STUDY ABROAD DOWN UNDER

AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND

WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY COOLEY LAW SCHOOL ’S 19TH ANNUAL STUDY ABROAD PROGRAM JANUARY - APRIL , 2018 (REVISED 8/2/17, 11/29/17)

Western Michigan University Cooley Law School is proud to announce that its 19th

Annual Study Abroad “Down Under” program continues as a full semester. This exciting program allows law students to live and study in Hamilton, New Zealand, for approximately six weeks beginning the first week of January, 2018. The program moves to Melbourne,

Australia, for the remainder of the semester. WMU-Cooley’s study abroad program is in cooperation with the University of Waikato Te Piringa -Faculty of Law and Monash University

Law Chambers . Courses will be taught by faculty of law members at Te Piringa and Monash and practitioners, and one course will be taught by a WMU Cooley Law School faculty member.

ACADEMIC PROGRAM DATES OF THE PROGRAM

The Western Michigan University Cooley Law Classes begin in Hamilton on Wednesday, School Study Abroad Program in Australia January 3, 2018, and end on Friday, February 9. and New Zealand has been approved by the Classes resume in Melbourne on Monday, American Bar Association’s Accreditation February 12, and end on Friday, April 13. Committee of the Section of Legal Education Students may attend either location or both. and Admissions to the Bar. The program was Students attending both segments will qualify re-inspected by the ABA in February, 2014, for a full semester of residency. and received approval for continuation for seven years. In 2005, the ABA re-inspected the CLIMATE program and it was approved for continuation for seven years. Australia and New Zealand are in the southern hemisphere. Expect weather similar to the U.S. Equity & Remedies is the only course with Midwest’s summer during January, February prerequisites so contact the International and March. In April, expect cooler weather Programs Office for more information. Each similar to early fall. course is conducted in English and meets the requirements of the ABA. WHO SHOULD ATTEND

One 3-credit course, Equity & Remedies, will U.S. law students with an interest in be taught by a WMU Cooley Law School full- comparative and international law will benefit time faculty member. Equity & Remedies is a from this program. A limited number of required, upper-level course for WMU-Cooley students participating in LL.B. programs in students, and it will count toward a WMU- other countries may also participate upon Cooley student’s required courses and GPA. approval. Finally, anyone interested in a semester study abroad program in two of the COMPARATIVE AND INTERNATIONAL world’s great countries, without a language LAW FOCUS barrier, should consider participating in the Australia/New Zealand Program. Approval Courses in this program emphasize the laws must be granted by the Associate Dean. and legal procedures of The Pacific Rim and Oceania. MONASH UNIVERSITY

LOCATIONS Since its founding in 1958, Monash has become

one of the most innovative and original centers The program is located in Hamilton, the largest of higher education in Australia and the Asia- inland city on the North Island of New Pacific region. The university’s enrollment Zealand, and Melbourne, capital of Victoria, exceeds 70,000 students at seven campuses. which is among the most scenic cities in Monash is a diverse, multi-cultural institution, Australia. with students from many nations, as well as

Australians from non-English-speaking

backgrounds.

Revised 8/2/17, 11/29/17

The Monash Faculty of Law is the largest of its CLASSROOM AND OFFICE LOCATIONS kind in Australia and one of the first to combine the professional aspects of legal Classes in New Zealand will be taught on the training with a broad liberal education. The scenic University of Waikato campus at the Te school offers a four-year Bachelor of Laws Piringa —Faculty of Law building and the new degree, the standard law degree in Australia. state of the art Law and Management building. There are more than 3,000 undergraduate and In Australia the classes will be taught in postgraduate students and many full-time downtown Melbourne at the Monash Law academic staff. You can learn more about the Chambers. This facility is used for Monash’s University’s law school at Master of Laws program and offers modern www.law.monash.edu.au . classrooms for the study of law. The program director’s office will be on both campuses too. Please note that the Monash University Law Public transportation is readily available in Chambers and Monash University are not both cities. awarding credit for this program.

