You can now download the slides from Dr Vernon Nase’s Space Law lecture.

Blackstone is currently seeking applications for the following appointed positions. Please email your application of no more than 300 words to email hidden; JavaScript is required by November 25. Applications should briefly outline which position you’d like, why you want that particular position and why you think you’re suited to the role. Except where otherwise stated, there is no prior experience needed for these roles. The 2012 committee strongly supports the idea of an inclusive student society and strongly recommends everyone to get involved, regardless of your prior exposure to the society. These roles offer students an invaluable opportunity to work in a team environment, develop leadership experience, improve their time management and liaise with firm representatives. If you would like more information on the roles please don’t hesitate to contact email hidden; JavaScript is required

Committee Positions:

Pre-Law director (senior committee member):

The pre-law director will be responsible for engaging undergraduate students through a variety of medium, including social events and competitions. The role will be somewhat self-defined and will require a motivated and innovative individual with a vision for the role. The pre-law director will also chair an undergraduate sub-committee.

Promotions Officer:

The promotions officer will be responsible for co-ordinating all of the society’s promotional activities. This will include, but is not limited to, creating posters and updating the website and facebook pages. Graphic design (poster) skills are essential for this role. Website administration will be taught to the successful applicant by our IT officer.

Office bearer positions:

Careers handbook editor and four sub-editors:

The successful applicants should be available to work on the handbook over February.

Onyx editor and three sub-editors:

The Onyx editor team is tasked with working with the publications officer to publish three editions of the official Blackstone law journal. Some editor experience is preferred for the position of editor.

Publications officer:

The publications officer will work with editors and assist in the layout of publications such as Onyx, the Careers Handbook and Briefs. Graphic design and in-design skills are essential.

Equity sub-committee:

The following sub-committee positions are available:

-          Mental health officer;

-          Indigenous students’ representative;

-          International students’ representative;

-          Graduate and mature age students’ representative.

The equity sub-committee will be tasked with the organisation of a variety of equity and social justice initiatives. For more information on the roles, please contact the 2012 Equity VP, Rachel Lee, at email hidden; JavaScript is required.

Competitions co-ordinators and organisers:

Co-ordinators will handle the preparation of competition materials, the draw of competitors and other logistics. Organisers work with the co-ordinators to run competitions on the evening, including catering, set-up of rooms and registering competitors. Positions are available for each of the following:

-          Open mooting

-          IHL mooting

-          Negotiation

-          Client Interview

-          Student Paper

-          Trial Advocacy

-          First Year Mooting

-          First Year Trial Advocacy

The following people have been elected to the 2012 Blackstone Committee

President: Alex Drake-Brockman

Admin VP: Monika Plattner

Education VP: Soph van Hattem

Social VP: Steph Baker

Careers VP: Tegan Harrington

Equity & Social Justice VP: Rachel Lee

Competitions VP: Emily Zylstra

Pre-Law Director: Applications now open

Volunteering Director: Alice Tormey

WILMS Director / Women’s Officer: Molly Dale

Senior Ed Rep: Alex Noonan

Senior Ed Rep: Eleni Pratt

Senior Ed Rep: Cassie Lendich

Senior Social Rep: Bella Tole

Senior Social Rep: Mitchell Tatam

Senior Social Rep: Chris Colalillo

Senior Careers Rep: Grace Williamson

Senior Careers Rep: Jonathon Dos Santos

Senior Careers Rep: Harry Guo

Junior Education Rep: Rubin Trehan

Junior Social Rep: Emily Purvis

Junior Careers Rep: Kelsey Gordon

Sports Rep (Female): Lucy Mengler

Sports Rep (Male): Sam Gillis

Congratulations to the elected candidates!

Blackstone’s Beyond Corporate Careers Handbook is now available! The handbook covers opportunities in government, community legal centres, international and humanitarian organisations, and many other paths. You can download a copy here.

Dear Students

Mallesons Stephen Jaques and the Red Cross presents their second lecture of the year, on the legal and humanitarian imperatives for rendering nuclear weapons illegal.

The speakers include Dr Chris Hubbard (Senior Lecturer, Curtin University), Mariko Ishii (third generation Hiroshima survivor and anti-nuclear activist), and Dr Peter Underwood (Medical Association for Prevention of War VP).

The event is free of charge and light refreshments will be served.

Date: Thursday 29 September

Time: 5.45pm for a 6pm start till 7.30pm

Venue: Mallesons Stephen Jaques, Level 10 Central Park, 152 St Georges Terrace, Perth

RSVP to Vivienne Ryan on 08 9225 1928 or email hidden; JavaScript is required

See the flyer for details.

