|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
LLB NEWSLETTER
Edition 6, 2007 (16 April 2007)
Welcome to the sixth 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.
Talking to Seven Judges: Arguing Constitutional Cases in the High Court
Associate Professor Kristen Walker will be discussing some of her recent appearances in the High Court of Australia. She will cover the process of taking a case to the High Court, starting with the commencement of proceedings and finishing with oral argument. She will also discuss the challenges and joys of presenting oral argument to seven judges.
| When: | Wednesday 18 April 2007 at 1:05 - 2:00pm |
| Where: | Room 102, Melbourne Law School |
melbourne law school annual tax lecture
Managing Tax Avoidance: Recent UK Experience
Speaker: John Tiley, Professor of Law of Taxation and Fellow of Queens' College, University of Cambridge
Over the past 30 years, UK courts have experimented with ways of controlling tax avoidance and those efforts have now entered a new phase.
Parliament has intervened with a mixture of legislative techniques including imposing a duty on promoters and others to notify the authorities of avoidance schemes. There has also been consideration of a General Anti-Avoidance Rule.
Professor John Tiley's lecture offers guests an opportunity to learn from the UK's recent experience.
Bookings as soon as possible to law-rsvp@unimelb.edu.au (please include 'Tiley' in subject heading)
For further information, please visit the Law School website.
| When: | Thursday 19 April 2007 at 6:30pm for 7:00pm |
| Where: | Melbourne Law School |
unveiling the political: a postcolonial theory seminar
Speakers: Dr Stewart Motha (University of Kent) and Dr Roshan de Silva-Wijeyeratne (Griffith University)
Following opening remarks by Peter Rush, Dr Stewart Motha and Dr Roshan de Silva-Wijeyeratne will each present papers followed by discussion.
Dr Stewart Motha is a lecturer in the Kent Law School, University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom. He has previously taught law at the Universities of Lancaster and Adelaide. He was a legal officer and case manager with the Aboriginal Legal Rights Movement in South Australia. He has co-edited a special issue of the journal Law and Critique and published articles in Social and Legal Studies, Australian Feminist Law Journal, Griffith Law Review and Law and Critique. He has recently published a book chapter, 'Guantanamo Bay, Abandoned Being and the Constitution of Jurisdiction', in Shaun McVeigh (ed.), Jurisprudence of Jurisdiction (2007).
Dr Roshan de Silva-Wijeyeratne has taught law at Griffith Law School for the last 5 years. He has published a number of articles on Sri Lanka and Jurisprudence in both edited collections and in journals such as Social and Legal Studies, Law Text Culture and Social Identities. He has also contributed to the Oxford Encyclopedia of Legal History. Currently he is working on a monograph on Nation, Constitutionalism and Buddhism in Sri Lanka. He is an active participant on debates about the peace process in Sri Lanka having contributed to the media in both Sri Lanka and Britain.
| When: | Tuesday 24 April 2007 at 12:45pm (lunch), 1:00pm (seminar start) to 3:00pm |
| Where: | Room 920, Melbourne Law School |
| RSVP: | Yoriko Otomo: yotomo@unimelb.edu.au |
legal frontiers in animal protection seminar
Speakers: Professor Steven M Wise (Principal Speaker) and Graeme McEwen
Professor Steven M Wise, described by USA Today as "America's best-known animal lawyer", was a founding member of the Animal Legal Defense Fund, serving as its President for 10 years, and in 2000 became the first person to teach an animal law course at Harvard Law School. He has also served as an adjunct professor, teaching animal rights law at Vermont Law School, and John Marshall Law School in Chicago. Professor Wise has authored three well-known books on animal rights law. He is a frequent speaker at law schools and legal conferences throughout North America and Europe.
Graeme McEwen chairs the Barristers Animal Welfare Panel, established in November 2006 comprising some 90 members of the Victorian Bar. The Panel's objects include providing pro bono or reduced fee advice and representation in public interest cases, prosecutions, and in defence of protesters, and in addition, challenging publicly or otherwise the existing deficient animal legal protection regime, and for this purpose, the formulation and prosecution of proposals for law reform. Graeme McEwen is a former President of 'Animals Australia'. He also appeared with other counsel in the High Court for Laurie Levy in the Levy 'free speech' case.
This seminar is supported by Voiceless, the fund for animals.
| When: | Monday 30 April 2007at 1:00 - 2:00pm |
| Where: | Room G08, Melbourne Law School |
university of melbourne human rights forum
Human Rights in Diamonds Rich Botswana
Speaker: Kenneth Good, Honorary Fellow, University of Melbourne
In this public lecture, Kenneth will discuss human rights issues as they pertain to Botswana, especially in relation to diamond production.
