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Welcome to the fifth edition of the Melbourne LLB Newsletter for 2008. 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 Melbourne Law School Student Centre on 8344 4475, or the contact listed.
exciting international study opportunity for later year students (semester 2, 2008 or semester 1, 2009)
Centre for Transnational Legal Studies
The Centre for Transnational Legal Studies (CTLS) is a joint venture of leading global law schools, coordinated by Georgetown University’s Law Centre. From September 2008 it will teach semester length programmes in transnational legal studies in the heart of London’s legal quarter. The program will bring together faculty and students from several of the world’s top law schools to study transnational legal issues in a multicultural and transnational setting. Melbourne Law School LLB students in the fourth or fifth year of their degree, may attend the Centre for an intensive semester focused on transnational, international, and comparative law. 5-7 places will be available for appropriately qualified students. Students will be selected against the criteria which can be provided on request. Later year LLB students with an outstanding academic record will be considered.
Some funding will be available to successful applicants. The funding details are still being finalized and students will be informed of the detail as soon as it is available.
Students wishing to be considered for Semester 2, 2008 should notify Anthony Manahan, Manager, Melbourne Law School Student Centre, as soon as possible and should submit an expression of interest no later than 13 June 2008 addressing the criteria (which can be provided on request).
If you are interested in finding out more about this great opportunity, either for Semester 2, 2008 or Semester 1, 2009, you may wish to attend an information session this Thursday 29 May (the venue and time will shortly be announced on the Melbourne LLB homepage - News and Highlights section).
Please contact Anthony Manahan on 8344 6181 or a.manahan@unimelb.edu.au if you have any queries.
The University of Melbourne Issues Forum
The message of change has dominated the political landscape in the USA during this Presidential election year. But change to what? What would a new Democratic or Republican President do about the sluggish USA economy? How would they reform an expensive and inefficient Health Care System? And what role would they see for the USA internationally post the Iraq war? Will the USA really change?
Former Editor in Chief of The Age, author of American Notebook and respected USA commentator, Michael Gawenda, will address these issues alongside the University of Melbourne’s Glenn Moore in the second of the University of Melbourne’s Issues Forums.
Chaired by the Honourable Steve Bracks, the University of Melbourne’s Honourary Professorial Fellow, these forums are open to students and staff at the University.
When: Tuesday 27 May 2008 at 1:00 to 2:00pm
Where: GM15, Melbourne Law School
Entry: Free
RSVP: To reserve a seat, please send an email to the Office of the Provost at events-provost@unimelb.edu.au with Issues Forum in the subject line
Enquiries:
Rosa Brezac, tel 03 8344 9005, email events-provost@unimelb.edu.au
Koori Courts in Victoria
Speaker: His Honour Judge Paul Grant, President, Children’s Court of Victoria
When: Tuesday 27 May 2008 at 12:45 to 1:45pm
Where: G08, Melbourne Law School
what kind of 'flexibility' in labour and employment regulation for economic development: labour law seminar
The Centre for Employment and Labour Relations Law
Speaker: Professor Alvaro Santos
Scholars have long debated the role of protective labour and employment regulation in economic performance, arguing for or against regulatory 'flexibility'. This debate has yielded strong theoretical disagreements and mixed empirical evidence.
Recently, a group of economists has developed an increasingly prominent theory arguing that common law countries have more flexible labour regulation and, as a result, better economic performance than civil law countries. This seminar challenges this theory and highlights the need for a richer contextual analysis of labour regimes and of the actors and institutions that operate within them. This contextual approach clarifies how different labour regimes are implicated in a country’s economic performance. It can also offer better guidance in devising regulatory strategies for economic development in view of a country’s own institutional arrangements.
Further details are available in the flyer.
When: Wednesday 28 May 2008 at 1:00pm
Where: Room G29, Melbourne Law School
RSVP: Charlotte Morgans at law-celrl@unimelb.edu.au
How Australian Law teaches an American Law Professor how to Advise a British Sports Manager Helping to Build an Indian Sports League
The Melbourne Law School’s Sports Law Program presents this free public lecture in which Professor Stephen Ross will discuss the concept of an independent organizer and its application to American and Australian sports leagues.
When competitive pressures from a rival league led the Board of Control for Cricket in India to quickly establish the Indian Premier League, the BCCI called upon the global sports marketing group IMG to assist it. British cricketing experts working for the IMG then called upon two sports academics to flesh out Lalit Modi’s vision of a separate franchise-based league that is the talk of the sports world today.
