Law Student Gazette

1. 2013 Three Minute Thesis Competition

How can you condense years of complex research into a three minute presentation that is interesting for a general audience?

That’s the challenge that awaits graduate research candidates entering the Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition, which is being held at every Australian university and universities in New Zealand, Asia and the South Pacific.

Research master’s and PhD candidates are now encouraged to register for the Monash faculty rounds of the 3MT competition. Faculty round winners will then compete at the Monash final, with the winner representing Monash at the transnational final at the University of Western Sydney. Prizes will be awarded at the faculty and central level, with the Monash winner receiving $1,000 plus an all-expenses paid trip to the University of Western Sydney to represent Monash.

Registrations open on 11 March and close at midnight on 24 May 2013. More information can be found on the intranet.

2. David Ritter, Green Peace CEO

Castan Centre for Human Rights Law, proudly presents: David Ritter, CEO of Greenpeace Australia; Rainbows in the Court Room. How the Law Can Protect Our Environment

Date: Tuesday, 12 March 2013
Time: 6:00pm to 7:15pm
Venue: Monash University Law Chambers, 555 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne
RSVP: castan.centre@monash.edu or telephone 03 9905 3327

Public Lecture – All Welcome

A graduate of the University of Western Australia and the London School of Economics, David Ritter is the Chief Executive Officer of Greenpeace Australia Pacific. He is also an Honorary Fellow of the Faculty of Law at the University of Western Australia. Formerly one of Australia’s leading native title lawyers, David’s books to date include Contesting Native Title and The Native Title Market. David is a regular contributor of op eds to public debate in Australia and is a columnist for the London journal Global Policy. David returned to Australia to take up his current role last year, after five years working for Greenpeace in London.

3. ICJ and ILA Human Rights Seminar with Prof James Crawford SC

The Next 50 years of Public International Law: Critical Developments and Emerging Themes

The International Commission of Jurists together with the The Victorian Chapter of the International Law Association and Allens, is delighted to invite you to a lecture by Professor James Crawford.

The seminar will be held on Thursday, 14 March 2013 at 6pm at the offices of Allens, Level 37, 101 Collins Street, Melbourne. Entry is free. This is an exciting opportunity for members to hear from Professor Crawford, who is a leading public international law scholar and nominee to the International Court of Justice. Further details can be found in the flyer available here.

Kindly note that places are limited, so please note your attendance by RSVP to rsvp.ila.vic.chapter@gmail.com by 7 March 2013.

4. Merry Christmas Yuendumu…And What a Riot it Was

Monash University’s Australian Centre for Justice Innovation (ACJI) invites you to a public seminar by Ippei Okazaki – Director, Community Justice Centre (NT) – and a launch of the online release of Australasian Dispute Resolution, edited by Professor Tania Sourdin.

This seminar will provide a unique ‘mediators perspective’ of a Central Australian Indigenous community coming to grips with: murders, lateral violence, tribal punishment, the media, fake mediators and electronic ghosts – against what was a very sad, but powerful 2 year journey for the Warlpiri people. This will be an interactive seminar with an opportunity for participants to share their views regarding designing cross cultural mediation.

In conjunction with the seminar, there will be a launch for the online release of Australasian Dispute Resolution, edited by Professor Tania Sourdin (Professor of Law and Dispute Resolution, Monash University).

Date: Wednesday, 20 March 2013
Time: 6.15 – 8.15pm
Venue: Monash University Law Chambers, 555 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne VIC 3000
Cost: Free
RSVP Tuesday, 12 March, 2013; email acji@monash.edu

RSVP essential as places are limited. For more information please see flyer.

1. FLAP

Volunteering at the (FLAP)

If you are in your second year of your law degree (and above), we encourage you to put your name on the waiting list to volunteer at Family Law Assistance Program.

For an application form please email the Volunteer Coordinator at mols-volunteer@monash.edu

Please note that FLAP recruits on an as-needed basis several times a year. All students will be placed on a waiting list and will be contacted and provided with information prior to recruitment. Please email Cara at mols-volunteer@monash.edu if you have any further queries.

2. Interested in Human Rights?

For those of you starting here for the first time, welcome to Monash. For those of you returning, welcome back.

If you’re interested in human rights, then you should join the Castan Centre, a research centre based in the Law Faculty. Membership is free and you’ll get invitations to our (mostly free) public events, a copy of our bi-annual newsletter and information on other exciting human rights developments. Most importantly, the Castan Centre also has lots of opportunities for students to be involved throughout the year, including in-house internships, our amazing Global Internships, a moot competition and a careers series. You can find out about all of these programs via email if you’re a member.

Just click here to join.

