Law Student Gazette

1. Call for Papers – Federal Law Review

The Zines Prize for Excellence in Legal Research – ANU College of Law

The Federal Law Review is pleased to announce an annual prize to be awarded for excellence in legal research. The prize will be awarded to an author whose is published in the Federal Law Review.

The intention of the prize is to encourage and reward outstanding legal scholarship in Australia and to recognise the many contributions Professor Zines has made to the better understanding of areas of law of interest to the Federal Law Review.

The inaugural winner of the prize was Dr Patrick Emerton, for his article ‘Political Freedoms and Entitlements in the Australian Constitution – An example of Referential Intentions Yielding Unintended Legal Consequences’ (2010) 38Federal Law Review 169.

We welcome submissions to: flr.law@anu.edu.au

2. Call for Papers – Law and Its Accidents: Melbourne Doctoral Forum on Legal Theory

Thursday 15 – Friday 16 December, 2011

The fourth annual workshop will again bring together higher research students and early career researchers, who in different disciplines and across diverse fields of scholarship, engage with law and its theoretical and methodological questions.

This year we embark on an investigation of law and its accidents, because to critically engage with legal theory is not only to track the modalities of law, but also to probe its interstices. It is to expose law’s fault-lines and its exceptions, its interruptions and its crises, but also its coincidences and serendipities. This workshop will try not just to prod those fragile points where law buckles and sways, but attempt to build new jurisprudential approaches to understanding the happenstances of law.

Relevant areas of law may include (this list is not exhaustive): law and culture, law and technology, law and the humanities, environmental law, employment law, tort law, international law, military law, migration law, and law and economics.
A limited number of bursaries will be available for interstate and international presenting participants who are unable to claim funding to cover the full cost of travel from their home institution. The bursaries are intended to contribute towards travel expenses. Please indicate in your application whether you would like to be considered for a bursary.

For further information and possible topics please see Law and Its Accidents

Conference Organisers: Jake Goldenfein, Laura Petersen and Marc Trabsky

Send abstracts of 500 words and biographies of 100 words to law-mdflt@unimelb.edu.au by Monday 19 September, 2011.

3. Mental Health First Aid

Mental health first aid is the help given to someone with a mental health problem before they get professional help.

Training in mental health first aid

The training for Monash staff and students will help you:

• Help people in the early stages of mental health problems
• Recognise the signs and symptoms of these problems
• Know where and how to get help

Understand what types of help are effective

Faculty is offering to pay for Mental Health First Aid Training if you are a 2011 Peer Mentor.

This is a two day course and participants will receive a certificate upon completion.

More information is available at:
http://www.monash.edu.au/health-wellbeing/staff/mental-health-first-aid.html

Please email expressions of interest to lloyd.england@monash.edu if you would like to take part and a date will be arranged early in Semester 2.

4. The Victoria Law Foundation’s Small Grants Now Available

The Victoria Law Foundation’s Small Grants are available to organisations for legal projects and programs in Victoria.

Grants of up to $5000 may be used for law-related projects that will benefit the people of Victoria including:

• reprinting of legal publications;
• seed funding;
• community education programs; and/or
• other projects in relation to the law that benefit Victorians.

Small Grants have a rolling deadline with applications accepted any time throughout the year. The application form is easy to complete and decisions are usually made within two weeks.

For more information and an application form visit:
www.victorialawfoundation.org.au

If you have an idea for a project, please contact the Grants and Awards Manager on 9604 8100 to discuss.

1. 2011 ALTC Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning

Congratulations to Dr Paula Gerber who has won a 2011 ALTC Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning.  These Citations recognise and reward the diverse contribution that individuals and teams make to the quality of student learning.  Citations are awarded to academic, professional and sessional staff, and institutional associates, who have made significant contributions to student learning in a specific area of responsibility over a sustained period.
The Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) offer a number of different types of Awards which are designed to promote good teaching in Australian Higher Education.

For further information please see:
http://opvclt.monash.edu.au/educational-excellence/promoting-excellence/altc-awards.html

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1. Seeking Open Day Volunteers

Monash University Open Day for Clayton is on Sunday 7 August, 2011. We are looking for student volunteers to assist on the day.

