Due to popular demand, we have upgraded to a larger cinema for our\u00a0special screening of\u00a0Chasing Asylum, <\/em>but there are only a few more tickets on sale. Be sure to get in soon if you are hoping to join us to watch\u00a0this powerful film.<\/p>\n The Castan Centre for Human Rights Law invites you to this powerful fundraising event;\u00a0the film the Australian government doesn\u2019t want you to see.<\/p>\n Chasing Asylum<\/a> <\/em><\/strong>exposes the real impact of Australia\u2019s offshore detention policies and explores how ‘The Lucky Country’ became one where leaders choose detention over compassion and governments deprive the desperate of their basic human rights.<\/p>\n The film features never-before-seen footage from inside Australia\u2019s offshore detention camps, revealing the personal impact of sending those in search of a safe home to languish in limbo.<\/p>\n Chasing Asylum<\/em> explores the mental, physical and fiscal consequences of Australia\u2019s decision to lock away families in unsanitary conditions away from media scrutiny, destroying their lives under the pretext of saving them.<\/p>\n Join us for this special screening and fundraising event.<\/p>\n Date:<\/strong> Wednesday 1 June 2016<\/p>\n Time:<\/strong> 6:30pm – 8:30pm<\/p>\n Venue: <\/strong>Classic Cinema, 9 Gordon Street, Elsternwick, VIC 3185<\/p>\n Cost:<\/strong> $24.08 per ticket<\/p>\n Buy tickets\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Watch the trailer<\/a>. (MA15+ Strong Coarse Language)<\/p>\n Join over 300 attendees from the law, civil society, academia and business at Australia’s only annual human rights conference. Limited student rate tickets are limited.<\/p>\n Speaker line up so far includes:<\/p>\n Date: <\/strong>Friday 22 July 2016<\/p>\n Time: <\/strong>9.00am – 5.00pm<\/p>\n Venue: <\/strong>The Edge, Federation Square, Corner Swanston and Flinders Street, Melbourne<\/p>\n Full details on the\u00a0Castan Centre website<\/a>. Check it out for up-to-date speaker line up.<\/p>\n The Clerkship Masterclass has been designed to assist students build essential skills for your Clerkship.<\/p>\n To attend you should have preferably secured a Seasonal Clerkship or equivalent.<\/p>\n Presented by lawyers from top law firms and expert staff from the Law Library, these workshops are designed to deliver essential, practical skills relating to research, writing, preparing memos and tips to work effectively during the Clerkship.<\/p>\n If possible please ensure that you bring a laptop with you. Law firms use Clerkships to identify students to take into their Traineeship programs. Make yours the best Clerkship ever!<\/p>\n A light lunch will be provided.<\/p>\n Please register through the Library Class Booking System<\/a>. A more detailed program will be available once the program has been finalised.<\/p>\n Date:<\/strong> Friday 24 June<\/p>\n Time: <\/strong>10.00am \u2013 3.30pm (approx)<\/p>\n Venue: <\/strong>Monash Law Chambers, 555 Lonsdale St, Melbourne<\/p>\n During a mediation, decisions have to be made by the parties in order to settle their dispute and process decisions also need to be made by the mediator.<\/p>\n As people form judgments and make decisions they fall prey to predictable and consistent errors which can impact on the quality of decisions and escalate conflict.<\/p>\n Professor Jill Klein from the Melbourne Business School will speak on the topic\u00a0‘Cognitive Biases in Decision Making’<\/a>.<\/p>\n The presentation will provide a discussion of cognitive biases and how we can manage them in order to make optimal decisions.<\/p>\n Date: <\/strong>Tuesday 14 June 2016<\/p>\n Time:<\/strong> 5.45pm\u00a0(socialising)\u00a0for\u00a06.15pm to\u00a07.15pm\u00a0presentation<\/p>\n Venue:<\/strong> Heritage Room, Coopers Inn (2nd floor), cnr Exhibition St & Little Lonsdale St<\/p>\n Cost: <\/strong>Free to VADR members (non-members $20)<\/p>\n RSVP: <\/strong>please email Alison at\u00a0admin@vadr.asn.au<\/a><\/p>\n Finger food will be provided and drinks are available at bar prices.<\/p>\n Professors Pearce and Geddes observe that \u201cno matter how obscure an Act or other legislative instrument might be, it is the inescapable duty of the courts to give it some meaning\u201d.<\/p>\n Practitioners are faced with this very task on a daily basis.<\/p>\n Our speakers will aim to provide insight to an important topic that is often overlooked. Our speakers will explore various aspects of statutory interpretation, including:<\/p>\n Please find more information here<\/a> and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Date: <\/strong>Wednesday 8 June 2016<\/p>\n Time:<\/strong> 5.15pm \u2013 6.15pm<\/p>\n Venue: <\/strong>Monash University Law Chambers, 555 Lonsdale St, Melbourne<\/p>\n Cost: <\/strong>Free<\/p>\n RSVP here<\/a><\/strong> by\u00a0Monday 6 June<\/strong> (unless booked out prior)<\/p>\n The way we view and conciliate disputes of sexual harassment is changing.<\/p>\n We have seen through the Federal report into the Department of Defence and the Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission’s own independent review into sex discrimination and sexual harassment in Victoria Police that the impact of such harassment in the workplace runs deep.<\/p>\n The case law around sexual harassment is also changing and damages are increasing to reflect community expectations that sexual harassment can no longer lightly be dismissed. In this current climate, it is timely we reflect on these changes and discuss how they can impact on the way disputes of this nature can be resolved through conciliation.<\/p>\n At this\u00a0Victorian Association for Dispute Resolution<\/a> (VADR) event Sophie Georgalis and Katie Bates from the Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission will speak on the topic\u00a0‘Conciliating Sexual Harassment Disputes – Not Just a Personal Matter’<\/a>.<\/p>\n Date:<\/strong> Thursday 2 June 2016<\/p>\n Time: <\/strong>5.45pm (socialising) for 6.15pm to 7.15pm presentation<\/p>\n Venue: <\/strong>Heritage Room, Coopers Inn (2nd floor), cnr Exhibition & Little Lonsdale Sts<\/p>\n Cost: <\/strong>Free to VADR members (non-members $20)<\/p>\n RSVP: <\/strong>please email Alison at\u00a0admin@vadr.asn.au<\/a><\/p>\n Finger food will be provided and drinks are available at bar prices.<\/p>\n Registrations are now open for the Monash Entrepreneurship and Commercialisation lecture series.<\/p>\n Interested undergraduate and postgraduate students and staff are all welcome to attend the lectures.<\/p>\n2. Castan Centre Annual Human Rights Conference 2016<\/h2>\n
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3. Clerkship Masterclass<\/h2>\n
4. Cognitive Biases in Decision Making<\/h2>\n
5. Commercial CPD Seminar – Statutory Interpretation<\/h2>\n
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6. Conciliating Sexual Harassment Disputes \u2013 Not Just a Personal Matter<\/h2>\n
7. Entrepreneurship and Commercialisation Lecture Series<\/h2>\n