Law Student Gazette

1. Postgraduate Information Lunch

Attention to all final year students. Enjoy a free lunch on us and expand your knowledge of your postgraduate study.

Come and join Professor Ann Monotti, Associate Dean (Postgraduate), for lunch and learn about your postgraduate study options at Monash University. This is a perfect opportunity to explore and learn about the fantastic range of postgraduate courses we have on offer, including our specialist masters and graduate diplomas, and ask questions of our admissions staff.

Date: Wednesday 24 March, 2010
Time: 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
Venue: Monash University Law Chambers,
              472 Bourke Street,
              Melbourne

Seating is limited, so book early to avoid disappointment.

To register please visit:
www.law.monash.edu.au/postgraduate/info-sessions.html

2. Teach For Australia

Teach For Australia is a new not-for-profit organisation that offers a 2 year leadership and career development program designed for outstanding graduates from all degree disciplines.  We train and support university graduates to tackle the challenge of teaching and leading children in Australia’s most disadvantaged schools to achieve success beyond their expectations. It will be a fantastic opportunity to find out more about the program, the application process and speak to representatives of Teach For Australia. 

Date: Tuesday 16 March, 2010
Time: 1 pm – 2 pm
Venue: Lecture Theatre S2, Building 25, 
              Monash University, Clayton

For more information see:
www.teachforaustralia.org/

1. Postgraduate Information Lunch

Attention to all final year students. Enjoy a free lunch on us and expand your knowledge of your postgraduate study.

Come and join Professor Ann Monotti, Associate Dean (Postgraduate), for lunch and learn about your postgraduate study options at Monash University. This is a perfect opportunity to explore and learn about the fantastic range of postgraduate courses we have on offer, including our specialist masters and graduate diplomas, and ask questions of our admissions staff.

Date: Wednesday 24 March, 2010
Time: 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
Venue: Monash University Law Chambers,
              472 Bourke Street,
              Melbourne

Seating is limited, so book early to avoid disappointment.

To register please visit:
www.law.monash.edu.au/postgraduate/info-sessions.html

2. The Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience

There’s a revolution on campus.  It comes dressed in black hoodies, with a mission to smash inequalities in Indigenous education.  It’s called AIME – the Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience. 

AIME partners university students one-on-one with Indigenous high school students from the local area in a mentoring relationship.  Put simply, AIME brings Indigenous high school students into contact with university students in a way that gives them the chance to get through school.

AIME is at your campus in 2010. AIME started in 2005 out of the University of Sydney with 25 Uni students putting their hands up to mentor 25 Indigenous students in Redfern. They put their hands up to leave a legacy.

Now in 2010 AIME will be working with close to 1000 Indigenous students across the East Coast of Australia. It’s an enormous vote of confidence from the public that we’re able to start working with Australia. You can be part of this.

We ask you to give up one hour a week (outside uni commitments) over 17 weeks on a Friday. That’s 17 hours, which could change an Aboriginal kid’s life.

AIME will drive an education revolution across Australia for Indigenous students. We cannot do it without the belief and commitment from you.

To hear the AIME message and ask any questions, get along to info sessions at:
Date: Wednesday 10 March
Time: 12 pm, 1 pm, 2 pm
Venue: L4, Go8, Go8

An info stall will be run the basement that day, where you will meet your Program Manager Simone Carré.

For queries contact:
sc@aimementoring.com.

For more information see:
www.aimementoring.com
www.youtube.com/aimementoring#p/u/15/HxrEJ6mzXrI

1. The Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience

There’s a revolution on campus.  It comes dressed in black hoodies, with a mission to smash inequalities in Indigenous education.  It’s called AIME – the Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience. 

AIME partners university students one-on-one with Indigenous high school students from the local area in a mentoring relationship.  Put simply, AIME brings Indigenous high school students into contact with university students in a way that gives them the chance to get through school.

AIME is at your campus in 2010. AIME started in 2005 out of the University of Sydney with 25 Uni students putting their hands up to mentor 25 Indigenous students in Redfern. They put their hands up to leave a legacy.

Now in 2010 AIME will be working with close to 1000 Indigenous students across the East Coast of Australia. It’s an enormous vote of confidence from the public that we’re able to start working with Australia. You can be part of this.

We ask you to give up one hour a week (outside uni commitments) over 17 weeks on a Friday. That’s 17 hours, which could change an Aboriginal kid’s life.

 AIME will drive an education revolution across Australia for Indigenous students. We cannot do it without the belief and commitment from you.

