Law Student Gazette

1. Research and Executive Assistant Needed

The Victorian Law Reform Commission is an Independent Statutory Office.

 The commission seeks to employ a Research Executive Assistant with:

• Good research skills
• Interest in legal policy
• Willingness to perform some administrative functions

Position Title: Research and Executive Assistant
Job Level: Recent graduate
Time Period: 18 months
Wage: $51, 179

To obtain position description, duties and application instructions refer to: www.careers.vic.gov.au and see Research-Exec-Ass

Applications quoting role number DJ3209 and addressing key selection should be received by close of Business Sunday 14 February, 2010.

1.Moot Court Demonstration:The Art of Persuading Judges

Top advocates from Australia and the United States will display their skills before some of the most distinguished jurists of these two countries, including US Supreme Court Associate Justice, the Honourable Antonin Scalia. The Moot concerns a hypothetical cross-border dispute with parallel proceedings in the US and Australia.

Date: Wednesday, 10 February 2010
Time: 2.30 pm-5.00 pm,
                reception afterwards: 5.00 pm-6.30 pm.
Venue: Sydney Law School
                  New Law School Building,
                  Eastern Avenue, 
                  University of Sydney (Camperdown Campus)

Registration

While attendance at the full conference attracts a fee, young lawyers (under 35) and law students wishing to attend only the 10 February session at Sydney Law School are invited to attend free of charge. Registration is essential – please fill in the details on the first page of the registration form (without electing conference registration), and email to intilex@staff.abanet.org noting your intention to attend only the 10 February session.

For a copy of the full program, registration fees and registration form, please see The Art of Persuading Judges

For further information contact intilex@staff.abanet.org

1. Application Dates for Clinical Legal Education Extended

Application closing dates for the Clinical Legal Education units (see below) have been extended until Friday 19 February, 2010.

LAW5216/7423 Professional practice
LAW5217 Law reform and community development
LAW5218 Family law assistance program (Professional practice)
LAW5149 Advanced professional practice

For further information and application forms visit:
www.law.monash.edu.au/cle.html

 2. Add Information Technology Electives and Minors into your degree

Information and communication technologies are growing in importance and influencing almost every aspect of our lives. A minor in IT will enhance your degree and give you that important edge when seeking employment. Our IT units have a strong practical focus and are taught by experts in outstanding facilities.

 For more information see IT-Electives & Minors

END OF GAZETTE 27/1/10

1. Legal Traineeships (formerly known as Articles): 2010 and 2011

Rotstein Lockwood Reddy is a dynamic commercial law firm located in the heart of Melbourne’s legal precinct with affiliate offices across Australia and around the world. RLR acts for market leaders across numerous industries including health, telecommunications, manufacturing, retail and sports & entertainment. To learn more about RLR, visit www.rlr.com.au.

RLR is inviting applications from Victorian law students either in their final year of study or who have completed their final year of study and who are able to commence a traineeship in 2010 or 2011.

To apply, send your cover letter, resume and a copy of your academic transcript to michelle.lee@rlr.com.au by 15/02/10 for 2010 intake or 15/12/11 for 2011 intake. 

1. Charlie Perkins Scholarship Applications Closing Soon

The Charlie Perkins Scholarships are now accepting applications. 

The closing date is Friday, 29 January 2010. For further information visit www.perkinstrust.com.au or contact richard.potok@auroraproject.com.au .

2. The 2010 Banking & Financial Services Law Association Scholarship and Research Essay Prize Awards have just been announced.

For full details click on the following links:
www.bfsla.org/scholarship_awards
www.bfsla.org/research_prizes

The Banking and Financial Services Law Assocation Scholarship (BFSLA) offers up to $50,000 and the BFSLA Research Essay Prize has a prize pool of $15,000.

To obtain an entry form for the Scholarship or the Research Essay Prize, please forward your contact details to jenny@eventsolutions.com.au. Include your full name, organisation/firm, postal address, phone and e-mail contact.

1. Law Library Summer Opening Hours

A reminder that the Law Library opening hours have changed. From January 4, 2010 until Semester 1 Orientation week, the Law Library will be opening at 8am Monday to Friday and closing at 9pm on Mondays and Tuesdays and 5.45pm on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. The Library will be closed on Saturdays and open 1-5pm on Sundays.

The other Clayton branches will complement the Law Library opening over Jan/Feb with different evening openings (Matheson on Wednesdays in February and Hargrave-Andrew Library on Thursdays). Please check the 2010 opening hours cards or the Library’s website for day by day opening hours.

1. LAW 5127 (Trial Practice & Advocacy)

This is for undergraduate students in Semesters 1 & 2, 2010. Semester 1 start date is Monday, 1 March 2010.

 For course description and pre-requisites, please go to:
www.monash.edu.au/pubs/handbooks/units/LAW5127.html.