We’re also very active on social media. You can check us out here:

Follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/CastanCentre
Like us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/TheCastanCentre
Watch us on Youtube: www.youtube.com/castancentre
Read our blog: www.castancentre.com
Read our Global Interns’ blog: www.castanglobalinterns.wordpress.com/

3. Volunteering at MOLS

Are you a first to third year Law student or JD student in your first six trimesters of your degree and looking for the opportunity to gain some invaluable practical legal experience?

Applications for the Wednesday Night Advice Only Session will open 8am 25 February 2013 until 5pm 10 March 2013, please note that late applications will not be accepted.

You are applying to be part of the Wednesday night volunteer team, which provides advice to clients experiencing a wide range of legal problems.

Students are rostered to volunteer on Wednesday nights on a fortnightly basis from 6:15pm until approximately 8:30pm. Commencement date is April 2013.

In each session you will:

• Interview clients along with another law student
• Develop practical legal skills as well as research skills
• Have the opportunity to learn and work under the supervision of qualified lawyers and barristers.

For more information, please see here and here.

1. The 3rd Annual Legal (r)Evolution Conference

The Progressive Law Network presents their 3rd annual Legal (r)Evolution conference People. Planet. Project on the 15th March at Melbourne Law School.

The People Panel will discuss Gene Patenting, the Planet Panel will look into Corporate Environmental Responsibility, and the Project Panel will focus on Building Grassroots Social Justice Programs. Speakers include Bob Brown (Sea Shepard Conservation Society), Denis Nelthorpe (founder of the Taxi Driver Legal Clinic), Dr Luigi Palombi (Genetic Sequence Rights Project, ANU), Rebecca Gilsenan (Principal, Maurice Blackburn Lawyers), David Ritter (Greenpeace) and many others.

To book tickets or for more information visit www.progressivelawnetwork.org.au

1. Seeking Security: Refugee Policy in a Time of Complexity and Change

Castan Centre for Human Rights Law, proudly presents:

Associate Professor Harry Minas
Centre for International Mental Health
Melbourne School of Population Health, University of Melbourne
Alex Pagliaro
Campaigns Coordinator, Amnesty International

Date: Wednesday, 13 February 2013
Time: 6:00pm to 7:15pm
Venue: Monash University Law Chambers, 555 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne
RSVP: castan.centre@monash.edu or telephone 03 9905 3327

Public lecture – all welcome. For more information please see here.

4. Seeking Security: Refugee Policy in a Time of Complexity and Change

Castan Centre for Human Rights Law, proudly presents:

Associate Professor Harry Minas
Centre for International Mental Health
Melbourne School of Population Health, University of Melbourne
Alex Pagliaro
Campaigns Coordinator, Amnesty International

Date: Wednesday, 13 February 2013
Time: 6:00pm to 7:15pm
Venue: Monash University Law Chambers, 555 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne
RSVP: castan.centre@monash.edu or telephone 03 9905 3327

Public lecture – all welcome. For more information please see here.

1. Commercial CPD Seminar- COMPETITION AND CONSUMER ACT 2010: The Australian Consumer Law

On 1 January 2011 the Australian Consumer Law commenced, replacing 20 different consumer laws across the Commonwealth and the States and Territories. Implementing identical consumer protection laws at Commonwealth and State/Territory levels has promoted consistency between jurisdictions. The provisions of the Australian Consumer Law broadly reflect the provisions previously afforded by the Trade Practices Act 1974, with some additional protections added.

This seminar examines the Australian Consumer Law in practice, including enforcement and the jurisdictional and cross-border operation of the Australian Consumer Law with the growth of online cross-border purchasing by consumers.

Chair:
Justice Elizabeth Hollingworth, Supreme Court of Victoria

Presenters:
Professor Justin Malbon, Monash University
Charles Scerri QC
Bill Reid, Partner, Ashurst

Date: Wednesday, 20 February 2013
Time: 5.15 pm – 6.15 pm
Venue: Monash University Law Chambers, 555 Lonsdale St, Melbourne
Cost: Free
RSVP: Friday, 15 February 2013 to law-marketing@monash.edu or 03 9905 2630

2. Tenth Fiat Justitia Lecture – Judicial Independence and Liberty, Democracy and Global Economy

Presented by Professor Shimon Shetreet

Professor Shetreet is a Professor of Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. He holds the Greenblatt chair of public and international law and is the past president of the Sacher Institute of Legislative Research and Comparative Law.

He has in recent years been Herbert Smith Visiting Professor at University of Cambridge,UK and Senior Academic Visitor, Clare College and Visiting Professor at Jagellonian University at Krakow, Poland. He has also served as Visiting Professor of Jewish and international studies at Old Dominion University, Virginia, USA.

