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LLB NEWSLETTER
Edition 15, 2007 (4 October 2007)
Welcome to the fifteenth 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.
working in-house as a banking and finance lawyer
Speaker: Ms Rebecca Hope, Senior Lawyer, Working Capital, Institutional Legal Group, Australia and New Zealand Banking Group
Rebecca Hope will give a presentation to Melbourne Law School students about her career as a lawyer in banking and finance. Rebecca received her LLB from Bond University in 1996. In addition to working as an in-house lawyer at ANZ, she is currently a member of the Asia-Pacific Loan Market Association's documentation committee. Before going in-house, Rebecca was in private practice and gained a LLM from Cornell University.
In her presentation, Rebecca will also talk about one of her recent projects for ANZ, which involved the APLMA pro forma facility agreements, and how ANZ approaches standardized documentation.
When: Monday 8 October 2007, 1:10 to 2:00pm
Where: G27, Melbourne Law School
university of melbourne human rights forum: public lecture
Human Rights Careers in the Field
The University of Melbourne Human Rights Forum Lunchtime Lecture Series for Semester 2 will conclude on Tuesday 9 October 2007 with a panel presentation on Human Rights Careers.
When: Tuesday 9 October 2007 at 1:00 to 2:00pm
Where: Room 108, Melbourne Law School
Speakers:
Tom Bamforth
Tom's academic background is in development studies and modern history. He has subsequently worked for the International Organization for Migration and the Norwegian Refugee Council in disaster relief and protection in Pakistan and Sudan.
Lia Kent
Lia completed a Bachelor of Arts and a Masters of Public and International Law at the University of Melbourne. She is currently a PhD candidate in the Departments of Criminology and Law. She has worked for a number of human rights organizations, and from 2000-2002 she worked in East Timor, first with Oxfam International and then as a Human Rights Officer with the Human Rights Unit of the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET).
Tim Rogan
After graduating in 2006 from a Bachelor of Media and Communications and Bachelor of Law, Tim completed internships with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington DC and with the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. He recently commenced articles with Minter Ellison Lawyers.
centre for comparative constitutional studies seminar
An Analysis of the Office of Attorney General in Australia and Directions for the Future
Speaker: Fiona Hanlon, PhD Candidate, CCCS, Melbourne Law School
This seminar will examine the assumption, explored by Fiona in her recently submitted PhD thesis, An Analysis of the Office of Attorney General in Australia and Directions for the Future, that the office of Attorney General in Australia carries with it an obligation to act independently of political considerations that does not apply to other ministerial offices. This is the orthodox view. There is, however, another view, the heterodox view, of the office of Attorney General, according to which the ministerial office that bears the title ‘Attorney General’ cannot be distinguished from other ministerial offices in any significant respect.
Fiona will discuss the issue of whether any reliable basis can be found for the orthodox view in either the current or historical operation of the office. The legitimacy of the orthodox view will be discussed in light of the faith and trust that it places in the Attorney General in relation to the maintenance of the integrity of Australia’s constitutional structures and the manner of the exercise of executive power.
When: Tuesday 9 October 2007 at 5:30 to 6:30pm, followed by light refreshments
Where: Room 224, Melbourne Law School
RSVP: Dr Madeline Grey by Friday 5 October 2007, tel (03) 8344 1011 or email law-cccs@unimelb.edu.au
counting the cost of the melbourne model: access and equity in higher education
A public forum presented by the LSS Social Justice Portfolio
The Melbourne Model represents a radical redefinition of Melbourne University. Counting the Cost of the Melbourne Model gives students an opportunity to debate what this redefinition means for our future.
When: Tuesday 9 October 2007 at 6:15pm (food and drinks), 6:45pm (speakers and discussion)
Where: Room 102, Melbourne Law School
Speakers:
careers service seminar: practical legal training information session 2
Speakers: Representatives from ANU and College of Law
When: Thursday 11 October 2007 at 1:00 to 2:00pm
Where: GM17, Melbourne Law School
Thinking about going on exchange? The Law Faculty will be holding an exchange information session on:
Thursday 11 October 2007, 1:00 to 2:00pm, G08, Melbourne Law School
To book, please visit the Melbourne Abroad website.
Please do not book 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.
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!
university of melbourne human rights forum: burma - prospects for democracy?
The University of Melbourne Human Rights Forum and the School of Political Science, Criminology and Sociology present this forum on the current crises in Burma.
