Law Student Gazette

1. 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.

2. 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. Limited student rate tickets are limited.

Speaker line up so far 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.

3. Clerkship Masterclass

The Clerkship Masterclass has been designed to assist students build essential skills for your Clerkship.

To attend you should have preferably secured a Seasonal Clerkship or equivalent.

Presented by lawyers from top law firms and expert staff from the Law Library, these workshops are designed to deliver essential, practical skills relating to research, writing, preparing memos and tips to work effectively during the Clerkship.

If possible please ensure that you bring a laptop with you. Law firms use Clerkships to identify students to take into their Traineeship programs. Make yours the best Clerkship ever!

A light lunch will be provided.

Please register through the Library Class Booking System. A more detailed program will be available once the program has been finalised.

Date: Friday 24 June

Time: 10.00am – 3.30pm (approx)

Venue: Monash Law Chambers, 555 Lonsdale St, Melbourne

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. The refugee, the person behind the mask: Human rights and security in the battering waves

Using an imaginary line starting in Melbourne, crossing the Middle East and Israel and ending at the Aegean Sea and Greece, this public lecture will try to sketch the profile of the refugee, particularly the boat refugee.

The refugee is first and foremost a human being, therefore the refugee issue is first and foremost a human rights law issue.

On this account, the lecture will demonstrate why security-oriented rhetoric is doomed to failure.

Find more information here.

Date: Tuesday 5 July 2016

Time: 6.00pm to 7.00pm

Venue: Monash University Law Chambers, 555 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne

RSVP essential. Register here.

6. The Relational Employment Contract: Australian and UK perspectives

The employment contract is increasingly categorised as relational; both by academics and the judiciary.

Recognition of the relevance of relational contract theory has emerged in somewhat different ways in Australia and the UK.

This discussion explores the likely impact of relational contract theory in Australia and the UK and asks how material the differing patterns of developments are likely to be.

Date: Monday 20 June 2016

Time: 6:00pm – 7:15pm (5.45pm registration)

Venue: Monash University Law Chambers, 555 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne

RSVP here by Friday 17 June 2016

1. 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. Limited student rate tickets are available.

Speaker line up so far includes:

• Mr Stan Grant, Indigenous Affairs Editor of the Guardian Australia, on the way forward for Indigenous reconciliation
• The Hon Martin Pakula MP, Victorian Attorney-General, on Developments in Human Rights in Victoria
• Professor Anne Aly, Professor at Edith Cowan University and Founding Chair of People Against Violent Extremism, on Radicalisation, Terrorism and Human Rights
• Professor Mary Crock, Professor of Public Law at The University of Sydney, on Making Every Life Count:  International Law and The Protection of Persons with Disabilities in Displacement
• Mariam Veiszadah, Ambassador of Welcome to Australia and President of Islamophobia Register Australia, on Islamophobia in Australia
• 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

Full details on the Castan Centre website. Check it out for up-to-date speaker line up.

2. Clerkship Masterclass

The Clerkship Masterclass has been designed to assist students build essential skills for your Clerkship.

To attend you should have preferably secured a Seasonal Clerkship or equivalent.

Presented by lawyers from top law firms and expert staff from the Law Library, these workshops are designed to deliver essential, practical skills relating to research, writing, preparing memos and tips to work effectively during the Clerkship.

If possible please ensure that you bring a laptop with you. Law firms use Clerkships to identify students to take into their Traineeship programs. Make yours the best Clerkship ever!

A light lunch will be provided.

Please register through the Library Class Booking System. A more detailed program will be available once the program has been finalised.

Date: Friday 24 June

Time: 10.00am – 3.30pm (approx)

Venue: Monash Law Chambers, 555 Lonsdale St, Melbourne

3. Cognitive Biases in Decision Making

During a mediation, decisions have to be made by the parties in order to settle their dispute and process decisions also need to be made by the mediator.

As people form judgments and make decisions they fall prey to predictable and consistent errors which can impact on the quality of decisions and escalate conflict.

Professor Jill Klein from the Melbourne Business School will speak on the topic ‘Cognitive Biases in Decision Making’.

The presentation will provide a discussion of cognitive biases and how we can manage them in order to make optimal decisions.

Date: Tuesday 14 June 2016

Time: 5.45pm (socialising) for 6.15pm to 7.15pm presentation

Venue: Heritage Room, Coopers Inn (2nd floor), cnr Exhibition St & Little Lonsdale St

Cost: Free to VADR members (non-members $20)

RSVP: please email Alison at admin@vadr.asn.au

Finger food will be provided and drinks are available at bar prices.

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.

1. 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. Limited student rate tickets are available.

Speaker line up so far includes:

• Mr Stan Grant, Indigenous Affairs Editor of the Guardian Australia, on the way forward for Indigenous reconciliation
• The Hon Martin Pakula MP, Victorian Attorney-General, on Developments in Human Rights in Victoria
• Professor Anne Aly, Professor at Edith Cowan University and Founding Chair of People Against Violent Extremism, on Radicalisation, Terrorism and Human Rights
• Professor Mary Crock, Professor of Public Law at The University of Sydney, on Making Every Life Count:  International Law and The Protection of Persons with Disabilities in Displacement
• Mariam Veiszadah, Ambassador of Welcome to Australia and President of Islamophobia Register Australia, on Islamophobia in Australia
• 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

Full details on the Castan Centre website. Check it out for up-to-date speaker line up.

2. Clerkship Masterclass

The Clerkship Masterclass has been designed to assist students build essential skills for your Clerkship.

