The Melbourne Law School is pleased to announce a new opportunity for PhD students to participate in an international symposium hosted by the Association of Transnational Law Schools (ATLAS). This is a unique opportunity for the best PhD students from some of the world's elite universities to meet, receive critical feedback on their work, and to attend lectures by leading legal scholars. Melbourne Law School is proud to be a founding member of ATLAS as part of our on-going commitment to foster outstanding researchers and research degrees of international relevance. ATLAS is a consortium of institutions of higher education from around the world dedicated to the intellectual formation of highly talented doctoral students and fostering reflection and research on issues broadly related, but not limited, to comparative legal and regulatory responses to various forces of globalization, international governance challenges and the evolution of transnational law. For further information about this program and the partner institutions.
Each year Atlas will hold a three-week academy called the Agora, normally held every July. Each Agora includes Dissertation Research Seminars; General Courses (with participants being required to choose one); Methodology Workshops; Occasional Seminars; Informal Discussion Evenings; and Film Evenings each weekend. There will also be a Distinguished ATLAS Lecture each week, with leading academics or policy-makers delivering major addresses on topics tying into ATLAS themes. Participants will have a chance to formally present and receive feedback on their own work and to also engage in informal discussions with their peers from around the world. The venue of the Agora will rotate annually amongst the founding partners with the 2008 Agora being hosted by Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto from Monday July 7 to Friday July 25 2008.
Melbourne’s participation in this Agora represents a significant opportunity for our students who are interested in transnational, comparative and international law.
The Melbourne Law School has selected three outstanding PhD candidates to attend the 2008 Agora at Osgoode. They are:
| David Ruschena, who is working on the topic Villains, Fools and Litigators: Lessons from Tobacco Control supervised by Associate Professor Christine Parker, Dr John Howe and Mr Jonathan Liberman and is part of an ARC grant; |
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Olivera Simic, who is working on the topic Is the zero tolerance approach to sex between UN peacekeeping personnel and local people in the context of UN peacekeeping operations the best way to prevent “sexual exploitation” in the future? under the supervision of Associate Professor Di Otto and Dr Michelle Foster; and
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| Angus Frith, who is working on the topic Sustainable Indigenous entities for making agreements supervised by Associate Professor Maureen Tehan, Associate Professor Lee Godden and Professor Marcia Langton and is part of an ARC grant. |
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