 To hear the AIME message and ask any questions, get along to info sessions at:

Date: Wednesday 10 March, 2010
Time: 12 pm, 1 pm, 2 pm
Venue: L4, Go8, Go8

An info stall will be run the basement that day, where you will meet your Program Manager Simone Carré.

For queries contact:
sc@aimementoring.com.

For more information see:
www.aimementoring.com
www.youtube.com/aimementoring#p/u/15/HxrEJ6mzXrI

1. Iran: Between the Sovereignty of God and Sovereignty of People 

Professor Amin Saikal is a Professor of Political Science and Director of the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies (The Middle East and Central Asia) at the Australian National University.  He is the author of numerous works on the Middle East, Central Asia and Russia.  Professor Saikal’s presentation will focus on recent events in Iran. 

Date: Wednesday 17 February, 2010
Time: 6 pm – 7 pm
Venue: Monash University Law Chamber,
              472 Bourke Street,
              Melbourne
RSVP: castan.centre@law.monash.edu.au
             or 9905 3327

For further information see:
www.law.monash.edu.au/castancentre/events/2010/saikal-lecture.html.

2.Israeli Society Today: Clashing and Converging Identities

The Leon Liberman Chair in Modern Israel Studies is hosting a Graduate Workshop.

Date: Tuesday 16 March – Wednesday 17 March, 2010
Venue: Monash University, 
              900 Dandenong Road,
              Caulfield East
Topic: Israeli Society Today: Clashing and Converging Identities

RSVP: tammy.reznik@arts.monash.edu.au

 Program runs over two days includes sessions on:

Differentials and Common Denominators in present day Israel.
The Holocaust’s Stamp on Israeli Identities
The Religious-Secular Tension Field
Middle Israel and Converging Identities
 
For more information please see:
Israeli Society Today ad

For registration forms please see:
Israeli Society Today

1.  Free Lecture: Iran: Between the Sovereignty of God and Sovereignty of People 

Professor Amin Saikal is a Professor of Political Science and Director of the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies (The Middle East and Central Asia) at the Australian National University.  He is the author of numerous works on the Middle East, Central Asia and Russia.  Professor Saikal’s presentation will focus on recent events in Iran. 

 Date: Wednesday 17 February, 2010
Time: 6 pm – 7 pm
Venue: Monash University Law Chambers,
              472 Bourke Street,
              Melbourne
RSVP: castan.centre@law.monash.edu.au 
             or phone (03) 9905 3327

 For further information see: www.law.monash.edu.au/castancentre/events/2010/saikal-lecture.html.

 2. Twilight Soiree with The Honourable Justice Kevin Bell

The Honourable Justice Kevin Bell is a Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria, and since February 2008 has served as the President of the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal. He has long shown an interest in social justice issues.

Date: Wednesday 24 February, 2010
Time: Canapes from 5:30pm,
           address from 6:15-7:15pm,
           followed by coffee and cake
Venue: Graduate House, 220 Leicester St, Carlton
Topic: Human rights under the Charter and the practices of psychiatry and 
            psychology: reflections on Kracke
RSVP: Friday 19 February, 2010

For attendance form please see:
Twilight Soiree with the Hon. Justice Kevin Bell

For further information contact:
info@conorg.com.au or phone (03) 9349 2220

1. Free Public Lecture: Out to Sea: Refugee Policy Under the Rudd Government 

Jessie Taylor is a Melbourne lawyer, refugee advocate and the author of the recent report ‘Behind Australian Doors: Examining the Conditions of Detention of Asylum Seekers in Indonesia’. 

Jessie will explore the difficulties surrounding Australia’s refugee policy and will discuss the changes that have occurred to the policy under the Rudd government. 

For further information visit:
www.law.monash.edu.au/castancentre/events/2010/taylor-lecture.html

Date: Thursday, 11 February 2010
Time: 6 pm to 7 pm
Venue: Monash University Law Chambers,
             472 Bourke Street,
             Melbourne
RSVP: castan.centre@law.monash.edu.au
            or 03 9905 3327

1.Moot Court Demonstration:The Art of Persuading Judges

Top advocates from Australia and the United States will display their skills before some of the most distinguished jurists of these two countries, including US Supreme Court Associate Justice, the Honourable Antonin Scalia. The Moot concerns a hypothetical cross-border dispute with parallel proceedings in the US and Australia.

Date: Wednesday, 10 February 2010
Time: 2.30 pm-5.00 pm,
                reception afterwards: 5.00 pm-6.30 pm.
Venue: Sydney Law School
                  New Law School Building,
                  Eastern Avenue, 
                  University of Sydney (Camperdown Campus)

Registration

While attendance at the full conference attracts a fee, young lawyers (under 35) and law students wishing to attend only the 10 February session at Sydney Law School are invited to attend free of charge. Registration is essential – please fill in the details on the first page of the registration form (without electing conference registration), and email to intilex@staff.abanet.org noting your intention to attend only the 10 February session.

