Law Student Gazette

1. Technological Innovation in Corporate Financing: Regulatory Challenges for the Fintech Era

Date: Monday 12 November 2018

Time: 9:00am

Venue: Monash Law Chambers, 555 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne

Tickets:  Student price $80 / Full price $420 Buy tickets here

Over the past few years technical innovations in the financial sphere have transformed the way we “do” finance and the economic opportunities that this offers.

The “Fintech” transformation of the traditional financial sector has offered both opportunities and presented challenges for those engaged in the financial sector, those who rely on the financial sector to undertake economic endeavours and regulators that have been tasked with the increasingly complex oversight of financial activity since the crisis.

Learn more about this Fintech symposium.

Topics to be discussed include:

• Expansion of peer-to-peer and equity crowdfunding as a source of funding for start-ups and small-to-medium enterprises.
• Use of blockchain technology for the purposes of fundraising, for instance, through ICOs.
• Other technological financing innovations that are emerging and how these are promoting economic growth and development.

Confirmed speakers include:

• Prof. the Hon. Marilyn Warren AC QC, Vice-Chancellor’s Professorial Fellow, Office of the VC & President, Monash University [Opening Address]
• Luca Enriques, Allen & Overy Professor of Corporate Law, Oxford University [Keynote]
• John Price, Commissioner, ASIC, member of Council of Financial Regulators and sponsor of ASIC’s innovation hub
• Stan Roche, Senior Adviser – Financial Services and FinTech, International Operations, Austrade
• Steve Kourabas, Lecturer, Monash University Law School

2. Monash Law Breakfast: Investor Choice in Global Security Markets

Monash Faculty of Law is proud to be hosting Luca Enriques, Allen & Overy Professor of Corporate Law, Oxford University to present on the issue of investor choice in global security markets.

Hear about Professor Enriques’ recent paper, which forms part of the first phase of the New Special Study of the Securities Markets Project, explores how globalisation has affected the operation of securities markets and the challenges this poses for their regulation.

Date: 14 November 2018

Time: 7:30 am – 8:30 am

1. Future Work Future Leaders conference

Prepare for the future of work at the Future Work Future Leaders conference on Thursday 13 September, at Clayton campus.

Hear from Google, EY, Thankyou Group, Marita Cheng and others who can help you make sense of global megatrends.

You could also win an iPad mini by joining our competition on the day! Find out more and register here.

2. Mocha Is Not Coffee! Fringe Festival play written and directed by Monash Law student

Mocha Is Not Coffee! is a new work written and directed by Verity Norbury which follows the story of four highly competitive (and self-destructive) law students. It’s all fun and terror until one goes missing!

This performance is being used as part of the playwright’s Honours Thesis, which is looking at the ways in which performance methodologies may open up a conversation around mental health and law school.

Event details

Date: 24 September – 27 September

Time: 7:30pm-8:40pm

Venue: Chapel Off Chapel The Mezzanine Space

Cost: Preview $12.50; Full $20.00; Student/Pensioner/Concession/Group $15.00

To purchase tickets see here

3. Prato and Malaysia Programs 2019- Information Sessions

Thinking of studying in the Prato or Malaysia Law Program 2019? If you want to find out more, you are warmly invited to come along to one of these information sessions. No RSVP required.

Postgraduate Information Session

Date: Tuesday 16 October

Time: 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Venue: Monash University Law Chambers, Seminar Room 2.

Undergraduate Information Session

Date: Wednesday 17 October

Time: 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Venue: Room 331, Learning and Teaching Building, Clayton Campus.

Date: Monday 20 August, 2018
Time: 1 – 2pm
Venue: Monash University, Monash Club, Long Room, 32 Exhibition Walk, Clayton Campus
RSVP: Monday 13 August via this LINK

This is a free event. Any queries contact law-marketing@monash.edu

Presented by The Honourable Chief Justice Catherine Holmes, Supreme Court of Queensland.

Section 44(i) of the Constitution and the dual citizenship cases of the last two years have attracted an extraordinary amount of public attention; the other subsections of s 44 – concerning disqualification for criminal conviction, bankruptcy, pecuniary interest and holding an office of profit under the Crown – less so. They, however, are equally fraught with difficulties of interpretation, and in at least one instance pose a challenge to representative democracy less easily resolved than requiring renunciation of foreign citizenship.

This lecture considers what emerges from the 1890’s Convention Debates about the subsections’ evolution, including some proposed amendments which, had they been accepted, would have radically changed the ramifications of s 44; the jurisprudence which exists in relation to the subsections, and the extent to which clarification has been achieved; and some remaining uncertainties with the potential to cause future headaches for politicians, the High Court and the public.