Leading American sports law and antitrust scholar, Professor Ross, will discuss the Indian Premier League and the role Australian Sports Law has played in its development.
When: Thursday 29 May 2008 at 6:00 to 7:30pm
Where: Melbourne Law School
Registrations required via email to law-rsvp@unimelb.edu.au (please include Ross in the subject heading)
Further details are available in the flyer.
The University Reconciliation Group invites staff and students to a forum on Friday 30 May 2008 at 1:00 to 2:00pm in Room 225, Alice Hoy Building .
The documentary, The Sorry, about February's national apology will be shown. This will be followed by a discussion about how to further reconciliation at Melbourne.
How does the Vice Chancellor's recent commitment to Close the Gap translate into action on the ground? Staff are invited to contribute their ideas on how to make reconciliation real!
Enquiries: Deborah Vallance, School of Population Health, email deborahv@unimelb.edu.au
rights, regulation and the technological revolution
Centre for Media and Communications Law Lunchtime Seminar
Speaker: Professor Roger Brownsword, Director, Centre for Technology, Law, Ethics and Society, King’s College London
With the emergence of a raft of modern (info, bio, nano, and neuro) technologies, regulators face two huge challenges. First, there is the challenge of getting the regulatory environment right. In pluralistic societies, how are regulatory standards to satisfy competing ethical (especially bioethical) views? This is the challenge of regulatory legitimacy. In (IT) networked societies, how is regulation to be effective? When technology develops so quickly, how is regulation to stay connected? And, in a world of intersecting (global, regional, and national) regulation, how are the ideals of regulatory cosmopolitanism to be met? Secondly, as smart regulators rely on new technologies as part of the regulatory toolkit, what implications are there for values such as privacy? And, if regulators rely on an outright technological fix, what implications does this have for the possibility of moral community? In short, the fundamental challenge for regulators is to draw on new technologies in order to make regulation more effective but without sacrificing its legitimacy.
When: Friday 6 June 2008 at 1:00 to 2:15pm
Where:
Room 831, Melbourne Law School
(sandwich lunch will be provided)
There is no charge to attend the event, however for the purposes of seating and catering could you please email law-cmcl@unimelb.edu.au if you would like to attend.
privilege and the ip professional
Free Public Seminars from the Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia in association with the Institute of Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys of Australia
Venues and Dates:
Melbourne: Tuesday 17 June 2008 - Davies Collison Cave, 1 Nicholson Street, Melbourne
Sydney: Wednesday 18 June 2008 - Davies Collison Cave, 255 Elizabeth Street, Sydney
Brisbane: Thursday 19 June 2008 - Fisher Adams Kelly, 12 Creek Street, Brisbane
Seminars will commence at 12:30pm.
Presented by Michael Caine, Patent Attorney, Davies Collison Cave and Chris Dent, Senior Research Fellow, IPRIA
There exists, under Australian law, both a patent attorney and a trade mark attorney privilege. This privilege allows a holder of patent or trade mark rights, or a potential holder of patent or trade mark rights, to withhold, from a court, communications that she or he has had with her or his patent or trade mark attorney. Recently, concerns have been raised around the extent of this privilege; in particular, the patent attorney privilege. This seminar examines the justifications for, and the current extent of, the privileges. Practical insights into the minimization of the impact of the limitations of the privilege will also be discussed.
Further information is available in the flyer.
Cadbury Schweppes In-House PA/Paralegal Opportunity
An exciting opportunity awaits up to four outgoing and communicative law graduates, penultimate or final year law students, or experienced paralegals to join the Cadbury Schweppes In-House PA/Paralegal Program within their Australia and New Zealand Legal Team. Located in Melbourne, this is a 13-month full-time role commencing on 1 December 2008. There is also a possibility of a second year as a PA/Paralegal in which successful applicants may have the opportunity to complete online study (College of Law).
More information is available on the Law School Careers website.
The Melbourne Law School’s WorkSkills website is now available. This new interactive website assists students in developing their employability skills during their studies. The website includes a ‘skills audit’ for students to self-assess their current skill level and identify their skill strengths and weaknesses. The website also identifies the opportunities (in the LLB curriculum and in extra curricula activities) for further skill development. It includes sample resumes to demonstrate the way in which these skills can be presented to prospective employers.
The website is available to Melbourne Law School staff and students at http://workskills.law.unimelb.edu.au
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.
