 I think we might get underway. I just want to start before we do anything else. It is a massive honor for me on behalf of every one of the faculty over here to say a huge congratulations to you all for getting into part two law. It is a fantastic achievement, one that you should not underestimate. And I hope, before we get into anything else, I hope that you have all taken the time to celebrate and hopefully with people that have helped you to get where you are because it is a massive deal. But as I was told in my part two orientation a few years ago, it's really difficult to get into law school. It's way more difficult to get out of it. So I hope you celebrate now while you still feel like you can. So welcome, my name is Kaya Patel. I actually don't work here at all. I've got nothing to do with the law school. So hopefully that means I can say stuff that they can't. I graduated from Auckland Law School three years ago. I did a B.Com LLB. And I love my time here, both because I had a lot of fun, but also it set me up for what I'm doing now, which is quite cool. So since I finished, I got admitted to the bar, became a barrister and solicitor of the High Court, which is probably still the most proudest achievement I've done. I went and got my CA and I'm now working at PricewaterhouseCoopers. And they have allowed me to come and spend the day here with you guys, which is cool. So congratulations, what I'm gonna go through firstly is just a quick program to show you what we're gonna get up to today. But essentially what we're gonna teach you today, or at least tell you today, is just stuff to help you navigate through, especially the first two years of law school, because there are a lot of things that are different to university, the rest of university, or the outside world, as you might call it. So hopefully we can help you navigate through some of these things that you're going to see. And before I get into that, just a massive thank you as well for choosing us, choosing Auckland Law School. Look, we're really proud of our status and the rankings and all that kind of stuff. We work hard for them. But at the end of the day, we realized that if you wanted to, you could have chosen to go to AUT. You didn't, probably a good thing. But hey, hey, thank you very much for choosing us. There are a lot of good outfits out there. So hopefully you'll end at some point at this law school and you'll think that you had a fantastic journey with us. So, program today we're gonna start off with a welcome from our acting dean, Professor Warren Swain. We'll then get into the part two structure. So just a bit of a look at the four law part two courses that you'll be doing this year or over the next two years if you're doing the Conjuring. And then we'll get the course directors for each of those part two courses to give you a bit of an overview of those specific courses as well. Especially as a lot of them are things that you might not have come across before. It's a really good idea to keep an open mind at this point. Most of you probably decided to do law because of Harvey Spector. But once you get into law school, you kinda realize that there's a whole range of diverse things you can do. So keep an open mind at some of these courses because they really do open up avenues. And then after that, we'll get through some, a couple of courses on study techniques and how we run tutorials. We'll do law 298, which is a compulsory course that you're gonna take this year. And then we'll start talking about some career opportunities and the kind of things you can do now to make sure that when you're ready to graduate, you're coming out of law school with options, with offers when you walk out the door. So Clota will take that. Then we'll get one of our students, Gary, to come in and talk to you about the student experience. We'll then talk about how we like to provide a safe, inclusive environment here at law school and some of the things we are doing, what you can get involved with to help us do that. And then we'll give you a bit of a look at some student societies, kind of things on offer. We get that AUSA runs a whole bunch of things. You can join the Meet Club if you want, that's great. But we've got some law specific student societies as well, which will help you in your endeavors here at law school as well. So we'll do that. And I think we've got a barbecue after that as well. So feel free to come down to law school for that. But we'll kick off with Professor Warren Swain. Thank you guys. Tena Koto Kato. Welcome. My name's Professor Warren Swain. I'm the acting dean. When the talk we just had mentioned somebody called Harvey Spector, I was rather in the position of a judge of the 1960s who said, who are the Beatles? I understand it's a television show. I am dean in the interim between the departure of Professor Stockley and the arrival of the new dean, Penny Matthew, next month. A few days ago, I welcomed the part one students. To you, I simply say welcome back. You'll face new challenges and hopefully find new things to inspire you in part two. But first of all, I'd like to re-emphasize and say, well done for reaching part two. I know the sacrifices that be made by you and your families and you've worked very hard. So congratulations. I'm now going to give you a quote which is taken from the British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill when describing the Battle of El Alamein in the North African campaign. One of my sidelines is an interesting military history. Churchill said this after the British forced the German general, General Montgomery, back. Now, this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end, but it is perhaps the end of the beginning. The campaign was a turning point. A rumble was pushed back and of course, after several years later, the Allies had their victory. I'm not saying that doing a law degree is like fighting a war. Such an analogy would be painfully ridiculous. However, it does have some things in common. It's attritional. You may suffer some defeats or setbacks. The key is to keep going. Studying law is like the army in one sense in another way. It's a collaborative process. In this process, it doesn't mean at all following orders, but it means something more positive, transformational even, and that isn't talked about enough. It's about learning not just from the teaching staff and I will