Patron:
The Hon. Michael Black AC, Chief Justice of the Federal Court of Australia 1991-2010

Convenors:
Professor H P Lee, Sir John Latham Professor of Law, Monash
University and Professor Marilyn Pittard, Professor of Law, Monash University

Date: Monday, 11 February 2013
Time: 6–7pm (followed by refreshments)
Venue: Monash University Law Chambers, 555 Lonsdale St, Melbourne
Cost: Free
RSVP: Wednesday, 6 February 2013 to law-marketing@monash.edu or 03 9905 2630

1. Careers@Singapore 2013 : Legal Services

Date: Saturday, January 5, 2013
Time: 10 am – 11.30 am
Venue: SMU Administration Building, Level 4, Function 4.1, Singapore Management University, 81 Victoria Street, Singapore 188065

The participating legal organisations are: Baker & McKenzie, KhattaWong, Rodyk & Davidson and the Singapore Legal Service. The event will comprise a presentation and panel discussion followed by networking opportunities.

Attendance is free although you will need to register. For further information, please visit here.

2. Opening of the Legal Year

Celebrate how the community and the legal System work together towards achieving a just society.

Patron
The Honourable Marilyn Warren AC

Guest speakers
The Honourable Diana Bryant AO
The Honourable Lex Lasry
Professor Peter Norden AO

Date: Tuesday 29 January, 2013
Time: 9am for 9:30am
Venue: Waldron Hall, Level 1, County Court of Victoria, Cnr William and Lonsdale Streets
Cost: Free
RSVP: Wednesday 23 January, 2013

Further details can be found here.

3. Where Liberty Lies: Civil Society and Individual Rights in America’s “War on Terror” After 9/11

Presenter: Professor David Cole, Georgetown Law, Washington
Date: Tuesday, 18 December 2012
Time: 12:45pm to 1:45pm
Venue: Monash University Law Chambers, 555 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne
RSVP: castan.centre@monash.edu or telephone 03 9905 3327
Full details: Castan Centre website

Public Lecture- All Welcome

David Cole is a professor at Georgetown University Law Center, a volunteer attorney for the Center for Constitutional Rights, the legal affairs correspondent for The Nation, and a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books. He is the author of six books. His first book, No Equal Justice: Race and Class in the American Criminal Justice System was named Best Non-Fiction Book of 1999 by the Boston Book Review, and best book on an issue of national policy in 1999 by the American Political Science Association.Enemy Aliens: Double Standards and Constitutional Freedoms in the War on Terrorism, received the American Book Award in 2004. Less Safe, Less Free: Why America Is Losing the War on Terror, published in 2007, and coauthored with Jules Lobel, won the Palmer Civil Liberties Prize for best book on national security and civil liberties. His most recent book is The Torture Memos: Rationalizing the Unthinkable (2009).

1. Careers@Singapore 2013 : Legal Services

Date: Saturday, January 5, 2013
Time: 10 am – 11.30 am
Venue: SMU Administration Building, Level 4, Function 4.1, Singapore Management University, 81 Victoria Street, Singapore 188065

The participating legal organisations are: Baker & McKenzie, KhattaWong, Rodyk & Davidson and the Singapore Legal Service. The event will comprise a presentation and panel discussion followed by networking opportunities.

Attendance is free although you will need to register. For further information, please visit here.

2. Opening of the Legal Year

Celebrate how the community and the legal System work together towards achieving a just society.

Patron
The Honourable Marilyn Warren AC

Guest speakers
The Honourable Diana Bryant AO
The Honourable Lex Lasry
Professor Peter Norden AO

Date: Tuesday 29 January, 2013
Time: 9am for 9:30am
Venue: Waldron Hall, Level 1, County Court of Victoria, Cnr William and Lonsdale Streets
Cost: Free
RSVP: Wednesday 23 January, 2013

Further details can be found here.

3. Where Liberty Lies: Civil Society and Individual Rights in America’s “War on Terror” After 9/11

Presenter: Professor David Cole, Georgetown Law, Washington
Date: Tuesday, 18 December 2012
Time: 12:45pm to 1:45pm
Venue: Monash University Law Chambers, 555 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne
RSVP: castan.centre@monash.edu or telephone 03 9905 3327
Full details: Castan Centre website

Public Lecture- All Welcome

David Cole is a professor at Georgetown University Law Center, a volunteer attorney for the Center for Constitutional Rights, the legal affairs correspondent for The Nation, and a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books. He is the author of six books. His first book, No Equal Justice: Race and Class in the American Criminal Justice System was named Best Non-Fiction Book of 1999 by the Boston Book Review, and best book on an issue of national policy in 1999 by the American Political Science Association.Enemy Aliens: Double Standards and Constitutional Freedoms in the War on Terrorism, received the American Book Award in 2004. Less Safe, Less Free: Why America Is Losing the War on Terror, published in 2007, and coauthored with Jules Lobel, won the Palmer Civil Liberties Prize for best book on national security and civil liberties. His most recent book is The Torture Memos: Rationalizing the Unthinkable (2009).