Kenneth Good has taught and carried out research in Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe, and in Papua New Guinea and Fiji, focusing on capitalist development, the state, and democratization. He was Professor of Political Studies at the University of Botswana for 15 years where, in February 2005, he was declared a Prohibited Immigrant and expelled on 31 May. His Africa-wide appeal is on-going before the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights.
He is currently an honorary fellow at the University of Melbourne, a Professorial Research Associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, and a lecturer at RMIT.
This seminar has been organized by the University of Melbourne's Human Rights Forum.
| When: | Tuesday 1 May 2007 at 1:00 - 2:00pm |
| Where: | Room 117, Level 1, Sidney Myer Asia Centre, Swanston Street, University of Melbourne |
law school careers seminars: careers for law graduates - the treasury
Law at The Treasury: Information Session
Speaker: Ms Brenda Berkeley, Department of the Treasury
Are you wondering where a law degree can take you?
In this lunch time seminar, Brenda Berkeley, General Manager of the Tax Design Division at the Treasury, will speak about the various areas law graduates are involved in at the Treasury, including Tax Law, Corporate Law, Trade Practices Law, and Banking and Finance Law.
She will also provide information about the graduate recruitment process at the Treasury, including important dates for entry into the 2008 program.
| When: | Thursday 19 April 2007 at 1:00 - 2:00pm |
| Where: | Room 108, Melbourne Law School |
Contacts: Angela Edwards, Legal Careers Consultant, tel 03 8344 9773, Miranda Stewart, Associate Professor, tel 03 8344 6544.
anderson rice lawyers: articled clerkship 2008
Anderson Rice Lawyers is a commercial law firm established in 1934, based in Melbourne's CBD. They are currently seeking an enthusiastic articled clerk to join their team in 2008.
Applicants are invited to submit their covering letter, resume and academic transcripts via email to:
Mr Gus Catalogna
Partner
Anderson Rice Lawyers
Level 10
555 Lonsdale Street
MELBOURNE VIC 3000
Applications close 27 April 2007.
law school diversity lunch
Please join us in celebrating our Faculty's diversity at a lunch on 2 May at 12:30 to 2:30pm on Levels 1 and 2 of the Law School.
The lunch will include a performance by Kinja. Kinja features Ron Murray, one of Australia's top didgeridoo players, and his wife Sarah who accompanies him on the fiddle. See www.kinja.com.au for more information.
In conjunction with our celebration of diversity, the lunch will feature a diverse range of food from around the world and will offer options for all including vegetarian, vegan, halal, kosher, wheat-free and gluten-free food.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Organized by Sunita Jogarajan (International Students Equal Opportunity Liaison Officer) with a lot of help from UGS, ISS, ILSS, LSS, PLSA, Graduate Studies, Arlen Duke and Ian Malkin.
| When: | Wednesday 2 May 2007 at 12:30 - 2:30pm |
| Where: | Levels 1 and 2, Melbourne Law School |
tresscox lawyers scholarships in law for 2007
TressCox Lawyers encourages talented undergraduate law students to pursue a career in law through its Scholarships in Law program.
Applications are invited from students in their penultimate year who, because of either financial disadvantage or personal circumstances, are finding it difficult to continue their studies in law. By awarding scholarships to promising students, the firm assists those who may otherwise be denied the opportunity to pursue a legal career.
Scholarship winners are also interviewed for a position in TressCox’s summer clerkship program.
Click here for further information and an application form.
Applications close: 1 June 2007
international bar association internship programme
Positions are available for undergraduate and postgraduate law students, or for lawyers awaiting a pupillage position, or for recently qualified lawyers to serve as an intern at the International Bar Association's office in London.
Founded in 1947, the International Bar Association (IBA) is the world's largest organization of Law Societies, Bar Associations and individual lawyers. The IBA is involved with cutting edge issues affecting the international legal community and as an intern you can become involved in the work of the Association.
The IBA plays an active role in:
Selected interns will assist the IBA in developing academic papers and research on key legal topics of both local and international relevance.
Applications for the International Bar Association's Internship Programme are open for the October to December 2007 intake. The due date for applications is Friday 25 May 2007. The IBA runs internships 4 times a year. For more information, please refer to the IBA website.
quality of teaching survey results
Quality of Teaching survey results from Semester 2, 2006 are available online in the Student Intranet section of the Current Students menu on the Melbourne LLB website.
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.
