Melbourne Law School News

Graduate Study Information Sessions ? Australia and New Zealand.

The University of Melbourne is holding information sessions across Australia and New Zealand. Come along and learn how we can help you go further, faster.

For more information about dates and venues, or to register for an information session, visit the Graduate Study Information Sessions website.

Tue 5-Aug-08.

2009 Melbourne Law Masters program .

The Melbourne Law Masters offers outstanding programs for both law and non-law graduates.

The complete 2009 program is now available online.

With one of the largest ranges of graduate law subjects in the world, high-calibre teaching by local experts and international guest lecturers, small class sizes and intensive teaching, Melbourne Law School offers specialist masters degrees and graduate diplomas of unrivalled quality.

In 2009, we will offer a diverse range of subjects for new and existing students. We are also very excited to offer more than 30 totally new subjects in the program next year, evidence of our commitment to remaining at the forefront of graduate legal education in Australia and indeed the world.

2009 Melbourne Law Masters Subjects (.pdf)
2009 Melbourne Law Masters Timetable (.pdf)

Please note that full program details, including subject syllabuses, teaching and assessment details, are now online and that our our printed handbook will be available by mid-October.

Request a 2009 Melbourne Law Masters Handbook

Future students
Request a copy of the 2009 Melbourne Law Masters Handbook to be sent to you as soon as it becomes available via our Online Enquiry Form.

Current Melbourne Law Masters students
Please do not request a handbook via our online enquiry form - a copy of next year's handbook will automatically be posted to you along with your re-enrolment information.

Re-enrolment

Current students wishing to re-enrol for 2009 can expect their re-enrolment packs to be posted in October. Full instructions and details on this process will be available at this time.

Please do not request a handbook via our online enquiry form.

Applications

Local applicants
After 1 October 2008, Australian citizens and permanent residents and citizens of New Zealand can apply directly to the Melbourne Law Masters Office.

Applications close:
Semester 1 2009: 1 December 2008
Semester 2 2009: 1 June 2009

Applications will be accepted after these dates and throughout the year; although subject availability may be limited.

International applicants
International applicants should apply now for Semester 1 2009. International applications can be made directly to the University or through one of our Overseas Representatives.

Applications close:
Semester 1 2009: 31 October 2008
Semester 2 2009: 30 April 2009

Applications will be accepted after these dates and throughout the year; although subject availability may be limited.

Details on how to apply (international students)

More information

For further information about our program, or for details on how to apply for 2009, please contact the Melbourne Law Masters Office.

Melbourne Law Masters Office
Melbourne Law School
University of Melbourne
Victoria 3010

Tel +61 3 8344 6190
Email law-masters@unimelb.edu.au

Fri 12-Sep-08.

Melbourne Law Masters international visiting lecturers ? October 2008.

In 2008, more than 50 international scholars and practitioners will be teaching in the Melbourne Law Masters, sharing their international expertise with our graduate students. The following international experts will be visiting Melbourne throughout October to teach in the Melbourne Law Masters.

Professor John Prebble, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Subject: Jurisprudential Perspectives on Tax Law

Date: 29 September – 3 October

Professor Brian Arnold, Goodmans LLP, Canada

Subject: Tax Treaties

Date: 15 – 21 October 2008 (excluding the weekend)

The Hon. Justice Dennis Davis, High Court of South Africa

Subject: What is it that Judges do? An Analysis of the Major Theories of Adjudication

Date: 15 – 21 October 2008 (excluding the weekend)

Professor Stephen Mayson, The College of Law of England & Wales, United Kingdom

Subject: Law Firm Strategy and Structure

Date: 15 – 21 October 2008 (excluding the weekend)

Dr Andrew Butler, Russel McVeagh Lawyers, New Zealand

Subject: Victorian Charter in Comparative Perspective

Date: 27 – 31 October 2008

Dr Petra Butler, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Subject: Victorian Charter in Comparative Perspective

Date: 27 – 31 October 2008

Wed 1-Oct-08.

Melbourne Law School Lunchtime concert Series.

MELBOURNE LAW SCHOOL LUNCHTIME CONCERT SERIES:
Danny Saunders (flute) and Andrew Woodruff (guitar) will be performing in the foyer of the Melbourne Law School from 1-2pm to launch the inaugural Lunchtime Concert Series, hosted by the Postgraduate Law Students Association.

