Dean’s Message

Dean, Monash Law Faculty,
Professor Bryan Horrigan

Welcome to the second edition of The Monash Law e-Briefing. We are now well into our 50th anniversary year. It continues to be another successful year for the Monash Law Faculty community. We share our recent collective achievements and developments with you in this edition.

As June 28th approaches, we are very much looking forward to you joining us for our 50th Anniversary Gala Dinner at the Grand Hyatt in Melbourne. This event promises to be the highlight of our celebrations!

Our Expert Legal Commentary section is a key feature of this publication. We hope you will find our highly topical thought leadership pieces insightful and useful in your professional work. In this edition we feature the following timely contributions:

• Mr Malcolm Chin, Partner at Minter Ellison, Hong Kong, provides his insights on Hong Kong’s Emergence as a Centre of Transnational Arbitration;
• Ms Rowena Cantley-Smith comments on a recent High Court decision and the implications for use of ‘reasonable endeavours’ clauses in commercial contracts;
• Professor Frank Bloch discusses Clinical Legal Education and Legal Education Reform; and
• I provide an update on recent developments in the regulation of unconscionable, unfair, and bad faith business conduct.

Dean’s message and invitation

Professor Bryan Horrigan

Welcome to this first edition of our new e-newsletter, The Monash Law e-Briefing. It is being launched in our Faculty’s 50th anniversary year. We hope that it keeps our alumni and the broader legal profession informed and connected with us and one another. Complementing our twice-yearly publication of Law Matters, The Monash Law e-Briefing is designed to be an accessible, regular, and useful briefing on Faculty matters and commentary of interest and relevance to you.

Now recognised as a truly global law faculty, we attract top students, provide first-rate opportunities, produce world-class research, and benefit from high-quality alumni, many of whom are well known as thought leaders and pioneers in their chosen professional careers throughout the world. In keeping with this societal outreach and track record after 50 years, The Monash Law e-Briefing aims to provide many things of value to you in your everyday work, engagement with us, and connections with others in professional life.