Education
STS Notes
Please note that all previous years' STS notes have been permanently removed from the Online Database. This is a necessary precaution to ensure that students are not relying on out of date or incorrect statements of law. The Education Directors would like to reiterate that all concerns or queries in relation to course subject matter should be directed primarily to your lecturer. The STS tutorials are used to facilitate and encourage students learning and understanding regarding subjects that they may be finding particularly difficult.
[ Read more… ]!Student Tutorial Service SEMESTER 1 2012 COMMENCES!
*****STUDENT TUTORIAL SERVICE BEGINS THIS WEEK*****
(week beginning 12/03)
The timetable is as follows (ALL CLASSES RUN FROM 1-2PM):
PRINCIPLES OF PUBLIC LAW: Tuesday - 108
ADMINISTRATIVE LAW: Tuesday - 104
OBLIGATIONS: Wednesday - 109
CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE: Wednesday - 108
DISPUTE RESOLUTION: Thursday- 108
EVIDENCE AND PROOF: Thursday - 109
TRUSTS: Friday- 109
Thank you to the following sponsors for making the Student Tutorial Service possible:
- Minter Ellison
- Arnold Bloch Leibler
- Corrs Chambers Westgarth
- King & Wood Mallesons
- Leo Cussen
Student Tutorial Service 2012
The LSS provides a voluntary tutorial service to students throughout weeks three—Swotvac. The tutes are aimed at complementing normal classes, and usually provide a broad overview of topics and resolve student’s particular questions and difficulties. The tutes are run by students who have previously studied the subject and achieved outstanding results. Their notes and advice are therefore invaluable! (Just ask anyone that goes). With an even larger intake of JDs in 2012 the challenge will be ensuring as many subjects as possible are covered and we will be working hard to make this happen.
WE ARE CURRENTLY LOOKING FOR TUTORS FOR THE FOLLOWING SUBJECTS SEMESTER 1 2012:
- Obligations
- Dispute Resolution
- Principles of Public Law
- Trusts
- Criminal Law
- Administrative Law
- Taxation Law and Policy
Student Tutorial Service 2012
The LSS provides a voluntary tutorial service to students throughout weeks three—Swotvac. The tutes are aimed at complementing normal classes, and usually provide a broad overview of topics and resolve student’s particular questions and difficulties. The tutes are run by students who have previously studied the subject and achieved outstanding results. Their notes and advice are therefore invaluable! (Just ask anyone that goes). With an even larger intake of JDs in 2012 the challenge will be ensuring as many subjects as possible are covered and we will be working hard to make this happen.
WE ARE CURRENTLY LOOKING FOR TUTORS FOR THE FOLLOWING SUBJECTS SEMESTER 1 2012:
- Obligations
- Dispute Resolution
- Principles of Public Law
- Trusts
- Criminal Law
- Administrative Law
- Taxation Law and Policy
STS Property: Catch-up Tutorial
A catch-up STS Property Tutorial will be held as follows:
The Annual Sir Anthony Mason Lecture 2011
On behalf of the Melbourne University Law Students' Society, it is our pleasure to invite you to the 2011 Sir Anthony Mason Lecture.
The Lecture was inaugurated in 1995, the year of Sir Anthony Mason's retirement as Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia. It serves to celebrate his outstanding contribution to the legal profession and the common law of Australia, as well as offering the opportunity for students to meet and listen to those who have helped to shape the law as we study it. It is one of the most significant events of the MULSS calendar and in particular for the Education Portfolio.
STS Property tutorial cancelled (Week 7)
Richmond is still quite ill so he won't make it to the Property tute today. He has promised to do a 2-hour catch up during the break.
Mindfulness Seminars
The Melbourne Law School in collaboration with the University of Melbourne Counselling Service offers a program of mindfulness workshops specifically for JD and LLB students during Semester 2, 2011.
Mindfulness is form of self-awareness adapted from the Buddhist tradition of meditation. Considerable research has found mindfulness to have significant health benefits and to be helpful in the management of stress, the ability to focus on study and the promotion of coping and wellbeing.
Curious? An introductory session will be held to offer an overview and short practice.
[ Read more… ]STS Property tutorial cancelled (Week 6)
Unfortunately, Richmond is unwell and will not be able to take the STS Property Tutorial this Tuesday (Week 6). Stay tuned for a catch-up lesson in SWOTVAC.
All other STS tutorials are running as usual.