This will involve speaking with prospective students and their families about your experience of studying aw at Monash, giving directions as well as helping out with the set up and pack up of the equipment used on the day.

Although these positions are voluntary roles, the faculty does provide trainging and $50 vouchers for students who volunteer half a day (9.00am – 1.00pm OR 12.30pm – 4.30pm) and $100 vouchers for students who volunteer for a whole day (9.00am – 4.30pm)

If you have good communication skills, and a well rounded knowledge of the faculty and campus please email stephanie.rose@monash.edu by Wednesday 29 June, 2011.

In your email please include the following information:

• Full name and contact number
• Degree type and year
• Availability
  • Half Day (morning: 9.00am – 1.00pm)
  • Half Day (afternoon: 12.30pm – 4.30pm)
  • Full day (9.00am – 4.30pm)
• Method of entry into law (e.g. Straight from year 12, internal or external transfer)

1. 2011 Annual Julian Small Research Grant

Grants awarded from no less than $5,000 up to $15,000.

Applications are sought from postgraduate and undergraduate students who are undertaking research of the law relating to employment and industrial relations in Australia.

To apply please see Julian Small Foundation 2011

Closing Date for applications is Friday 9 September, 2011

2. BCG Undergraduate Scholarship

This year we are offering two scholarships– one to a female and another to a male student.  Each Scholarship is worth $15,000.  The Scholarship is only open to penultimate year undergraduate students.

For further information and to apply please see BCG 2011 Undergraduate Scholarship

Closing Date for applications is Tuesday 9 August, 2011

3. Moot Court for Leadership Day – Seeking Volunteers

We are seeking volunteers to be involved in a moot court for Leadership Day. Leadership Day is a showcase of Monash University for high achieving VCE students.

The moot topic: Paris Hillsong, a socialite and singer, is charged with drink driving, theft and intentionally and recklessly causing injury against her former friend Ms Lowly. In a dramatic tale of emotional battles, drunken behaviour and rivalries of former friends we invite you to watch this case unfold.

Venue:	TBC – Moot Court, L1 Building 12, Clayton Campus
Date:	Monday 4 July, 2011
Time:	1.45pm – 2.45pm

If you are interested in being involved please email lloyd.england@monash.edu by Monday 27 June, 2011.

4. Seeking Open Day Volunteers

Monash University Open Day for Clayton is on Sunday 7 August, 2011. We are looking for student volunteers to assist on the day.

This will involve speaking with prospective students and their families about your experience of studying aw at Monash, giving directions as well as helping out with the set up and pack up of the equipment used on the day.

Although these positions are voluntary roles, the faculty does provide trainging and $50 vouchers for students who volunteer half a day (9.00am – 1.00pm OR 12.30pm – 4.30pm) and $100 vouchers for students who volunteer for a whole day (9.00am – 4.30pm)

If you have good communication skills, and a well rounded knowledge of the faculty and campus please email stephanie.rose@monash.edu by Wednesday 29 June, 2011.

In your email please include the following information:

• Full name and contact number
• Degree type and year
• Availability
  • Half Day (morning: 9.00am – 1.00pm)
  • Half Day (afternoon: 12.30pm – 4.30pm)
  • Full day (9.00am – 4.30pm)
• Method of entry into law (e.g. Straight from year 12, internal or external transfer)

1. Call for Submissions: 2011 AVCAL Research Prizes

In light of the high level of interest in our inaugural research prizes offered in 2010, the Australian Private Equity & Venture Capital Association Limited (AVCAL) is pleased to again invite submissions for two research prizes in 2011.

The aim of this programme is to encourage the development of high-quality research on issues of importance and relevance to the Private Equity and Venture Capital industry in Australia, and to increase knowledge and understanding of the industry through the publication of pertinent articles in the scholarly press. Submissions are invited from academia and industry participants for these prizes.

The prizes are:

• · AVCAL Private Equity Research Prize: A$2,500 will be awarded for the best paper on private equity
• · AVCAL Venture Capital Research Prize: A$2,500 will be awarded for the best paper on venture capital

Eligibility: Academia (e.g. university/research staff in Australia and overseas, MBA and postgraduate students) and financial industry practitioners. Submissions are invited from any relevant discipline, e.g. accounting, law, finance, management and tax.

