Judge In Deok Seo, Judge of the Daegu District Court in Korea and currently a Visiting Research Scholar at the ALC, spoke about the Korean judicial system and the legal education reforms at a Brown Bag Seminar hosted by the ALC on 2 March 2015. Judge Seo's precis of his presentation appears below:
Published 02 Jun 2015
Richard Powell has recently passed his PhD with flying colours. His topic was on language use in Malaysian courts and the politics of de facto bilingualism (English-Malay) in a legal regime where Malay is the official language, but litigants often speak (only) a third or fourth language. Richard was co-supervised by Dr Amanda Whiting (Associate Director (Malaysia), ALC) and Professor Joseph Lo Bianco (Education / Linguistics).
Published 02 Jun 2015
Melbourne Law School alumna and former Supreme Court of Victoria judge, The Hon Justice Marcia Neave AO, is leading the State Government's Commission into Family Violence.
Published 01 Jun 2015
From what a was a fleeting introduction to intellectual property as an undergraduate, Mollie Tregillis, an IP Associate at Norton Rose Fulbright, has established herself as a young leader with considerable achievements in the field, as her nomination as a finalist in Lawyers' Weekly's 30 under 30 illustrates.
Published 29 May 2015
The law has the power to change our society and is far more dynamic and creative than many people understand, guest speaker Norman O'Bryan AM SC told those in attendance at the Melbourne Law School annual awards ceremony last night.
Published 27 May 2015
Husband and wife Jimmy and Gertrude Elai have relocated to a new country to undertake their Master of Commercial Law at Melbourne Law School.
Published 26 May 2015
Stories of days gone by at Melbourne Law School flowed freely at this year's Golden Alumni reunion, with more than 85 former students who graduated more than 50 years ago in attendance.
Published 20 May 2015
Poverty and disadvantage are the largest drivers behind the over-representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander in imprisonment rates across Australia.
Published 18 May 2015
Aidan Clarke does not want to be a lawyer but he can still see the benefits of undertaking the Breadth program's law stream throughout his undergraduate studies at the University of Melbourne.
Published 14 May 2015
After being accepted to study at a number of law schools around the world, Alessandra Gai chose Melbourne Law School to undertake her Master of Health and Medical Law.
Published 13 May 2015
Hundreds of students, community lawyers, politicians and others walked today to demonstrate their support for fairness, access to justice and a thriving pro bono culture.
Published 13 May 2015
Published 05 May 2015
CILIS Associate Arjuna Dibley writes in the Guardian on why Geoffrey Robertson's call to withdraw Australian aid after the execution of Chan and Sukumaran is misguided.
Published 01 May 2015
Melbourne Law School has again been recognised as Australia's number one law school in the 2015 QS World University Rankings by Subject.
Published 29 Apr 2015
Professor Tim Lindsey explains the key reasons why Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan should not have been executed.
Published 29 Apr 2015
Ms Stacey Steele, Associate Director (Japan) at the Law School's Asian Law Centre, caught up with the Centre's 12th Japanese Judge-in-Residence after a recent presentation at MLS. Judge Kobayashi shares her views about her life in Australian and her preliminary thoughts about Australian class actions.
Published 28 Apr 2015
Few educators can boast of a standing ovation following one of their lectures but it was not uncommon for Professor Robin Sharwood AM, who passed away on April 12, aged 83.
Published 28 Apr 2015
Melbourne Law School is assisting the Australian Taxation Office's efforts to reclaim revenue lost by businesses engaging illegal phoenix activity.
Published 28 Apr 2015
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