PROGRAM ELIGIBILITY AND UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO APPLICATION PROCEDURE TE PIRINGA — FACULTY OF LAW WMU-Cooley will consider applications from The University of Waikato opened in 1964. law students who are enrolled in good It has approximately 12,000 students, with standing at an ABA-approved or state nearly 1,000 postgraduates. Law began being accredited law school and have completed at taught at the university in 1990. In May of least one year of law study by January 2018. 2010, the Law School decided to become WMU-Cooley students must have completed known as Te Piringa —Faculty of Law. The 27 credits and have a 2.25 GPA. Students from name Te Piringa had been given to the Law other ABA-approved or state accredited law School by the Māori Queen, Te Arikinui Dame schools must ask their school to send an Te Atairangikaahu, in 1990. Te Piringa means official transcript and letter of good standing to the coming together of people. Western Michigan University Cooley Law School verifying their eligibility. A limited You can learn more online about the Te Piringa number of international students who are —Faculty of Law at currently enrolled in good standing in an LL.B. http://www.waikato.ac.nz/law/ and about the program in another country and are fluent in University of Waikato at English may also apply. We may have http://www.waikato.ac.nz. participants from our exchange program with the University of Münster. Also, students at Please note that the University of Waikato and Waikato and Monash may attend classes. University of Waikato Te Piringa —Faculty of Others interested are encouraged to contact the Law are not awarding credit for this program. program. Inquiries should be directed to [email protected] prior to submission of an application. Approval must be granted by the Associate Dean.

Revised 8/2/17, 11/29/17

The Australia/New Zealand Program was not COURSE SELECTION AND CREDIT offered in 2015. In 2017, 6 students MINIMUM participated in the “Down Under” program.

Five were from WMU-Cooley and one from Students may only enroll in courses offered in another U.S. law school. A maximum of 40 this program and are not permitted to students can participate in the program. participate in such things as externships,

directed studies, law review and law journal The application deadline is September 15, 2017 duties that take place during this study abroad for WMU-Cooley students and October 15, program. Students may not work during the 2017 for guest students. Applications received program. after October 15, 2017, will be considered only if space is available. Prior to October 15, 2017, It is important to select Australia and New guest students will be accepted on a first come, Zealand courses carefully at the time of first accepted basis. application. Students must complete a

minimum of nine semester hours of credit. All applicants must submit a completed WMU Cooley Law School recommends application and deposit of $500, which will be completion of 12 semester hours for students credited to tuition and fees, to Western who participate in both segments of the Michigan University Cooley Law School. program, and cannot enroll for more without Guest students may arrange with us to charge approval. A minimum of four credits must be the deposit to a credit card. Download an taken should a student choose to participate in application at: the New Zealand or Australia Programs only. http://www.cooley.edu/foreignstudy/australia Classes may be cancelled due to lack of _nz.html enrollment. Participants will be promptly

notified and opportunity provided to adjust Applicants must also provide an official their class schedules. transcript and certification from their law school that they are currently in good Students may not reduce the total number of standing. They may be included with your credit hours for which they are registered as application or sent shortly thereafter. of Tuesday, December 19, 2017. Subject to the Applicants must also provide proof of a valid preceding conditions, students may drop and passport. add courses during the first week in both

countries if classroom space is available. Send applications to:

Western Michigan University DEPOSIT AND WITHDRAWAL POLICY Cooley Law School International Programs Office Deposits are fully credited to tuition and fees. 2018 Down Under Program Prior to October 15, 2017, students 300 South Capitol Avenue withdrawing from the program will receive a Lansing, MI 48933 refund of $250, after which the entire deposit is nonrefundable. The program activities fee and the $100 administrative fee paid to WMU- Cooley is nonrefundable in the case of

Revised 8/2/17, 11/29/17 withdrawal from the AU/NZ study abroad LEGAL AND EXTRACURRICULAR program regardless of cause once approved to EVENTS participate. Please refer to the special withdrawal policies in the brochure sections Visits to legal institutions in Hamilton and regarding State Department travel information Melbourne take place throughout the semester (warnings and alerts), and changes in the in accordance with ABA requirements. course offerings or other significant aspects of Although no academic credit is given for these the program. For other than complete visits, they provide an important enrichment withdrawals, tuition refunds for the AU/NZ to the educational experience. Students are study abroad program are made according to required to accompany professors and the AU/NZ Student Guide . Students may not classmates on these excursions. reduce the total number of credit hours for which they are registered as of 5:00 p.m. EDT We will have several social and entertainment on Tuesday, December 19, 2017. Tuition is events. While attendance is not mandatory, it nonrefundable after that deadline. Students is encouraged as a courtesy to host faculty and are responsible for housing costs including staff who have arranged them. those WMU-Cooley incurs on their behalf.