Criteria: The research must present new and useful insights into Private Equity or Venture Capital in Australia, display a high level of scholarship on matters of practical relevance to the industry, be empirically robust and of publishable quality. This includes empirical studies on the economic effects of Private Equity or Venture Capital investment, case studies, or other pedagogical topics from the perspectives of the investee companies, General Partners or Limited Partners. The research may examine, for example:

• The effects of private equity or venture capital ownership on growth and innovation in investee companies
• The impact of public policies on venture capital financing and commercialisation
• Governance practices, lessons and implications for private equity-owned companies
• The contribution of private equity and venture capital investments to superannuation fund performances

AVCAL reserves the right not to award either or both prizes if the above criteria are not met.

Deadline: Entries close at 5pm (EST) on Friday 9 December, 2011 and will be judged by a panel selected by AVCAL.

Submission instructions:

1. All entries must be typed, double spaced and follow a commonly accepted academic style guide.
2. They may be submitted in either Word or pdf format.
3. Please prepare 2 documents for your submission: a cover page with the title and the author(s)’ name, institution and contact details, and a separate copy of the actual research paper with no personal identification details. For your information, AVCAL’s Privacy Policy can be found here.

Submissions should be sent to research@avcal.com.au with the title “Submission for 2011 AVCAL Research Prize”. Please indicate whether the submission is for the Private Equity or Venture Capital research prize.

For further information please see:
http://www.avcal.com.au/research/researchprize
Or contact Dr Kar Mei Tang, Research Manager, AVCAL:
karmei.tang@avcal.com.au

2. CBL International China Law School Summer Program

As the summer is fast approaching, we are pleased to inform you about the CBL International China Law School which will take place in Shanghai and Beijing as a three-week summer programme. The first programme will be held in July, and the second one, with the same content will be held in August. Participants of this exciting programme will experience the following:

• Lectures given by professors from prestigious Chinese universities (Tongji University Shanghai, CEIBS, Tsinghua University and the China University of Political Science and Law) as well as from abroad.
• In July, CBL International is proud to have Professor Keith Hawkins (University of Oxford, UK) joining us in Shanghai for guest lectures.
• Topics covered in the programme include Intercultural Management, Start Up in China, Taxation, and Intellectual Property Rights.
• Visits and presentations by lawyers and managers of multinational companies such as FedEx, Deloitte, Siemens and Google as well as institutions such as the Embassy of the United States in Beijing, the European Chamber of Commerce, and the German Center in Shanghai.
• Delegates will climb the Great Wall, visit the Forbidden City, and the Summer Palace in Beijing, as well as the site of the World Exhibition and will see Shanghai’s impressive skyline and the Jingan Temple.

We invite you to share the news of the CBL International China Law School with your students, as this is a wonderful opportunity for them to interact with similar global-minded people from all over the world and gain invaluable international experience.

The CBL International China Law School is organized as a summer programme since 2007 and so far more than 350 students from more than 50 different countries have been participating. On our Facebook page you will find
pictures from all the different programmes CBL International is organizing in China, Dubai/Abu Dhabi, and Oxford/London which are open to everyone interested, even not being a Facebook member.

3. Seeking Open Day Volunteers

Monash University Open Day for Clayton is on Sunday 7 August, 2011. We are looking for student volunteers to assist on the day.

This will involve speaking with prospective students and their families about your experience of studying aw at Monash, giving directions as well as helping out with the set up and pack up of the equipment used on the day.

Although these positions are voluntary roles, the faculty does provide trainging and $50 vouchers for students who volunteer half a day (9.00am – 1.00pm OR 12.30pm – 4.30pm) and $100 vouchers for students who volunteer for a whole day (9.00am – 4.30pm)

If you have good communication skills, and a well rounded knowledge of the faculty and campus please email stephanie.rose@monash.edu byWednesday 29 June, 2011.

In your email please include the following information:

• Full name and contact number
• Degree type and year
• Availability
  • Half Day (morning: 9.00am – 1.00pm)
  • Half Day (afternoon: 12.30pm – 4.30pm)
  • Full day (9.00am – 4.30pm)
• Method of entry into law (e.g. Straight from year 12, internal or external transfer)

1. Seeking Open Day Volunteers

Monash University Open Day for Clayton is on Sunday 7 August, 2011. We are looking for student volunteers to assist on the day.

