The Brief Week 1 Semester 2

WEEK 1 SEM 2 THE BRIEF Upcoming events Inside the Brief: Week 1 WELCOME TO THE BRIEF, SEMESTER 2 This Semester, The Brief will focus on engaging and informing you in all the upcoming LawSoc events! Entries open for the UNSW Primus Gradus Essay Competition—go to page 5 Thursday 31 July  Deadline for Special JD Mooting Round closes at 12pm—more info on page 5  Deadline for submissions to Connecting to Law Short Film Competition  Applications for AT Kearney Case Challenge closes at midnight—find details on pages 8-9 Check out our new features, including:  Short articles written by students, for students—and an opportunity for you to be published in The Brief;  The Brief Brief, your weekly event planner for all things LawSoc related; and  Topical articles on applying for exchange, clerkship Friday 1 August JD Mid-year Welcome Drinks at 6.30pm—go to page 3 tips, and engaging with the LawSoc Cabinet Here’s to a great Semester 2! SUBMIT to The BRIEF: The Brief wants to hear your opinion on a major event that's happened during the Semester break. So whether it's about MH17, Germany winning the World Cup or the interest rate remaining at record lows, we'd like to hear it! Submit a 200-300 word article and you may be featured here next week! ALSA Results Are Out! A special congratulations to our Championship Mooting and our Client Interviewing Team for breaking into the semi-finals for their respective competitions, and to Nicole Mazurek for making the Grand Finals for the Paper Presentation competition. We are also very proud to announce that UNSW Law Society won Best Equity Publication for our Social Justice publication Court of Conscience. A big congratulations to Katerina Jovanovska, current Vice-President (Social Justice), and Jacqui Fetchet, 2013 Vice-President (Social Justice), and to Katerina’s editorial and legal research team! UNSW Law Society was also highly commended for its community initiatives, in particular for the LawSoc fights homelessness initiative which ran in April 2014; and we were also highly commended for our new online initiative, the Poetic Justice blog. Head to Page 4 to hear what competitors think about ALSA! 1