HOUSING CLASS MEETING DAYS

Participants have the option to find their own There will be a minimum of 65 class days in accommodations in Hamilton, New Zealand, the Down Under program. In New Zealand, and Melbourne, Australia. Accommodations classes will meet typically in the mornings and should not be arranged before WMU-Cooley early afternoons Monday through Friday, with officially notifies applicants of acceptance an occasional Saturday, during the into the program. approximately six weeks of class. Final examinations will be conducted on the last In Hamilton, New Zealand, participants may program day and interspersed throughout the choose to stay at University of Waikato student New Zealand segment. dorm housing. Fixed rate housing is available

from Tuesday, January 2, through check-out on In Australia, classes will meet typically in the Saturday, February 10. Students will pay a mornings and early afternoons Monday fixed housing charge for 39 nights of lodging. through Friday for the remaining weeks in the WMU-Cooley students may choose housing at semester. As in New Zealand, final Student Village on the University of Waikato examinations in Australia will be conducted campus. Student Village is about a ten minute during the last program days in Melbourne walk to Te Piringa—Faculty of Law and the and interspersed throughout this segment of Law and Management buildings. The dorm the program. apartments contain four, six or seven single

bedrooms with shared living, kitchen and Because there will be only two days between bathroom areas. It is self-catered. The 2018 final exams in Hamilton and the first day of single room rate is NZ$1,050 per person. classes in Melbourne, all students are There is a NZ$200 refundable damages encouraged to plan all extended travel in the deposit, NZ$100 administration fee, and a area before January 3 or after April 13.

Revised 8/2/17, 11/29/17

NZ$45 charge for linen service. The total is in mind that prices will change with currency NZ$1,395. fluctuations (some figures were calculated based on June 2017 exchange rates). A Students may choose to stay at Milano financial aid budget is available upon request. Serviced Apartments in Melbourne, Australia, from Saturday, February 10, through check-out Tuition on Saturday, April 14, a total of 63 nights. A ñ WMU-Cooley students pay tuition at the variety of apartment/bathroom configurations school’s established rate. Honors Scholars at different nightly rates with long-stay apply their scholarships to the cost of the discounts is available. Nightly rates per program. apartment range from AU$118.50 to AU$215. ñ Guest students pay $1,000 per semester The per person share of the cost depends on hour. the configuration of the apartment and the Housing ...... 5,016 number sharing it. It may range from Administrative fee ...... 100 AU$2,963.63 to AU$4,405.33. Should a Program activities fee ...... 200 student withdraw, a penalty fee equal to their Student Bar Association (WMU-Cooley share of Milano housing costs minus deposits students only) ...... 20 will be assessed. Other estimated expenses for the program: Monash Law Chambers is located in Melbourne’s central business district (“CBD”). Travel to/from Hamilton and Melbourne Melbourne has a public transportation system (estimated) ...... 3,000 called Public Transport Victoria. Food ...... 2,002 Local transportation ...... 483 Students are responsible and, by their Supplies/books ...... 240 participation in the program, agree to pay for Laundry ...... 216 all housing charges, including those incurred Miscellaneous (includes cost of AU ETA by WMU-Cooley in advance on their behalf in tourist visa) ...... 1,893 reliance on their application and deposit. Supplemental health/accident insurance.... 190

WMU Cooley Law School will provide Total program costs for the combined additional housing information upon approval Australia and New Zealand segments are of each application. Contact the International estimated to be approximately $13,460, Programs Office with any questions regarding excluding tuition. Participation in one housing. segment will cost less.

TUITION , HOUSING AND FEES WMU-Cooley will issue a schedule/statement to each registrant. Payment in full is due on All tuition, housing and fees are made payable December 1, 2017, unless other arrangements to the Western Michigan University Cooley have been approved by WMU-Cooley. Law School in U.S. funds. The estimate of expenses for the program (all in U.S. dollars) which is being used by the WMU Cooley Law School Financial Aid Office is as follows. Keep

Revised 8/2/17, 11/29/17

PROGRAM ACTIVITIES FEE http://travel.state.gov/content/passports/engli sh/country/australia.html . Each student pays a $200 program activities fee that helps cover the cost of group excursions Other countries have similar services. The web like Raglan, an artsy surf town, and the Great page for Canada’s service for its citizens is Ocean Road day trip, as well as social events http://travel.gc.ca/. Participants must provide and receptions. proof of registration with their home country’s service.