To attend you should have preferably secured a Seasonal Clerkship or equivalent.

Presented by lawyers from top law firms and expert staff from the Law Library, these workshops are designed to deliver essential, practical skills relating to research, writing, preparing memos and tips to work effectively during the Clerkship.

If possible please ensure that you bring a laptop with you. Law firms use Clerkships to identify students to take into their Traineeship programs. Make yours the best Clerkship ever!

A light lunch will be provided.

Please register through the Library Class Booking System. A more detailed program will be available once the program has been finalised.

Date: Friday 24 June

Time: 10.00am – 3.30pm (approx)

Venue: Monash Law Chambers, 555 Lonsdale St, Melbourne

3. Cognitive Biases in Decision Making

During a mediation, decisions have to be made by the parties in order to settle their dispute and process decisions also need to be made by the mediator.

As people form judgments and make decisions they fall prey to predictable and consistent errors which can impact on the quality of decisions and escalate conflict.

Professor Jill Klein from the Melbourne Business School will speak on the topic ‘Cognitive Biases in Decision Making’.

The presentation will provide a discussion of cognitive biases and how we can manage them in order to make optimal decisions.

Date: Tuesday 14 June 2016

Time: 5.45pm (socialising) for 6.15pm to 7.15pm presentation

Venue: Heritage Room, Coopers Inn (2nd floor), cnr Exhibition St & Little Lonsdale St

Cost: Free to VADR members (non-members $20)

RSVP: please email Alison at admin@vadr.asn.au

Finger food will be provided and drinks are available at bar prices.

4. Commercial CPD Seminar – Statutory Interpretation

Professors Pearce and Geddes observe that “no matter how obscure an Act or other legislative instrument might be, it is the inescapable duty of the courts to give it some meaning”.

Practitioners are faced with this very task on a daily basis.

Our speakers will aim to provide insight to an important topic that is often overlooked. Our speakers will explore various aspects of statutory interpretation, including:

• Statutory construction—Read, Understand and Apply;
• Ambiguity; and
• Legality.

Please find more information here and here.

Date: Wednesday 8 June 2016

Time: 5.15pm – 6.15pm

Venue: Monash University Law Chambers, 555 Lonsdale St, Melbourne

Cost: Free

RSVP here by Monday 6 June (unless booked out prior)

5. 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.

6. ‘The People and the Constitution’ by The Honourable Justice Patrick Keane AC, High Court of Australia

The concept of “the People” holds an important place in the history of ideas. It features prominently in the United States Constitution but, in some important respects, has not influenced the constitutional jurisprudence of the United States, whereas in the Australian Constitution its exiguous presence has proved to be a fertile source of judge made law.

The Honourable Justice Patrick Keane AC of the High Court of Australia will consider these phenomena in the 2016 Lucinda Lecture and offer an explanation for the difference between the American and Australian approaches.

Date: Thursday 11 August 2016

Time: 1.00pm – 2.00pm

Venue: Monash Club, Long Room, 32 Exhibition Walk, Monash Clayton campus

Cost: Free

RSVP: SOLD OUT

1. Castan Centre fundraising film night: ‘Chasing Asylum’

Due to popular demand, we have upgraded to a larger cinema for our special screening of Chasing Asylum, but there are only a few more tickets on sale. Be sure to get in soon if you are hoping to join us to watch this powerful film.

The Castan Centre for Human Rights Law invites you to this powerful fundraising event; the film the Australian government doesn’t want you to see.

Chasing Asylum exposes the real impact of Australia’s offshore detention policies and explores how ‘The Lucky Country’ became one where leaders choose detention over compassion and governments deprive the desperate of their basic human rights.

The film features never-before-seen footage from inside Australia’s offshore detention camps, revealing the personal impact of sending those in search of a safe home to languish in limbo.

Chasing Asylum explores the mental, physical and fiscal consequences of Australia’s decision to lock away families in unsanitary conditions away from media scrutiny, destroying their lives under the pretext of saving them.

Join us for this special screening and fundraising event.

Date: Wednesday 1 June 2016

Time: 6:30pm – 8:30pm

Venue: Classic Cinema, 9 Gordon Street, Elsternwick, VIC 3185

Cost: $24.08 per ticket

Buy tickets here.

Watch the trailer. (MA15+ Strong Coarse Language)

2. 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. Limited student rate tickets are limited.

Speaker line up so far includes:

• Mr Stan Grant, Indigenous Affairs Editor of the Guardian Australia, on the way forward for Indigenous reconciliation
• The Hon Martin Pakula MP, Victorian Attorney-General, on Developments in Human Rights in Victoria
• Professor Anne Aly, Professor at Edith Cowan University and Founding Chair of People Against Violent Extremism, on Radicalisation, Terrorism and Human Rights
• Professor Mary Crock, Professor of Public Law at The University of Sydney, on Making Every Life Count:  International Law and The Protection of Persons with Disabilities in Displacement
• Mariam Veiszadah, Ambassador of Welcome to Australia and President of Islamophobia Register Australia, on Islamophobia in Australia
• 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

Full details on the Castan Centre website. Check it out for up-to-date speaker line up.

3. Clerkship Masterclass

The Clerkship Masterclass has been designed to assist students build essential skills for your Clerkship.

To attend you should have preferably secured a Seasonal Clerkship or equivalent.

Presented by lawyers from top law firms and expert staff from the Law Library, these workshops are designed to deliver essential, practical skills relating to research, writing, preparing memos and tips to work effectively during the Clerkship.