Learn more

3. RBG: Castan Centre fundraising film event

1. Panel discussion: Rethinking drug policy in Victoria

Monash Law’s Australian Centre for Justice Innovation and Law, Health & Wellbeing Group have partnered to host a panel discussion exploring the justice system implications of the Victorian Parliament’s recent inquiry into drug law reform.

Speakers:

• Associate Professor Kate Seear
• Fiona Patten MLC
• Mick Palmer AO APM
• Magistrate Tony Parsons

MC:

• Associate Professor Becky Batagol

Date: Monday 30 July 2018
Time: 5:30-7pm
Venue: Monash Law Chambers, 555 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne

Register here

2. Fighting the Death Penalty: Making a difference in the long term

Join this conversation between Julian McMahon SC and Richard Bourke, Director, Louisiana Capital Assistance Centre.

Join us for a rare chance to see one of America’s leading experts being put on the stand to discuss his challenging work.

Having worked at LCAC since 2002, Richard Bourke has been on the front line of anti-death penalty case work in the southern states of the USA.

Richard will be asked to shed light on the key difficulties his clients face, and on differences between death penalty cases in the USA and Asia. He will reflect on the strategies and debates being played out in his work and nationally, to bring about abolition.

Event details
Date: Thursday 9 August
Venue: Monash Law Chambers, 555 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne
Time: 5.30pm for 6pm – 7pm (followed by refreshments) 
Cost: Free to attend
RSVP: Friday 3 August HERE

More info here.

1. Mock parole hearing at the County Court tomorrow

As part of Law Week 2018, the Adult Parole Board will run Parole, you decide – a mock parole hearing at the County Court of Victoria on Saturday 19 May at 12 noon. The scenario will focus on a prisoner who has been convicted and sentenced for aggravated burglary following a home invasion.

His Honour Peter Couzens, Chairperson of the Board, will present the one-hour session. The three-member panel will include Her Honour Judge Sue Pullen, judicial member and County Court Judge, Kieran Walshe, community member and former Deputy Commissioner of Victoria Police, and Stephen Farrow, full-time member and former CEO of Sentencing Advisory Council.

At the conclusion of the event, students will have the opportunity to speak with His Honour Peter Couzens, the panel members, and other Board members who will be present.

Find more information here.

2. Annual Castan Centre for Human Rights Law Conference 2018

We welcome Burmese human rights activist Habiburahman to our exciting list of conference speakers. Habiburahman, widely known as Habib, spent 10 years in Malaysia, including in various Malaysian detention centres, and worked with Burmese political exile groups there, including the Myanmar Ethnic Rohingya Human Rights Organization.

Date: Friday 20 July 2018

Time: 9.00am – 5.00pm

Venue: The Edge, Federation Square, Corner Swanston and Flinders Street, Melbourne

Tickets: Full Time Student/Concession – $90

Visit our conference web page for speaker line up and tickets.

1. Progressive Law Network – upcoming events

The Progressive Law Network (PLN) was founded by students who, overwhelmed by career information focused on commercial law, sought to effect positive change.

Today, the PLN connects students from various disciplines, lawyers and other professionals interested in social justice, environmental and human rights law.

The PLN hosts thought-provoking seminars, provide alternate career information and opportunities for students, create policy submissions and encourage intelligent and informed legal activism and advocacy.

Check out these upcoming events to get involved!

2. Interested in Feminist Approaches to Law?

Join Law staff for a discussion of feminism, gender and law over morning tea.

The newly established Feminist Legal Studies Group at Monash Law is keen to hear from all law students interested in feminist approaches to law. We invite you to a morning tea on 11am-12pm Wednesday 16 May 2018 in Room G02, Learning & Teaching Building, 19 Ancora Imparo Way, Clayton Campus.

The Feminist Legal Studies Group was established in 2016 and comprises around one third of Monash Law academic staff. We aim to make a difference to the lives of women through understanding the subordination of women and contributing to law and policy reform. We do so through our research and teaching, reading groups, a speaker program, conferences and a rich engagement with the wider community. The Feminist Legal Studies Group has been funded until late 2019, with the aim of becoming Australia’s first feminist legal studies centre.

We would like to know what we can do for our students and what our students would like from us. Join us for morning tea and chat with fellow students and academic staff in our faculty committed to feminist approaches to law.

Register your interest: Whether you can come or not please register your interest in knowing more about feminist approaches to law here by 14 May 2018.

All law students welcome (undergraduate, JD, postgraduate, HDR).

An event at Monash Law Chambers will be held later in May.

Any queries? Please contact Associate Professor Becky Batagol, co-convener Feminist Legal Studies Group on Becky.Batagol@monash.edu or 9905 5050.