MEDICAL AND TRAVEL INSURANCE All registrants will be promptly notified if,

prior to the start of the program, the U.S. State Students are required to have medical Department issues a Travel Warning or Alert insurance with minimum requirements that covering the dates and locations of the include emergency evacuation and program. Registrants will have the repatriation coverage. It is highly opportunity to withdraw and obtain a full recommended that students obtain travel refund of all monies advanced within 20 days insurance too. Some travel insurance policies after withdrawal. may protect students from the loss of expenses such as air travel and housing in the event of All students will be promptly notified if, withdrawal from the program. The financial during the program, the U.S. State Department aid budget includes the cost of medical issues a Travel Warning or Alert covering the insurance. dates and locations of the program. Students

will have the opportunity to withdraw and STATE DEPARTMENT TRAVEL will be refunded monies paid, except for room INFORMATION AND REGISTRATION and board payments utilized prior to the date of withdrawal. Refunds will be made within Students who are U.S. citizens must provide 20 days after withdrawal. proof of online registration with the United States Department of State’s Smart Traveler AIR TRANSPORTATION Enrollment Program (STEP) for your travel during the program: Students will be responsible for booking and https://step.state.gov/step/. Students must also paying for their own transportation to subscribe to receive updates on Travel Hamilton, from Hamilton to Melbourne, and Warnings, Travel Alerts and other information home from Melbourne. for the countries in which they will be studying. FINANCIAL AID

The U.S. State Department’s country specific Since this program is offered throughout a full information for the New Zealand is at semester, the financial aid on which most http://travel.state.gov/content/passports/engli students depend for their normal course of sh/country/new-zealand.html . study should apply to the 2018 Australia/New

Zealand Program as it has in the past. Contact The U.S. State Department’s country specific your home school’s financial aid office to information for the Australia is at determine your eligibility for financial aid and Revised 8/2/17, 11/29/17 the deadlines to which you should adhere to event the program is cancelled after a deposit assure disbursement of funds in a timely has been paid. Should the program be manner. terminated after it begins, students will be notified promptly and will be refunded fees WMU-Cooley students who are interested in paid less room and board payments utilized the 2018 Australia/New Zealand Program prior to the date of termination. In 2011, an should contact the WMU-Cooley Financial Aid earthquake struck Christchurch during the Office immediately to determine their New Zealand segment of the program. eligibility for financial aid and how this Although the New Zealand segment of the program affects their current eligibility. program was cancelled, WMU-Cooley undertook efforts to ensure that students who CHANGES TO COURSE OFFERINGS OR needed the academic credits were provided other means of completing them. The 2012 OTHER SIGNIFICANT ASPECTS OF THE Program took place entirely in Australia. The PROGRAM 2013 Program returned to New Zealand in Hamilton because Christchurch was still Any changes to course offerings or other recovering from the earthquake. The 2015 significant aspects of the program will be Program was not offered. communicated promptly to every student who has paid a deposit or registered for the INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES program, and an opportunity will be provided for that student to withdraw and obtain a full Classroom and residence facilities in refund of all monies advanced. Refunds will Melbourne and Hamilton are generally be made within 20 days after withdrawal. accessible for students with disabilities. Once the program begins, a student who Prospective students with special requirements withdraws due to any changes to course should discuss them with the International offerings or other significant aspects of the Programs Office before applying. program will be refunded monies paid except for room and board payments utilized prior to the date of withdrawal. ACADEMIC CREDIT AND RESIDENCE

Acceptance of credit and residence required PROGRAM CANCELLATION AND for graduation is at the discretion of each TERMINATION POLICY applicant’s school. As each course meets or exceeds ABA requirements, most ABA schools This program will be held subject only to will accept credit and grant appropriate minor adjustments due to emergencies, or residence. If your school will not, please subject to force majeure. The program will be contact WMU Cooley Law School Registrar cancelled if there is insufficient enrollment. In Mohammad Sohail at (517) 371-5140, ext. 2222, the unlikely event of cancellation, students will or e-mail him at [email protected]. Denial be notified promptly and all monies advanced of credit or residence frequently results from a by students shall be refunded within 20 days misunderstanding that can be resolved by of cancellation. WMU-Cooley will make best direct conversation between WMU Cooley efforts to arrange for each enrolled student to Law School and your dean or administrator. attend a similar program, if desired, in the Revised 8/2/17, 11/29/17

