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LLB NEWSLETTER
Edition 13, 2007 (28 August 2007)
Welcome to the thirteenth edition of the Melbourne LLB Newsletter for 2007. The purpose of this publication is to inform you of key issues and events related to your studies. If you need any further clarification on anything, please contact the Undergraduate Studies Office on 8344 4475, or the contact listed.
practical legal training information session
After completing your law degree, the alternative to undertaking Articles of Clerkship is to complete a Practical Legal Training (PLT) course at an approved institution.
Representatives from Monash PDLP (Postgraduate Diploma in Legal Practice, Skills and Ethics) and Leo Cussen Institute (Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice) will speak about their respective courses. There will also be information regarding the career outcomes of PLT graduates and time for questions from students.
When: Wednesday 29 August 2007 at 1:00 to 2:00pm
Where: GM17, Melbourne Law School
aurora project native title legal internship information session
When: Wednesday 29 August 2007 at 1:00pm
Where: Room 224, Melbourne Law School
| There will be a student-run lunchtime information session about the Aurora Project Native Title Legal Internship. Two students who undertook placements with Native Title Representative Bodies (NTRBs) based in Darwin and Melbourne over the winter break will talk briefly about their experiences. There will be an opportunity for students who are interested in applying for an Aurora Project Legal Internship over the summer break to ask questions about the application process and what to expect when undertaking an internship. |  |
The Aurora Project provides law students with experience working within the Native Title system. It recognizes that many Native Title Representative Bodies are under-resourced and it aims to support these bodies and other Indigenous institutions through capacity building and raising awareness of the work that they do. Through student placements, students have the opportunity to gain insights into the dynamics of the legal structures around native title as well as the practical aspects of working within it.
For more information about the Aurora Project, visit their website.
Applications for the summer break are currently open and will close on Friday 7 September 2007.
IILAH in conversation, with paul cleary and jenny beard
Paul Cleary in conversation with Dr Jenny Beard will be discussing his latest book Shakedown: Australia's Grab for Timor Oil. The session will be chaired by Associate Professor Sundhya Pahuja. Both Jenny and Sundhya are co-directors of the research program on law and development at the Institute for International Law and the Humanities at the Melbourne Law School.
In 2000 one of the poorest nations on earth began negotiations with Australia over rights to the lucrative oil and gas resources of the Timor Sea. With the revenue from the oil and gas fields, the young democracy of East Timor would have a chance to secure its economic future. In an ironic twist of fate, East Timor found that Australia, the country which had delivered freedom to the Timorese by intervening against Indonesia's bloody attacks in 1999, was now trying to deny it a fair share of the profits.
This is the inside story of Australia's attempts to bully East Timor out of a promising future. Paul Cleary, a former East Timor government adviser, gives a gripping insider's account of the six years of bruising negotiations between Australia and East Timor that followed the independence ballot. In this compelling insight into Australia's international operations, Cleary exposes the heroes and villains who emerged in a one-hundred-billion-dollar shakedown.
Paul Cleary began his career as an Australian journalist reporting on economic and social policy and on Southeast Asia. After serving a decade in Australia’s national press gallery he was awarded a Chevening Fellowship by the UK Foreign Office, and after completing studies in London was appointed by the World Bank as an advisor to the Prime Minister of East Timor on the Timor Sea oil and gas negotiations.
When: Wednesday 29 August 2007 at 6:00pm
Where: Room 920, Melbourne Law School
Enquiries: Vesna Stefanovski, email law-iilah@unimelb.edu.au, tel 03 8344 6589
NGOs, The Law and Global Influence
Speaker: Serena Lillywhite, Manager, Ethical Business, Brotherhood of St Laurence
This presentation will give consideration to the role that non-government organizations (NGOs) can play in influencing global debate, the policy reform agenda and ultimately improving conditions for the disadvantaged and vulnerable. The discussion will be framed within a context of corporate social responsibility. The application of both international standards (e.g. International Labour Organization core labour standards), national laws and the so called ‘soft laws’ and voluntary mechanisms will be assessed as effective tools in encouraging business to understand their responsibilities, and implement business practices that respect and uphold both the law and community expectations. Examples will be drawn from the Brotherhood of St Laurence’s experience working with spectacle factories and labour rights in China, outworkers in Australia’s garment sector and a campaign to address human rights in Australia’s immigration detention centres.
