1. Alumni Seminar Series: Women, Business and the Law

Monash Law students are invited to join our alumni seminar on Thursday 22 September to hear Beverley Honig address the topic of Women, Business and the Law.

On International Women’s Day this year, Beverley Honig was inducted into the 2016 Business Hall of Fame, and 12 months ago the global business consultant, lawyer and author was recognised in the Business Enterprise category of the Australian Financial Review and Westpac 100 Women of Influence Awards.

With a dual degree in Law and Arts from Monash University, Beverley has accumulated more than 20 years’ experience across three continents as a multilingual business and commercial property lawyer.

Please find more information here.

Date: Thursday 22 September 2016

Time: 7:15am registration for a 7:30am start (including an opportunity for questions at the conclusion of the address at 8:30am)

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

Format: Light breakfast followed by Seminar and ‘in conversation’ session

Cost: Free but registration is essential for catering purposes.

RSVP by Thursday 15 September 2016 here*

*Students please enter “Law student” and “Monash University” in the employment section of the registration form.

2. Australian and European Refugee Laws: a Year in Review

Refugee Seminar presented by the French Australian Lawyers Society (Inc) (FALS).

Date: Tuesday 4 October 2016

Time: 5:30 – 8:00pm

Venue: Deakin’s Melbourne City Center, 555 Bourke Street, Melbourne

Cost: $35 for FALS members, $50 for non-members and $25 for students

Register: HERE

Further information on the seminar, including speakers Julian Burnside AO QC and Dr Maria O’Sullivan, can be found here.

3. 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.

4. Free ACJI Webcast: Bill Eddy presents Mediation and High Conflict People

Proudly presented by Monash Australian Centre for Justice Innovation this complimentary webcast featuring Bill Eddy LCSW Esq, President of the High Conflict Institute in California, will explore mediation in high conflict disputes.

Hear about ‘New Ways for Mediation’, a new, highly-structured method developed by Bill Eddy in his professional family mediation practice. It is specifically designed for mediating high-conflict disputes by guiding the parties in using simple self-management skills to their maximum ability.

Bonus: Each registrant will receive a copy of the webcast and Bill’s latest paper, ‘New Ways for Mediation’ after the presentation.

Date: Wednesday 31 August 2016

Time: 2.00pm – 3.00pm AEST

Register here

Registrations close Monday 29 August 2016.

Can’t make the date?

Simply register for this webcast and you will receive the full video recording, slide deck and paper via email. So if your schedule is tight, you can watch it in your own time.

5. Public lecture: Philippines’ ‘War on drugs’

Filipinos overwhelmingly voted Rodrigo R. Duterte as president of the Philippines in May 2016 after he made a campaign promise to eliminate crime and illegal drugs in the first months of his administration.

Even before he took office on June 30, 2016, the Philippine National Police launched Duterte’s “war on drugs” that saw hundreds of suspected criminals and alleged drug dealers gunned down in police operations.

Running parallel with these operations are summary killings perpetrated by unidentified gunmen. By the end of July — barely a month in office – more than 500 were killed by the police and these unknown perpetrators

Join Human Rights Watch Philippines Researcher, Carlos Conde, as he discusses the worsening human rights situation in the Philippines, and why the Philippines government should publicly denounce unlawful killings and reiterate support for the rule of law.

Full event details here.

Date: Friday 16 September 2016

Time: 12.30pm – 1.30pm

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

RSVP: Register here

1. Australian and European Refugee Laws: a Year in Review

Refugee Seminar presented by the French Australian Lawyers Society (Inc) (FALS).

Date: Tuesday 4 October 2016

Time: 5:30 – 8:00pm

Venue: Deakin’s Melbourne City Center, 555 Bourke Street, Melbourne

Cost: $35 for FALS members, $50 for non-members and $25 for students

Register: HERE

Further information on the seminar, including speakers Julian Burnside AO QC and Dr Maria Sullivan, can be found 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. Public lecture: Philippines’ ‘War on drugs’

Filipinos overwhelmingly voted Rodrigo R. Duterte as president of the Philippines in May 2016 after he made a campaign promise to eliminate crime and illegal drugs in the first months of his administration.

