Law Student Gazette

1. Bill Borthwick Student Scholarships 2013

See the scholarship details attached.

Borthwick Scholarship Application

1. Temporary Relocation of Student Services

Due to construction work of the Law Entry Project, the Undergraduate Student Services Office will be relocated to Room 428 (4th Floor Conference Room) from Friday 23 November 2012 until the construction is completed.

The UG Student Services Office will be closed on Thursday 22 November due to the move and reopened on Friday, 23 November on 4th Floor.

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1. Human Rights Movie Screening

Right Now Radio, Australia’s only human rights focused radio show, has just launched on RRR and we need your support! To make sure Right Now Radio is able to have its most successful and productive year yet, a fundraiser is being held at Loop Bar (23 Meyers Place, Melbourne) on Thursday 22nd November from 6pm.

We’ll be showing a compelling short film by Sian Darling of Whobyfire Productions, which will introduce you to artists who have survived the refugee experience and are exploring freedom and healing through creative expression.

There’ll be a live radio interview by Right Now Radio host Ben Schokman with one of our fantastic guests, plus, movie tickets door prize, and for those feeling extra generous, the chance to donate to the purchase of new recording equipment for the radio team.

Tickets are $20 standard and $10 concession, payable on the night.

Facebook RSVP can be found here, find out more about Right Now Radio here, and listen to the podcasts here.

2. Law Student Colloquium

The fifth annual Law Student Colloquium is now seeking abstracts from students of all levels who wish to present a paper on any legal topic. Submissions by undergraduate students are especially encouraged. If you submitted an abstract before 12th November, please re-submit it because we have experienced some technical difficulties and may not have received your submission as a consequence.

An application can be made to speak at the Colloquium by submitting an abstract. An abstract is a short summary of the paper which the speaker intends to present. Abstracts from prospective speakers should be between 400 and 500 words in length and should be submitted via the Law Student Colloquium website. The deadline for submissions is Thursday, 6th December 2012.

Abstracts may be submitted here.

The Colloquium is an all-day event and will take place at Trinity College Dublin in the Law School and Graduates’ Memorial Building on Saturday, 16th February 2013. Tea/coffee and lunch will be provided and there will be a wine reception after the keynote speech, the Brian Lenihan Memorial Address. The address is in honour of the late Brian Lenihan, a former student of the Law School and Scholar of Trinity College who went on to have a distinguished career as a Senior Counsel and a Minister of the Irish government. The 2012 address was given by Judge Bryan McMahon, formerly of the Irish High Court, and chaired by Mr Paul Gallagher SC, the former Attorney General of Ireland. This year’s keynote speaker has yet to be confirmed.

1. Nomination Open for Chief Justice’s Medal

Nomination is open for the “Chief Justice’s Victoria Law Foundation Medal for Excellence and Community Service” to be awarded to a LLB/JD student expected to graduate in 2012.

This Medal has been awarded annually since 2003. The award aims to acknowledge and encourage a commitment to community service among law students in Victoria. The award is to a LLB/JD 2012 graduate and who is judged to have demonstrated a commitment to community service throughout their law studies as well as excellence in scholarship. 2012 nominations will be closed on Friday 7th December.

Full details are available on the Monash Law website. Please direct further inquires to shufen.lin@monash.edu

1. Missing From the MULC Library Node

Creyke, McMillan, and Smyth (2012). Control of government action : text, cases and commentary. L G5 C927C 2012

It was on hold for a student but not on the shelf when it was to be collected. Please return immediately.

1. 2013 Publication of Law Electives

Please note that from 2013, the Law electives for undergraduate students have been moved to the University Handbook.

2. Temporary Relocation of Student Services

Due to construction work of the Law Entry Project, the Undergraduate Student Services Office will be relocated to Room 428 (4th Floor Conference Room) from Friday 23 November 2012 until the construction is completed.

The UG Student Services Office will be closed on Thursday 22 November due to the move and reopened on Friday, 23 November on 4th Floor.

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1. Employment and Career Development Activities

2012 dates for career fairs and forums, seminars and workshops, and availability of the education consultant.

For further information please see here.

1. ‘The People Smuggler’: Ali Al Jenabi – ‘Villain or Hero’

Date: Thursday 22 November 2012
Time: 6pm – 7.30pm
Venue: Monash University Law Chambers, 555 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne
RSVP: castan.centre@monash.edu or 03 9905 3327
Full details can be found here

Robin de Crespigny has spent three years working with Ali Al Jenabi to write his story. She is a film maker and lives in Sydney. The People Smuggler is her first book.

While both our major political parties try to out-do each other on who can be the toughest on refugees, one thing they are aligned on is deflecting the public’s attention to people smugglers as the cause of the problem, and convincing the majority of Australians that the few thousand people these smugglers bring here, is one of the most significant electoral issues we face.

Their determination to apportion blame and difficulty recognizing how desperate these people must be to get on leaky boats removes the human element allowing them to demonize the smugglers and to let the asylum seekers become simply faceless numbers.

The People Smuggler provides an alternative voice. It puts a human face on this highly inflammatory issue and tries to stand the reader in the shoes of Al Al Jenabi, an Iraqi refugee who became a people smuggler to get his family out of danger, and in the process smuggled over 500 others to safety.

Robin will talk about wrestling with the epic breadth of Ali AL Jenabi’s journey; with its uprisings, repressions, military conflicts and imprisonments, desperate escapes via mountain treks and ships on high seas; from Saddam Hussein’s Iraq across two continents and at least six countries, to his trial and jail in Darwin, detention in Villawood, plus his personal life of family, loves, and losses.

She will look at how Ali’s story is touching people who had previously never asked themselves what they would do if they were in the same situation, encouraging them to see that it is not all black and white, and to gain respect and compassion for asylum seekers as fellow human beings.

She will explore the myths that have grown up around this issue and discuss the current government policies of deterrence and excision, and the consequences these decisions will have on us as a society.

2. The Manipulation of Humanitarian Aid: Impact and Effectiveness

Date: Thursday 15 November 2012
Time: 5.30pm – 6.30pm followed by refreshments
Venue: Monash University Law Chambers, 555 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne
RSVP: here
Full details can be found here

Book Launch ‘The Golden Fleece’ examines the impact of manipulation on the effectiveness of humanitarian action. The tension between fundamental humanitarian values – the prioritization of life-saving over all other considerations – and political or economic agendas is not new. Relief work has long been subject to manipulation by governments, warlords, public opinion, disembodied realpolitik, and to the calculations of humanitarians themselves.

The Golden Fleece asks whether saving lives is, by its very nature, prone to instrumentalization or whether humanitarianism can be transformed and made more immune to manipulation.

1. SETU Surveys – Extended Closing Date for JD Units

The closing date for the SETU surveys for the JD Units in the T3-58 teaching period has just been extended to Nov 12th. Can you please go in via your my.monash portal and complete the online SETU surveys for your JD Units? We really do want to know what you think about your JD Units and we do use your feedback to help us continually improve the JD Units for the next time they are run.