Serena Lillywhite is Manager of Ethical Business with the Brotherhood of St Laurence. Serena is an active corporate social responsibility (CSR) practitioner, researcher and advocate. She has expertise and experience in responsible supply chain management, labour and human rights in China, and issues facing home based outworkers in the textile sector in Australia. Serena has considerable knowledge of the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises, is the Australian representative on the OECD Watch Coordinating Committee, and is a regular speaker at the OECD Investment Committee and other international CSR platforms. She contributed to two recent Australian Federal Government inquiries into CSR and works regularly with the business community to foster dialogue and multistakeholder approaches to ethical business practices. Serena holds a Masters in International Business from the University of Melbourne.
When: Thursday 30 August 2007 at 1:05 to 2:00pm
Where: G14, Melbourne Law School
A 50 year Journey from Melbourne Law School to the Federal Court Bench
Speaker: Justice Goldberg, Federal Court of Australia
When: Thursday 6 September 2007 at 1:05 to 2:00pm
Where:
G14, Melbourne Law School
Fair Trade and Development
Speaker: Associate Professor Brett Inder
This talk will look at the fair trade movement, and how it fits into a wider view of economic development in low income countries.
When: Thursday 13 September 2007 at 1:05 to 2:00pm
Where: G14, Melbourne Law School
australian society of legal philosophy seminar
Interpreting Statutes Consistently with Rights - What are the Limits?
Speaker: Professor Jim Evans, Law School, University of Auckland
Section 6 of the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990 states that whenever a statute can be "given a meaning" consistent with the rights in the Act that meaning is to be preferred. Similarly, the UK Human Rights Act 1998 states that "so far as it is possible to do so" both primary and subordinate legislation "must be read and given effect" in a way that is compatible with the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. Both these statutes make it necessary for lawyers in these jurisdictions to confront the question: "What are the limits of interpretation?" In this paper Professor Evans outlines the different responses to these provisions in these two jurisdictions and then states his view on the limits of their legitimate role.
Chair: Professor Jeff Goldsworthy, Monash Law School
When: Thursday 30 August 2007 at 5:45pm
Where: Room 920, Melbourne Law School
Enquiries to David Wood, email david.wood@unimelb.edu.au, tel 03 8344 6192
university of melbourne human rights forum: public lecture
Campaigning for Human Rights at the United Nations - An NGO Perspective
The second lecture in the University of Melbourne Human Rights Forum Lunchtime Lecture Series in Semester 2 will be held on Tuesday 4 September 2007. Caroline Lambert will be speaking about her experiences in campaigning on human rights issues at the United Nations.
All Welcome!
Caroline Lambert is the Acting Executive Director for the YWCA Australia. She has represented a number of non-governmental organizations in UN negotiations, including Amnesty International and the NGO Coalition for the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. In January 2006, she was the delegation leader for the Australian NGO Shadow Report on the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women.
When: Tuesday 4 September 2007 at 1:00 to 2:00pm
Where: Room 225, Alice Hoy Building, University of Melbourne
possessing the dead in 1857: public lecture
Speaker: Dr Helen MacDonald
The Old Bailey case that exposed how medical schools acquired bodies for dissection.
When: Thursday 6 September 2007 at 6:30 to 8:00pm
Where: Laby Theatre, David Caro Building, University of Melbourne
future of refugee policy in australia
The Law Institute of Victoria invites you to an event on the future of Australia's refugee policy.
Debate concerning Australia's treatment of refugees and its migration policy continues to simmer showing no sign of going away any time soon. With an election looming, there is enormous capacity for us to re-engage with our politicians and ensure that no matter which party is elected, our views on the treatment of refugees will be heard.
Our panel of speakers will discuss a range of perspectives in reflecting on one question:
Has Australia got its refugee policy right?
Speakers include:
With moderation by:
David Manne, Coordinator of the Refugee & Immigration Legal Centre
| When: | Wednesday 12 September 2007 at 6:00 to 8:00pm (registration at 5.45pm for a 6:00pm start) |
| Where: | State Library of Victoria Conference Centre, Village Roadshow Theatrette, Entry 3, LaTrobe Street, Melbourne |
| Cost: | $20 LIV members $30 Non members (Price inc GST) |
Enquiries: LIV Events, tel 03 9607 9504, email: events@liv.asn.au
Drinks and finger food will be served following the forum, giving you a chance to discuss these issues with others.