If possible please ensure that you bring a laptop with you. Law firms use Clerkships to identify students to take into their Traineeship programs. Make yours the best Clerkship ever!

A light lunch will be provided.

Please register through the Library Class Booking System. A more detailed program will be available once the program has been finalised.

Date: Friday 24 June

Time: 10.00am – 3.30pm (approx)

Venue: Monash Law Chambers, 555 Lonsdale St, Melbourne

4. Cognitive Biases in Decision Making

During a mediation, decisions have to be made by the parties in order to settle their dispute and process decisions also need to be made by the mediator.

As people form judgments and make decisions they fall prey to predictable and consistent errors which can impact on the quality of decisions and escalate conflict.

Professor Jill Klein from the Melbourne Business School will speak on the topic ‘Cognitive Biases in Decision Making’.

The presentation will provide a discussion of cognitive biases and how we can manage them in order to make optimal decisions.

Date: Tuesday 14 June 2016

Time: 5.45pm (socialising) for 6.15pm to 7.15pm presentation

Venue: Heritage Room, Coopers Inn (2nd floor), cnr Exhibition St & Little Lonsdale St

Cost: Free to VADR members (non-members $20)

RSVP: please email Alison at admin@vadr.asn.au

Finger food will be provided and drinks are available at bar prices.

5. Commercial CPD Seminar – Statutory Interpretation

Professors Pearce and Geddes observe that “no matter how obscure an Act or other legislative instrument might be, it is the inescapable duty of the courts to give it some meaning”.

Practitioners are faced with this very task on a daily basis.

Our speakers will aim to provide insight to an important topic that is often overlooked. Our speakers will explore various aspects of statutory interpretation, including:

• Statutory construction—Read, Understand and Apply;
• Ambiguity; and
• Legality.

Please find more information here and here.

Date: Wednesday 8 June 2016

Time: 5.15pm – 6.15pm

Venue: Monash University Law Chambers, 555 Lonsdale St, Melbourne

Cost: Free

RSVP here by Monday 6 June (unless booked out prior)

6. Conciliating Sexual Harassment Disputes – Not Just a Personal Matter

The way we view and conciliate disputes of sexual harassment is changing.

We have seen through the Federal report into the Department of Defence and the Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission’s own independent review into sex discrimination and sexual harassment in Victoria Police that the impact of such harassment in the workplace runs deep.

The case law around sexual harassment is also changing and damages are increasing to reflect community expectations that sexual harassment can no longer lightly be dismissed. In this current climate, it is timely we reflect on these changes and discuss how they can impact on the way disputes of this nature can be resolved through conciliation.

At this Victorian Association for Dispute Resolution (VADR) event Sophie Georgalis and Katie Bates from the Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission will speak on the topic ‘Conciliating Sexual Harassment Disputes – Not Just a Personal Matter’.

Date: Thursday 2 June 2016

Time: 5.45pm (socialising) for 6.15pm to 7.15pm presentation

Venue: Heritage Room, Coopers Inn (2nd floor), cnr Exhibition & Little Lonsdale Sts

Cost: Free to VADR members (non-members $20)

RSVP: please email Alison at admin@vadr.asn.au

Finger food will be provided and drinks are available at bar prices.

7. 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.

1. Castan Centre fundraising film night: ‘Chasing Asylum’

The Castan Centre for Human Rights Law invites you to this powerful fundraising event; the film the Australian government doesn’t want you to see.

Chasing Asylum exposes the real impact of Australia’s offshore detention policies and explores how ‘The Lucky Country’ became one where leaders choose detention over compassion and governments deprive the desperate of their basic human rights.

The film features never-before-seen footage from inside Australia’s offshore detention camps, revealing the personal impact of sending those in search of a safe home to languish in limbo.

Chasing Asylum explores the mental, physical and fiscal consequences of Australia’s decision to lock away families in unsanitary conditions away from media scrutiny, destroying their lives under the pretext of saving them.

Join us for this special screening and fundraising event.

Date: Wednesday 1 June 2016

Time: 6:30pm – 8:30pm

Venue: Classic Cinema, 9 Gordon Street, Elsternwick, VIC 3185

Cost: $24.08 per ticket

Buy tickets here.

Watch the trailer. (MA15+ Strong Coarse Language)

2. 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. Limited student rate tickets are limited.

Speaker line up so far includes:

• Mr Stan Grant, Indigenous Affairs Editor of the Guardian Australia, on the way forward for Indigenous reconciliation
• The Hon Martin Pakula MP, Victorian Attorney-General, on Developments in Human Rights in Victoria
• Professor Anne Aly, Professor at Edith Cowan University and Founding Chair of People Against Violent Extremism, on Radicalisation, Terrorism and Human Rights
• Professor Mary Crock, Professor of Public Law at The University of Sydney, on Making Every Life Count:  International Law and The Protection of Persons with Disabilities in Displacement
• Mariam Veiszadah, Ambassador of Welcome to Australia and President of Islamophobia Register Australia, on Islamophobia in Australia
• 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

Full details on the Castan Centre website. Check it out for up-to-date speaker line up.

3. Cognitive Biases in Decision Making

During a mediation, decisions have to be made by the parties in order to settle their dispute and process decisions also need to be made by the mediator.

As people form judgments and make decisions they fall prey to predictable and consistent errors which can impact on the quality of decisions and escalate conflict.

Professor Jill Klein from the Melbourne Business School will speak on the topic ‘Cognitive Biases in Decision Making’.

The presentation will provide a discussion of cognitive biases and how we can manage them in order to make optimal decisions.