Welcome to Tri-Law week!  There everything happening, from comps to social justice to an epci Tri Law Social event on friday night!

2 TRI LAW!!

The UWA team, made up of Trish Yang, Alicia Yap, Ying Siow and Scott Young, will be competing against the University of Adelaide in the National Family Law Moot Competition this Friday. Come down to courtroom 3.5 of the WA Family Court to cheer them on if you aren’t getting boozy at the Academic Challenge

4.  Careers Presentations

8.  Squire Sanders FREE lunch mixer for Penultimate Year Students- Wednesday 1-2

The Perth Minter Ellison office is combining with top 25 global law firm Squire Sanders, and will be providing a free lunch for penultimate year students to promote the new firm.

Sorry for the more bulky email this week (it was necessary with all the important volunteering programs- I promise I’ll make it more succinct next time!

Yours Sincerely,
Cam

This Wednesday, please join us at Blake Dawson’s offices to enjoy the paper presentations of 5 of the Law School’s brightest! Visit the Facebook event page for more details.

Unfortunately this ‘full version’ is only slighly more detailed as a result of semester activities winding down.  Nevertheless, enjoy the full reading experience below:

1st Year Sundowner

Come on down to Blackstone’s 3rd social event for “freshers”; a sundowner on the matilda bay foreshore, friday 27th May from 5pm.  A free BBQ will be provided. See the facebook event for more details.
Blackstone Volunteering research team

Blackstone is looking to create a research team on legal practice board requirements to assist the Mental Health Law Centre.  For more information and to express interest, send an email to email hidden; JavaScript is required

ALSA Conference update!
Last-chance sign ups for general delegates are still open for this year’s Australian Law Students Association (ALSA) Conference in Sydney!

The Conference will take place from 8-14 July, and will feature a week of social, careers, education and competition events!

For more information, email Nik Barron, Blackstone Education VP (email hidden; JavaScript is required).

“We would love to throw a big ‘thank you’ to the Blackstone Volunteers who helped the Foodbank last Friday as part of Guild-Volunteering’s V-Day. Special thanks to Tenille Kearney for organising the day For those who came- we hope you all had a good time, and felt good about doing something for the community. If you have not already done so, don’t forget to join the ‘Blackstone Volunteering 2011′ facebook group- that way we can keep you all informed about other volunteering opportunities”

Jac Mac Careers Presentation
- tomorrow at 1pm in Law Lecture Theatre on Negotiation skills

check the WebCT folder “careers presentations” for more information about other upcoming careers presentations

Careers Handbooks
Careers handbooks are still being sold in the courtyard 12-2 mondays – thursdays.  Alternatively shoot me an email and I can arrange to sell you some outside those times (I live at Uni)

That’s all for this week, don’t forget- I’m always available to help, whether it’s issues with a unit co-ordinator, questions about blackstone or something really random (surprise me!).

Your Sincerely

Cam

Mallesons Stephen Jaques have launched a new facebook page to provide information about graduate opportunities.

You can ‘like’ the page at http://www.facebook.com/MallesonsGraduateCareers?sk=app_171192169604807

Yamatji Marlpa Aboriginal Corporation (YMAC) is the native title representative body for the Traditional Owners of the Pilbara, Murchison, Gascoyne and Mid-West regions of Western Australia.

YMAC would like to make you aware of the vacation clerkship opportunities offered this year.

Read more…

If you plan on attending ALSA as a general delegate, we need to register you by April 24! Click here for more details.

On Friday 13 May, it’s a clash of the titans in the 2011 Blake Dawson Law Dinner Debate!

The Argyle Ballroom at the Parmelia Hilton will become a battlefield as a team of students tackle the giants of the legal profession on the topic “That the law is better on TV than in real life.”

Representing the profession will be the Hon. Wayne Martin, Chief Justice of Western Australia, Joseph McGrath, WA Director of Public Prosecutions, and Peter Ward, special counsel at Blake Dawson.

Fighting for the student view will be Andrew Gannon, Olivia Loxley and Ben Willesee.

Good food, good wine, good company and good laughs. The 2011 Blake Dawson Law Dinner Debate is a showdown not to be missed.

Tickets are $75 for members; $90 for non-members. The price includes a two course meal and a four-hour drinks package. Tickets are on sale outside the Blackstone Common Room from 12-2pm, Monday through Thursday.

The 2012 Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR) Graduate Program is a ten month learning and development program offering placements in a diverse range of teams, giving exposure to the variety of programs and policies carried out within DEEWR.

