General Notices
1. Comparative Corporate Governance, Postgraduate Unit, Places Available
Places available for lawyers and non-lawyers to undertake this postgraduate single unit.
Lecturer: Professor Bryan Horrigan
Unit details: LAW7344 Comparative and corporate governance
Teaching period: Tuesdays, 20 July – 12 October (Except 28 September)
Time: 6 pm – 8 pm
Location: Monash University Law Chambers, 472 Bourke Street, Melbourne
Cost: Assessed: $2,850 Non Assessed: $2,138
This unit explores contemporary thinking, regulation, and practice surrounding the connected areas of corporate governance, responsibility, and sustainability in Australia and comparable corporate regulatory systems worldwide, with particular emphasis upon corporate regulatory systems in Anglo-Commonwealth countries, the EU, and North America.
For further information and to apply:
www.monash.edu.au/pubs/handbooks/units/LAW7344.html
graduate@law.monash.edu.au
LAW7344 Comparative and corporate governance
2. Semester 1 Unit Evaluations
The S1 UE reports are now online at:
emuapps.monash.edu.au/unitevaluations/wr/uewr_rp1_public_yearseme.jsp
The Law Faculty got an average:
Student response rate of 50.17% – compared with the University’s rate of 47.82%
Rating on Q5 – Overall Satisfaction of 4.04 – compared with the University’s rating of 3.96.
The Law Faculty was ranked 2nd in the University – just behind the Arts Faculty who got 4.06 on the Q5 rating.
Thank you very much for your participation in the Semester 1 Unit evaluation process. We do really value your input and take your feedback on board when redesigning our Units for the next time that they are run.
3. Undergraduate Essay Competition
The Governor-General’s Undergraduate Essay Competition is Australia’s most prestigious civics essay competition. It is open to Australian undergraduate students (including LLB, JD and Honours students) studying in all faculties at universities across Australia and includes questions that are related to law, politics and other contemporary issues facing Australia.
The 2010 Competition is offering up to $33,000 in cash prizes to the winning authors of 2,500 word essays.
Every year the Competition is judged by a panel of distinguished individuals including a High Court Justice and prominent academics. The final judging panel this year is being chaired by The Hon. Robert French AC, Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia.
This prestigious competition provides students with the opportunity to be further recognised for their academic skill, talent and research.
For more information see:
www.essaycompetition.com.au
The competition closing date is Friday 17 December, 2010 at 5 pm.
For queries contact:
jwilliams@cefa.org.au
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