Applications are now open for the VPS Graduate Recruitment and Development Scheme (GRADS).

GRADS is a 12-month development program offering a unique opportunity to learn about public service and contribute to a range of initiatives.

You are employed by one department or agency and then undertake placements in two more departments or agencies throughout the year. You are guaranteed a position with your home department on successful completion of the program.

Find out more about how to apply here: http://www.graduates.vic.gov.au/

As a law student you can join the Law Institute of Victoria (LIV) free! This enables you to attend events at a discounted rate.

Upcoming events to be held at the LIV include:

Targeting Traineeships - Thursday 26 April, 5.30 - 7.30pm

View the LIV website at http://www.liv.asn.au

Linklaters' Presentation, 16 March, 1:30pm, G08.

Presentation followed by a networking session at 2.30pm in the Level 1 Function Space.

For ten years, we've been taking some of Australia's most talented and enthusiastic law students and exposing them to the challenges and rewards of life in a global law firm. Most of them go on to join, train and practise with us too.
Come and hear more about our clerkship opportunities in London for penultimate-year law students at our employer presentation:

1:30pm, Wednesday 16th March,
Melbourne Law School
Room G08

We will discuss our people and culture, as well as the work we are doing in an increasingly challenging market. We're happy to share our thoughts and answer any questions you may have about pursuing a career in London and working for a truly global law firm.

For more information about Linklaters to apply, please visit: www.linklaters.com/ukgrads

You can also register for the event with the Careers Office at: http://careersonline.unimelb.edu.au/ViewEvent.chpx?id=341923

The Centre for Employment and Labour Relations Law is pleased to invite you to a special Employment Law Lecture to be held at the Melbourne Law School on Tuesday 12 April 2011.

Our guest speaker for this lecture is Professor Mark Freedland FBA of the Faculty of Law at Oxford University.  Professor Freedland will speak on the topic “The Legal Construction of Personal Work Relations: A New Model for the Foundation of Employment Relationships”. 

Professor Freedland is one of the world’s leading scholars in the law of employment contracts.  He is visiting Melbourne Law School to teach the Employment Contracts subject in the Melbourne Law Masters program.  We are very privileged to have him visit the Centre, and to have the opportunity to offer this lecture.

Professor Joellen Riley of the Sydney Law School will respond to Professor Freedland’s comments from an Australian perspective.

Please see below for further information.  

DATE:       Tuesday 12 April 2011

TIME:        5:30pm – 7:00pm

VENUE:     Room 102, level 1

               Melbourne Law School

               185 Pelham Street, Carlton

RSVP:      Please click here to register to attend

*Light refreshments will be available at the conclusion of the lecture*

Brandjacking on Social Networks: Trademark Infringement by Impersonation of Markholders

Lisa P. Ramsey, Professor of Law, University of San Diego

Should trademark infringement law apply to the unauthorized use of trademarked brand names in expression on Facebook, Twitter, and other social network sites? If a third party impersonates a brand on these sites, this can cause harm to the markholder and the public even where the imposter is not advertising or selling goods or services. For example, a Facebook user with the alias “Nine West Shoes” set up a fake Nine West-Model Auditions group page and convinced hundreds of women and teenage girls interested in model auditions to send the imposter their contact information and photographs of their faces, bodies, and toes. A competitor of the public relations firm Tanner Friedman allegedly impersonated the company on Twitter and sent out embarrassing posts purportedly written by employees of the firm. This Article argues that these types of unauthorized uses of trademarks on social network sites can and should be actionable infringement where (1) the mark is used to impersonate the markholder and falsely suggest the markholder is the author of the third party's expression, (2) reasonable people believe the imposter's false statements of identity and authorship, and (3) the content of the social network site page does not dispel the confusion regarding the source of the expression. On the other hand, where the mark is being used in parody, satire, criticism, comparative advertising, news reporting, and other commentary on the social network site and there is no confusion about the source of this expression, this expressive use of the mark should be outside of the scope of the trademark infringement laws.

EVENT DETAILS

DATE: Tuesday 15^th March, 2011

TIME: Refreshments from 5.30 pm, Seminar starts at 6.00 pm
VENUE: Baker & McKenzie, Level 19, CBW, 181 William Street, MELBOURNE

COST: Free of charge

Please click here to view the flyer

Bookings are essential. Please register your place at this free public seminar by emailing: law-cmcl@unimelb.edu.au  

SEMINAR CONTACT: Clarissa Terry, CMCL, Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne, VIC 3010
Telephone: (03) 8344 9970
Email: law-cmcl@unimelb.edu.au