be taking the first four weeks of contract. It means learning from your friends and your fellow students. This can be the former study groups or something less formal. But it's really important to talk about the work that you're doing. You also need to think about where you are and hence the quote. You're now in part two, which is perhaps the end of the beginning. But more than that, it's an opportunity to think carefully about what is the law and what does the law do. These, of course, are big questions and perhaps ones that didn't bother Harvey Spector whoever that is. The great English poet, W. H. Ordon, wrote a poem, Law is like Love. In the poem, he contrasted the different senses of law, the law of nature, law of religion, et cetera. He devoted a verse to the law of the sort that you will study. Law says the judge as he looks down his nose, speaking clearly and more severely. Law is, I've told you before, law is, as you know, I suppose, law is, but let me explain it once more. Law is the law. I know little about love and so cannot comment on whether that comparison is a valid one. But it's worth reflecting on the way that the judging ordinance poem presents the law as something certain and something definite. This may be how laypeople, or for these purposes non-lawyers, think about the law uncommonly. The truth, of course, is more complicated than that, as it often is. The law is often contradictory. Judges in different cases or even the same case may say different things. They may reach the same result for different reasons. Part two, as I see it, is about gaining a deeper understanding of that process, the process of legal reasoning. This isn't just a matter of analyzing legal doctrine. It's also about where law sits or what might be termed or was termed by some trendy academic hippies in the 1970s as a contextual or critical analysis of the law. It's important, though, to note that we are in New Zealand in the early 21st century, and that really matters in terms of the sense of the law and the way that the law is applied. It's not just the law of anywhere. It's a law in a particular context. As far as the teaching is concerned, we'll have introductions from the course directors. As I say, you're unfortunate, as you may see it, to have me for the first four weeks of contract for those of you who are studying contract. It's actually one of the highlights of my year between university committees and other management functions and writing books to lecture the first four weeks of contract. It's a real privilege. And I hope that some of you will gain some enjoyment in law and, of course, in the law of contract, and how could you not? But as well as study, it's important to say something final. Remember to take care of yourselves as well. Be kind to yourself. What I mean by that is by taking time off, but also what I mean by that is be understanding that learning law is difficult, that this is normal to find it difficult. It's not anything wrong with you. It's actually just very usual. So be kind to yourself and be in your expectations that you put on yourselves. When I say don't spend all your time working, it perhaps is always amusing to the academic and professional staff here, given that people say that I'm a workaholic. So perhaps it doesn't come particularly easy for me. But don't forget that university is more about work and academic sense in a conventional sense. One of my great regrets in life is that I spent all my undergraduate time at Oxford in the decades since working. It's too late for me, but it isn't too late for you. I say it slightly flippantly, but actually that's really important. If you take anything out of anything, I say it's that. So please take advantage of the range of opportunities on offer through student societies. And don't forget too that university is an important time to forge friendships. When you're Dean, you can get by with having no friends and plenty of enemies, but for you, it's really important. And it makes the whole experience richer because it's really, as I say, important to engage with your cohort. Don't forget too, and I'll finish on this, to have some enjoyment in working outside it. I hope there'll be stuff that you study that you find interesting, and not just the law of contract. But don't forget that that too is important. I'll now pass on to my colleagues, and I wish you all very good luck as you move into part two. And I hope that you all have a very good year. Thank you very much. Excellent. Before we move on, two points I really want to touch on with that. The first is that it is difficult. It is an attrition, a battle of sorts. And some of you will have had battles getting here, even into part two. But at the moment, you're on a clean slate. And whatever has happened in the past couple of years, it doesn't matter. It took me two attempts to get into law school. I didn't make it on the first time. And in my head, that was a massive deal. But you'll quickly find that actually everyone's in the same boat. You will all struggle with things, and you will all succeed very well at other things. But it definitely doesn't impact the outcome at the end. And the second part of that is to make sure you have some fun while you're here. Because every single person that leaves university, I guarantee will tell you that they wish they had taken more time to enjoy themselves while they were here. It's not something you're likely to do again at this time in your life, so make sure you enjoy it. Next up, we'll have an introduction into the part two courses. So this is really important, your entire year, or if you're doing conjoined, the next two years. This is some information on how that is going to run. So I'd like to please welcome professional teacher and fellow Bronwyn Davies. Thank you very much. We had organized up here. Good morning, and the warmest of welcomes to you all. My name is Bronwyn Davies, and I wear two hats today. Well, none at all, actually. But two hats. First and foremost, I am the director of legal research, writing, and communication programs. So that's law 298 to you. But my second hat is, of course, as the associate dean academic, where bottom line, I'm responsible for making sure that you check all the boxes going through your LLB program. So I guess that means my middle name is probably miscompliance as well. So let me add my warmest congratulations