Date: Tuesday 14 June 2016

Time: 5.45pm (socialising) for 6.15pm to 7.15pm presentation

Venue: Heritage Room, Coopers Inn (2nd floor), cnr Exhibition St & Little Lonsdale St

Cost: Free to VADR members (non-members $20)

RSVP: please email Alison at admin@vadr.asn.au

Finger food will be provided and drinks are available at bar prices.

4. Conciliating Sexual Harassment Disputes – Not Just a Personal Matter

The way we view and conciliate disputes of sexual harassment is changing.

We have seen through the Federal report into the Department of Defence and the Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission’s own independent review into sex discrimination and sexual harassment in Victoria Police that the impact of such harassment in the workplace runs deep.

The case law around sexual harassment is also changing and damages are increasing to reflect community expectations that sexual harassment can no longer lightly be dismissed. In this current climate, it is timely we reflect on these changes and discuss how they can impact on the way disputes of this nature can be resolved through conciliation.

At this Victorian Association for Dispute Resolution (VADR) event Sophie Georgalis and Katie Bates from the Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission will speak on the topic ‘Conciliating Sexual Harassment Disputes – Not Just a Personal Matter’.

Date: Thursday 2 June 2016

Time: 5.45pm (socialising) for 6.15pm to 7.15pm presentation

Venue: Heritage Room, Coopers Inn (2nd floor), cnr Exhibition & Little Lonsdale Sts

Cost: Free to VADR members (non-members $20)

RSVP: please email Alison at admin@vadr.asn.au

Finger food will be provided and drinks are available at bar prices.

5. 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.

1. Book Launch – United States Migrant Interdiction and the Detention of Refugees in Guantánamo Bay

Australia’s detention of asylum seekers in Nauru and Papua New Guinea is modelled on the long standing US Migrant Interdiction Program which includes the detention of refugees by the US in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

This new book by Dr Azadeh Dastyari examines the US’ compliance with its legal obligations as it interdicts asylum seekers at sea, detains refugees in its immigration detention centre in Guantánamo Bay and resettles refugees in third countries. It asks what lessons can be learned from the world’s longest running offshore processing and detention regime.

To be launched by Senator Sam Dastyari.

Date: Tuesday 17 May 2016

Time: 6.00pm – 7.30pm

Venue: Monash Law Chambers, 555 Lonsdale St, Melbourne

RSVP: Tuesday 10 May 2016, online here

Please find more information here.

2. Castan Centre fundraising film night: ‘Chasing Asylum’

The Castan Centre for Human Rights Law invites you to this powerful fundraising event; the film the Australian government doesn’t want you to see.

Chasing Asylum exposes the real impact of Australia’s offshore detention policies and explores how ‘The Lucky Country’ became one where leaders choose detention over compassion and governments deprive the desperate of their basic human rights.

The film features never-before-seen footage from inside Australia’s offshore detention camps, revealing the personal impact of sending those in search of a safe home to languish in limbo.

Chasing Asylum explores the mental, physical and fiscal consequences of Australia’s decision to lock away families in unsanitary conditions away from media scrutiny, destroying their lives under the pretext of saving them.

Join us for this special screening and fundraising event.

Date: Wednesday 1 June 2016

Time: 6:30pm – 8:30pm

Venue: Classic Cinema, 9 Gordon Street, Elsternwick, VIC 3185

Cost: $24.08 per ticket

Buy tickets here.

Watch the trailer. (MA15+ Strong Coarse Language)

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. Limited student rate tickets are limited.

Speaker line up so far includes:

• Mr Stan Grant, Indigenous Affairs Editor of the Guardian Australia, on the way forward for Indigenous reconciliation
• The Hon Martin Pakula MP, Victorian Attorney-General, on Developments in Human Rights in Victoria
• Professor Anne Aly, Professor at Edith Cowan University and Founding Chair of People Against Violent Extremism, on Radicalisation, Terrorism and Human Rights
• Professor Mary Crock, Professor of Public Law at The University of Sydney, on Making Every Life Count:  International Law and The Protection of Persons with Disabilities in Displacement
• Mariam Veiszadah, Ambassador of Welcome to Australia and President of Islamophobia Register Australia, on Islamophobia in Australia
• 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

Full details on the Castan Centre website. Check it out for up-to-date speaker line up.

4. Cognitive Biases in Decision Making

During a mediation, decisions have to be made by the parties in order to settle their dispute and process decisions also need to be made by the mediator.

As people form judgments and make decisions they fall prey to predictable and consistent errors which can impact on the quality of decisions and escalate conflict.

Professor Jill Klein from the Melbourne Business School will speak on the topic ‘Cognitive Biases in Decision Making’.

The presentation will provide a discussion of cognitive biases and how we can manage them in order to make optimal decisions.

Date: Tuesday 14 June 2016

Time: 5.45pm (socialising) for 6.15pm to 7.15pm presentation

Venue: Heritage Room, Coopers Inn (2nd floor), cnr Exhibition St & Little Lonsdale St

Cost: Free to VADR members (non-members $20)

RSVP: please email Alison at admin@vadr.asn.au

Finger food will be provided and drinks are available at bar prices.

5. Conciliating Sexual Harassment Disputes – Not Just a Personal Matter

The way we view and conciliate disputes of sexual harassment is changing.

We have seen through the Federal report into the Department of Defence and the Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission’s own independent review into sex discrimination and sexual harassment in Victoria Police that the impact of such harassment in the workplace runs deep.

