Law Student Gazette

1. Allocate+

Allocate+ for Trimester 1 2013 JD core units will be opened at 12pm on 17 December 2012 (except for LAW7470* & LAW7264*).

Students are required to complete the self-allocation by 3 January 2013. Due to the set size of each class, once a stream is full there are no more places available. Students who require to change stream must apply in writing to the Faculty by submitting the Changing seminar streams or tutorial group application form along with the supporting documentation by Friday 11 January 2013. Late applications or incomplete applications will not be accepted.

*Please note that Allocate+ will be open for LAW7470 & LAW7264 on Monday 7 January at 12pm, students are required to complete the self-allocation by Friday 18 January.

Allocation is not necessary for LLM/JD elective units as there is only one stream available.

Application to Change Lecture Stream or Tutorial

2. JD T1 Examination Timetable

JD Trimester 1 2013 examination timetable can be accessed online via the Law Faculty website.

1. SETU surveys for Summer Units

If you are taking a Summer Unit can you please note the following dates when the SETU surveys open and close. You can complete your SETU surveys online via your my.monash portal so it is very easy to do.

• Summer A Units – SETU surveys open on 2 Dec and close on 16 Dec
• Summer B Units – SETU surveys open on 18 Jan and close on 1 Feb
• T1-57 Units – SETU surveys open on 28 Feb and close on 29 March.

Please note that the T4-57 and T3-58 Units have already been evaluated.

.:End Student Gazette 10/12/12:.

2. P.A Position

Casual position available for a Personal Assistant for Senior Commercial Barrister, Albert Monichino SC.

Position suitable for final year undergraduate students (being final year in 2013) and postgraduate students.

Please find attached a position advertisement describing the nature of the role.

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. Faculty Renovations

Work will commence week beginning 26 November 2012 on the renovations to building 12. Renovations are scheduled to be completed 18 March 2013. Please note the following changes during the period of renovation:

• Mail room moved to G17 (previously Law Review office) on ground level. This room has flash card access.
• Deliveries to the building have been redirected to the Administrative Services Unit in room 202 on Level 2. Deliveries requiring lift access are through Diane O’Neill (55136)
• The Law Review editors will move to G18 until mid December and will then be relocated within the building until the end of the renovations.
• Student Services has moved to room 428 (4th Floor conference room). There are direction signs around the Faculty. Shufen Lin (Manager, Undergraduate Student Services) has moved to room 443.
• The food and drink machines have been relocated to the carpeted foyer area on ground level.
• The student/staff counsellors have moved to the campus centre during the period of renovations.
• Once renovations commence, there will be no access via the front of the building for the duration of the project. There will be an emergency egress only. Access to the building will be via the rear doors on both sides of the building. Staff and students can access upper floors via the rear stairs or the temporary stairs inside the front of the building for access to the Dean’s area and Law Library as well as upper levels. Pedestrian access may vary from time to time so staff and students are requested to note directional signage.
• Noisy works will be carried out outside office hours and on weekends but there will be some construction noise at other times.
• There will be weekly progress reports via the Law School Staff and Student Gazettes. Artist impressions of the project will be posted in the building when available.

If students have any queries regarding the renovation work in the building please contact Diane O’Neill (9905 5136).

2. Malaysia Survey

A huge thank you to all students who completed the survey regarding the Monash Malaysia Program! The survey closes tomorrow; if you haven’t had your say yet, you can complete the short, multiple choice survey here.

3. Student Success Stories

Have you won an award/scholarship, been recognised for community service/leadership, or experienced a significant success whilst studying at Monash Law? If so, we want to hear from you! We would love to feature successful students and alumni in our many publication faculty publications; if you are willing to share your story with us please contact Lauren in the marketing department on either lauren.miller@monash.edu or 9905 2326.

1. Allocate+

Allocate+ for Trimester 1 2013 JD core units will be opened at 12pm on 17 December 2012 (except for LAW7470* & LAW7264*).