to you all, as well as Professor Swain. I certainly don't underestimate what it's taken to get you here. Family, friends, not to mention late nights, slaving over a hot computer, I hope. Hard work, of course, got you here. And indeed, hard work is what's going to carry you through. Hard work plus smart work. So as Warren has said, there's going to be plenty of opportunities for you along the way to enjoy yourself whilst at law school. What we are going to be doing eventually, of course, is celebrating your success at law school at graduation. And it's with that endpoint in mind that I want to now spend the next 15 minutes or so walking you through the program structure and hopefully give you a bit of a taste of what the journey might look like, at least from a pragmatic perspective of what you must do. But I think in life, it's often good to have a goal in sight. And so with the end goal of graduation, I want you to have that fixed in your mind, what it is you're going to do when you do wear that pale blue hood. I'd like you to start today with me now thinking about one step at a time, one step at a time. This is an endurance, not a sprint race. And if you keep up the pace, if you treat yourself along the way, if you reward yourself as you go, you will enjoy your time here, I promise. What you don't have in your orientation packs is a student handbook. But what you will have by the end of the day is a document that looks something like this. And this should become your Bible. This should become your bedside reading. In fact, it's clearly mine. Perhaps more to put me to sleep than to keep me awake. But in that booklet, you will find all of the rules and regs that relate to your succeeding on this journey. And what I'd like to do is ask you to write on your hand, because in your pack there is actually a pen. Write on your hand the important number, page 12. Because page 12 is where you will find this diagram. All right, so by the end of the day, you will have this student handbook. And in it, you will find lots of information. And as I say, page 12 is where we will start today. And we'll just be looking at the typical LLB degree structure to start off with. My apologies to you. I've just realized it's blue, green, and red. So those of you who are colorblind will be challenged by this slide. So with the end point in sight, I want you to think about what it is that you are going to be studying. Not next year, not the year after, but how you're going to progress your studies. And so the starting point is to focus around these blue tiles. And for you also to think about, what do I want to do with my law degree? What am I going to use it for? So some of you are going to be answering that question right now saying, I'm going to practice law. Some of you are going to say, I want to be an academic. Some of you will say, I have not the first idea. Which, of course, was my approach. For that latter category, you'll want to keep your options open. That's probably the best goal for you to have right now is to plan a course that keeps your options open. For those of you who are very, very specific in your intent and your goal is to become a practitioner, then your pathway is relatively clear. Certainly, you will have to do all of the blue tiles. But for those of you who are doing law for a variety of other reasons, you may not want to practice or you may not need to keep your options open. You have other things, other plans in mind. I have one student, for example, who wants to be a pilot. Then your degree will look something not so similar to this. Now why is that? It's because the law degree is a professional degree as well as an academic degree. As a professional degree, it therefore means that there's some other body outside the university that dictates what must be in it. Who is that body? It's the New Zealand Council of Legal Education. And it says that if you want to be a lawyer, you need to have three stages in your professional training. The first, of course, being pre-law. The next being the degree proper. And finally, continuing legal education after admission, the professional stage of training. So the Council of Legal Education is dictated to us, the University of Auckland, that you must include in your degree seven subjects. And we, as a law school, have said, and we think this department believes you must include in your law degree six subjects. So you do the math. That makes a total of 13 compulsory subjects. And they appear in blue. Now, the good news is you've already done three of those. So that's the pre-law phase. So you've already got a head start. But now we're going to focus around this year and what it takes to carry on in your law degree. And remember, keep the end point in sight. What is it I want to use my degree for is absolutely significant and central to the decisions you're going to make relative to how you will structure your degree. So you must study 13 subjects, the ones in blue, if you want to practice as a lawyer, or if you want to keep your options open. But if you don't want to practice law, then there is a tiny subject here with an asterisk. Although an elect, of course, the Council of Legal Education requires study students intending to be admitted to the bar to take this course. So we have had that imposed on us by the Council of Legal Education. And we, as a faculty, have decided you must also take jurisprudence. All right. So the structure of your course for Part 2. I want you to think very carefully around how you need to progress your studies this year. What order am I going to study? And just like Part 1, you have choices. You have some options. There are, however, a couple of absolute mandatory musts. And so we start with Law 298. 