Events
1. A Negotiation Framework for Dispute Resolution
Date: Tuesday 1 September, 2015
Time: 8:15pm
Venue: RACV Club, Level 2, 501 Bourke Street, Melbourne
Workshop presenter, Russell Korobkin is the professor and faculty director of the UCLA School of Law Negotiation and Conflict Resolution Program. He is also a visiting professor at the respected Harvard program on Negotiation.
This workshop provides a useful prism to tackle every negotiation and is the third year it is being run in Melbourne. This is a superb course, and a must for mediators and legal professionals. The day is packed, fully catered and has worthy CPD content.
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Approach your most entrenched problems with deeper insights
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Build adaptability, to face unpredictable situations that arise
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Develop a usable negotiation model that lets parties craft breakthrough deals
For more information about the 1-day workshop click here
2. Invitation to Over the Rainbow Bar-b-que
As part of Diversity and Inclusion Week, the Faculty of Law invites you to Over the rainbow, a BBQ for our LGBTIQ students, staff and allies.
Date:Tuesday 1 September 2015
Time:11.00 am – 1.00 pm
Venue: Outside The front of the Law School
We look forward to seeing you there.
No registrations are required.
3. Lucinda Lecture – “Of lions and squeaking mice in anxious times”
21st Lucinda Lecture “Of lions and squeaking mice in anxious times”
By Emeritus Professor H P Lee
From time to time most countries will encounter threats to the security of the state polity, ranging from a wartime situation to the contemporary terror threats.
Extraordinary legislation is often resorted to as a means of protecting public safety. Such legislation inevitably draws the courts into the spotlight. Perilous times present the courts with a dilemma. This lecture seeks to canvass that dilemma and the lessons that can be learnt from past judicial experience in Australia and some selected jurisdictions.
Date: Thursday 8 October, 2015
Time: 6:00pm – 7:00pm (followed by refreshments)
Venue: Monash University Law Chambers, 555 Lonsdale St, Melbourne
Cost: Free
RSVP: Thursday 1 October, 2015 law-marketing@monash.edu or (03) 9905 2630
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4. Public Lecture – Elies van Sliedregt
The Castan Centre for Human Rights Law and Holding Redlich present
Elies van Sliedregt, Professor of Criminal Law at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Director of the Centre for International Criminal Justice and Dean of the Faculty of Law
Date: Thursday 3 September 2015
Time: 6.00pm – 7.15pm
Venue: Monash University Law Chambers, 555 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne
RSVP: castan.centre@monash.edu or 03 9905 3327
There is much commentary about international criminal trials, and pre-trial considerations such as capture and decisions to prosecute or not. But there is very little commentary on what happens to alleged international criminals after a trial. It seems States are only interested in ‘fighting impunity’ and ignore post-trial justice.
What happens to those who have been acquitted and those who have served their sentence? Such people are often denied refugee status, creating a category of international outlaws. And what is the interplay between national and international criminal justice where former defendants can be prosecuted nationally after having been tried internationally? This is not only a question of double jeopardy – international trials are unable to cope with all elements of mass crimes, so there will always, perhaps, be an outstanding allegation that can be dealt with at the national level.
Bio: Elies van Sliedregt is Professor of Criminal Law at Vrije Univsiteit Amsterdam, Director of the Centre for International Criminal Justice and Dean of the Faculty of Law. She has held visiting fellowships in Cambridge, Oxford, Bologna, and at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. She was a visiting professional with Chambers at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Summer of 2010 and fellow-in-residence at the Netherlands Institute for Advance Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences for the KNAW (NIAS) in 2011. Van Sliedregt is senior editor of the Leiden Journal of International Law and member of the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities. Van Sliedregt has published extensively in the field of international, European and comparative criminal law.
5. RMIT’s 2016 Higinbotham Lecture
RMIT’s Graduate School of Business and Law is hosting an tomorrow, Thursday 13 August 2015 at Storey Hall building.
A leading English legal thinker Lord Justice Elias is delivering the 2016 Higinbotham Lecture on the topic “Has the Human Rights Act Politicised the English Judiciary?”
We encourage attendance from anyone interested in this subject matter.
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Please RSVP here
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6. Sir Zelman Cowen Memorial Oration: Chief Justice the Hon Robert French AC
Date: Thursday 10 September, 2015
Time: 7:00pm
Venue: S1 Lecture Theatre, 43 Rainforest Walk, Monash University, Clayton
The oration is an annual lecture celebrating the life and legacy of Sir Zelman Cowen, a distinguished scholar, educator, civic leader and – for five years – Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia. It address themes of law, justice, leadership, community, education, public policy and Australian identity.
The 2015 oration will be delivered by the Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia, the Honourable Robert French AC.
This event is free for students: registration is required. General admission is $10.
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7. The Australian Italian Lawyers Association
Date: Wednesday 26 August, 2015
Time: 7:00pm
Venue: Club Italia, 128-152 Furlong Road, Sunshine North
Dr Francesco Giacobbe, OAM is an Italian Senator representing the external territories of Oceania (which includes Australia) Asia, Africa and Antarctica.
Hear him speak about:
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The role of Parliamentarians in representing Italians in the world
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The italian reform agenda
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Italy and the European Union
Attendance is free and all are welcome.
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