Centre North West will present a panel of experts during Law Week 2016 to discuss a range of legal issues affecting young people, their relatives and carers.
Topics will include homelessness, drugs and alcohol, discrimination and human rights. Several young people will also share their own experiences with the law.
Date: Friday 20 May 2016
Time: 9.30am – 12.30pm
Location: State Library of Victoria, Melbourne CBD
Cost: Free
RSVP essential. Book tickets (and more info) here.