Even before he took office on June 30, 2016, the Philippine National Police launched Duterte’s “war on drugs” that saw hundreds of suspected criminals and alleged drug dealers gunned down in police operations.

Running parallel with these operations are summary killings perpetrated by unidentified gunmen. By the end of July — barely a month in office – more than 500 were killed by the police and these unknown perpetrators

Join Human Rights Watch Philippines Researcher, Carlos Conde, as he discusses the worsening human rights situation in the Philippines, and why the Philippines government should publicly denounce unlawful killings and reiterate support for the rule of law.

Full event details here.

Date: Friday 16 September 2016

Time: 12.30pm – 1.30pm

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

RSVP: Register here

1. Australian and European Refugee Laws: a Year in Review

Refugee Seminar presented by the French Australian Lawyers Society (Inc) (FALS).

Date: Tuesday 4 October 2016

Time: 5:30 – 8:00pm

Venue: Deakin’s Melbourne City Center, 555 Bourke Street, Melbourne

Cost: $35 for FALS members, $50 for non-members and $25 for students

Register: HERE

Further information on the seminar, including speakers Julian Burnside AO QC and Dr Maria Sullivan, can be found 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.

1. Australian and European Refugee Laws: a Year in Review

Refugee Seminar presented by the French Australian Lawyers Society (Inc) (FALS).

Date: Tuesday 4 October 2016

Time: 5:30 – 8:00pm

Venue: Deakin’s Melbourne City Center, 555 Bourke Street, Melbourne

Cost: $35 for FALS members, $50 for non-members and $25 for students

Register: HERE

Further information on the seminar, including speakers Julian Burnside AO QC and Dr Maria Sullivan, can be found 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.

1. AUSTRALIAN AND EUROPEAN REFUGEE LAWS: A year in review

Refugee Seminar presented by the French Australian Lawyers Society (Inc) (FALS):

Date: Tuesday 4 October 2016

Time: 5:30 – 8:00pm

Venue: Deakin’s Melbourne City Center, 555 Bourke Street, Melbourne

Cost: $35 for FALS members, $50 for non-members and $25 for students

Register: HERE

Further information on the seminar, including speakers Julian Burnside AO QC and Dr Maria Sullivan, can be found 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.

1. The VAT / GST Seminar – Input Tax Deductibility and Neutrality

Presented by the Federal Court of Australia and Melbourne Law School:

Date: Wednesday 3 August 2016

Time: 5:00 – 6:30pm

Venue: Federal Court, Court 8A, Level 8 William Street, Melbourne

Cost: Free

Register: Click here to register by Monday, 1 August 2016.

Light refreshments to follow from 6.30pm for Melbourne talk.

This event will be video streamed live to courts in Sydney, Perth, Canberra, Brisbane, Adelaide, Darwin, Hobart. Details of these venues are available on our webpage.

See attached Flyer

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. Willem C Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot

Formal applications for students interested in the Willem C Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot for 2016-17 are now open.

The moot will be held in Hong Kong and Vienna in late March to mid April 2017.

Participation for both LLB and JD students can count for your degree as a 6 point subject.

Please find application form and more information about the moot here.

Please note applications are due by Friday 5 August 2016 at 6.00pm.

If you have any queries, please email Lisa Spagnolo (lisa.spagnolo@monash.edu).

1. The VAT / GST Seminar – Input Tax Deductibility and Neutrality

Presented by the Federal Court of Australia and Melbourne Law School:

Date: Wednesday 3 August 2016

Time: 5:00 – 6:30pm

Venue: Federal Court, Court 8A, Level 8 William Street, Melbourne

Cost: Free

Register: Click here to register by Monday, 1 August 2016.

Light refreshments to follow from 6.30pm for Melbourne talk.

This event will be video streamed live to courts in Sydney, Perth, Canberra, Brisbane, Adelaide, Darwin, Hobart. Details of these venues are available on our webpage.

See attached Flyer

2. 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.

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. Student rate tickets are limited.

Speaker line up 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.

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. Willem C Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot

Formal applications for students interested in the Willem C Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot for 2016-17 are now open.

The moot will be held in Hong Kong and Vienna in late March to mid April 2017.

Participation for both LLB and JD students can count for your degree as a 6 point subject.

Please find application form and more information about the moot here.

Please note applications are due by Friday 5 August 2016 at 6.00pm.