3. Industry Seminar Series

Beyond Law

4. An industry panel debates the challenges to the sustainability of legal practice in the 21st Century

1. Progressive Law Network – upcoming events

TheProgressive Law Network (PLN) was founded by students who, overwhelmed by career information focused on commercial law, sought to effect positive change.

Today, the PLN connects students from various disciplines, lawyers and other professionals interested in social justice, environmental and human rights law.

The PLN hosts thought-provoking seminars, provide alternate career information and opportunities for students, create policy submissions and encourage intelligent and informed legal activism and advocacy.

Check out these upcoming events to get involved!

2. The Future of Energy

Learn about the Future of Energy in this presentation by Nicole Iseppi, theAssociate Director – Strategy, Economic Development and Communication for Global Centralised Generation for ENGIE.

ENGIE is a French multinational electric utility company which operates in the fields of electricity generation and distribution, natural gas, nuclear and renewable energy.

In this lecture, Nicole will present on the Future of Energy as well as providing career advice and guidance to students.

Date: Monday 30 April 2018

Time: 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Venue: H1 – Menzies Building, 20 Chancellors Walk, Monash University Clayton Campus

RSVP: Free event, registration essential here

1. 2018 Louis Waller Lecture

Victoria was the first place in the world to pass laws governing assisted reproduction.

It all started with the ground-breaking work of Professor Louis Waller, who led the pioneering investigation into the social, ethical and legal issues arising from IVF.

Professor Waller himself will deliver the annual Louis Waller Lecture this year, providing an historical perspective on the lead-up to assisted reproductive treatment legislation in Victoria.

Date: Wednesday 21 March 2018

Time: 5.30 – 7.00pm (5.30 arrival for 6.00pm start – refreshments provided)

Venue: State Library of Victoria, Experimedia Room, 328 Swanston Street, Melbourne

Tickets: Please register to attend this free event now, as places are limited.

2. ‘Writing judgments in, and for, contemporary Australia’ – Justice Debbie Mortimer, Federal Court of Australia

1. 2030: Your future, reimagined – International Women’s Day Breakfast

Technological, economic and social changes are occurring at a rapid pace.

What does this continuing disruption mean for the future of our professions as we know them?

On International Women’s Day (8 March), join an expert line-up of industry leaders who will lay out a blueprint for what’s ahead and how you can be in the box seat.

Check out the event. 

Speakers include:

• Professor The Honourable Marilyn Warren AC QC
  Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria (2003 – 2017)
• Dr Bridie O’Donnell
  Head of the Office for Women in Sport and Recreation, Victoria
• Michelle Mahoney
  Executive Director of Innovation, King & Wood Mallesons
• Her Honour Judge Caroline Kirton 
  Federal Circuit Court of Australia
• MC – Alana Hale 
  LLB Monash Law Student

Date: Thursday 8 March 2018

Time: 7.00am for a 7.30am start – 9.00am finish (plated breakfast included)

Venue: RACV Club, Level 17, 501 Bourke St, Melbourne

Tickets: Purchase here

Price: $38 Monash Students (enter promo code LAWST22D to receive a discounted $38 ticket. NB: You must log into the Monash Shop with your Monash student email address to receive the discount.); $60 single ticket; $420 – table of 8

2. Cory Doctorow: How Do Writers Get Paid?

The past decade or so has seen incredible changes in how we read. New devices, platforms and marketplaces for books have risen and fallen, while traditional publishing houses and booksellers have adapted to suit readers’ changing habits and preferences.

But how have things changed for authors? In the midst of all the upheaval, who’s looking out for them – and what role does copyright play?

Hosted by Monash Law’s Professor Rebecca Giblin, Canadian American activist and author Cory Doctorow will speak with literary agent Clare Forster and copyright expert Zoe Rodriguez to help us get to the bottom of who advocates for what, and who actually benefits.

Learn more: visit the Wheeler Centre website.

Date: Wednesday 28 February 2018

Time: 6.15pm-7.15pm

Venue: The Wheeler Centre, 176 Little Lonsdale St, Melbourne 3000

Tickets: Free, registration essential here

1. The Hon. Justice Michelle Gordon (High Court of Australia) on ‘Corporations and Corporate Insolvency’

Presenting the Australian Academy of Law annual symposium at the Federal Court, with Justice Michelle Gordon as the speaker.

Her Honour will present on the theme ‘Corporations and Corporate Insolvency Jurisdiction of the Federal Court – From Passer-by to Chameleon Lodger’. The Honourable Justice Michelle Gordon was appointed to the High Court of Australia in June 2015. At the time of her appointment, she was a judge of the Federal Court of Australia, to which she was appointed in April 2007.

Date: Monday 23 October 2017

Time: 4:30pm

Venue: Court One (Level 8), Federal Court of Australia, 305 William Street, Melbourne

RSVP and more information here.