This will involve speaking with prospective students and their families about your experience of studying aw at Monash, giving directions as well as helping out with the set up and pack up of the equipment used on the day.

Although these positions are voluntary roles, the faculty does provide trainging and $50 vouchers for students who volunteer half a day (9.00am – 1.00pm OR 12.30pm – 4.30pm) and $100 vouchers for students who volunteer for a whole day (9.00am – 4.30pm)

If you have good communication skills, and a well rounded knowledge of the faculty and campus please email stephanie.rose@monash.edu by Wednesday 29 June, 2011.

In your email please include the following information:

• Full name and contact number
• Degree type and year
• Availability
  • Half Day (morning: 9.00am – 1.00pm)
  • Half Day (afternoon: 12.30pm – 4.30pm)
  • Full day (9.00am – 4.30pm)
• Method of entry into law (e.g. Straight from year 12, internal or external transfer)

1. SETU Survey- Last Chance!

The Semester 1 SETU (Student Evaluation of Teaching and Units) online surveys are closing soon for most of our units.  If you want to get in and complete your SETU surveys online then please go to
https://my.monash.edu.au/study/resources/evaluations/

We would really do want to hear your feedback about your Units and Teachers and would really appreciate it if you could please complete a survey for each Unit in which you are enrolled.

2. Undergraduate Student Services

Please note that the Student Services counter will open for business on Wednesday 8 June at 8:45am and at 10:00am on Thursday 9 June.

3. Volunteers for Client Survey

INVITATION TO UNIVERSITY STUDENTS TO VOLUNTEER

FAMILY COURT OF AUSTRLAIA

AND

FEDERAL MAGISTRATES COURT

MELBOURNE AND DANDENONG REGISTRIES

CLIENT SATISFACTION SURVEY

The Family Court and Federal Magistrates Court administration is looking to conduct a client survey in order to gather data on litigants’ experience of our service and courts environment.

The survey will not include evaluation of judges’ decisions.

We are seeking expressions of interest from students to conduct the survey on a voluntary basis at Melbourne Registry and Dandenong Registry.

The survey will be conducted over a four week period in Mid June – Mid July.  You can volunteer for several days, a week or just one day depending on your availability and other commitments.

You will be briefed and supported and will have the opportunity to gain insight into our jurisdiction.

If you are interested, please email Michelle Cooley at:
michelle.cooley@familycourt.gov.au to register the following details:

• Name
• Dates you are available between Mid June – Mid July 2011
• Your telephone contact details

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1. Semester 1 SETU Online Surveys

The Semester 1 SETU (Student Evaluation of Teaching and Units) online surveys are open for most of our units until June 3 although the Prato Units  and some PG Units surveys  will open on 2nd June and close on 30th June. You can access the SETU surveys by going to:
https://my.monash.edu.au/study/resources/evaluations/

2. Volunteers for Client Survey

INVITATION TO UNIVERSITY STUDENTS TO VOLUNTEER

FAMILY COURT OF AUSTRLAIA

AND

FEDERAL MAGISTRATES COURT

MELBOURNE AND DANDENONG REGISTRIES

CLIENT SATISFACTION SURVEY

The Family Court and Federal Magistrates Court administration is looking to conduct a client survey in order to gather data on litigants’ experience of our service and courts environment.

The survey will not include evaluation of judges’ decisions.

We are seeking expressions of interest from students to conduct the survey on a voluntary basis at Melbourne Registry and Dandenong Registry.

The survey will be conducted over a four week period in Mid June – Mid July.  You can volunteer for several days, a week or just one day depending on your availability and other commitments.

You will be briefed and supported and will have the opportunity to gain insight into our jurisdiction.