298 is your starting point for Part 2 of your degree. And it must be teamed up with at least one of these other three subjects. Doesn't have to, however, be criminal law. Doesn't even have to be public law, torts, or contra. It can be any one of those, or all four of them, if you choose. Like me, I did the entire diet of Part 2 subjects in my first year. And my grades show it. There is another mandatory element to all of this. You can't pass go until you've collected all five of those subjects. In other words, we will not let you progress onto Part 3 blue tiles until you have all of the Part 2 blue tiles firmly in your back pocket. So it's very important for you to collect each subject, get a check in the box, move forward before you aspire to taking land law equity, jurisprudence, or ethics. I will not permit it. What did I say? My middle name is compliance. However, I will let you take an elective, provided that elective has no prerequisites of any of these Part 2 subjects here. So I repeat. In order to take any of the blue subjects in line 3, you must have all five of the blue subjects in line 2. But if you are one of the 10% who last year dropped exams in and failed one of these courses, I will not permit you to carry on into these subjects, but I might permit you to move into an elective. Now, there are rules around that as well, and I won't bore you with them. But provided those subjects that you choose as an elective don't require, say, the law of contract as a prerequisite pass, you can continue with your legal studies. So it seems pretty simple. The example of that would be a student I'm dealing with right now. He failed his contract law exam. He wants to continue into some Part 3, Part 4 subjects. I won't permit him to take tax or international law because both of those require law of contract. He can, however, take a lot of other different courses, including an independent research paper where he might want to explore some of those topics that he has indicated interests in but can't enroll in. So what I'm saying to you is there is flexibility, even though it seems quite rigid, there is some flexibility built in. And speaking of flexibility, you'll have possibly noticed, although you'd need to have bionic eyesight to be able to see, that some of these courses have 10 points, some of them have 15, and some of them have 30, some even have 20. So basically the rule here is that law courses come in five different sizes, from extra small to small to medium large and even extra large. And unlike the rest of the university, we do this on purpose to confuse you. No, we do this on purpose because not all law is equal. So some subjects have a much greater complexity or a much wider focus or a much deeper understanding and therefore require a greater credit point allocation. It also keeps our staff, our student advisory center, very busy, and keeping them in work is always a good thing because they party a lot. In advising you on how to put together these bricks to ensure that you come out with the absolute end game total of credit points that you need to succeed. Now I've shown you the simple version, but of course 80% of you aren't doing just a law degree, you are actually doing a conjoint. In the handbook that you will be getting, we actually also have a sample or a structure around the conjoint program as well. Now, bearing in mind the starting point is the collecting of five part two subjects and bearing in mind that law 298 is the first one of those subjects and must be paired with one other, you actually have complete freedom about how you sequence your law studies. If you want to just dip your toe, take law 298 and one other subject. If you want to maximize your grades, perhaps, take 298 and one other subject. And then sequence your degree in such a way as it suits you. And part of the success of being at university is to have diversity in all elements of your life, both in terms of your academic studies, your engagement with your colleagues. And this is a way in which you can be particularly creative in structuring your degree. But with creativity there also come some casualties and that's why we need you to use your student advice center. They will be able to help you structure the optimal course for you, so that your interest is sustained, so that your graduation goal is achieved. Always have your end point in sight. I want you to also understand that sequencing your degree might involve some setbacks. That means you may stumble on some courses. You may need to repeat courses. If they are core compulsory courses, you will have to have them in order to progress. This is something that a large proportion of students will face at some point in their degree. Remember, you are the best students in the university, so therefore this doesn't make you anything other than somebody who has stumbled. And we are there to help. And it is never going to be, ultimately, a problem provided you seek help. So please come to us. We will be able to help you use the rules to your advantage and we will be able to progress you through your degree. What I want also to highlight are two other key and important elements to your degree, one of which is your opportunities to exchange. This university encourages you, as I say, to expand your horizons and enjoy your time at university, so that means it often gives you the opportunity to leave it and go to another one and compare and see how they do things over there. So might I suggest that you think in either your part three or part four of your studies, taking the opportunity to exchange either through one of the arrangements that the law school has or one of the arrangements that the university has for either a semester or for a full year. I would really encourage you look at those opportunities and see where they might lie for you. I will have, I guess, a positive disposition towards somebody who has exchanged in terms of crediting you with the studies that you have taken overseas. As I say, there are around 100 possibilities, so there will be an opportunity for you. I'd like to finish up also by talking about another end goal that many of you come into the program with and that's the LLB Honours. The LLB Honours program is different from the rest of the university in that it's shorter. It isn't necessarily a full year's commitment and it's 60 points. It can be tacked on to the end of your degree, it can be coordinated within parts three or four, but the most important thing that you need to think of at this stage is that once you've completed your part two subjects, your grades will then be assessed and we will then ascertain whether or not you've met the B plus threshold to be invited to take honours. The Honours program is therefore an element that's grafted on to and added to the LLB degree for which you must have a B plus average and importantly, you must then maintain that B plus average throughout the rest of your degree. Okay, so have that end goal in mind as well. After your part two results are in, we'll then make that assessment and