Law Student Gazette

1. ISI Travel Scholarship

The Italian Services Institute is an association dedicated to providing welfare and education services for disadvantaged persons of Italian descent resident in Australia who would not otherwise have access to those services.

The Institute is offering a one off payment of $3000 for up to 13 students in 2014 to Monash University to support Monash students of Italian descent in Australia to travel overseas to Monash University’s Prato Centre or other destinations in Italy.

If you are considering applying for the 2014 Law Prato Program and you meet the criteria for the Italian Scholarship it is recommended you apply for the Scholarship as applications close on 31 October 2013.

For more information, please contact or visit Coursework Scholarship unit website.

2. Paris in the Spring!

The Faculty of Law and the Australian Centre for Justice Innovation are proud to announce that Monash University has been selected to participate in the 9th Annual International Chamber of Commerce mediation competition to be held in Paris on 7 -12 February 2014. The lucky students to represent the first Monash University team at this prized competition must be chosen no later than 3 November 2013. We are accepting applications from students who have taken Collaborative Law, Mediation, or Negotiation units. Although, the cost to participate in the competition (travel and accommodation) is largely self-funded, ACJI will help students raise money to put towards those expenses. We will also help explore sponsorship opportunities. ACJI will provide two coaches to assist to prepare the team and will provide on the ground support. Students will need to be available for coaching sessions at least once a week for the six weeks leading up to the competition. Please submit your CV, a short biography and a two-hundred word essay telling us why you would like to participate in the competition. Please submit these materials to suzanne.gremaux@monash.edu by midnight Friday 25 October 2013.

SETU surveys

The Student Evaluations of Teaching & Units (SETU) surveys are open for

• FY-01 Units – survey closes on 31 Oct

• S2-01 UG Units – survey closes on 3 Nov

* T3-38 JD Units- survey opens on 28 Oct and closes on 21 Nov

* T4-57 LLM Units – survey closes on 17 Nov.

The University will email you each week at your Monash email address to remind you to complete the SETU survey and they will do this until the survey closes or you complete it. SETU is an online survey of students each Semester that provides our staff with helpful information which they then can use to make informed decisions about continually improving the quality of their Units. Please note that Units in different teaching periods will get surveyed online at different times. We do value your feedback about our Units and we would really like to hear about what you think we are doing well and what still needs improving in each of our Units. We would really appreciate it please if you could complete a SETU survey for each Unit in which you are enrolled. Thank you very much for your assistance with this important quality process.

1. Research Scholarships

Doctoral Research Scholarships at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore

The NUS PhD comprises: (i) coursework (up to 6 graduate courses, taken in the first year), followed by (ii) a thesis of not more than 80,000 words. Successful applicants will commence their candidature as probationary PhD students and will work under the supervision of a Faculty member at NUS Law. Within 12-18 months of their candidature, probationary PhD students must orally defend an outline of the proposed PhD thesis at the Doctoral Candidate Qualifying Examination (DCQE). Candidates who succeed at the DCQE will have their PhD candidature confirmed and may proceed to write the thesis.

The closing date for all applications is 1 December 2013. Application instructions can be found at http://law.nus.edu.sg/admissions/app_periods_forms.html.

See attached for further details.

1. 2013 Law Peer Mentor Program Survey

The 2013 Law Peer Mentor Program is seeking your feedback. If you participated in this year’s community building initiative to welcome our First Year Students and to assist your transition into tertiary studies you will be sent an email inviting you to participate. Please help us improve the 2014 Peer Mentor Program; did you enjoy Intro Night? What could be improved? 2 Village Cinema Gold Class Tickets are up for grabs for completed surveys. Thanks!

.:End Student Gazette 21/10/13:.

1. 19th Lucinda Lecture -”Section 80 – The Great Constitutional Tautology”

Presented by: The Hon. Justice Virginia Bell AC, The High Court of Australia

Virginia Margaret Bell AC was appointed to the High Court in February 2009. At the time of her appointment she was a judge of the New South Wales Court of Appeal. She graduated from the University of Sydney as a Bachelor of Laws in 1976. After seven years as a solicitor with the Redfern Legal Centre, she was admitted to the New South Wales Bar in 1984 and was appointed a Senior Counsel in 1997. Justice Bell practised as a public defender between 1986 and 1989 before returning to the private Bar. Between 1994 and 1997 she was a counsel assisting the Royal Commission into the New South Wales Police Service. Justice Bell was appointed a judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales in March 1999. She served as president of the Australian Institute of Judicial Administration from 2006 to 2008.

Date: Thursday 24 October
Time: 1-2pm
Venue: Monash University, Clayton Campus, Building 08/R1
RSVP: 21 October (unless sold out prior) by email law-marketing@monash.edu

2. 2014 Law Prato/Malaysia Information Sessions

• Find out how you can study overseas in 2014 at the Prato Centre, Italy or Sunway Campus, Malaysia without adding any time to your degree.
• Listen to students share their experiences from 2013.
• Hear about the application process, units offered, funding and more.