If you have any queries, please email Lisa Spagnolo (lisa.spagnolo@monash.edu).

1. Willem C Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot

Formal applications for students interested in the Willem C Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot for 2016-17 are now open.

The moot will be held in Hong Kong and Vienna in late March to mid April 2017.

Participation for both LLB and JD students can count for your degree as a 6 point subject.

Please find application form and more information about the moot here.

Please note applications are due by Friday 5 August 2016 at 6.00pm.

If you have any queries, please email Lisa Spagnolo (lisa.spagnolo@monash.edu).

2. Law Oration 2016: Of Mozart, Modern Drafting & the Criminal Lawyers’ Lament

Hear from the Honourable Justice Mark Weinberg at this year’s Law Oration.

Proudly presented by Victoria Law Foundation, the annual Law Oration explores important legal issues that affect our lives and shape our community.

Date: Thursday 21 July 2016

Time: 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm (doors open at 5:30 pm)

Where: Banco Court, Supreme Court of Victoria, 210 William Street, Melbourne

Cost: Free

Speaker: The Honourable Justice Weinberg, Court of Appeal, Supreme Court of Victoria

Register: Click here to register

For more information please contact VLF’s Events Manager, Georgia Angus, on (03) 9604 8100, or email contact@victorialawfoundation.org.au.

3. VADR CPD event: Restorative Justice, Sexual Assault & Family Violence

For some 40 years, women’s groups and some of the legal fraternity have fought for legislative changes to make the judicial system take sexual assault seriously. Why would we even consider looking at restorative justice for sexual assault and family violence?

Carolyn Worth has been the Manager of the South Eastern Centre Against Sexual Assault (CASA) for 23 years. Prior to this position she worked for 10 years in the Family Court of Australia as a Court Counsellor.

She is the spokesperson for the CASA Forum which is the peak body for the Centres Against Sexual Assault in Victoria. Carolyn sits on a number of advisory committees and is the recipient of the Robin Clark Memorial Award, is on the Victorian Honour Roll of Women and has received an OAM.

Please find more details about the event here.

Date: Monday 18 July 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)

Finger food will be provided and drinks are available at bar prices. The event carries one CPD point. If you would like to attend, please email Alison at admin@vadr.asn.au.

Please feel free to pass on the attached flyer to anyone you think may be interested.

4. 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.

5. 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. Student rate tickets are limited.

Speaker line up 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.

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.

1. Law Oration 2016: Of Mozart, Modern Drafting & the Criminal Lawyers’ Lament

Hear from the Honourable Justice Mark Weinberg at this year’s Law Oration.

Proudly presented by Victoria Law Foundation, the annual Law Oration explores important legal issues that affect our lives and shape our community.

Date: Thursday 21 July 2016

Time: 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm (doors open at 5:30 pm)

Where: Banco Court, Supreme Court of Victoria, 210 William Street, Melbourne

Cost: Free

Speaker: The Honourable Justice Weinberg, Court of Appeal, Supreme Court of Victoria

Register: Click here to register

For more information please contact VLF’s Events Manager, Georgia Angus, on (03) 9604 8100, or email contact@victorialawfoundation.org.au.

2. VADR CPD event: Restorative Justice, Sexual Assault & Family Violence

For some 40 years, women’s groups and some of the legal fraternity have fought for legislative changes to make the judicial system take sexual assault seriously. Why would we even consider looking at restorative justice for sexual assault and family violence?

Carolyn Worth has been the Manager of the South Eastern Centre Against Sexual Assault (CASA) for 23 years. Prior to this position she worked for 10 years in the Family Court of Australia as a Court Counsellor.

She is the spokesperson for the CASA Forum which is the peak body for the Centres Against Sexual Assault in Victoria. Carolyn sits on a number of advisory committees and is the recipient of the Robin Clark Memorial Award, is on the Victorian Honour Roll of Women and has received an OAM.

Please find more details about the event here.

Date: Monday 18 July 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)

Finger food will be provided and drinks are available at bar prices. The event carries one CPD point. If you would like to attend, please email Alison at admin@vadr.asn.au.

Please feel free to pass on the attached flyer to anyone you think may be interested.

3. 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.

4. 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.

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 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.

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. 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.

4. 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.