Read more…

INSTRUCTIONS FOR CANDIDATES RUNNING FOR A JUNIOR REPRESENTATIVE POSITION ON THE 2011 BLACKSTONE SOCIETY COMMITTE

1. Fill out a signed and seconded nomination form and deposit in the labelled mailbox in the common room.  IT IS STRONGLY RECOMENDED THAT CANDIDATES DO NOT NOMINATE FOR MORE THAN ONE POSITION.  Contrary to popular belief this actually reduces your chances of success by diluting your votes.

2. Create an A4 poster and deposit in the labelled mailbox in the common room

3. Write a short profile of up to 300 words explaining your vision for the role and send it to email hidden; JavaScript is required and email hidden; JavaScript is required

4. Be aware that under election regulations the only campaigning allowed is in person and outside the courtyard (ie no lecture bashing, facebook, emails etc)

5.  The voting will be counted in order of education; social; careers.  This means that if you are crazy popular enough to get enough quota for two positions you will be elected to the one first in the order

Job Descriptions (as per the Blackstone Society Constitution)

Junior representatives will spend most of their time doing work for their relevant sub committee, which will be chaired by the VP and will include the president and admin VP.
They will also be heavily involved in committee business, and will need to be available to attend weekly meetings Blackstone events.
Candidates should realise that Blackstone involves a considerable time commitment.

To learn more about the specific portfolios please contact the relevant VPs:

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Please note: this event is not being run by the Blackstone Society. The Blackstone Society will be running the Perth Law Careers Fair 2011 on 6 May 2011. This event is being externally run by the Australian Association of Graduate Employers.

Every year Australia’s leading employers travel the country looking for high quality graduates and undergraduates. The Big Meet is your opportunity to meet up to 100 of these organisations in one day, in one location.

You are invited to join many of Australia’s leading organisations at Perth’s most important careers event – The Big Meet.

The Big Meet is the ultimate careers fair for undergraduates, graduates and postgraduates from all disciplines. Whether you’re looking for graduate employment, a new job, vacation work, an international internship, a gap-year experience, voluntary work, travel, overseas opportunities, a teaching job or postgraduate education, The Big Meet can get you started. Don’t miss out!

Read more…

The Mental Health Law Centre is currently looking for law students to assist with legal research and drafting law reform submissions (to be done from home).

As a research volunteer, you would be:

• given priority placement when future volunteer vacancies
  arise in our office;
• recognised in MHLC’s Annual Report;
• welcome to attend our volunteer training session(s);
• authorised to attend Mental Health Review Board hearings
  with a solicitor (where appropriate);
• promoting human rights by helping draft law reform
  submissions to redress two of the most iniquitous statutes in WA ; and
• maybe find a great honours thesis topic.

If you would like to contribute, the MHLC would welcome your response with an expression of interest. Please send  a cover letter, your CV and a copy of your most recent academic transcript for consideration.

Expressions of interest should be sent to:

Nicholas Snare
Solicitor, Mental Health Law Centre WA
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Blackstone 2011 Office-Bearer and Portfolio Holder Applications

Extension of deadline for applications
The deadline for applications regarding office-bearers and portfolio holders (except for Equity and Comps VPs, which are still due this Friday 29 October 2010) have been extended until 20 November 2010.

Positions
Office-bearers
-    Graphic designer (to replace Publications Officer);
-    Webmaster (to replace I.T. Officer)

***Note that pursuant to the new constitution these positions are no longer committee positions, but instead will work directly with the Admin Vice President.

Competitions
1. Open Mooting Co-ordinator and Organiser(s)
2. Trial Advocacy Co-ordinator and Organiser(s)
3. Negotiation Co-ordinator and Organiser(s)
4. Client Interview Co-ordinator and Organiser(s)
5. Student Paper Co-ordinator and Organiser(s)
6. IHL Mooting Co-ordinator and Organiser(s)
7. First Year Mooting Co-ordinator and Organiser(s)
8. First Year Trial Advocacy Co-ordinator and Organiser(s)

Publications
1. Onyx Editor and Sub-Editors
2. Careers Handbook Editor and Sub-Editors
3. Briefs Editor and Sub-Editors
4. Alternative Faculty Handbook Editor and Sub-Editors
5. Blackstone Commentaries Editor

Application Process
VP positions require a two page written application and will be appointed through an interview panel consisting of the entire executive.  These interviews will take place in either the start of the study week or (more likely) after your exams have finished.
Other positions will require a one page application and may involve an interview.  These appointments will be carried out by the relevant executive members.

Final year students – Blackstone wants to memorialise you and your time at, and contribution to, UWA Law School by publishing a bit about you in our yearbook, Briefs.

Fill out the form and upload your picture here!