
Contents High honour for Professor Peter Cane Congratulations to Peter Bailey! Congratulations to the first Australian Migration Law & Practice graduates at ANU New JD program Recent student achievements ANU graduate appointed to position in The Hague Employing ANU Law graduates Launch of Phillipa Weeks Scholarship in Law Blockbuster appointment round brings new riches to the ANU Opening of the Allen Family Memorial Upcoming events PDF version of the ANU College of Law Alumni Spring 07 newsletter
High honour for Professor Peter Cane At its Annual General Meeting on 19 July 2007 the British Academy elected Professor Peter Cane as a Corresponding Fellow. Election to the Corresponding Fellowship is the highest honour the Academy is able to confer an overseas scholar in recognition of scholarly distinction and international standing. Each year the Academy elects up to 38 UK-based Ordinary Fellows and 10 overseas Corresponding Fellows across its 18 subject sections, including Law. Former ANU colleague and UK Solicitor-General Ross Cranston was also elected as an ordinary Fellow.	Peter Cane
As a result of his election, Professor Cane becomes the only Corresponding Fellow in Law in the southern hemisphere. Other Corresponding Fellows in Law (of which there are 10 in total) include Judge Richard Posner of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (formerly Professor at the University of Chicago Law School), Judge Guido Calabresi of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (and formerly Dean of Yale Law School) and Professor Reinhard Zimmermann, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Foreign Private and Private International Law in Hamburg. There are some 10 Australian Corresponding Fellows, including Professors Bob Goodin and Frank Jackson of the ANU. Professor Cane and Professor Jane Stapleton have also been elected as Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences of Australia (ASSA). Congratulations to Peter Bailey!

Our esteemed Adjunct Professor Peter Bailey celebrated his 80th birthday on 5 September 2007. Although officially retired, Peter teaches Human Rights Law in Australia in the undergraduate program.

Congratulations to the first Australian Migration Law & Practice graduates at ANU

The first two cohorts of students undertaking the Graduate Certificate in Australian Migration Law & Practice have graduated at the ANU graduation ceremony in July 2007. Most of the students completed their certificate in one semester, giving them the qualification to work as Australian migration agents. The ANU College of Law has seen a dramatic increase in enrolments in this popular program, which is open to both lawyers and non-lawyers. Forty students graduated in July and it is expected that this number will double for the December graduation.

New JD program

From 2008, the ANU College of Law is offering a new Juris Doctor (JD) program. This is a distinctive program for graduates of non-law disciplines (or non-Australian law degrees). It allows students access to nominated postgraduate law courses while still equipping students with the academic qualifications for admission to practice. The program can be studied full or part-time with entry points in first and second semester.

For more information, please visit the web at: http://law.anu.edu.au/Postgraduate/Juris_Doctor.asp

Recent student achievements

The ANU team has won the Lexis Nexis moot competition, which was judged by Justice Kirby in the High Court on 3 October. The team mooted against Bond University on a constitutional law question involving s.51(xxiiiA). The ANU team comprised Tom Smyth, Matt Sherman and Claudia Newman-Martin. The victory follows a number of other mooting, mock trial and advocacy successes for our committed ANU students this year, including the DPP Mooting competition against the University of Canberra.

(Photo - from left to right, Alex Rafalowicz, Tom Smyth and George Blades – DPP Mooting Competition Winners)

ANU Graduate appointed to position in The Hague

Kelisiana Thynne, one of our recent graduates, has been offered the position of Associate Legal Officer of Women’s Initiatives for Gender Justice in The Hague, starting on 19 November 2007. Kelisiana said that she is very much looking forward to working in international criminal law, and particularly with a gender focus. She will also have the opportunity to go to the Assembly of States Parties to the ICC Statute in New York and on field missions in Africa. Well done Kelisiana!

Employing ANU Law graduates

ANU Law graduates are some of the best in Australia, equipped with skills and qualifications to be an asset to employers both locally and overseas. Career Hub at the ANU Careers Centre offers employers the chance to advertise vacant positions to current students and recent graduates at no cost. At the Law School we also offer the opportunity for employers to advertise graduate positions on our website. In additional, employers are welcome to visit the Law School to talk to our students about recruitment opportunities, like Jesse Chang, ANU graduate and partner of TransAsia Lawyers in China did in August this year.

For more information on the services available, please visit the Careers Centre website at http://www.anu.edu.au/careers/ or send information about available positions to marketing@law.anu.edu.au

(link to Jesse Chang event http://law.anu.edu.au/Undergraduate/International_Career.asp )

Launch of Phillipa Weeks Scholarship in Law

The Phillipa Weeks Scholarship in Law was officially launched on Friday 31 August 2007. The Weeks family and Phillipa’s husband, Ian Hancock attended the event. Donations received on the day have taken the corpus of the fund to around $90k. The target is $500K. The Dean, Professor Michael Coper, took the opportunity at the launch to announce and unveil a plaque renaming the Staff Library the Phillipa Weeks Staff Library. It was felt that this was a particularly appropriate space to carry Phillipa's name, given her long and collegial participation in the life and governance of the law school, and the announcement was warmly received.

Phillipa Weeks Scholarship launch

Blockbuster appointment round brings new riches to ANU

ANU Law Dean Professor Michael Coper has announced eleven new appointments as a result of the ANU College of Law’s annual academic appointment round for 2007.

‘I am delighted with the continuing growth of the College’, Professor Coper said. ‘These new appointments add extraordinary richness and diversity to an already vibrant research and teaching community, that will not only add value to the College’s ongoing efforts to address the nation’s and the world’s legal problems, but will also open up new opportunities for the College’s undergraduate and postgraduate students.’

The College has made appointments at all levels. Introducing an innovative scheme for early career academics, the College has appointed three Teaching Fellows, who will enjoy all the benefits of an ongoing academic staff appointment, but with a reduced teaching load in order to enable them to pursue a PhD. The College also appointed Simon Rice as its inaugural Director of Law Reform and Social Justice (more details in a later issue).

For full details, please go to the http://law.anu.edu.au/news/Appointment_Round_News.pdf

Opening of the Allen Family Memorial

On 19 September, the ANU College of Law officially opened the Allen Family Memorial in honour of the Allen Family. The memorial is located next to the Sparke Helmore teaching theatres at the Law School.

Architect’s Statement:

The Allen Family Memorial focuses on a central circular disc of pavement. The circle suggests the completeness of the family, surviving beyond death, given the family's Christian beliefs. The cut-out window in the tall narrow wall to one side gives a framed glimpse of the sky, suggesting the presence of the transcendent within everyday life; the wall is also a respectful reference to the dignified architectural articulation of the law building. The flat, white surface will take the shadows cast by nearby trees, while in the opposite direction; views are dominated by Black Mountain. The final element is the pond and font to the law building side, which adds a further reflective quality to the space. In addition to being a commemorative piece, the memorial provides a contemplative space for passers-by and a venue for small gatherings.

- Paul Knox, Architect

Upcoming events

The ANU Alumni Office is planning a number of events for 2008. The ANU College of Law will also be holding an Alumni Dinner towards the end of the year.

Be sure to send us your contact details if they change and visit the ANU website for more information http://info.anu.edu.au/mac/Alumni/index.as p

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