Events

1. Progressive Law Network – upcoming events

The Progressive Law Network (PLN) was founded by students who, overwhelmed by career information focused on commercial law, sought to effect positive change.

Today, the PLN connects students from various disciplines, lawyers and other professionals interested in social justice, environmental and human rights law.

The PLN hosts thought-provoking seminars, provide alternate career information and opportunities for students, create policy submissions and encourage intelligent and informed legal activism and advocacy.

Check out these upcoming events to get involved!

2. Interested in Feminist Approaches to Law?

Join Law staff for a discussion of feminism, gender and law over morning tea.

The newly established Feminist Legal Studies Group at Monash Law is keen to hear from all law students interested in feminist approaches to law. We invite you to a morning tea on 11am-12pm Wednesday 16 May 2018 in Room G02, Learning & Teaching Building, 19 Ancora Imparo Way, Clayton Campus.

The Feminist Legal Studies Group was established in 2016 and comprises around one third of Monash Law academic staff. We aim to make a difference to the lives of women through understanding the subordination of women and contributing to law and policy reform. We do so through our research and teaching, reading groups, a speaker program, conferences and a rich engagement with the wider community. The Feminist Legal Studies Group has been funded until late 2019, with the aim of becoming Australia’s first feminist legal studies centre.

We would like to know what we can do for our students and what our students would like from us. Join us for morning tea and chat with fellow students and academic staff in our faculty committed to feminist approaches to law.

Register your interest: Whether you can come or not please register your interest in knowing more about feminist approaches to law here by 14 May 2018.

All law students welcome (undergraduate, JD, postgraduate, HDR).

An event at Monash Law Chambers will be held later in May.

Any queries? Please contact Associate Professor Becky Batagol, co-convener Feminist Legal Studies Group on Becky.Batagol@monash.edu or 9905 5050.

3. Industry Seminar Series

 
The inaugural industry seminar series went off with a bang in April, with PwC first off.
Now you’re invited to the next seminars:

Beyond Law

Date: Friday 11 May
Time: 12.00pm – 2.00pm
Venue: Room 331, Learning and Teaching Building, Monash University Clayton
RSVP: Register here.
Industry / career type: NewLaw

www.beyondlaw.com.au

World Vision

Date: Thursday 17 May
Time: 5.30pm – 7.30pm
Venue: Monash University Law Chambers, 555 Lonsdale St, Melbourne
RSVP: Register here.
Industry / career type: Not-For-Profit (NFP), relief and development

www.worldvision.com.au

4. An industry panel debates the challenges to the sustainability of legal practice in the 21st Century

Hosted by the Sustainable Legal Practice Research Group

THE CHALLENGE

The world in which we live continues to change at an exponential rate, giving rise to new issues and challenges. Advances in technology are creating new products and services, and rendering existing ones obsolete. Communication today is near instantaneous. People today are more connected than they have ever been.
Businesses, workers and capital also are more mobile than ever before. Local businesses increasingly compete nationally; and national businesses internationally. And the societies in which we live are at once becoming more global and less cohesive; more liberal and less tolerant. From business, politics to sport, we have seen that the temptation to cheat and rationalise poor behaviour is greater than ever, and the ethical dilemmas are more complex.
Lawyers are not immune from these forces. They are changing both what lawyers do, and how they do them. The challenges they present need to be met; the opportunities they present grasped. The challenges confront all lawyers – but arguably are felt most by those in small to medium teams.

EXPERT PANELLISTS

Fiona McLeay, Victorian Legal Services Commissioner
Peter Moran, Principal, Peer Legal
Adrian Shavitsky, Director,Commercial Law, Department of Economic Development, Jobs, Transport & Resources
Tarryn Billings, Senior Corporate Solicitor, Royal Automobile Club of Victoria

DATE: Tuesday 15 May, 2018
TIME: 7.45am – 8.45am (7.15am light breakfast served)
VENUE: Monash Law Chambers, 555 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne
RSVP: Wednesday 9 May Click HERE

 

 

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