Students are required to complete the self-allocation by 3 January 2013. Due to the set size of each class, once a stream is full there are no more places available. Students who require to change stream must apply in writing to the Faculty by submitting the Changing seminar streams or tutorial group application form along with the supporting documentation by Friday 11 January 2013. Late applications or incomplete applications will not be accepted.

*Please note that Allocate+ will be open for LAW7470 & LAW7264 on Monday 7 January at 12pm, students are required to complete the self-allocation by Friday 18 January.

Allocation is not necessary for LLM/JD elective units as there is only one stream available.

Application to Change Lecture Stream or Tutorial

.:End Student Gazette 3/12/12:.

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.

2. Student Success Stories

Have you won an award/scholarship, been recognised for community service/leadership, or experienced a significant success whilst studying at Monash Law? If so, we want to hear from you! We would love to feature successful students and alumni in our many publication faculty publications; if you are willing to share your story with us please contact Lauren in the marketing department on either lauren.miller@monash.edu or 9905 2326.

3. Trinity College Law Review

The Trinity College Law Review is now accepting submissions for publication in Volume XVI. TCLR is Ireland’s leading and oldest student edited law journal. We accept submissions, both articles and casenotes, from all undergraduate students, postgraduate students and graduates, on all areas of law.

The Submission Deadline for Volume XVI is Friday 11th January 2013 at 12pm (noon).

Submissions may be in English, French or German.

Maximum Word Counts:

• English article: 10,000 words
• French or German article: 5000 words
• Casenote: 4000 words

The Gernot Biehler Casenote Competition, open to all Junior and Senior Freshman Students who submit a casenote of 3000 words or less, features the same submission and deadline process as all other TCLR submissions. Casenotes should be 3000 words or less and critique a recent case. Authors who wish their submissions to be considered as part of this competition should indicate this in their submission email and state their year of study. There is a supplementary deadline for this competition, available only to those students that are taking the Foundation Scholarship Examinations in 2013: Friday 18th January at 12pm (noon).

The winning casenote from 2012 can be viewed in the TCLR from that year: “Extra-Territorial Claims for the Irish Constitution – The Supreme Court’s Approach in the Case of Nottinghamshire County Council v B” 15 TCLR 127.

Authors are required to prepare their manuscripts in the House Style of the TCLR, which can be found in the Author’s Guide (available onwww.trinitycollegelawreview.org).The editorial process will be collaborative, with any edits or preparations made with the cooperation of the Authors. We regret that manuscripts cannot be returned. Article selection and editing procedures are summarised in the Author’s Guide. Articles should be submitted by email in DOC or DOCX format to: lawreview.trinitycollege@gmail.com.

The email should contain the Author’s name, year of study or graduation, course and contact details (email, phone number and postal address) in the main body of the email with your article attached. The selection process is entirely anonymous. Other than in the email, please do not include any indications of identity in the submission.

Publication in the Trinity College Law Review represents a significant achievement and the culmination of valuable legal research and writing. As well as this, there are both monetary and internship prizes for the best articles. The Editorial Board looks forward to working with all prospective authors.

1. New Library Website

• The library website has been redesigned. Things that have been updated:
• The URL has changed. The homepage is now: monash.edu/library.
• This means all underlying pages also have new URLS so you will have to update any bookmarked pages you use.
• To access resources like library guides and online tutorials and information on classes, you now go to the Research and Learning Skills ‘tab’ and particularly, the ‘Resources and activities’ section.
• A new ejournal service replaces the old electronic journals page, you now access a list of electronic journals for browsing by clicking on the ‘A-Z ejournals’ link in the Search box on the Library homepage.
• If you know which journal you are after simply put the title of the journal (enclosed in quotation marks) into Search e.g. “law institute journal”
• There is a new ‘Information for – students’ page for general library information.

More details on the new Library website.

2. Westlaw AU

Legal Online is now known as Westlaw AU. All links to Legal Online content (like FirstPoint) will now send you there. Contact the library for any help navigating the new platform.