Senior Lecturer Kate Fischer Doherty is Director of the Public Interest Law Initiative (PILI) at MLS. For Fischer Doherty, a highlight of her role is helping students put their learning into practice in the community.
Published 09 Aug 2017
A first of its kind Australian conviction of a Japanese company for cartel conduct shows reforms in this area of the law are starting to work and these cases can be prosecuted successfully.
Published 08 Aug 2017
Final-year JD student Thibaut Clamart is a passionate advocate for international students. He shares his story with MLS.
Published 07 Aug 2017
Méabh Loughnane has spent the last three years balancing her studies in the JD with her role as Co-founder and CEO of Chalk Circle | The Gender Literacy Foundation. Her work in the primary prevention of domestic violence across Australia has informed her newfound passion in law: family law and child protection.
Published 07 Aug 2017
Jason Bosland is a Senior Lecturer at MLS and is Deputy Director of the Centre for Media and Communications Law, researching principally in the areas of defamation, privacy and open justice. He has seen first-hand how research can lead to legal reform.
Published 07 Aug 2017
Melbourne Law School Associate Professor Sunita Jogarajan spent a year studying medicine before she discovered a passion for accounting and law. Now Associate Dean of the Breadth program at MLS, Jogarajan loves inspiring undergraduate students to consider their own pathways in the law.
Published 07 Aug 2017
MLS Associate Professor Joo-Cheong Tham is interested in the complex relationship that the law has with justice and democracy. For Tham, key to the role of an academic is harnessing research to contribute to the betterment of society.
Published 07 Aug 2017
Second-year JD student Tess never imagined that studying law would lead to an interest in podcasting.
Published 07 Aug 2017
Joshua Quinn-Watson was living and researching in India when he developed a keen interest in the law.
Published 07 Aug 2017
MLS alumnus Yifan Wang (JD 2016) came to Australia from China for an internship during his undergraduate studies, and now calls Melbourne home. While studying at MLS, one lecture in particular had a dramatic effect on Yifan, broadening his understanding of the importance of the law and its real-life ramifications.
Published 07 Aug 2017
A packed theatre at Melbourne Law School had the honour of hearing first hand from the Honorable John G. Roberts, Jr., Chief Justice of the United States, in conversation with Professor Carolyn Evans, at a public event in late July.
Published 07 Aug 2017
Second year MLS student Maddie Smith is proving that there is plenty of room for creativity in the law.
Published 04 Aug 2017
Privacy, Politics and Law: in Conversation with Prof. Paul De HertThe CMCL, IPRIA and Melbourne Law School is excited to announce that Professor Paul De Hert (Vrije Universiteit Brussels) – a renowned privacy scholar and organizer of the largest privacy conference in the world Computers Privacy and Data Protection - will be conducting an interdisciplinary workshop aimed at PhD candidates and Early Career Researchers. We invite applications from interested PhD candidates and Early Career Researchers from any faculty to apply (early career researchers are those who have been awarded a PhD in the last 5 years).
Published 03 Aug 2017
The Law School Admissions Test (LSAT) can seem daunting. But it doesn’t have to be. When we asked some current JD students to share their wisdom and advice, the top tip was preparation.
Published 28 Jul 2017
The law governing adverse events in medical treatment is one of the fastest developing areas in the legal sphere, and MLS Senior Fellow Bill Madden is at the heart of it.
Published 28 Jul 2017
Established in 1967, the Association for Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) was created to foster greater cooperation in economic and security affairs between its members. Fifty years later, MLS academics are playing a key role in helping the ASEAN states develop their competition and consumer policy and legal regimes, integral to achieving the region’s economic aspirations.
Published 27 Jul 2017
The 25 Melbourne Law School students undertaking the JD elective Global Lawyer have completed their two weeks in the United States with Professors Andrew Mitchell and Bruce Oswald CSC.
Published 24 Jul 2017
For Dr Nicole Woodrow, obstetrician and gynaecologist, the intellectual challenge of the Master of Medical and Health Law has been the highlight of the program.
Published 18 Jul 2017
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