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LSS Newsletter - Week 1 (2008)Hello and welcome back for 2008! This year each week or so I will send you an email outlining the many opportunities and events around the law school. This year will be bigger and better than ever before for the LSS and we hope that you chose to get involved many of the diverse fields the activity of the LSS covers. This email will not be confined though to the work of the LSS committee, it will also include opportunities relating to the Melbourne University Law Review and the Melbourne Journal of International Law, as well as from the Postgraduate Law Students’ Association and the many research centres and interest groups around the law school. So, whilst trying to cover the enormous array of events taking place and opportunities being presented throughout the Law School, I will also try to keep these emails brief and readable! Wish me luck! Please feel free to email me to let me know what else you would like to be included in this email, if you would like an event of your own included or how you would like it to be improved. Welcome back again, and I hope to see you around the Law School soon!! Phil Barker
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--- From the LSS: Living Book Scheme The Living Book Scheme for Semester 1 is now open. The LBS is intended to provide financially disadvantaged students with required books and printed materials. If you believe you may be eligible to participate in the LBS, please download the application form from: <http://www.mulss.com/equality/livingbook.php> Successful applicants will be able to use required books from the LBS library throughout the semester, as well as receive their PM free of charge. n.b. If you have already purchased your PMs and are applying, please keep the receipt handy. The sooner you submit your application, the quicker it can be processed. Applications close 5pm Friday 14th March. Please feel free to send us an email if you have any further inquiries.
Environment Portfolio Hello everyone, I'm Hui Chi, the Environment Officer. If you're interested in environment issues, discovering ways of using your legal studies to help improve the welfare of our green surroundings, or This collective is completely open to anyone from the law school and is meant to be a relaxed, open space where people can exchange ideas about how to improve the environment. There will also be practical activities, such as going on conservation trips with Conservation Volunteers Australia and the Mountaineering Club of Melbourne University. There will be plenty of opportunities to meet other environmentally-oriented folks from around the university. Other initiatives include having forums on environment law and arranging placements at various environment organisations. The first collective meeting will be on 12th March, Wednesday, at 1 pm. Please meet at the ground floor of the law school, where the benches are (in front of the security office). Food will be provided- if the weather's fine we'll make a picnic out of it! Until then, to receive news on environment law matters, and green events around the University campus and beyond, please email me at: lss-environment@unimelb.edu.au
Careers Portfolio Practical Skills Seminars: running from Monday through to Thursday in weeks 2 & 3. Everything from application tips, to finding out what you actually do in a clerkship, to hearing a bit about what each firm is like. Details can be found at www.mulss.com Meet the Profession Cocktail Party: 6.30pm March 18th - in week 3 (tickets on sale in week 1), $10 each. Held at Owen Dixon Chambers. Strictly Limited tickets, so get in quick! Tickets on sale from the LSS office during lunch hours. Seasonal Clerkship Guide: out soon For any question on this, contact lss-careers@unimelb.edu.au
Womens’ Portfolio International Women’s Day International Women’s Day aims to celebrate the achievements of women, while also recognising that obstacles in equality continue to exist. To celebrate International Women’s Day, and as a joint initiative between the Melbourne Law School, the MU LSS Women’s Portfolio and the Women Barristers’ Association, the Melbourne Law School will welcome Alexandra Richards QC to speak on her experiences as a legal professional and current issues facing women’s access to justice.
--- From the world of the Journals: Information Sessions for Recruitment for Melbourne University Law Review and Melbourne Journal of International Law There will be a joint information session held by MULR and MJIL on Thursday 6 March 2008 at 1:00pm in room G08. This will be an opportunity for students interested in joining the Editorial Board of either Journal to hear more about the operations of the Journals and the recruitment process. Further queries can be directed to the Editors of either Journal at law-mulr@unimelb.edu.au (for MULR enquiries) or law-mjil@unimelb.edu.au (for MJIL enquiries). All welcome.
Recruitment Opportunities at Melbourne Journal of International Law in Semester 1 MJIL is seeking to recruit General Members, an Events Manager and a Trainee Production Manager (to work with our current Production Manager until taking over the position in semester 2) in semester 1. Position descriptions can be found in the Application Pack, available from the Student Centre on mezzanine level or from the MJIL office on level 2 from Monday 3 March 2008. Applications open 3 March 2008 and close 5:00pm, 14 March 2008. Please direct any queries to the Editors at law-mjil@unimelb.edu.au or visit our office on level 2. We look forward to hearing from you!