The case law around sexual harassment is also changing and damages are increasing to reflect community expectations that sexual harassment can no longer lightly be dismissed. In this current climate, it is timely we reflect on these changes and discuss how they can impact on the way disputes of this nature can be resolved through conciliation.

At this Victorian Association for Dispute Resolution (VADR) event Sophie Georgalis and Katie Bates from the Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission will speak on the topic ‘Conciliating Sexual Harassment Disputes – Not Just a Personal Matter’.

Date: Thursday 2 June 2016

Time: 5.45pm (socialising) for 6.15pm to 7.15pm presentation

Venue: Heritage Room, Coopers Inn (2nd floor), cnr Exhibition & Little Lonsdale Sts

Cost: Free to VADR members (non-members $20)

RSVP: please email Alison at admin@vadr.asn.au

Finger food will be provided and drinks are available at bar prices.

6. 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.

7. The Future of Lawyering: facing the big challenges in the 21st century

This panel brings together a number of professionals from across the legal sector to discuss the future of lawyering in Australia.

The panellists will explore some of the big legal practice challenges of today, including graduate employment prospects in an increasingly crowded market.

The panellists will also explore the global move towards ‘experiential’ and ‘work integrated learning’ and consider how this and other initiatives might help improve law students’ competitiveness in and preparedness for future employment.

Date: Thursday 19 May 2016

Time: 6.00pm

Venue: Monash University Law Chambers, 555 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne

RSVP: Thursday 12 May online here

For full details please click here.

8. VADR Collaborative Family Law Panel

On Tuesday 17 May 2016 the Victorian Association for Dispute Resolution (VADR) will be hosting a Collaborative Family Law Panel made up of a family law dispute resolution practitioner, a family lawyer and a forensic accountant.

It is not always easy to settle all the matters relating to a family dispute in a mediation or family dispute resolution. Collaborative law has evolved mainly to deal with more complex cases involving property without going to the Family Court.

The panel will discuss how different professionals cooperate to assist a family in reaching agreement, and how this is different from other forms of ADR, such as mediation.

Date: Tuesday 17 May 2016

Time: 5.30pm (socialising) for 6.00pm to 7.30pm presentation

Venue: Heritage Room, Coopers Inn (2nd floor), cnr Exhibition St & Little Lonsdale St, Melbourne

Cost: Free to VADR members (non-members $20)

RSVP: please email Alison at admin@vadr.asn.au

Finger food will be provided and drinks are available at bar prices.

9. Young people & the law

Migrant Resource Centre North West will present a panel of experts during Law Week 2016 to discuss a range of legal issues affecting young people, their relatives and carers.

Topics will include homelessness, drugs and alcohol, discrimination and human rights. Several young people will also share their own experiences with the law.

Date: Friday 20 May 2016

Time: 9.30am – 12.30pm

Location: State Library of Victoria, Melbourne CBD

Cost: Free

RSVP essential. Book tickets (and more info) here.

1. Book Launch – United States Migrant Interdiction and the Detention of Refugees in Guantánamo Bay

Australia’s detention of asylum seekers in Nauru and Papua New Guinea is modelled on the long standing US Migrant Interdiction Program which includes the detention of refugees by the US in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

This new book by Dr Azadeh Dastyari examines the US’ compliance with its legal obligations as it interdicts asylum seekers at sea, detains refugees in its immigration detention centre in Guantánamo Bay and resettles refugees in third countries. It asks what lessons can be learned from the world’s longest running offshore processing and detention regime.

To be launched by Senator Sam Dastyari.

Date: Tuesday 17 May 2016

Time: 6.00pm – 7.30pm

Venue: Monash Law Chambers, 555 Lonsdale St, Melbourne

RSVP: Tuesday 10 May 2016, online here

Please find more information here.

2. Castan Centre fundraising film night: ‘Chasing Asylum’

The Castan Centre for Human Rights Law invites you to this powerful fundraising event; the film the Australian government doesn’t want you to see.

Chasing Asylum exposes the real impact of Australia’s offshore detention policies and explores how ‘The Lucky Country’ became one where leaders choose detention over compassion and governments deprive the desperate of their basic human rights.

The film features never-before-seen footage from inside Australia’s offshore detention camps, revealing the personal impact of sending those in search of a safe home to languish in limbo.

Chasing Asylum explores the mental, physical and fiscal consequences of Australia’s decision to lock away families in unsanitary conditions away from media scrutiny, destroying their lives under the pretext of saving them.

Join us for this special screening and fundraising event.

Date: Wednesday 1 June 2016

Time: 6:30pm – 8:30pm

Venue: Classic Cinema, 9 Gordon Street, Elsternwick, VIC 3185

Cost: $24.08 per ticket

Buy tickets here.

Watch the trailer. (MA15+ Strong Coarse Language)

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. Limited student rate tickets are limited.

Speaker line up so far includes:

• Mr Stan Grant, Indigenous Affairs Editor of the Guardian Australia, on the way forward for Indigenous reconciliation
• The Hon Martin Pakula MP, Victorian Attorney-General, on Developments in Human Rights in Victoria
• Professor Anne Aly, Professor at Edith Cowan University and Founding Chair of People Against Violent Extremism, on Radicalisation, Terrorism and Human Rights
• Professor Mary Crock, Professor of Public Law at The University of Sydney, on Making Every Life Count:  International Law and The Protection of Persons with Disabilities in Displacement
• Mariam Veiszadah, Ambassador of Welcome to Australia and President of Islamophobia Register Australia, on Islamophobia in Australia
• 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

Full details on the Castan Centre website. Check it out for up-to-date speaker line up.