Date: Monday 21 October 2013
Time: 1.00 pm – 2.00 pm
Venue: Building 12, Ground Floor, Lecture theatre L1, Monash University, Clayton campus

Date: Thursday 31 October 2013
Time: 1.00 pm – 2.00 pm
Venue: Seminar room 6, Second floor, Law Chambers, Marsh Building, 555 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne

These sessions will not be recorded but all information presented will be available on the updated website from the 21 October.

3. Information Session – Pathways to Oxford and Cambridge

We will be holding an information session about pathways from Monash law to further study at Oxford and Cambridge.

The session will provide guidance, tips and insights and highlight important considerations in planning for further study at Oxford or Cambridge.

Speakers will include the Dean of law – Professor Bryan Horrigan (PhD, Oxford – Rhodes Scholar), Law Lecturer Colin Campbell (LLM and PhD, Cambridge), and recent Monash law, Oxford or Cambridge graduates.

The session will be held twice at different locations:

•1pm – 2pm – Tuesday 22 October, L2, Building 12, Clayton Campus
•5:30pm – 6:30pm – Tuesday 29 October, Seminar Room 3, MULC, Melbourne city

At the session to be held on 22 October, Associate Professor Moira Paterson, Director of Graduate Studies, will also be speaking about options for Post Graduate studies at Monash University.

Please RSVP to Elana.Pose@monash.edu by Thursday 17 October for the session on 22 October and by Wednesday 23 October for the session on 29 october.

4. Marriage Equality in Australia. Where to from here?

The Castan Centre for Human Rights Law proudly presents

The Hon. Adam Bandt MP, Federal Member for Melbourne
Rodney Croome, National Director of Australian Marriage Equality
The Hon. Clem Newton-Brown MP, State Member for Prahran

Date: Thursday 24 October 2013
Time: 6pm to 7:15pm
Venue: Monash University Law Chambers, 555 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne
RSVP: castan.centre@monash.edu or telephone 03 9905 3327
Full details

Public forum – All welcome

Marriage Equality is now recognised in more than a dozen countries around the world, including our neighbour New Zealand, however it remains unrecognised in Australia. In the aftermath of the federal election, how should supporters proceed? Can states fill the breach if the federal government won’t step in? Come and listen to these prominent supporters of marriage equality as they discuss the future of equal love in Australia.

5. Law Honours Conference

Law Faculty staff member and external guests (assessors, High Achievers) who would like to attend the Arnold Bloch Leibler Honours Conference are invited to register on this form.

Location: Monash University Law Chambers, 555 Lonsdale St, Melbourne
Date: Thursday 17 and Friday 18 October, 2013

1. ISI Travel Scholarship

The Italian Services Institute is an association dedicated to providing welfare and education services for disadvantaged persons of Italian descent resident in Australia who would not otherwise have access to those services.

The Institute is offering a one off payment of $3000 for up to 13 students in 2014 to Monash University to support Monash students of Italian descent in Australia to travel overseas to Monash University’s Prato Centre or other destinations in Italy.

If you are considering applying for the 2014 Law Prato Program and you meet the criteria for the Italian Scholarship it is recommended you apply for the Scholarship as applications close on 31 October 2013.

For more information, please contact or visit Coursework Scholarship unit website.

2. Law School Ambassador outcome; Power of Being Enough

Following a two day training course on the Science of Public Speaking, a brave Law School Ambassador, Kelsey Paske, has uploaded a moving poem she wrote onto Slideshare. “Power of Being Enough” is particularly well timed with Mental Health Week last week and the Performance@Law lectures to all 1st years via RAW and I urge you to check it out for your own wellbeing here.

It is great to see Ambassador’s impacting the student community in such a positive manner. May I take this opportunity to wish you all the very best in the forthcoming examination season.

Lloyd England LL M
Student Experience Manager

3. Student Services Office Closed

Student Services, both at Clayton and Law Chambers, will be closed all day on Tuesday 29 October 2013 due to a Professional Staff Retreat.

The Clayton office will re-open on Wednesday 30 October at 10.30 am and the Law Chambers at 8.30 am.

Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.

.:End Student Gazette 14/10/13:.

1. 19th Lucinda Lecture -”Section 80 – The Great Constitutional Tautology”

Presented by: The Hon. Justice Virginia Bell AC, The High Court of Australia

Virginia Margaret Bell AC was appointed to the High Court in February 2009. At the time of her appointment she was a judge of the New South Wales Court of Appeal. She graduated from the University of Sydney as a Bachelor of Laws in 1976. After seven years as a solicitor with the Redfern Legal Centre, she was admitted to the New South Wales Bar in 1984 and was appointed a Senior Counsel in 1997. Justice Bell practised as a public defender between 1986 and 1989 before returning to the private Bar. Between 1994 and 1997 she was a counsel assisting the Royal Commission into the New South Wales Police Service. Justice Bell was appointed a judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales in March 1999. She served as president of the Australian Institute of Judicial Administration from 2006 to 2008.