--- From within the Law School: Guest Lecture Series #1 #2 #3 PLSA – Free film and discussion "We will be remembered for this" The film "We will be remembered for this" (60 minutes) will be shown on Tuesday March 11th beginning at 6.00pm in lecture theatre G08 in the Law School. Jessie Taylor, the writer and director of the film, will introduce the film, and Dr Michelle Foster (Senior Lecturer, International Refugee Law) will then chair a discussion. A light supper and drinks will be served at 7.30pm after the discussion. "In 2006, a group of young people with different nationalities, backgrounds, attitudes and political views traveled to the Baxter Immigration Detention Centre in South Australia. The stories of the Jessie made the film while an undergraduate law student at Monash University. She studied for a Masters degree in Europe in 2007 and isreturning to Australia in 2008 to work in Melbourne. Contact: Clancy Kelly, RSVP: law-plsa@unimelb.edu.au
WTO Exhibition Moot: Invitation The regional round of the 2008 World Trade Organization (WTO) Moot Court Competition is drawing near and you are warmly invited to attend an exhibition moot on the law of the WTO, at 6pm on Thursday 6 March, Moot Court, Level 5, Melbourne Law School. The exhibition moot, to be conducted by Olaf Ciolek, Devon Whittle, Emily Long and Jessica Rae, will be judged by a panel comprising Dr Gavan Griffith AO QC, Dr Peter Gallagher, Mr Will Irving, Mr Peter Truswell and Professor Anne Orford. If the Melbourne Law School team, coached by Dr Tania Voon and Dr Andrew Mitchell, wins the regional round (in Adelaide from 12-15 March), it will progress to the final round in Geneva in May. Last year’s team, entering for the first time, prevailed over 64 law schools from around the world to win the entire competition. Please join us for the exhibition moot and to wish the team well as they depart for Adelaide. For queries about the exhibition moot, please contact Emily Long at emjlong@gmail.com.
Public Lecture – Defending Human Rights The University of Melbourne Human Rights Forum presents a public lecture on the issue of Defending Human Rights by the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General on Human Rights Defenders, Ms Hina Jilani. Date: Tuesday 1 April 2008 Hina Jilani is the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General on the situation of Human Rights Defenders. She is an advocate of the Supreme Court of Pakistan and was a founding member of the Women’s Action Forum, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, and the first legal aid centre in Pakistan. Ms Jilani was a member of both the International Commission of Inquiry on Darfur established by the UN Security Council, and the United Nations Expert Group on Darfur. Ms Jilani is the recipient of a number of awards, including the Human Rights Award of the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, the Millennium Peace Prize for Women, and the Human Rights Litigation Award of the American Bar Association. Human rights defenders play a crucial role in protecting human rights. In this lecture Ms Jilani will explore the role that human rights defenders play in promoting the international framework and the need for mechanisms to protect their work. Ms Jilani is the 2008 international visitor of the University of Melbourne Human Rights Forum. The lecture will be introduced by The Hon. Justice Lex Lasry of the Supreme Court of Victoria
--- From beyond the Law School: High Court of Australia Special Leave Applications to be heard in Melbourne: Friday May 23, commencing 9:30am (Level 17, Cth Law Courts Building, 305 William St Melbourne).
LIV Global Environmental Discussion Series - Sustainable Living The Law Institute of Victoria (LIV) invites you to a discussion forum on the topic of Sustainable Living. This free event is part 3 of our 4 part Global Environmental Discussion Series on issues facing the global environment. These events aim to explore the facts and figures behind a range of issues facing the planet as well as address the practical, policy and legal responses in Australia compared with those around the world. The third in the series will focus on how we can reshape our cities and habits to build a more sustainable future. Join our expert panel of speakers as they discuss current and future developments in architecture, urban planning, and agriculture. SPEAKERS Panellists: DETAILS Bookings are essential by Monday, 17 March. To download the registration form, please click on the following link: http://www.liv.asn.au/events/calendar/SustainableLiving2008.pdf
The Future Sustainability Leaders Program 2008 Applications for this seven month sustainability leadership course are open to young professionals and university students. The aim of the course is to grow and cultivate a whole new breed of world leader capable of helping society navigate our complex future. Previous participants have gone on to launch their own sustainable businesses, influence government policy and start sustainability departments in ASX 500 companies. This course is scholarship based – there is only a token cost to take part. Training is held every Tuesday evening in the Melbourne CBD from May until November 2008. Apply at www.csl.org.au Applications close 30th March 2008
2008 Oaktree Vision Night Friday 14th March, 6.30pm - Carrillo Gantner Theatre, Sydney Myer Asia Centre. Contact f.borrelli@theoaktree.org for more information?
--- Other For other events around the university see: http://events.unimelb.edu.au/ For more information on the operations of the LSS see: www.mulss.com
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