'Ideas for Careers' is a series of seminars offered by the LIV.  The seminars are designed to assist you with finding out more about careers in various legal practice areas

In each seminar, you will have the opportunity to listen to a panel of three professionals at various stages in their careers talk about:

• What a day in that practice area is like
• What kind of clients they work with
• What matters are commonly dealt with
• Career progression and more

Upcoming seminar topics and dates are:

Property Law: 22 July

Commercial Law: 19 August

Administration Law: 16 September

Cost per session

$10.00 Member
$30.00 Non-Member

Or

Cost for three sessions

Member: $25

Non-member: $80

For further information and to register:

http://www.liv.asn.au/LIV-Young-Lawyers/Latest-News-whatsOn

Reprieve Australia, in conjunction with The Wheeler Centre, is hosting a free event featuring some of Australia's best thinkers, to discuss what the future of the death penalty is in the wake of recent events, and what Australia's role might be.

 Please join us as Professor Gillian Triggs, President of the Human Rights Commission, renowned anti-death penalty jurist the Honourable Lex Lasry and Richard Bourke, Director of the Louisiana Capital Assistance Center and founder of Reprieve Australia discuss Australia’s role in ending the death penalty in the Asia Pacific.

In the early hours of April 29, the Indonesian government executed two Australians. The plight of Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran had become international news, resulting in constant diplomatic overtures at the highest levels, desperate legal manoeuvres and an enormous public outcry.
 

We are now in a moment where there is an unprecedented public mandate for Australia to see through the movement for abolition of the death penalty in our region.
 

But what does that look like? How does the region reach a moratorium - or abolition - on the death penalty? What is Australia’s role? Reprieve Australia and its Mercy Campaign are addressing these questions and developing a strategy. The first step is to encourage this dialogue and so we have convened an august panel of experts to confront these issues and more.

Details:

Friday 22 May
6pm for a 6:15pm start

The Wheeler Centre

176 Little Lonsdale Street, Melbourne

Tickets are free, but booking is essential

Book at 

http://www.trybooking.com/Booking/BookingEventSummary.aspx?eid=137317

The National Disability Insurance Agency are offering Business, HR, Law, PR and Communications and IT students paid internship opportunities in Geelong and Canberra this winter through the Stepping Into Winter internship program.

Stepping Into is a paid internship program designed specifically for university students with a disability who want to gain some paid hands-on work experience. The Australian Network on Disability (AND) works with employers to identify and provide opportunities for university students with disability to “step into” the workplace to gain exposure to their potential career field and get involved in projects alongside experienced professionals.

For more information, position details and to download an application form, visit http://www.and.org.au/pages/stepping-into...national-disability-insurance-agency-winter-2015.html

Applications have been extended to 25 May, 2015.

Courts Open Day 2015 - Saturday 16 May 2015 – 10:00 am to 3:00 pm

For a day, Victorian courts open their doors to let you see behind the scenes.
With mock trials, 'Ask a Judge' events, Q&As, exhibitions and tours - it's the courts as you've never seen them before.

Courts Open Day Pogram

County Court

A day in the life of an accused: culpable driving

"I plead guilty Your Honour": culpable driving

Court's BBQ for charity

A day in the life of an accused: intentionally causing serious injury

"I plead guilty Your Honour": intentionally causing serious injury

Wigs and gowns display

Music performance by Winded!

Supreme Court

On the Bench: meet the judges Q&A

Supreme Court dungeon tours

History and heritage tours of the Supreme Court

Supreme Court open house

Reporting for jury service: what to expect and what's expected

A judge's guide to a Supreme Court trial

VCAT

Taking it to VCAT - planning disputes

Taking it to VCAT - understanding the VCAT process

Taking it to VCAT - guardianship

Juries Commissioner's Office

The Victorian jury system demystified

Event information

Saturday 16 May 2015 – 10:00 am to 3:00 pm

The issue of commercial surrogacy is vexed and complex; giving rise to passionate arguments relating to the rights of the child conceived through surrogacy, the rights of the intended parent(s) and the rights of the surrogate. In the context of commercial surrogacy arrangements between surrogates in the developing world and intended parents in the developed world, the discussion frequently focuses on the rights of the surrogate as many people argue that such arrangements violate her human rights. In contrast, it may be argued that an outright prohibition on commercial surrogacy is itself an infringement of the right of a woman to choose to enter into such an arrangement. International human rights law enshrines the right to autonomy, also referred to as the right to privacy. More details on the IILAH website.

Ronli Sifris is a Lecturer in Monash University’s Faculty of Law and an Associate of the Castan Centre for Human Rights Law. Ronli’s expertise in human rights law ranges from domestic to international human rights, with a focus on reproductive rights. She has published widely on various aspects of reproductive rights, traversing matters relating to abortion, involuntary sterilisation and surrogacy. Her recent book, Reproductive Freedom, Torture and International Human Rights: Challenging the Masculinisation of Torture (2014, Routledge), conceptualises restrictions on reproductive freedom within the framework of torture discourse.

EVENT DETAILS

DATE Thursday, 30 April 2015

TIME 1.00 - 2.00pm

VENUE Room 920, Level 9, Melbourne Law School 185 Pelham Street Carlton

REGISTRATION Please complete the Registrations page.

ENQUIRIES Vesna Stefanovski, vesnas@unimelb.edu.au or (03) 8344 6589

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