Events
1. The VAT / GST Seminar – Input Tax Deductibility and Neutrality
Presented by the Federal Court of Australia and Melbourne Law School:
Date: Wednesday 3 August 2016
Time: 5:00 – 6:30pm
Venue: Federal Court, Court 8A, Level 8 William Street, Melbourne
Cost: Free
Register: Click here to register by Monday, 1 August 2016.
Light refreshments to follow from 6.30pm for Melbourne talk.
This event will be video streamed live to courts in Sydney, Perth, Canberra, Brisbane, Adelaide, Darwin, Hobart. Details of these venues are available on our webpage.
See attached Flyer
2. ANIMAL 2016
The Australia New Zealand Intervarsity Moot on Animal Law (ANIMAL) is hosted by The Animal Law Institute and sponsored by Voiceless the animal protection institute.
ANIMAL is one of the largest student moots in Australia and New Zealand and it is the only animal law moot for Australian and New Zealand law students.
The competition is open to any student currently enrolled in a law degree in Australia or New Zealand. Teams can consist of either 2 or 3 individuals.
ANIMAL 2016 will be hosted by Flinders University, Adelaide (Grand Final winners of ANIMAL 2015) over the weekend of 17 – 18 September 2016.
Please note registration closes Monday 25 July 2016.
Please find more information including key dates here.
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. Student rate tickets are limited.
Speaker line up includes:
- Mr Stan Grant, Indigenous Affairs Editor of the Guardian Australia, on the way forward for Indigenous reconciliation
- Ms Kate Jenkins, Federal Sex Discrimination Commissioner, Australian Human Rights Commission, on achieving gender equality where we live, learn, work and play
- Mr Tory Russell, co-founder and director of Hands Up United, Ferguson Missouri, on being Young, Black and Politicised
- Professor Anne Aly, Professor at Edith Cowan University and Founding Chair of People Against Violent Extremism, on Radicalisation, Terrorism and Human Rights
- 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
Check out the Castan Centre website for the full line-up of speakers.
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. Willem C Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot
Formal applications for students interested in the Willem C Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot for 2016-17 are now open.
The moot will be held in Hong Kong and Vienna in late March to mid April 2017.
Participation for both LLB and JD students can count for your degree as a 6 point subject.
Please find application form and more information about the moot here.
Please note applications are due by Friday 5 August 2016 at 6.00pm.
If you have any queries, please email Lisa Spagnolo (lisa.spagnolo@monash.edu).