LIBRARY RESOURCES contacting their law school to determine the transferability of credits and the manner in Students participating in the Down Under which grades will be recorded on their schools’ Program will have access to the University of transcripts. Waikato library (which includes the law library) and the Monash University Law At WMU-Cooley, most course grades are Library located on the main Clayton campus. based on written final examinations, Students will have access to online computers administered and graded under a system that in both libraries. LEXIS and WESTLAW will assures student anonymity. Professors adhere be available. to established grade definitions. Within that framework, each professor may score the examinations differently and create a separate ACADEMIC PREPAREDNESS POLICY grading scale for each course. Grades at

WMU-Cooley are known for being hard- Each student bears the responsibility to earned and truly indicative of a student’s prepare and understand the material assigned, grasp of the subject matter. WMU Cooley Law and to recite in class when called upon. If School does not practice grade inflation. circumstances arise which prevent the student from being prepared, it is the responsibility of the student to notify the professor before class. CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION Each professor may establish a specific preparedness policy for each course. Students who successfully complete a WMU- Cooley study abroad program receive a certificate suitable for framing and may note STUDENT ATTENDANCE POLICY on their curriculum vitae “Certificate, 2018

Australia/New Zealand Study Abroad Attendance is the norm for every class session. Program, Western Michigan University Cooley There are no pre-excused absences in any class. Law School.” It would be a misrepresentation Students should strive for full attendance but to assert that you were a student of the keep their own records of any absences and the University of Waikato and Monash University. reasons for each absence. Students with excessive absences can be dismissed from the class and may not be permitted to take TRAVEL INFORMATION examinations, receive credit for courses, or refunds. Currency Converter web page:

www.oanda.com/convert/classic GRADES

Australia Travel: Evaluation of students will be through final examination. Students from other law schools www.visitvictoria.com will be registering for these courses as guest www.australia.com/index.aspx students; grades and credit for these classes will be presented on an official Western New Zealand Travel: Michigan University Cooley Law School transcript. Guest students are responsible for www.newzealand.com/travel Revised 8/2/17, 11/29/17 http://www.hamilton.co.nz defective products, medical malpractice, negligent statements and other conduct Consular / Travel Information: causing purely economic loss, mental injuries and new vicarious liability theories. The http://travel.state.gov/content/passports/engli course will also examine the major Australian sh/country/new-zealand.html `no-fault’ statutory compensation. http://travel.state.gov/content/passports/engli sh/country/australia.html International Banking and Finance: Law and Practice https://step.state.gov/step/ 1 credit / Professor Emmanuel Laryea

COURSE LISTINGS This course examines the development, operation, and regulation of contemporary international financial system and markets. It Australia and New Zealand also examines the transactions that are conducted within those financial markets, how Equity & Remedies those transactions are structured, potential Kimberly E. O’Leary, Professor, WMU Cooley Law legal problems and how they may be overcome School or managed. The major national markets of

the United States, Europe, Australia and other Studies basic characteristics of legal, equitable, countries will be considered, as will the and restitutionary remedies and their important areas of international financial application to tortious wrongs and disrupted regulation and policy concerning transactions. (3 credits) Note: The course infrastructure, including Basel III, payment continues in Australia. This course has systems, and clearance and settlement. prerequisites.

International Criminal Justice Australia 1 credit / Professor Joanna Kyriakakis

Comparative and International Indigenous This course will explore how the international Rights community has responded to the most heinous 2 credits / Professor Melissa Castan and Dr. Katie international crimes, such as genocide, crimes O’Bryan against humanity, war crimes, aggression and serious human rights abuses. The Examines Indigenous rights through the international community and conflict-afflicted development of aboriginal and treaty rights states have developed and applied different in international law as well as in Aotearoa models of justice, ranging from local and New Zealand, Australia, Canada and the USA community level responses, to national justice up to the present. initiatives and truth and reconciliation commissions, to hybrid and international war Comparative Torts / Australia crimes tribunals. While all of these models 1 credit / Professor Dr. Martine Marich will be considered, the growing focus on war

crimes tribunals, and in particular the This course examines recent developments in development of the International Criminal Australian Tort law, including such areas as Revised 8/2/17, 11/29/17