we will automatically bring you into the program or invite you into the program. Elective courses is the last part of my presentation today. I want to encourage you to think widely. We offer around 50 elective programs every year, but not all of them are offered each year. So think carefully, sometimes we offer them on a rotation, maybe a two yearly basis, but sometimes we also offer them as a summer school option, usually four or five courses over summer. So maximize your opportunities, mix and match your courses, take a study for interest, not because you think the employers will be impressed by it. Those subjects that you're interested in, of course are those of the subjects that won't be such hard work, they'll be the ones that you do so very well in. And also think about the prospect of doing papers that allow you to do independent research. So papers in lieu of exams. If you are not a good exam taker, maybe you prefer independent research, find courses that allow you to do a paper in lieu of the exam. That means writing a four or 5,000 word research essay exempts you from taking the final exam. A good strategy for many of you, and also a good way of getting off early to go on holiday at the end of the year before the rest of the crowds. In terms of assessment, my final words will be around assessment. And that is, again, referring to the student handbook. Please take care to look at page 30. And that is the handing in of assessments, the seeking of extensions, and the awarding, I'm afraid, of penalties. Be very clear. There will be occasions through this year where you are not able to meet the deadlines on your assessment. It happens to us all for a wide variety of very valid reasons. There is no shame in that. But there is harm if you don't seek help. So please, again, student advisors, these are the only people who can support you through this process of seeking an extension. If you don't seek an extension, what are the consequences? Penalties attach, and these will be awarded for either not meeting the deadline or exceeding the word limit. Again, always ask for help if you are struggling with an assessment. Do not, however, ask your instructors, tutors, professors, or course directors for an extension. That's simply not fair. Their role is to support you in learning. Our role is to support you in the logistics. So please use your course directors for the best of purposes. That is to help you understand the subject and allow us and the student advice team and in my office to support you in the Maya, that is the regulations and rules that run this degree program. All right, so on that note, it's my pleasure to hand over to the next part. But my final words, I guess, would be to say to you, make friends, make progress, and make this the very best start to the rest of your life. Thank you very much. Awesome, thank you very much. I've always find it interesting that the only difference between being able to get your practising certificate or get to the next stage and not is choosing not to take ethics. And I've always been quite dubious of a person that will decide to close off their entire chances of ever getting a practising certificate just because they don't want to study ethics. Anyway, we're going to carry on with part two courses. Now, these will give you a base, which is a fantastic grounding, but also help you in one really good area of your personal life. I'm not sure if this happened to you yet. I guarantee it will happen to you by the end of your first year. People will learn that you're studying law and you'll get a call and they'll say, hey, I need to do a will, how do I do this? And you do have no idea. In my case, it was a friend from high school that called me up and said, hey, I'm at the police station. I fell asleep behind the wheel. What do I do? Your part two courses will give you enough information to be able to say, I understand this is a legal problem. Now hang up the phone and call a real lawyer. So, we've got half an hour. I'll get them to go straight after the other end. We'll start with Professor Julia Tolme for criminal law. Kia ora koutou katoa, talofa lava. Welcome to the law school proper. It's really nice to sit here and look around at all your beautiful and interesting faces. I'm here to make a case for the relevance of criminal law and to tell you a little bit more about the subject. So, basically we know that about one fifth of you who end up in legal practice will practice criminal law. So, that's not all of you. However, whatever area of law you go into, increasingly the criminal law is used as an enforcement mechanism to back up that regulatory regime. So, even if you go into financial law, tax, company law, things that couldn't be further away from criminal law, you will have criminal law come up in your practice. Now, I'm actually gonna ask you to be a little bit brave and give me some information about you. I want you, if you've got the courage, to put up your hand if you've ever committed a criminal offence. Thank you very much. Now, basically what that means is I have a room full of really weird people. Because according to that survey, only a small minority have actually committed criminal offences. So, that means the majority of you have never smoked marijuana, have never taken ecstasy or some illegal drug to go to a dance party, have never committed theft. That is, you've never taken something without someone's permission. Knowing your plan to use it might damage it, even if you hope you don't and intend to return it. Means you've never assaulted someone. That means contacted their body on purpose without their consent or threatened to do so. You have never used indecent or offensive words in a public place. In other words, sworn in public, knowing someone could hear you. You have never purposefully damaged someone's property. You have never attempted to bring into hatred or contempt or excite disaffection against your Majesty or the Government of New Zealand or the Administration of Justice. You've never urinated in a public place other than a public toilet, knowing that someone could possibly observe you. And you've never tried but failed to do any of these things. That's an attempt. Furthermore, you've never even had a friend that you've encouraged to do one of those things, which has been a party to somebody else's offence. So, I'll just ask you again, how many people