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. The Future of Lawyering: facing the big challenges in the 21st century

This panel brings together a number of professionals from across the legal sector to discuss the future of lawyering in Australia.

The panellists will explore some of the big legal practice challenges of today, including graduate employment prospects in an increasingly crowded market.

The panellists will also explore the global move towards ‘experiential’ and ‘work integrated learning’ and consider how this and other initiatives might help improve law students’ competitiveness in and preparedness for future employment.

Date: Thursday 19 May 2016

Time: 6.00pm

Venue: Monash University Law Chambers, 555 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne

RSVP: Thursday 12 May online here

For full details please click here.

6. University Scholars Leadership Symposium – Hanoi, Vietnam

Humanitarian Affairs UK is selecting internationally minded student leaders to attend the 7th University Scholars Leadership Symposium (USLS), from August 1st to 7th 2016 in Hanoi, Vietnam.

The USLS empowers students not only to become more aware of current humanitarian crises, but to do something about them.

Please find further information about the event here and application form here.

Applications are open to Monash Law students until Sunday 15 May 2016.

7. Young people & the law

Migrant Resource Centre North West will present a panel of experts during Law Week 2016 to discuss a range of legal issues affecting young people, their relatives and carers.

Topics will include homelessness, drugs and alcohol, discrimination and human rights. Several young people will also share their own experiences with the law.

Date: Friday 20 May 2016

Time: 9.30am – 12.30pm

Location: State Library of Victoria, Melbourne CBD

Cost: Free

RSVP essential. Book tickets (and more info) here.

1. Book Launch – United States Migrant Interdiction and the Detention of Refugees in Guantánamo Bay

Australia’s detention of asylum seekers in Nauru and Papua New Guinea is modelled on the long standing US Migrant Interdiction Program which includes the detention of refugees by the US in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

This new book by Dr Azadeh Dastyari examines the US’ compliance with its legal obligations as it interdicts asylum seekers at sea, detains refugees in its immigration detention centre in Guantánamo Bay and resettles refugees in third countries. It asks what lessons can be learned from the world’s longest running offshore processing and detention regime.

To be launched by Senator Sam Dastyari.

Date: Tuesday 17 May 2016

Time: 6.00pm – 7.30pm

Venue: Monash Law Chambers, 555 Lonsdale St, Melbourne

RSVP: Tuesday 10 May 2016, online here

Please find more information here.

2. Castan Centre fundraising film night: ‘Chasing Asylum’

The Castan Centre for Human Rights Law invites you to this powerful fundraising event; the film the Australian government doesn’t want you to see.

Chasing Asylum exposes the real impact of Australia’s offshore detention policies and explores how ‘The Lucky Country’ became one where leaders choose detention over compassion and governments deprive the desperate of their basic human rights.

The film features never-before-seen footage from inside Australia’s offshore detention camps, revealing the personal impact of sending those in search of a safe home to languish in limbo.

Chasing Asylum explores the mental, physical and fiscal consequences of Australia’s decision to lock away families in unsanitary conditions away from media scrutiny, destroying their lives under the pretext of saving them.

Join us for this special screening and fundraising event.

Date: Wednesday 1 June 2016

Time: 6:30pm – 8:30pm

Venue: Classic Cinema, 9 Gordon Street, Elsternwick, VIC 3185

Cost: $24.08 per ticket

Buy tickets here.

Watch the trailer. (MA15+ Strong Coarse Language)

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. Limited student rate tickets are limited.

Speaker line up so far includes:

• Mr Stan Grant, Indigenous Affairs Editor of the Guardian Australia, on the way forward for Indigenous reconciliation
• The Hon Martin Pakula MP, Victorian Attorney-General, on Developments in Human Rights in Victoria
• Professor Anne Aly, Professor at Edith Cowan University and Founding Chair of People Against Violent Extremism, on Radicalisation, Terrorism and Human Rights
• Professor Mary Crock, Professor of Public Law at The University of Sydney, on Making Every Life Count:  International Law and The Protection of Persons with Disabilities in Displacement
• Mariam Veiszadah, Ambassador of Welcome to Australia and President of Islamophobia Register Australia, on Islamophobia in Australia
• 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

Full details on the Castan Centre website. Check it out for up-to-date speaker line up.

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. European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation (EIUC) seminar: Public Health & Human Rights

The importance of public health is growing and this theme has a potential to become one most pressing issues in the future.

This one-day seminar will address current challenges and suggest possible solutions at the intersection of public health and human rights.

The nature of the seminar will be multidisciplinary and its three panels will include experts in areas of public health, human rights, global health governance, health security, mental health, right to health and other disciplines.

Date: Thursday 19 May 2016

Location: Monastery of San Nicolò, Venice Lido, Italy

RSVP: Thursday 5 May 2016 online here

For travel information please see here.

6. The Future of Lawyering: facing the big challenges in the 21st century

This panel brings together a number of professionals from across the legal sector to discuss the future of lawyering in Australia.

The panellists will explore some of the big legal practice challenges of today, including graduate employment prospects in an increasingly crowded market.

The panellists will also explore the global move towards ‘experiential’ and ‘work integrated learning’ and consider how this and other initiatives might help improve law students’ competitiveness in and preparedness for future employment.

Date: Thursday 19 May 2016

Time: 6.00pm

Venue: Monash University Law Chambers, 555 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne

RSVP: Thursday 12 May online here

For full details please click here.