If you are interested, please email Michelle Cooley at:
michelle.cooley@familycourt.gov.au to register the following details:

• Name
• Dates you are available between Mid June – Mid July 2011
• Your telephone contact details

1. CBL International China Law School Summer Program

As the summer is fast approaching, we are pleased to inform you about the CBL International China Law School which will take place in Shanghai and Beijing as a three-week summer programme. The first programme will be held in July, and the second one, with the same content will be held in August. Participants of this exciting programme will experience the following:

• Lectures given by professors from prestigious Chinese universities (Tongji University Shanghai, CEIBS, Tsinghua University and the China University of Political Science and Law) as well as from abroad.
• In July, CBL International is proud to have Professor Keith Hawkins (University of Oxford, UK) joining us in Shanghai for guest lectures.
• Topics covered in the programme include Intercultural Management, Start Up in China, Taxation, and Intellectual Property Rights.
• Visits and presentations by lawyers and managers of multinational companies such as FedEx, Deloitte, Siemens and Google as well as institutions such as the Embassy of the United States in Beijing, the European Chamber of Commerce, and the German Center in Shanghai.
• Delegates will climb the Great Wall, visit the Forbidden City, and the Summer Palace in Beijing, as well as the site of the World Exhibition and will see Shanghai’s impressive skyline and the Jingan Temple.

We invite you to share the news of the CBL International China Law School with your students, as this is a wonderful opportunity for them to interact with similar global-minded people from all over the world and gain invaluable international experience.

The CBL International China Law School is organized as a summer programme since 2007 and so far more than 350 students from more than 50 different countries have been participating. On our Facebook page you will find
pictures from all the different programmes CBL International is organizing in China, Dubai/Abu Dhabi, and Oxford/London which are open to everyone interested, even not being a Facebook member.

2. Semester 1 SETU (Student Evaluation of Teaching and Units)

The Semester 1 SETU (Student Evaluation of Teaching and Units) online surveys are still open for most of our units until June 3 and you can access these surveys by going to:
https://my.monash.edu.au/study/resources/evaluations/

It would be a good idea if you could please complete the SETU surveys before you go off for swot vac on May 30. We would really appreciate it if you could please complete a survey for each Unit in which you are enrolled as we would like to hear your feedback.  The Office of Planning and Quality will send you reminder emails to complete a survey for each Unit in which you are currently enrolled until you do actually complete them all.

The online survey contain 2 sections for you to complete before it shuts down   – one section is all about the Unit  and the other is about the teachers in that Unit.  We do use the feedback which you give us in these surveys to help identify those Units where

1. Teaching and Learning is of a particularly high quality – so that we can learn from the good teaching practises in those Units
2. Improvements are needed – so that we can make sure improvements are implemented before that Unit is offered again.

If you are interested in further information about SETU it is available at:
http://www.opq.monash.edu.au/mqu/evaluations/setu/index.html

1. Attorney-General’s Department Essay Competition

The Attorney-General’s Department is holding an essay competition in the lead up to the 2011 Commonwealth Law Minister’s Meeting (CLMM) as this is the first time that Australia will host this meeting of First Law Officers from the Commonwealth. The CLMM 2011 meeting will be held in Sydney from Monday 11 – Thursday 14 July, 2011 and will be attended by over 50 Commonwealth countries.  The essay competition winner will be flown to Sydney to attend the CLMM opening ceremony and will have the opportunity to meet with the Attorney-General and the international Commonwealth delegates. The winning entry will be published on the CLMM 2011 website and in other forums.

Please note – The essay competition closes on 5.00pm AEST on Monday 6 June, 2011.

For further information including the Terms and Conditions please see: http://www.clmm2011.org/www/clmm/clmm.nsf/Page/CLMMessaycompetition_CLMMessaycompetition

2. 2011 Great Law Week Debate

‘Social Media is Free Speech Gone Mad’

Witness a team of prominent Monash Law Alumni battle it out with current Monash Law students, over this highly controversial topic at the annual Great Law Week Debate.

For further information please see Great Law Week Debate

3. International Criminal Justice Project

The schedule has now been finalised. To see the full list of speakers and topics, as well as more information about the International Criminal Justice Project, please visit the website.