Court, will be the main focus of this constitutional courts with the power of course. The complexities of these war crimes constitutional interpretation. Considers both trials, how they are conducted, as well as their structural issues, such as federalism and relative successes and failures, will be separation of powers, and individual liberties considered and students will be asked to in various countries, through review of both consider these issues in light of contemporary constitutional provisions and court events and what the future of international interpretations. criminal justice holds. Indigenous Rights in Action: The UN Introduction to the Australian Legal System Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues 1 credit / Professor William Lye 1 credit / Dr. Valmaine Toki

This course explores the Australian legal Examines the pivotal nature of international system in terms of its historical origins, instruments, in particular the United Nations constitutional framework, sources of law, Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous political and legal institutions and legal Peoples, to meaningfully recognise indigenous profession. Areas examined include rights. The annual sessions of the United Australian political systems, relationships Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous between parliament and courts, the changing Issues provide a framework and platform for face of dispute resolution, legal education and the analysis of these rights within the seven admission requirements, nature and regulation regions and within the six mandated areas of of the legal profession (barristers and human rights: economic and social solicitors), legal ethics and professional codes development, environment, culture, education of practice. The course also includes and health. professional visits to parliament, courts and the legal profession. International Environmental Law 1 credit / Professor Alexander Gillespie New Zealand Covers environmental problems in an Comparative Chinese and Common Law international context. Emphasizes both Systems customary and treaty law. Considers 1 credit / Dr. Leo Zhixiong Liao particular issues such as transboundary air pollution, ozone depletion, climate change and Introduction to sources of Chinese law and ocean pollution. structure of Chinese legal system, overview of contract, tort, criminal and property law in Introduction to New Zealand Legal System comparison to prevailing approach in common 1 credit / Professor Brendan Cullen law nations. This course will cover the constitutional and Comparative Constitutional Law legal structure of New Zealand with particular 2 credits / Professor Gay Morgan emphasis on those aspects that distinguish it from those in the United States of America and Examines governments constituted by written Australia. The course will cover current issues constitutions, constitution-making, and of importance to the New Zealand Legal

Revised 8/2/17, 11/29/17

System such as the Mixed Member and New Technologies, Criminal Law (with a Proportional electoral system, legal issues focus on Cyber Crime), and teaches in New relating to Maori rights and the Treaty of Zealand's first Master’s in Cyber-Security Waitangi, and restorative justice programs. taught jointly by the Faculties of Law and Computer and Mathematical Science. DIRECTORS Emmanuel Laryea , Associate Professor, holds Kimberly E. O’Leary , B.A. (Oberlin College), an LL.B. (Hons.) from the University of Ghana, J.D. (Northeastern University School of LL.M. from the University of Glasgow in the Law). Professor O’Leary practiced United Kingdom, and a Ph.D. from Bond employment law and poverty law in Indiana University in Australia. He is a barrister-at- before becoming a law professor in 1988. In law in Ghana. His research interests are in 2000, Professor O’Leary joined the faculty at international economic law. Professor Laryea WMU Cooley Law School after teaching in and teaches International Banking and Finance: directing clinics at Indiana University at Law and Practice, International Investment Indianapolis and the University of Dayton Law, Contracts, and Research and Writing. He School of Law. At WMU-Cooley, she teaches has published in the area. Equity & Remedies, the Sixty Plus, Inc., Elderlaw Clinic, and is developing a course in WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY Contracts. Professor O’Leary has served on COOLEY FACULTY sections and boards involving clinical education and elder law, and has written and Kimberly E. O’Leary (see above) presented in those areas. She has collaborated on scholarship with faculty and attorneys in MONASH UNIVERSITY FACULTY New Zealand. She was the co-on-site director of the 2017 Toronto Program. This year marks Melissa Castan is a Senior Lecturer, and Professor O’Leary’s third time serving as the Deputy Director for the Castan Centre for on-site director and faculty member of the Human Rights Law. She earned a B.A./LL.B., Down Under Program. with honors, at Monash University; LL.M. from the University of Melbourne; PostGrad Wayne Rumbles , Associate Professor and Dean Dip Ed from Monash University; and is of Law, holds a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor earning her Ph.D. at Monash. Her teaching of Laws in 1997 with majors in Law, History and research interests are Australian Public and English Literature. He completed an Law, Constitutional law, Indigenous Legal LL.M. (Distinction) from the University of Issues and Legal Education. She is co-author Waikato in 1998. Dean Rumbles has been with of The International Covenant on Civil and Te Piringa - Faculty of Law, University of Political Rights: Cases, Commentary and Materials Waikato for 15 years. In June 2015, he was (2013), and Federal Constitutional Law: A named Dean of Law. Dean Rumbles spent Contemporary View (2014), as well as numerous three years working in community law and scholarly articles and chapters. She is National worked for Te Matahauariki Research Institute Convenor of the Alternative Law Journal, and for 10 years on the Laws and Institutions for co-hosts 'Law Radio' - a legal podcast, with Aotearoa/New Zealand project. He teaches Kate Galloway. and researches in the areas of CyberLaw, Law Revised 8/2/17, 11/29/17