7. The inaugural Sue Campbell Oration presented by Professor Peter Joy

Published by the Journal of Professional Legal Education in 1991, Sue Campbell’s Blueprint for a Clinical Program highlighted the benefits of clinical legal education to both students and staff alike.

At the time of publication there were only two full-scale clinical legal education programs operating in Australian Law Faculties – one at Monash, established in 1975 and the context of Sue’s discussion, and one established in 1981 at the University of New South Wales.

Since that time, however, over 70% of Australia’s thirty-six law schools have developed clinical programs, with Sue’s article – and the strategies it offered other faculties – truly serving as a blueprint for this expansion. Not only has clinical legal education expanded greatly in Australia, it has now spread throughout the world.

The Susan Campbell Oration will review the state of clinical legal education in Australia and elsewhere; evaluate the impact of the strategies that Sue set forth; discuss where clinical legal education is today; and suggest a blueprint for a robust and innovative future.

Date: Wednesday 11 May 2016

Time: 5:30-7:30pm

Venue: Monash Law Chambers, 555 Lonsdale St, Melbourne

RSVP: Wednesday 4 May 2016, register HERE

Light refreshments will be provided.

For further information please click here.

8. University Scholars Leadership Symposium – Hanoi, Vietnam

Humanitarian Affairs UK is selecting internationally minded student leaders to attend the 7th University Scholars Leadership Symposium (USLS), from August 1st to 7th 2016 in Hanoi, Vietnam.

The USLS empowers students not only to become more aware of current humanitarian crises, but to do something about them.

Please find further information about the event here and application form here.

Applications are open to Monash Law students until Sunday 15 May 2016.

9. Young people & the law

Migrant Resource Centre North West will present a panel of experts during Law Week 2016 to discuss a range of legal issues affecting young people, their relatives and carers.

Topics will include homelessness, drugs and alcohol, discrimination and human rights. Several young people will also share their own experiences with the law.

Date: Friday 20 May 2016

Time: 9.30am – 12.30pm

Location: State Library of Victoria, Melbourne CBD

Cost: Free

RSVP essential. Book tickets (and more info) here.

1. Book Launch – United States Migrant Interdiction and the Detention of Refugees in Guantánamo Bay

Australia’s detention of asylum seekers in Nauru and Papua New Guinea is modelled on the long standing US Migrant Interdiction Program which includes the detention of refugees by the US in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

This new book by Dr Azadeh Dastyari examines the US’ compliance with its legal obligations as it interdicts asylum seekers at sea, detains refugees in its immigration detention centre in Guantánamo Bay and resettles refugees in third countries. It asks what lessons can be learned from the world’s longest running offshore processing and detention regime.

To be launched by Senator Sam Dastyari.

Date: Tuesday 17 May 2016

Time: 6.00pm – 7.30pm

Venue: Monash Law Chambers, 555 Lonsdale St, Melbourne

RSVP: Tuesday 10 May 2016, online here

Please find more information here.

2. 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.

3. European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation (EIUC) seminar: Public Health & Human Rights

The importance of public health is growing and this theme has a potential to become one most pressing issues in the future.

This one-day seminar will address current challenges and suggest possible solutions at the intersection of public health and human rights.

The nature of the seminar will be multidisciplinary and its three panels will include experts in areas of public health, human rights, global health governance, health security, mental health, right to health and other disciplines.

Date: Thursday 19 May 2016

Location: Monastery of San Nicolò, Venice Lido, Italy

RSVP: Thursday 5 May 2016 online here

For travel information please see here.

4. generationYOU

Is your career freaking you out?

generationYOU is a one day event that aims to help you stand out of the crowd and become the exception to the rule, not the stereotype.

Meet community and industry speakers who run hands-on and honest sessions around employer expectations and skills such as problem solving, networking, building a personal brand, communication and more.

Featuring speakers from companies such Etsy, Australia Post, Ashurst, Arup, Melbourne University, The Foundation for Young Australians and more.

Date: Friday 22 April 2016

Time: 8.30am – 4.30pm

Location: Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre

Price: Concession $75; Full $99

More info here and generationyou.com.au

5. Intimidation and repression in Uganda – Castan Centre event

Uganda’s February elections saw President Yoweri Museveni win his fifth term as president, extending an uninterrupted 30-year stint in office.

Worsening restrictions on freedom of speech and assembly in the lead up to the elections cast serious doubt over whether they were conducted in a free and fair manner.

Join Ugandan human rights lawyer Nicholas Opiyo and Human Rights Watch Senior Africa Researcher Maria Burnett as they examine Uganda’s failure to make progress on human rights issues, and what can be done to ensure its citizens can freely exercise fundamental human rights.

Date: 19 April 2016

Time: 6.00pm to 7.15pm

Venue: Monash University Law Chambers, Seminar Room 3, Level 2, 555 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne

RSVP: castan.centre@monash.edu or telephone 03 9905 3327

For full details please click here.

6. The Future of Lawyering: facing the big challenges in the 21st century

This panel brings together a number of professionals from across the legal sector to discuss the future of lawyering in Australia.

The panellists will explore some of the big legal practice challenges of today, including graduate employment prospects in an increasingly crowded market.

The panellists will also explore the global move towards ‘experiential’ and ‘work integrated learning’ and consider how this and other initiatives might help improve law students’ competitiveness in and preparedness for future employment.

Date: Thursday 19 May 2016

Time: 6.00pm

Venue: Monash University Law Chambers, 555 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne

RSVP: Thursday 12 May online here

For full details please click here.