International Criminal Justice concerns the response of the international community to mass atrocity. How such ruptures between people and communities arise, are addressed or are left unaccounted for, raise serious questions for the international community, as they do for Australia. This Symposium brings together national and international experts (including keynote speakers Lord Iain Bonomy of the Scottish Supreme Courts and Judge in the Miloševic´ Trial, Professor William A. Schabas of the National University of Ireland, Professor Rob Cryer from Birmingham University and Justice David Harper AM, Court of Appeal, Supreme Court, Victoria) to consider the coherence and legitimacy of this complex area of international law and

For flyer please see International Criminal Justice Project

4. International Law Association Invitation

The International Law Association (Australia Branch) cordially invites you to the launch of its Victorian Chapter. We are delighted that former High Court Judge, the Honourable Michael Kirby AC CMG, will be speaking at this event on New Encounters with International Law.

5. Shine Lawyers Torts Moot Competition

The QUT Law School, in conjunction with leading law firm Shine Lawyers, is running a Torts Moot Competition in the Law School’s Electronic Moot Court and Industrial Court from 8^th – 12^th August 2011.

You are invited to send a team from your law school to take part in this moot. Please find attached a copy of the rules of the competition and a registration form. The problem will be released at the end of May and the moot schedule will be available in June on the site

https://wiki.qut.edu.au/display/lawmoot/Shine+Lawyers+Torts+Moot

Registrations close on Friday 17 June, 2011. We look forward to seeing a team from your Law School at QUT in August

6. Semester 1 SETU

The Semester 1 SETU (Student Evaluation of Teaching and Units) online surveys  are now open and you can access these surveys by going to https://my.monash.edu.au/study/resources/evaluations/

We would really appreciate it if you could please complete a SETU survey for each Unit in which you are enrolled as we would like to hear your feedback.  The Office of Planning and Quality will send you reminder emails to complete a SETU survey for each Unit in which you are currently enrolled until you do actually complete all of  the surveys.

The SETU online survey contain 2 sections for you to complete before the survey shuts down   – one section is all about the Unit  and the other about the teachers in that Unit.  We do use the feedback that you give us to help identify those Units where

1. Teaching and Learning is of a particularly high quality –  so that we can learn from the practises in those Units
2. Improvements are needed – so that we can make sure improvements are implemented before the Unit is offered again.

7. Transnational Law Program Summer 2011 Conference

Law students are invited to the Transnational Law Program Summer 2011 Conference, Utrecht, The Netherlands. On behalf of CALS (Committee Australasian Law Students)- a not-for-profit student organization, which facilitates opportunities for Australian law students to attend international conferences/events. As a partnering organisation, CALS is invited to the Transnational Law Program Summer 2011 Conference in Utrecht University, Netherlands, which is to be held from 4 to 6 August 2011. In this regard, we are seeking to send highly motivated Australian law students to accompany us to the conference. For further information and costs please see the Invitation and to register please see Registration form

1. 2011 Commonwealth Law Ministers Meeting (CLMM) Essay Competition.

The CLMM essay competition is open to Australian undergraduate students enrolled in a law degree or related field of study at universities across Australia, and law graduates in the first five years post admission, and includes questions that are related to the Commonwealth, law, politics, history and social justice. 

The winner will be flown to Sydney to attend the Pacific Young Lawyers Forum (a side event to the CLMM) and the Opening Ceremony of the CLMM and have the opportunity to meet me and international Commonwealth delegates attending the meeting.  The winning entry will be published on the CLMM 2011 website and in other forums.

For further information, including the questions for the Attorney-General’s CLMM2011 Essay Competition, is available at http://www.clmm2011.org.  The competition closes on Monday 6 June at 5pm AEST. 

If you would like further information, the action officer for this matter is Ariane Malpas who can be contacted on (02) 6141 3245 or ariane.malpas@ag.gov.au.

2. 2011 Great Law Week Debate

‘Social Media is Free Speech Gone Mad’

Witness a team of prominent Monash Law Alumni battle it out with current Monash Law students, over this highly controversial topic at the annual Great Law Week Debate.

For further information please see Great Law Week Debate

3. Transnational Law Program Summer Conference in Netherlands

Law students of the University of Monash are invited to the Transnational Law Program Summer 2011 Conference in Utrecht University, Netherlands. The Program is to be held from Thursday 4 to Saturday 6 of August, 2011.

For details of the conference please see Invitation

To apply please fill out Registration form