Joanna Kyriakakis is a Senior Lecturer at the Dr. Martine Marich is a legal practitioner, Monash University Law Faculty and Deputy with a criminal and personal injury practice. Director of the Castan Centre for Human She holds LL.B. (Honours), B.Sc., LL.M. and Rights Law. She researches in the area of S.J.D. degrees from Monash University. She international criminal justice, particularly on has lectured at the Monash University Faculty issues pertaining to the responsibility of of Law since 2000 in a number of subjects business actors implicated in atrocity. She has relating to Australian criminal and civil law published her work in leading international and procedure. She holds a doctoral degree in journals, such as Journal of International law from Monash University, and wrote her Criminal Justice and the Leiden Journal of thesis on the law of Evidence. She is an International Law, and has held visiting accredited specialist in criminal law in Victoria fellowships at Columbia Law School and the and New South Wales. Most recently, she Lauterpacht Centre for International appeared as Counsel for child sexual abuse Law. Joanna has been involved in human survivors, in 18 case studies of the rights capacity building, including delivering Commonwealth Royal Commission into human rights training for Australian and Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, overseas government officials and agencies. and now has a broad practice in Institutional She previously practised law with the South sexual abuse redress claims. Australian Crown Solicitor’s Office and in community and private legal settings. Dr. Katie O’Bryan is a lecturer in the law faculty at Monash University in Melbourne. Emmanuel Laryea , (see above) Her doctoral thesis focussed on the legal recognition in Victoria of Indigenous rights to William Lye holds a BSc (Computers), LL.B., participate in the management of water and LL.M. from Monash University, and an M resources, which involved a comparative Ent Inn (AGSE) from Swinburne University of analysis of Aotearoa-New Zealand. Prior to Technology. He signed the Victorian Bar Roll becoming an academic, she worked for over a in 1988, is a nationally accredited mediator decade as a lawyer for native title claimants in (2008), and an accredited advocacy trainer for both Western Australia and Victoria. Katie the Victorian Bar Reader’s course (2010). His also has a Master of Laws in Environmental practice includes commercial, corporate and Law from Macquarie University in Sydney, intellectual property law. He chairs the Asia focussing on issues relating to Indigenous Practice section of the Commercial Bar natural resource management. Association of Victoria, is a member of the Victorian Bar International Arbitration TE PIRINGA - FACULTY OF LAW , Committee, and sits on the Football Federation UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO Victoria Tribunal and Appeals Board. He is principal representative in the Australia for the Brendan Cullen earned B. A. and LL.B. degrees World Chinese Economic Forum. He has from the University of Otago, and a Diploma taught contracts at Monash Law Chambers in Business Studies with endorsement in since 2009, and teaches commercial and Dispute Resolution (Arbitrators’ and corporate practice, and intellectual property at Mediators’ Institute of New Zealand medal for the Leo Cussen Institute. top student) from Massey University.