7. The inaugural Sue Campbell Oration presented by Professor Peter Joy

Published by the Journal of Professional Legal Education in 1991, Sue Campbell’s Blueprint for a Clinical Program highlighted the benefits of clinical legal education to both students and staff alike.

At the time of publication there were only two full-scale clinical legal education programs operating in Australian Law Faculties – one at Monash, established in 1975 and the context of Sue’s discussion, and one established in 1981 at the University of New South Wales.

Since that time, however, over 70% of Australia’s thirty-six law schools have developed clinical programs, with Sue’s article – and the strategies it offered other faculties – truly serving as a blueprint for this expansion. Not only has clinical legal education expanded greatly in Australia, it has now spread throughout the world.

The Susan Campbell Oration will review the state of clinical legal education in Australia and elsewhere; evaluate the impact of the strategies that Sue set forth; discuss where clinical legal education is today; and suggest a blueprint for a robust and innovative future.

Date: Wednesday 11 May 2016

Time: 5:30-7:30pm

Venue: Monash Law Chambers, 555 Lonsdale St, Melbourne

RSVP: Wednesday 4 May 2016, register HERE

Light refreshments will be provided.

For further information please click here.

8. Young people & the law

Migrant Resource Centre North West will present a panel of experts during Law Week 2016 to discuss a range of legal issues affecting young people, their relatives and carers.

Topics will include homelessness, drugs and alcohol, discrimination and human rights. Several young people will also share their own experiences with the law.

Date: Friday 20 May 2016

Time: 9.30am – 12.30pm

Location: State Library of Victoria, Melbourne CBD

Cost: Free

RSVP essential. Book tickets (and more info) here.

1. Book Launch – United States Migrant Interdiction and the Detention of Refugees in Guantánamo Bay

Australia’s detention of asylum seekers in Nauru and Papua New Guinea is modelled on the long standing US Migrant Interdiction Program which includes the detention of refugees by the US in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

This new book by Dr Azadeh Dastyari examines the US’ compliance with its legal obligations as it interdicts asylum seekers at sea, detains refugees in its immigration detention centre in Guantánamo Bay and resettles refugees in third countries. It asks what lessons can be learned from the world’s longest running offshore processing and detention regime.

To be launched by Senator Sam Dastyari.

Date: Tuesday 17 May 2016

Time: 6.00pm – 7.30pm

Venue: Monash Law Chambers, 555 Lonsdale St, Melbourne

RSVP: Tuesday 10 May 2016, online here

Please find more information here.

2. 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.

3. generationYOU

Is your career freaking you out?

generationYOU is a one day event that aims to help you stand out of the crowd and become the exception to the rule, not the stereotype.

Meet community and industry speakers who run hands-on and honest sessions around employer expectations and skills such as problem solving, networking, building a personal brand, communication and more.

Featuring speakers from companies such Etsy, Australia Post, Ashurst, Arup, Melbourne University, The Foundation for Young Australians and more.

Date: Friday 22 April 2016

Time: 8.30am – 4.30pm

Location: Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre

Price: Concession $75; Full $99

More info here and generationyou.com.au

4. Intimidation and repression in Uganda – Castan Centre event

Uganda’s February elections saw President Yoweri Museveni win his fifth term as president, extending an uninterrupted 30-year stint in office.

Worsening restrictions on freedom of speech and assembly in the lead up to the elections cast serious doubt over whether they were conducted in a free and fair manner.

Join Ugandan human rights lawyer Nicholas Opiyo and Human Rights Watch Senior Africa Researcher Maria Burnett as they examine Uganda’s failure to make progress on human rights issues, and what can be done to ensure its citizens can freely exercise fundamental human rights.

Date: 19 April 2016

Time: 6.00pm to 7.15pm

Venue: Monash University Law Chambers, Seminar Room 3, Level 2, 555 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne

RSVP: castan.centre@monash.edu or telephone 03 9905 3327

For full details please click here.

5. The inaugural Sue Campbell Oration presented by Professor Peter Joy

Published by the Journal of Professional Legal Education in 1991, Sue Campbell’s Blueprint for a Clinical Program highlighted the benefits of clinical legal education to both students and staff alike.

At the time of publication there were only two full-scale clinical legal education programs operating in Australian Law Faculties – one at Monash, established in 1975 and the context of Sue’s discussion, and one established in 1981 at the University of New South Wales.

Since that time, however, over 70% of Australia’s thirty-six law schools have developed clinical programs, with Sue’s article – and the strategies it offered other faculties – truly serving as a blueprint for this expansion. Not only has clinical legal education expanded greatly in Australia, it has now spread throughout the world.

The Susan Campbell Oration will review the state of clinical legal education in Australia and elsewhere; evaluate the impact of the strategies that Sue set forth; discuss where clinical legal education is today; and suggest a blueprint for a robust and innovative future.

Date: Wednesday 11 May 2016

Time: 5:30-7:30pm

Venue: Monash Law Chambers, 555 Lonsdale St, Melbourne

RSVP: Wednesday 4 May 2016, register HERE

Light refreshments will be provided.

For further information please click here.

6. Young people & the law

Migrant Resource Centre North West will present a panel of experts during Law Week 2016 to discuss a range of legal issues affecting young people, their relatives and carers.

Topics will include homelessness, drugs and alcohol, discrimination and human rights. Several young people will also share their own experiences with the law.

Date: Friday 20 May 2016

Time: 9.30am – 12.30pm

Location: State Library of Victoria, Melbourne CBD

Cost: Free

RSVP essential. Book tickets (and more info) here.