When: Thursday 11 October 2007 at 6:30pm to 7:30pm
Where: Melbourne Law School (room TBC)
All welcome: Please RSVP to human-rights@unimelb.edu.au
In recent days the large demonstrations in Rangoon and the aggressive response of the ruling military junta have once again thrust Burma into the global spotlight. Are there any prospects for democratic change in Burma? What can, and should, states such as Australia, and their people, do in support of such change? And is there anything we can learn from Burma’s history to help answer such questions? In this public seminar these issues are addressed by:
Dr Garry Woodard
Senior Fellow, School of Political Science, Criminology & Sociology
Australian Ambassador to Burma, 1973-75
Australian Ambassador to China, 1976-80
Alison Tate
International Officer, ACTU
Former Program Officer for South-East Asia for Union Aid Abroad
Former Burma Research and Information Officer, AUSTCARE
U Teddi Buri
Member of Parliament, National League for Democracy, Burma. Exiled in Australia.
Ample time will be allowed for questions from the audience.
institute for international law and the humanities research seminar
Australia’s Return of Asylum Seekers to Indonesia and Papua New Guinea: Lawful Protection Elsewhere Policies?
Speaker: Dr Savitri Taylor, Visiting Scholar
Australia represents the arrangements that it has in place to return certain asylum seekers to Indonesia and certain others to PNG as being implementations of protection elsewhere policies, which keep within the bounds of what is permissible under international law. The question which Dr Taylor wants to explore in this paper is whether Australia’s practice in this regard can indeed be characterized as internationally lawful.
Dr Savitri Taylor is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Law at La Trobe University. Her main research interest for the past 15 years has been in the area of Australian and international legal and policy responses to asylum seekers and she is presently engaged in an ARC Linkage Project entitled "The Impact on the Human Rights of Asylum-Seekers and Host Communities of Australia’s Border Control Cooperation with Indonesia and PNG". She also has a long-standing community sector involvement in asylum seekers issues, as a member of the Committee of Management of the Refugee and Immigration Legal Centre Inc.
Enquiries: Vesna Stefanovski, law-iilah@unimelb.edu.au or 03 8344 6589.
When: Tuesday 16 October 2007 at 12:45pm (lunch) and 1:00 to 2:00pm (seminar)
Where: Room 223, Melbourne Law School
inaugural public professorial lecture by the rt hon malcolm fraser AC, CH
APCML Professorial Fellow, The Rt Hon Malcolm Fraser AC, CH, will deliver his inaugural Public Professorial Lecture on Thursday 25 October 2007 at 6:30pm at the Melbourne Law School. Mr Fraser will speak on the Rule of Law. The Lecture will be preceded by a function to commemorate the opening of the Malcolm Fraser Room at the Law School. In 2005 Mr Fraser decided to donate his personal papers and library to the University of Melbourne, and his library will ultimately be housed in this room, located on Level 9.
Bookings for the lecture need to be submitted by 18 October 2007 to law-rsvp@unimelb.edu.au (please type ‘Fraser’ in subject heading) or call 03 8344 6164.
chief justice's victoria law foundation medal for excellence and community service
The Victoria Law Foundation administers an annual prize to recognize talented law students committed to serving the community.
The aim of the prize is to encourage a pro bono ethos among the legal profession starting at law school.
Nominations are now sought from the Dean of Law in each Victorian university for 2007 final year students who have, throughout their law studies, demonstrated a commitment to community service and excellence in scholarship.
If you have received excellent academic results throughout your undergraduate course and have demonstrated a commitment to community service then you could be a candidate for this nomination.
Please write to Terri Hanlon, Manager, Undergraduate Studies, Law (t.hanlon@unimelb.edu.au) and submit your application for consideration before 21 December 2007.
The medal, awarded to one recipient each year, is accompanied by a financial prize of $1,000, presented to a not-for-profit organization determined in consultation with the medal recipient.
Guidelines outlining the terms of the prize and the selection process are available online.
zanzibar winter intercession program
Seton Hall University will be running their new program, the Zanzibar Winter Intercession Program on Modern Day Slavery and Human Trafficking over the 2007-2008 break. Anyone interested in participating in this new program can go to the university website or see the information poster at the UGS Office on Level 2.
students completing the llb in 2007 or summer semester 2008
Students completing their LLB in summer semester 2008 have the option of being considered for Honours in December 2007 or December 2008. If they choose to be considered for Honours in 2007, the results from the subject(s) they complete in summer semester 2008 will not count towards their Honours points total. Their Honours points total will be scaled up to ensure that they are not disadvantaged in the Honours application process.
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.