 Applications to be forwarded to Lucrezia Marino:
                                                       Monash University Law Chambers
                                                       472 Bourke St, Melbourne, 3000
                                                       Lucrezia.Marino@law.monash.edu.au
                                                       Ph: 03 9903 8528
                                                       Fax: 03 9903 8504

All applications to be received by the Thursday, 4 February 2010.

Application form can be downloaded at:
www.law.monash.edu.au/current-students/forms/tpa-app-2010.doc

END OF GAZETTE 19/1/10

1. Semester 2 Unit Evaluations

The Law Faculty performed well on the S2 2009 Unit Evaluations. On Q5 (Overall Satisfaction), the Law Faculty was ranked in second place with a median score of 4.04 (just behind the Faculty of Arts with a median score of 4.05) . We were well ahead of the University average median score of 3.94. Our faculty also had a much higher response rate (50.88%) than the University average (42.14%) and than the Faculty of Arts (27.89%). A total of 91 Law Faculty Units were evaluated (46 UG and 45 PG). The following 13 Units achieved a score of at least 4.7 (which was the University’s “Outstanding” band for S1) : 

• LAW7087 – Local Government Law – 5.00
• LAW7262 – Goods and Services Tax – 5.00
• LAW5127E – Trial Practice and Advocacy – 4.91
• LAW7318 – International law and Economic Cultural and Social Rights 4.88
• LAW5116 – International Law of the Sea – 4.88
• LAW4160 – Negotiation and Mediation Law – 4.86
• LAW4225 – Non Adversarial Justice – 4.85
• LAW4229E – Comparative Tax Policy – 4.83
• LAW4522 – Remedies – 4.83
• LAW4524E – Road Trauma Prevention and Compensation: Comparative Analysis – 4.83
• LAW7434 – The Law of Climate Change – 4.79
• LAW7315 – Regulatory Methods – 4.77
• LAW4130 – Law and Social Theory – 4.75

You may view the S2 UE reports online at    https://emuapps.monash.edu.au/unitevaluations/wr/uewr_rp1_public_yearseme.jsp

END OF GAZETTE 15/12/09

1. 2009 Monash Transition, Retention and Progression Forum

With the release of the Bradley Review of Australian Higher Education, the Deputy Prime Minister, the Hon Julia Gillard MP, has called for major structural reform of the sector, declaring at a recent Universities Australia conference that “we must focus on students, their experiences and pathways, the knowledge they gain, the skills they will use, the public good they will deliver”, creating a new “student-centred, demand-driven” higher education system.

Please join academic and professional staff from other Victorian universities and secondary schools in active discussion and presentations that showcase approaches to the numerous challenges set out in the Bradley Review.

Law Faculty presenters include Lloyd England, Anthony Lester and Michael Beaconsfield.

Further information including the full program and keynote speakers:
http://www.monash.edu.au/cemo/monash_transition_forum_2009/Program.html

2. Getting a Job in the Legal Profession in Australia – An Event for International Law Students and Recently Admitted International Lawyers

Leo Cussen Institute invites international law students and international lawyers admitted to practice in Australia from 2007 onwards to an informal networking event.

Date: Wednesday 9 December, 2009
Time: 5.30 pm – 7 pm
Venue: Level 1, 360 Bourke Street, Melbourne (Leo Cussen Institute)
RSVP: Sophie Lambrou:  slambrou@leocussen.vic.edu.au

Download the flyer:
PTC Getting a Job Flyer [PDF]

3. Conference – Cross Border Collaboration, Convergence and Conflict

The Internationalisation of Domestic Law and it’s Consequences

Date: 9 February, 2010
Venue: Banco Court, 184 Phillip St, Supreme Court of NSW, Sydney

The Art of Persuading Judges

Date: 10 February, 2010
Venue: Sydney Law School, University of Sydney

Download the full program and registration form:
Brochure for Sydney Conference [PDF]

1. Expand Your World!

Study a language!  You can choose from among 14 languages which are offered at the Clayton campus.   A Law degree allows you to pick up other units.  Languages are a very popular choice as many students realise that knowing another languages increases their career prospects and expands their life experience.  Languages can be studied at any level of proficiency, from the beginners’ to advanced level.  You’ll also get a solid feel for a new culture and society.  You might choose an immersion experience:  that is, to travel abroad with other fellow students and spend the summer on intensive language and cultural study.

Professionals who speak other languages are called upon to travel and exchange information with people in other countries.  Regardless of your career of choice, if you’ve learned another language you’ll have a real advantage. One means of achieving this is to enrol in the Diploma of Languages.  This is the equivalent of a major in the language of your choice.  The Diploma is undertaken at the same time as your other studies and adds one further year of study to your bachelor’s degree.   Alternatively, you can use any spare elective units in your current degree for language study. Whatever language you study, learning it will make a difference in how you see the world and how the world sees you.

School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics:
www.arts.monash.edu.au/lcl

END OF GAZETTE 08/12/09