1. Young Lawyers – ‘Why join an LIV Committee?’ Webinar (Thursday 8 October)
Find out why to join the LIV as a Young Lawyers member:
- Memberships
- Committees
- Policy Area
- Working Groups
- Editorial and Submission writing
- Education and social initiatives
Date: Thursday 8 October
Time: 6.00pm-7.30pm (please join by 5.30pm)
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82682415414?pwd=K1JTS2s2SUhHK3B5WERiSkk5TGladz09
Meeting ID: 826 8241 5414
Passcode: 299516
Chair: Brad Woolstencroft (YL Manager)
Moderator: Alice Cooney (YL President)
2. Lunch & Learn Segment: Campus sustainability and the power of the student voice (Friday 9 October)
Meet three students from the Monash Association of Sustainability who will share their plans to inspire sustainable change within the student cohort.
They will introduce Paul Barton, who will explain how the University plans to reach Net Zero emissions by 2030.
Presenter(s): Travis Bubb, Lachlan McGrath and Isabelle Zhu-Maguire from the Monash Association of Sustainability
Date: Friday 9 October
Time: 11:30am to 1:00pm
Register here
3. Interview Skills Workshop (Tuesday 13 October)
As part of the AALA’s National Digital Events Series, the AALA invites you to attend this Career Workshop on interview skills.
The Career Workshop Series is an initiative specifically targeted at law students and graduates from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds. It is intended to equip them with tangible career-oriented skills and knowledge, in order to help them overcome the additional obstacles faced in the job-hunting process associated with being from CALD backgrounds, and indeed, leverage their cultural backgrounds as a source of competitive advantage.
This session will take the form of an informal fireside chat with senior legal practitioners who have been decision-makers in recruitment processes at corporate and commercial firms, including:
- Gillian Woon, Special Counsel at Baker McKenzie;
- Natasha Toholka, Partner at Norton Rose Fulbright; and
- Tuanh Nguyen, Director (Legal) at PwC.
The topics intended to be explored include:
- preparing for interviews;
- responding to questions; and
- building rapport and establishing cultural fit.
There will be a 1 hour panel discussion, followed by 30 minutes of Q&A.
Zoom dial-in details will be provided in the confirmation email following registration.
Attendees will also have the opportunity to participate in a mock interview after the session.
Learn more
4. Sexism and the Law (Tuesday 13 October)
In wake of the recent allegations against Dyson Heydon, it is important to realise that they are just the tip of the iceberg. The profession is still dominated by patriarchal ideals and structural biases against women which reinforce this culture.
To deepen your understanding of the issues, join the PLN and our panelists for an afternoon discussion of sexism in the legal profession.
Panelists include Kathleen Foley (barrister, writer and past Associate to Justice Hayne), Molina Asthana (Vice President of the National Executive of Asian Australian Lawyers Association) and Josh Bornstein (National Head of Maurice Blackburn’s Employment and Industrial Law Department). Among other topics, we will be dissecting the history of sexism in the profession and its intersectionality with racism.
Date: Tuesday 13 October
Time: 1.00pm
5. Global Stewardship in Practice (Wednesday 21 October)
Effective stewardship of investors covering hundreds of companies in global portfolios requires significant, specialist resources. Because of the associated costs and the fact that benefits of stewardship are shared and often occur many years after interventions, even large asset owners and managers rarely have put such resources in place.
This webinar by Dr Hans-Christoph Hirt, executive director of EOS at Federated Hermes (EOS), London, will focus on formalised collaborative engagement involving groups of investors as a solution to the costs/benefits dilemma of properly resourced stewardship activities across diversified portfolios.
Date: Wednesday 21 October
Time: 5.30pm – 6.45pm
RSVP here
6. Class actions, the governance landscape in Australia and the Myer decision (Monday 26 October)
You are invited to attend the Arnold Bloch Leibler (ABL) Corporate Law Seminar with
ABL Partner Jonathan Wenig and
ABL Lawyer Anna Sandiford, presenting on the topic
Class actions, the governance landscape in Australia and the Myer decision.
Following the presentation, you will have the opportunity to interact with the ABL staff and ask your questions.
This is a great opportunity for you to understand how your classroom studies are used practically within a law firm setting.
Details of the session are as follows:
Date: Monday 26 October 2020
Time: 1.00pm – 2.00pm
Location: Zoom
Register your attendance HERE
7. ACCC seminar: Is protecting sunk investments the primary economic rationale for competition law? (Wednesday 28 October)
Monash student and staff event
What is the economic rationale for competition law? What is the economic harm that competition law is designed to address?
These questions are of fundamental importance for competition agencies or courts who seek to apply the law, and for public policy professionals seeking to reform the law.
In this talk the ACCC’s Dr Darryl Biggar will propose an alternative hypothesis as the economic foundation for competition law.
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