More information about the event can be found online.
centre for comparative constitutional studies seminar: the concept of public law
Speaker: Professor Elisabeth Zoller, Universite Pantheon-Assas, Paris II
All legal systems distinguish between public law and private law. Every country has its own way of conceptualizing this distinction and putting it into practice. In the common law tradition, the distinction is blurred and sometimes barely discernible; it can be intuited only from specific rules or particular institutions embedded in the larger body of the law in force. In the civil law tradition, particularly in France, the distinction between public law and private law is glaring. Rather than being deduced from the legal system through various rules or institutions, the distinction structures the whole legal system, constituting its very backbone. Such is the case in France, where public law is radically separated from private law as illustrated by the dual court system with a high court to adjudicate private law disputes (Cour de cassation) and another one to hear public law cases (Conseil d'Etat). The seminar will explore the reasons for the divide between the two traditions and its consequences for the rights of the individual.
Elisabeth Zoller [Docteur en Droit, Agrégée de Droit Public] is Professor of Public Law in the Law School at the University of Paris II (Panthéon-Assas) where she is Director of the Centre for American Law and Director of the Doctorate Program on the Common Law System. She taught in France (Angers, Nantes, Strasbourg) and in the United States (Cornell and Rutgers) before joining the Law School of Paris II in 1995 where she teaches constitutional law and comparative public law. Elisabeth has authored several books in French and in English on International Law, Constitutional Law, and more recently Comparative Law.
When: Tuesday 18 September 2007 at 5:00 to 6:30pm; Light refreshments 6:30 to 7:00pm
Where: Room 224, Melbourne Law School
RSVP: Dr Madeline Grey by Thursday 13 September 2007, tel 03 8344 1011, email law-cccs@unimelb.edu.au
human rights mooting competition
Congratulations to the two teams that have been selected to represent the University of Melbourne in the inaugural Human Rights Mooting Competition which is being organized by the Castan Centre for Human Rights and sponsored by Clayton Utz. The teams, which consist of three members, are:
TEAM 1: Sarah Kemeny, Stephanie Morrow, and Julienne Hortle
TEAM 2: Lauren Knight, Seamus Coleman, and Nicole Lynch
The mooting competition is being held to mark the introduction of the Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities Act 2006 (Vic), and is open to law students at all Victorian universities. The competition will address issues associated with the new Charter and will give students the opportunity to hone their skills in this important new area of law. The competition will be held between 22 August and 31 August with the winning team to receive $3000 and the runner up to receive $1000.
We wish both teams the best of luck.
Di Otto and John Tobin
student published research prize
The Student Published Research Prize is awarded annually for outstanding pieces of writing published by students of the University of Melbourne's Law School.
There are two Prizes of $1,000 each - one to be awarded to an undergraduate law student and the other to be awarded to a postgraduate law student.
Competition guidelines are available here. An application form is also available online.
Entries for the 2007 Prize close on Friday 18 January 2008.
Thinking about going on exchange? The Law Faculty will be holding two exchange information sessions this semester:
Law Exchange Information Session 1: Wednesday 5 September 2007, 1:00 to 2:00pm, G08
Law Exchange Information Session 2: Thursday 11 October 2007, 1:00 to 2:00pm, G08
To book a session please visit the Melbourne Abroad website.
Do not book a session unless you are definitely attending as your booking may take a place from another student who might otherwise miss out.
If you cannot attend, please log back into the list and remove your booking as soon as possible. If you fail to attend a session without withdrawing you may not be able to attend any other sessions this semester.
A Melbourne Abroad representative and the Law Academic Exchange Contact will be on hand to answer all your questions about undertaking an exchange through the Law Faculty. Come along to find out more!
The Law Students Society Tutorial Service is running again in semester 2.
Semester 2 Timetable – all tutorials run during lunchtime (1-2pm):
Feel free to come along to a tutorial at any point during semester.
If you have any queries or concerns, please feel free to contact us via email.
Do you have an opinion about timetables? Exams? Teaching? Student services? Tell us about it. Daily prizes to be won! Further details are available online.
Please send any feedback/comments or suggestions you have about this newsletter to Tom Hewitt-McManus.
previous editions of LLB newsletter
Previous editions of the newsletter are available on the Melbourne LLB website.