STS Tutorials Semester 2
All tutorials run from 1-2pm, starting Week 5
Tuesday
JD Constitutional Law – Room 104
JD Corporations Law – Room 109
JD Property – Room 106 (starting Week 6)
Friday
JD Contracts – Room 106
Murdoch University Chinese Law Program
Vacancies are limited for Murdoch University's Chinese Law Program. To secure your position in the next intake in January 2012, please express your interest to Dr Ken Shao before 30 August. Short-listed students and interview time will be announced in due course.
[ Read more… ]ALSA Academic Journal
ALSA has announced the release of the 2009-2010 Academic Journal, which includes the top placing works from the National Essay Competition and the winning Paper Presentation piece from that year.
Download the journal here:
http://www.alsa.net.au/images/2011/2010_ALSA_Academic_Journal.pdf
Charlie Perkins Indigenous Scholarships
The Charlie Perkins Scholarships are now accepting applications for 2012.
Each year the Charlie Perkins Scholarship Trust offers two scholarships for Indigenous postgraduates to study at the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge for up to three years.
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Want to improve your legal research and writing skills?
Lunchtime seminars on legal research and writing: academic integrity and avoiding plagiarism
Laura Griffin, from the Legal Academic Skills Centre, will run mid-semester lunchtime seminars for JD students who are writing legal research essays in Semester 2. Each seminar will cover the expectations for research essays, including the importance of independent scholarship and academic integrity.
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Forum for students who are experiencing academic disadvantage
Students with physical or mental health conditions are invited to attend a law school forum.
The purpose of the meeting is to introduce students to the Law Faculty's Disability Liaison Officer and the Student Wellbeing and Welfare Coordinator; to advise students about law school facilities, library services and assistance offered by the Faculty (special consideration and special examination arrangements).
Student feedback is invited and is most welcome. The forum is intended to be informal, and will be attended by several staff members.
Date: Tuesday 16 August
Time: 1-2pm
Venue: Meeting room, GM29
Hoping to see you there!
Glenn Patmore
Disability Liaison Officer
Senior Lecturer in Law
Melbourne Law School
Semester 2 STS Tutors Wanted!
Are you looking for a part time job?
Did you do well in and really enjoy a law subject?
Do you possess the skills to teach it?
If you answered yes to all of these questions then we have a job for you! The LSS is now accepting applications for the Student Tutorial Service. We need tutors in the following JD subjects:
- Constitutional Law
- Property
- Contracts
- Corporations Law
- Remedies
To apply please email your resume, covering letter and academic transcript (unofficial is fine) to lss-education@unimelb.edu.au. Applications close on Friday 5 August 2011 at 5pm. Interviews will be held between Tuesday 9th August and Friday 12th August.
We look forward to receiving your applications!
CEFA-2011 Governor-General's Essay Competition
The Governor-General’s Undergraduate Essay Competition is Australia’s most prestigious civics essay competition. It is open to Australian undergraduate students (including LLB, JD and Honours students) studying in all faculties at universities across Australia and includes questions that are related to law, politics and other contemporary issues facing Australia. Now in its eighth year, Australia’s most prestigious essay competition provides university students with the opportunity to be recognised for their academic skill, talent and research.
The 2011 Competition is offering up to $33,000 in cash prizes to the winning authors of 2,500 word essays.
[ Read more… ]LLB Students: Meeting with Associate Dean (Undergraduate)
Date: Mon 8 August
Time: 1-2pm
Room: G08
Description: This will be an opportunity for the Associate Dean to bring recent and upcoming events in the program to students’ attention and also to answer any questions students may have.
This is a great opportunity for students to ask questions and to get information about this and next year's programs therefore LLB students are strongly encouraged to attend this session.
Please send any queries to lss-education@unimelb.edu.au
Animal Law - Semester 2, 2011
Due to demand, Animal Law is being offered as an undergraduate subject at Melbourne University in Semester 2, 2011. Enrolment is open to undergraduates and cross-institutional enrolment is also available. The second offering of this subject reflects the popularity of animal law studies at international universities including Harvard, Columbia and McGill Universities, and the large enrolment last year when it was offered for the first time.
This subject is ideal for students who are interested in justice in the wider community, and are interested in applying the skills learnt throughout their law degree to a novel and evolving area of law.
[ Read more… ]Annual Tax Lecture 2011
The Tax Group at Melbourne Law School is pleased to invite you to attend our Annual Tax Lecture, to be given on Wednesday 3 August 2011 by Professor David Rosenbloom of New York University. Professor Rosenbloom will be speaking on the topic “International Tax Policy: A Current View from the United States”.
DATE: Wednesday 3 August 2011
TIME: 5:30pm – Light Refreshments served
6:30pm – Lecture commences
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