have committed a criminal offence in this room? Basically, a more honest response. Now, that exercise is interesting, because it tells us something that criminologists started discovering about the 70s, which is that criminal offending is normal in the population. And there's a huge mass of what we call the dark figure of crime, which is criminal offending that takes place, which is never prosecuted and taken through the criminal justice system. So basically, we are the lucky ones. We have had lives that have insulated us from being charged or convicted or ever having the label criminal attached to us, despite the fact that we've breached the criminal law often multiple times. Now, I just wanna pause a bit and read from a letter from one of our alumni. This is one of your predecessors. So I used to edit our alumni magazine and every time an addition came out, I'd get letters from people either complimenting or criticizing the magazine. And this was one of my favorites. It's a very complimentary letter. Dear Julia, I write to compliment you on the 2012 edition of Eden Crescent. Given the sparsity of my current discombobulation, I found the annual a ripping read, and then he goes on to compliment me about different articles in that magazine. Thank you, Julia, and editorial support team, much appreciated. Unfortunately for me, I am currently in custody at Mount Eden awaiting trial on a raft of charges involving alleged financial mispractices. And then he goes on to share his legal woes and to ask for back copies of Eden Crescent. Now, my point, of course, here is that the study of criminal law is relevant to all of us and may become even more immediately and personally relevant to some of you in this room at some point in the future. So I know that my colleague's going to do plugs for their subject. That's my plug for the real life relevance of criminal law. Now, I'm here as course director of criminal law. It's gonna be taught in three streams this year. We have a fantastic team of teachers. So the first semester, the course is gonna be taught by myself and Dr. Fleur Te Aho. She is from Ngati Matunga ki Taranaki. Her background is in Indigenous rights and international law, and she has a particular interest in Māori approaches to justice and alternatives to incarceration. She was involved with Dr. Kate Dulan just recently in organizing our incredibly successful Drug and Alcohol Courts Conference. So in the second semester, we'll be taken over by Dr. Kate Dulan, who has just recently come to us from the University of Birmingham and has an interest in restorative justice. And Associate Professor Carrie Leonetti, who just joined us from the University of Oregon, and she has an interest in comparative criminal procedure and miscarriages of justice and has been involved in the Innocence Project in the States. She also has research interests in high-tech surveillance and data privacy. So a very, very interesting suite of interests and backgrounds. In this course, we will teach you basic criminal law principles. So how to analyse the components of a criminal offence will cover a selection of the more serious criminal offences and some of our general defences and different pathways to criminal liability. So you'll have to attend three lectures a week plus do the tutorial program. Our assessment regime consists of four things, all of which are compulsory. So we have a court observation exercise. That's marked on a pass-fail basis, but you have to do it to pass the course. Then we have a first semester test, which is worth 20% of your final grade, a tutorial essay, which is worth 10%. It takes place in the second semester and our final examination, which is worth 10%. So thank you very much. I look forward to seeing you next week. Tena Koutou-Katoa, called Janet McLean, Tenae, and I'm the course director of public law. And I'm gonna ask you the question that I was asked when I was sitting where you're sitting too many years ago to disclose, look to the right of you and look to the left of you. Now, when I was asked that question, I was, the lecturer said, and only one of you will still be standing, right? At the end of your law degree, but actually they asked the wrong question. What they should have asked me was, look to the right of you and look to the left of you. One of those people will be the minister of justice and the other will be a judge of the court of appeal. Because in fact, among my classmates, one of my classmates was Andrew Little, who's now the minister of justice and one of my classmates was Joe Williams, who's now a judge of the court of appeal. Politics, law. Both very good public lawyers, I won't disclose the rest of their exam results. Um, now, Professor Tommy's been talking to you about crime. What gives the courts the power to even punish crime? Can criminal penalties be passed by parliament be challenged in the courts? Can a police prosecution for a public disordered offence be challenged on the basis that the accused was exercising her right of free speech, her right to protest? What about if the accused has followed the police officer home and sung songs outside her house while she was asleep? Is that protected by freedom of speech? These are real cases. These are cases that we discuss in public law. Or what if you've been charged with committing an offence against the phishing regulations and you claim that tikanga or Māori customary law has authorized the taking of that shellfish? Is there a defense in that sort of case? Or what? Heaven forbid, we were to quickly, you come along to law school for a week and we expel you. Right? We don't tell you that we're expeling you, we don't tell you the grounds on which we're expeling you and we don't give you a hearing about whether we're expelled. Right? This is public law. Or worse, what if we, and this is a real case that we'll discuss in class, what if we give you a hearing about whether we should expel you? But we don't actually disclose to you this report that we've had that is really damning of your character and of what you've been doing. This is public law. Very useful, I find. A lot of students, not for you're engaged in public law but then are really good at it when they're challenging their assessment or whether they should get, right? I should have, you know, I did that, I complied, right? So it's really useful in your law degree to do well in public