1. Careers@Singapore 2013 : Legal Services

Date: Saturday, January 5, 2013
Time: 10 am – 11.30 am
Venue: SMU Administration Building, Level 4, Function 4.1, Singapore Management University, 81 Victoria Street, Singapore 188065

The participating legal organisations are: Baker & McKenzie, KhattaWong, Rodyk & Davidson and the Singapore Legal Service. The event will comprise a presentation and panel discussion followed by networking opportunities.

Attendance is free although you will need to register. For further information, please visit here.

2. Where Liberty Lies: Civil Society and Individual Rights in America’s “War on Terror” After 9/11

Presenter: Professor David Cole, Georgetown Law, Washington
Date: Tuesday, 18 December 2012
Time: 12:45pm to 1:45pm
Venue: Monash University Law Chambers, 555 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne
RSVP: castan.centre@monash.edu or telephone 03 9905 3327
Full details: Castan Centre website

Public Lecture- All Welcome

David Cole is a professor at Georgetown University Law Center, a volunteer attorney for the Center for Constitutional Rights, the legal affairs correspondent for The Nation, and a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books. He is the author of six books. His first book, No Equal Justice: Race and Class in the American Criminal Justice System was named Best Non-Fiction Book of 1999 by the Boston Book Review, and best book on an issue of national policy in 1999 by the American Political Science Association.Enemy Aliens: Double Standards and Constitutional Freedoms in the War on Terrorism, received the American Book Award in 2004. Less Safe, Less Free: Why America Is Losing the War on Terror, published in 2007, and coauthored with Jules Lobel, won the Palmer Civil Liberties Prize for best book on national security and civil liberties. His most recent book is The Torture Memos: Rationalizing the Unthinkable (2009).

For more information please see here.

1. Deacons HK – Open Day for Students

Deacons is the largest full service independent law firm in Hong Kong. It provides an extensive range of legal services to local and international corporations with business interests across Asia.

Deacons is running an Open Day & Cocktail Reception for students studying overseas on 19th December 2012. This event would allow you to gain greater insights into life at Deacons and give you a chance to talk to partners, associates and trainee solicitors. We welcome students of law degree/juris-doctor degree/combined law degree and non-law students who have taken the Graduate Diploma in Law (Common Professional Examination) with a view to applying for a trainee solicitor position in Hong Kong to attend.

Date: 19 December 2012
Time: 5:00pm – 7:00pm
Venue: Deacons office, 5th Floor, Alexandra House, 18 Chater Road, Central, Hong Kong
Registration: Required (here) by 17 December 2012, 5:00pm (HKT)

Part One – Discover Deacons

Speaker: Charmaine Koo (Partner, Intellectual Property; Graduate Recruitment Partner)
Our associates, trainee solicitors and former vacation students will also share with you their experience with the firm.

Part Two – Cocktail Reception

Come and chat with our partners, associates and trainees who were once in your position. Our graduate recruitment team will be present at this event.

Places are limited. Successful students will receive an email confirmation prior to the open day.

2. Where Liberty Lies: Civil Society and Individual Rights in America’s “War on Terror” After 9/11

Presenter: Professor David Cole, Georgetown Law, Washington
Date: Tuesday, 18 December 2012
Time: 12:45pm to 1:45pm
Venue: Monash University Law Chambers, 555 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne
RSVP: castan.centre@monash.edu or telephone 03 9905 3327
Full details: Castan Centre website

Public Lecture- All Welcome

David Cole is a professor at Georgetown University Law Center, a volunteer attorney for the Center for Constitutional Rights, the legal affairs correspondent for The Nation, and a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books. He is the author of six books. His first book, No Equal Justice: Race and Class in the American Criminal Justice System was named Best Non-Fiction Book of 1999 by the Boston Book Review, and best book on an issue of national policy in 1999 by the American Political Science Association.Enemy Aliens: Double Standards and Constitutional Freedoms in the War on Terrorism, received the American Book Award in 2004. Less Safe, Less Free: Why America Is Losing the War on Terror, published in 2007, and coauthored with Jules Lobel, won the Palmer Civil Liberties Prize for best book on national security and civil liberties. His most recent book is The Torture Memos: Rationalizing the Unthinkable (2009).

He has litigated many significant constitutional cases in the Supreme Court, including Texas v. Johnson and United States v. Eichman, which extended First Amendment protection to flagburning; National Endowment for the Arts v. Finley, which challenged political content restrictions on NEA funding; and most recently, Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project, which challenged the constitutionality of the statute prohibiting “material support” to terrorist groups, which makes speech advocating peace and human rights a crime. He has been involved in many of the nation’s most important cases involving civil liberties and national security, including the case of Maher Arar, a Canadian citizen rendered by U.S. officials to Syria and tortured there.