Professor Cullen has over 30 years of Revised 8/2/17, 11/29/17 experience in court litigation and alternative Fellowship, Rockerfeller Fellowship and the dispute resolution serving as a mediator and New Zealand Law Foundation International arbitrator and representing clients in court Research Fellowship. litigation, mediations, arbitrations and other dispute resolution forums. He is a former Dr. Leo Zhixiong Liao , Lecturer, holds degrees chair of the Waikato Wintec Research Ethics of Bachelors of Economics, Master of Laws, Committee, and a member of the NZLS and Doctor of Laws from Renmin University of Waikato Bay of Plenty Standards Committee China, and completed his Bachelor of Laws, (No 2), the Waikato Bay of Plenty Law Society Master of Professional Studies (first class Council (chairing the Courts, Tribunals and honors in translation), and Master of Laws ADR subcommittee), and the University of (first class honors in commercial law) at the Waikato Law Faculty Board. He is a director University of Auckland. He practiced in China of McCaw Lewis Limited. and specialized in commercial law, overseas investment law, and tax law. Dr. Liao was Alexander Gillespie , Professor, obtained his admitted as a Barrister and Solicitor of the LLB and LLM degrees with Honours from The High Court of New Zealand. He practiced law University of Auckland. He did his PhD at in Auckland before joining Te Piringa - Faculty Nottingham and post-doctoral studies at of Law. His research areas are contract law, Colombia University in New York City. laws on commercial transactions, overseas investment regulation, law and economics, and Professor Alexander Gillespie was the first tax law. New Zealander to be named Rapporteur for the World Heritage Convention, involving Gay Morgan , Senior Lecturer, holds a B.A. international environmental diplomacy. from the University of Colorado, graduated Professor Gillespie was also a legal and policy Summa Cum Laude with a J.D. from the advisor to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and University of San Diego, and earned an LL.M. Department of Conservation and provides from Yale University. Her research and commissioned work for the United Nations, teaching interests are in public law the Commonwealth Secretariat, and (constitutional law), jurisprudence, commercial and non-governmental comparative law, legal theory, and animal law. organisations in New Zealand, Australia, She is a founding member of the New Zealand United States, United Kingdom and Human Rights Foundation, a fellow of the Switzerland. Royal Society (RSA) and a member of the Comparative Constitutional Law Centre, the He has written over thirty articles published in Legal Research Foundation, the Australia and the United Kingdom, United States, Canada, New Zealand Law and History Society along Australia, and New Zealand. Al has published with other public law forums. Professor 16 books; the latest are “Waste Policy: Morgan worked for the Eighth Circuit U.S. International Regulation, Comparative and Court of Appeals and spent eleven years in Contextual Perspectives”, “International Africa working on public infrastructure and Environmental Law, Policy and Ethics” and community self-development projects. She has the “Causes of War: Volume II (1000-1400) and published extensively. Volume III (1400-1650)”. He has been awarded a Rotary International Scholarship, Fulbright

Revised 8/2/17, 11/29/17

Dr. Valmaine Toki is an Associate Professor in FURTHER INFORMATION Law and holds a B.A., LL.B. (Hons), and LL.M. from the University of Auckland and an Upon approval of your application, you will M.B.A. from the Australian Maritime College receive a detailed student handbook for the at the University of Tasmania and PhD from Australia/New Zealand Program. Anytime the University of Waikato. Professor Toki is you have questions, we encourage you to the first New Zealander appointed by the contact us. President of the United Nations Economic and Social Council to the United Nations International Programs Director or Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. Prior Associate Dean to joining Te Piringa - Faculty of Law, she 2018 Australia/New Zealand Program taught at the University of Auckland, Faculty International Programs Office of Law in the areas of Contemporary Treaty Western Michigan University and Māori Issues, Jurisprudence, and Legal Cooley Law School Methods. Her research interests are human 300 S. Capitol Avenue Lansing, MI 48933 and indigenous rights, therapeutic Phone: (517) 371-5140 jurisprudence, and resource management. Fax: (517) 334-5714 E-mail: [email protected]

Revised 8/2/17, 11/29/17

AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND STUDENT CHECKLIST

INFORMATION TO WMU COOLEY LAW SCHOOL

ALL APPLICANTS :

□ Completed application form

□ Completed professionalism form

□ Completed housing form

□ Completed Student Guide acknowledgement form

□ $500 deposit (check or money order made payable to Western Michigan University Cooley Law School; guest students may arrange to charge the deposit to a credit card)

□ Proof of valid passport

□ Australian visa or Electronic Travel Authority (applies to U.S. Citizens)

□ Completed flight reservation form

□ Proof of medical insurance

□ Proof of online registration with United States Department of State (or your country’s service) for your travel during the program: https://step.state.gov/step/

APPLICANTS FROM SCHOOLS OTHER THAN WMU-COOLEY LAW SCHOOL :

□ Official law school transcript from home law school

□ Letter of good standing from home law school

□ Completed tuition/fee payment options form

□ Recent photograph Western Michigan University Cooley Law School International Programs Office 300 S. Capitol Avenue Lansing, MI 48933 (517) 371-5140 [email protected] Revised 8/2/17, 11/29/17