law. So public law is about the background institutions against which law operates. And to be quite honest, the institutional bit is the boring bit and that's the bit that I have the privilege of teaching you at the beginning of the year, but it all gets a lot better when all my colleagues come in. We also are about teaching you about the norms, values and principles which operate to give our constitutional life. Principles of natural justice, rights, tikanga and so on. So our mission, if we choose to accept it, is to persuade you that there is a constitution in New Zealand and the public law team will bring it to life for you. And I start off the year, the first seven weeks of the course and then we'll have Associate Professor Anaru Erewity who will talk to you about the executive. He's currently involved in the government inquiry into state care, so he'll be coming from that really big government commitment to teach you. Then doctors Jane Norton and Jessie Wall, who are of a much more philosophical band, I think, will be leading you through rights, bills of rights, freedom from discrimination and then we end the year with Dr. Edward Willis who will be teaching administrative law and the sources of Māori law. So expect politics. Look to your left and look to your right. One's a politician and one's a lawyer, right? Expect politics and disagreement in this course but it's not gonna be enough to just get the constitutional vibe. I want you to get the constitutional vibe but we're also gonna have to, I'm afraid, read statutes very closely indeed and weave into the readings of statutes some of these broader constitutional principles. There'll be three themes this year. One is the powerful position of executive government that is the government of the day and at the present time, Jacinta O'Dean's coalition government. The relationship between politics and law is a theme throughout the course and we're also gonna be looking at different sources of constitutional authority, not just parliament but international law and tikanga Māori. So those are the things that we're considering in public law and I hope you enjoy the ride and I'll see you next week. Thank you. Right, the first thing is to get my portrait up there. That's good. I think they did a very good job. Hello everyone, welcome to part two. My name is Marcus Roberts as you can see up there. I'm the course director in 2019 for the law of torts. I'm going to tell you two things today. First I'm going to try and answer what a tort is and why you should study it and then to finish off I'll go through three administrative points that you'll get more details on next week. So firstly, let's start off with an easy one. Let's ease you in to the course. Why study torts? It's a very easy question because you have to. Because Bronwyn said that you can't go into part three without it. Right, okay, let's move on. No, why is it compulsory? Well it's compulsory because torts covers a wide variety of legal actions in the private law sphere. So we've heard about criminal law from Professor Julia Tomy. We've heard about public law from Professor Janet McClain. Those are both public law areas. Something to do with the state. I remember it was a long time ago. Private law is about the law between individuals, two individuals suing each other in court. And in torts we're looking at actions, private law actions, individuals suing each other for wrongs or if you look at the basis of the word torts for crooked or twisted actions, hence the word torsion. Torts, it's the same legal route. So these are actions or events or things that people have done to you or to the plaintiff that are crooked or twisted or wrong. We're not looking at crimes. Now the action complained of may very well be a crime as well but we are coming at it from a very different point of view. If someone punches you when you're out at night in Queen Street on Saturday night that is the crime of assault. And the state via the police might have an interest in taking you to court and punishing you. But you the victim that might not be what necessarily you want or all of what you want. And so there is also tort, the tort of battering where you can sue individually the person who punched you not to punish them but to get money, to get compensation from them to put you in the position you were in before you were punched in so far as money can do that. So that's what torts are all about. Private wrongs committed by one person that the plaintiff is suing for. And it covers a huge variety of different things. So we start off and we look at bashery what I just talked about, the punch to the head. Assault, if you come a step closer I will pull this knife on you, run it through your guts. That is actually a case. Assault of course confusingly does not mean the same thing in torts as crimes but we'll find out about that throughout the year. And then you look at false imprisonment. If you go and do an escape room, does that constitute false imprisonment when you're locked in for an hour and you can't solve the ridiculously hard puzzles that they have? Not speaking from personal experience, but yeah. What about defamation? Someone has wrongfully defamed you, lowered your standing in the eyes of a right-thinking person. What about if you've trespassed on someone's land? Well, that's also a tort. What happens if you have failed to secure the hill that's down the bottom of your property and there's a lot of rain and it slides and takes out your neighbor's house? That's also a tort. And that's the, oh sorry, what happens if you then take someone's car for a joy ride? Well, that's also a tort. And those are the sorts of things that we'd be looking at in the first semester. In the second semester, we will then go on to the brilliant sunlit uplands that are, that is negligence. And negligence is such a large and expanding field that in 50 years time, there won't be four course directors for part two standing here telling people what's gonna happen in part two. There'll only be one and that'll be the course director of negligence. Every negligence is vastly expanding and it is very, very important. What happens when you are careless and cause harm to someone else? You don't intend to cause that harm. You don't intend to burn down their property when you're playing with matches, but it just happens. You are negligent. We will look at that all