For a copy of the full program, registration fees and registration form, please see The Art of Persuading Judges

For further information contact intilex@staff.abanet.org

1. 2009 Monash Transition, Retention and Progression Forum

With the release of the Bradley Review of Australian Higher Education, the Deputy Prime Minister, the Hon Julia Gillard MP, has called for major structural reform of the sector, declaring at a recent Universities Australia conference that “we must focus on students, their experiences and pathways, the knowledge they gain, the skills they will use, the public good they will deliver”, creating a new “student-centred, demand-driven” higher education system.

Please join academic and professional staff from other Victorian universities and secondary schools in active discussion and presentations that showcase approaches to the numerous challenges set out in the Bradley Review.

Law Faculty presenters include Lloyd England, Anthony Lester and Michael Beaconsfield.

Further information including the full program and keynote speakers:
http://www.monash.edu.au/cemo/monash_transition_forum_2009/Program.html

2. Getting a Job in the Legal Profession in Australia – An Event for International Law Students and Recently Admitted International Lawyers

Leo Cussen Institute invites international law students and international lawyers admitted to practice in Australia from 2007 onwards to an informal networking event.

Date: Wednesday 9 December, 2009
Time: 5.30 pm – 7 pm
Venue: Level 1, 360 Bourke Street, Melbourne (Leo Cussen Institute)
RSVP: Sophie Lambrou:  slambrou@leocussen.vic.edu.au

Download the flyer:
PTC Getting a Job Flyer [PDF]

3. Conference – Cross Border Collaboration, Convergence and Conflict

The Internationalisation of Domestic Law and it’s Consequences

Date: 9 February, 2010
Venue: Banco Court, 184 Phillip St, Supreme Court of NSW, Sydney

The Art of Persuading Judges

Date: 10 February, 2010
Venue: Sydney Law School, University of Sydney

Download the full program and registration form:
Brochure for Sydney Conference [PDF]

1. Community Ceremony for the Opening of the Legal Year 2010

You are invited to attend the Community Ceremony for the Opening of the Legal Year 2010, an initiative run by the International Commission of Jurists Victoria. The aim of the ceremony is to mark the beginning of the legal year with a secular public event where a broad cross-section of our community can attend.  This includes the legal profession as well as welfare groups, women’s groups, charitable groups, politicians, academics, legal aid groups, indigenous groups, ethnic groups, advocacy groups, religious groups, students and members of the general public. The need to include the broader community in such a ceremony stems from the recognition that any legal system cannot operate without the support and influence of the people it serves. The event is also an excellent opportunity to gain more knowledge about the legal profession and its role in the community as well as a chance to meet some esteemed speakers.

Speakers:

– Professor David de Kretser AC – Governor of Victoria
– David Toovey – Youth speaker and former Oaktree Foundation CEO
– The Honourable Catherine Branson QC – Australian Human Rights Commission President
– The Honourable Justice Sally Brown AM – Host and International Commission of Jurists (Vic) President

Date: Monday 1 February, 2010
Time: 9 am for 9.30 am Start
Venue: Queen’s Hall, Parliament House, Melbourne
RSVP: Tel: (03) 9225 8414 or Fax: (03) 9670 7086
Email: icj-vic@vicbar.com.au
Mail: ICJ(Vic), C/- List A, 205 William St, Melbourne
DX: 90 Melb
Dress: Business Attire

Information provided on behalf of the ICJ with the assistance of Kirsten Hawker and Nicola Giarratana in conjunction with the Monash Law School Ambassador Program.

2. JD and PG Joint Information Session

Date: Wednesday 2 December, 2009
Time: 6 – 7 pm
Venue: Monash University Law Chambers, 472 Bourke St, Melbourne

Further information and to register – PG:
http://www.law.monash.edu.au/postgraduate/info-sessions.html

Further information and to register – JD:
http://www.law.monash.edu.au/jd/information-sessions.html

1. PG and JD Joint Information Session

Date: Wednesday 2 December, 2009
Time: 6 – 7 pm
Venue: Monash University Law Chambers, 472 Bourke St, Melbourne

 Further information and to register – PG:
http://www.law.monash.edu.au/postgraduate/info-sessions.html

Further information and to register – JD:
http://www.law.monash.edu.au/jd/information-sessions.html

END OF GAZETTE 24/11/09