Date: Thursday 24 October
Time: 1-2pm
Venue: Monash University, Clayton Campus, Building 08/R1
RSVP: 21 October (unless sold out prior) by email law-marketing@monash.edu

2. 2014 Law Prato/Malaysia Information Sessions

• Find out how you can study overseas in 2014 at the Prato Centre, Italy or Sunway Campus, Malaysia without adding any time to your degree.
• Listen to students share their experiences from 2013.
• Hear about the application process, units offered, funding and more.

Date: Monday 21 October 2013
Time: 1.00 pm – 2.00 pm
Venue: Building 12, Ground Floor, Lecture theatre L1, Monash University, Clayton campus

Date: Thursday 31 October 2013
Time: 1.00 pm – 2.00 pm
Venue: Seminar room 6, Second floor, Law Chambers, Marsh Building, 555 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne

These sessions will not be recorded but all information presented will be available on the updated website from the 21 October.

3. Honours Information Session

Many of the Faculty’s top students in their penultimate or last year of law elect to enrol in the Honours Research Unit (Honours Thesis LAW5207).

The Honours Research Unit is a 12 credit point unit intended for students with an interest and aptitude to produce a significant piece of original work in an area of the law that fascinates them. The Unit involves students writing an 8-10,000 word thesis under the supervision of an academic member of staff, on a topic chosen by the student, and approved by the Honours Convenor.

Students also attend 3 symposiums throughout the year, designed to support them through the research process. At the end of the year students present their thesis findings to their peers and invited guests at a 2 day Honours Conference.

To be eligible for the Honours Research Unit, students must have an average of 72% or better across their law units, and have no more than 72 credit points remaining to complete the requirements of their law degree.

Date: Tues 8th Oct
Time: 1pm
Location: L2, Bld 12

Further information on the Honours programme can also be found on the Honours website, at http://www.law.monash.edu.au/current-students/enrolmen

4. Free Lunch

I CAN is a community of Monash students sharing the strengths of the Autism Spectrum

Meet Penny, a member of a community of Autism Spectrum Monash students known as ‘I CAN Monash Network’.

Penny and the team are running a free lunch for Autism Spectrum students this Thursday 10 October.

So join us! We want to be a network of students who share a good laugh about the Autism Spectrum and the interests, strengths, talents and coping strategies that we all have. Together we can create an enabling Monash experience for all students! I CAN member James says it all in his blog post here.

Details:

Thursday 10 October, 12pm – 1pm
Building 6 (Faculty of Education), Level 1, Room TLS110, Clayton campus
RSVP to chris.r.varney@gmail.com

5. Mental Health Week

Mental Health Week (7-11 October). During Mental Health Week we will be offering seminars, training and workshops which aim to;

• Promote social and emotional wellbeing

• Communicate the support Monash can offer to those struggling or worried about someone else

• Provide information and education about various mental health issues

• Improve the coping capacity of our community

• Increase mental health recovery

Please see attached a list of activities available at Clayton campus – we encourage you to register!

Mental Health Week 2013 activities

1. Postgraduate Consultative Group

The Postgraduate Consultative Group will be meeting on Thursday 10th October and would like to invite you to raise any student concerns or points for discussion. If you do have any potential agenda items, please contact one of the following student representatives:

LSS Vice President – JD

Ms Irene Chen

email: jd@monashlss.com

Elected Student Representatives (JD)

Dr Aaron Sudholz

email: adsud1@student.monash.edu

and/or

Ms Janet Tan

email: jwtan18@student.monash.edu

Elected Student Representative (Graduate programs)

Ms Emma Turnbull

email: ejtur5@student.monash.edu

The purpose of the group is to serve as a liaison and exchange of views and information between students and staff on student concerns arising out of educational and administrative issues in relation to the postgraduate program and the provision of student services and facilities.

PS. This is not a call for any teaching and learning issues which are to be handled by Graduate Studies Committee.

.:End Student Gazette 7/10/13:.

1. Summer Research Scholarships 2014

The Parliamentary Library is offering six-week Summer Research Scholarships in January–February 2014 to support a research project on a topic of mutual interest to the Scholar and to the Australian Parliament.

We are seeking applications from Honours or postgraduate tertiary degree students who are undertaking research in an aspect of Australian public policy, law, politics, economics or parliamentary practice. The successful applicant will receive privileged access to the Parliamentary Library’s collections and facilities, interaction with relevant expert librarians and researchers in the Parliamentary Library, and an honorarium of $1,800 provided at the completion of the program.

The Scholarships are open to Australian citizens and those with Permanent Resident status only.

Applications close: Friday 18 October 2013

Enquiries may be directed to Richard Watson at richard.watson@aph.gov.au.