Danny and Andrew both graduated from the University of Melbourne Conservatorium of Music in 2004 and have been performing together since 2002, when they were studying music together in Graz, Austria. The duo are regular performers around Melbourne, playing both classical and contemporary repertoire.

The piece which will be performed at this inaugural concert is Astor Piazzolla's 'Histoire du Tango', a multi-movement work composed during the 1980s which tells the history of tango in four chunks of music styled a thirty-year intervals.

THIS IS A FREE PUBLIC EVENT AND BOOKINGS ARE NOT REQUIRED.

Mon 13-Oct-08, 1:00PM.

International Criminal Court - recent developments.

The Deputy Prosecutor will outline developments in the situations and cases currently before the Court - Northern Uganda, DR Congo, Darfur Sudan and the Central African Republic. Tue 14-Oct-08, 1:00PM.

Commonwealth v Tasmania. .

On 1 July 1983, the High Court of Australia handed down a decision that prevented the Tasmanian Government from damming the Franklin River, thus ending one of the largest environmental controversies in Australian history. The case was definitive in constitutional history and heralded the beginning of environment legislation in Australia. The controversy was also one of the major factors that led to the Hawke government coming into power in 1983.

Come and delve into the memories of three individuals who were intimately involved with the issue. Justice Habersberger had served as one of the counsel inthe Tasmanina Dam Case, Professor Barry Jones was Minister for Science at that time and Ms Karen Alexander was an environment activist who had a significant role in coordinating the anti-dam protests.

They are your window into the past. They will give you an insight into the political, social and legal turmoil at that time. They will bring the words in the High Court’s judgment to life.

Tue 14-Oct-08, 6:30PM.

Sport: A Political Football - The 18th Annual ANZSLA Conference.

Sport: A Political Football - The 18th Annual ANZSLA Conference

15 - 17 October 2008

This year, ANZSLA’s annual conference will return to Melbourne and the conference sessions will be held in the MCC Members’ Dining Room overlooking the Melbourne Cricket Ground. The theme for the conference is the always topical world of the politics of sport – “Sport: A Political Football”.

The programme will look at the politically charged issues of regulating and controlling drugs and doping, the sporting labour market and the racing industry, and will address the staging of major events and creation and expansion of sporting leagues.

Download the 2008 conference brochure (.pdf format)

For information and updates about the conference, visit www.anzsla2008.com

Melbourne Law School Sports Law program homepage

Wed 15-Oct-08.

Labour Law Seminar - Looking for the Hook: The Problem in Proving Race Discrimination'.

The Centre for Employment and Labour Relations Law is pleased to invite you to its next Labour Law Seminar for 2008 entitled, ‘Looking for the Hook: The Problem in Proving Race Discrimination'. by Dr Jennifer Nielsen.

Dr Jennifer Nielsen will discuss the difficulties involved in proving complaints of race discrimination, arguing that anti-discrimination jurisprudence is informed by 'white' ways of thinking that ultimately tend to reproduce, rather that reduce, Aboriginal inequality.

Dr Jennifer Nielsen is a Senior Lecturer with the School of Law & Justice at Southern Cross University (Northern New South Wales). She is a co-editor of Majah - Indigenous Peoples and the Law (1996), a contributing author to Human Rights in Australian Law (1998), Introducing the Law (2008), and Employment Law in Principle (2008), and teaches and researches in the areas of employment rights, equal employment opportunity, and workplace safety. In 2008, she obtained her PhD from the Law School, University of Melbourne, for a thesis entitled: An Intractable Problem: the endurance of whiteness in the mainstream workplace.

DATE: Wednesday, 15 October 2008

TIME: 1:00 – 2:00 pm

PLACE: Room 920 (Level Nine)

Melbourne Law School

185 Pelham Street, Carlton VIC 3010

RSVP: Click here to register online.

Full details of the event are available on our website:
http://celrl.law.unimelb.edu.au/go/events-and-activities/labour-law-seminar-series/

Wed 15-Oct-08, 1:00PM.

Careers Information Seminar : Victoria Legal Aid?s New Lawyers Program.

Victoria Legal Aid if no longer offering Articles. Instead they have
developed the New Lawyers Program.

This two-year program is for first and second year lawyers. Representatives from VLS will explain the details of the new program.

Wed 15-Oct-08, 1:00PM.

Upcoming Melbourne JD Information Sessions.

Full details are available on the Information Sessions webpage on the Melbourne JD website.

Wed 15-Oct-08, 6:00PM.