throughout semester two. That is also a tort. We're not about breach of promise. That's another private law that you might learn about in the law of contract. I assume you do. But we are looking at private wrongs between individuals' torts. Okay, so the admin and administrative stuff. There are four lecturers this year. Myself, Nikki Chamberlain, Professor Joe Manning and Associate Professor Tim Cooner. You will learn more about them as they are throughout the year. They're all approachable, lovely people and we all have very different expertise and background. So hopefully we will bring something different and valuable each to the course. The second administrative point I want to make is that get online, get onto Canvas. That is your first stop for information about the course. If you haven't done so for torts and you're in torts this year, go have a look. The casebook is there. The casebook will also shortly be available for sale and hard copy if you would like to, but you don't have to buy it in hard copy. If you want to look at the cases online, it's available online now, more than happy to do so. But whatever media the casebook comes through, either hard copy or soft copy, you must read the casebook. Torts is very case heavy. It is not statute heavy. You need to read them. We don't quite go back to the 14th century like you do in contract, but we do have cases that are a little bit old, not 14th century, but old. Canvas is very important. Secondly, very importantly, and I understand differently from the other part two courses, your tutorials that you sign up for in semester one are the tutorials that you are signing up for for the entire year. You stay in the same time, the same tutorial group with the same tutor in torts for semester one and semester two. Please, please, please, please, please be aware of that when you sign up for tutorials. It carries through throughout the year. The reason we do that is because there's a mooting program that takes place within that same tutorial group throughout the year. So be aware of that when you're thinking about signing up. Just be aware that you'll have to fit your other part two, your other second semester courses around that. Finally, no, that was it. Canvas casebook tutorials. Excellent. Okay, you'll hear more about those administrative things on Monday. I will be there to introduce you to the course more fully. Thank you for listening. Please enjoy torts, enjoy the rest of your part two. Have a good time. Go well and congratulations. Thank you. Okay, good morning, everyone. I'm Karen Fairweather, as you can see from the slide and I am the course director for contract law. I'd like to begin by giving you a very, very warm welcome to add to the welcome you've already had and many congratulations on getting this far. Contract law may be last on the agenda today, but it's certainly a case of last but not least in terms of the relevance and importance of this subject. I'd like to begin with a piece of good news and that is that while a minority of you will so far have had direct experience of criminal law or the law of tort, I can safely assure you all that everyone in this room today is already at a practical level an expert in contract law. You all have engaged in a myriad of day-to-day activities that are based on the law of contract. You may not realize it as yet, but you have. So for example, every time you get on a bus or a train, you buy a cup of coffee in the morning, you order a meal. In a restaurant, you do your supermarket shop. You have entered into a contract. And every time you access the internet at home, if you think about it, you're actually doing that on a contractual basis. Contract also underlies those big happy moments of our lives that we remember. So things like buying your first house, getting your first job, that's all based on the law of contract. And crucially, the law of contract really is the backbone and the facilitator of the business and commercial world. So for those of you who may have your heart set on earning the really big bucks as commercial lawyers, and I can see dollar signs shining from a few eyes out there, take heed. Contract law is very, very important indeed. It's important in its own right as a subject, and I hope you'll see that this year. But it's also important because the general basic principles of the law of contract you're going to get this year underlies so many other areas of law that you may be interested in practicing in the future. So take for example, employment law or banking law or the law of insurance. Those are specialist areas of law. They have their own special rules, whether those rules have been created by the legislature or by the courts. But those special rules sit on top of this foundation of these general basic principles of contract law, which we're going to study this year. So when I say contract law is absolutely foundational, I mean it in quite a literal sense. And we'll do our very, very best by the end of this year to ensure that you have a theoretical and academic knowledge of contracting that matches the practical experience you've actually already got of this subject. To put it another way, we hope that by the end of this year, when you tag on on the bus in the morning or you buy your morning cup of coffee, you've become thoroughly self-conscious about it all. And I mean that in a positive way, of course. So in a nutshell, what is the law of contract all about? I think at the heart of it is this idea of a contract as a consensual agreement between the parties, whereby the parties voluntarily undertake obligations. That's the core idea, agreements or promise. But what we see is that actually it's a little bit more complicated than that. Because sometimes, not often, but sometimes the law actually imposes contractual obligations on the parties. And sometimes you have what to a layperson may look like a consensual agreement, but for some technical reason, the law says we will not enforce that as a legal contract. So that's the heart of contract law. I think it's best thought about as a story with a beginning, a middle and an end. And that's certainly the structure that we follow in this course. So three parts. And as quite conveniently, there are three of us teaching into this course. We will broadly cover with a couple of overlaps or things that don't fit quite neatly. We broadly cover one part each. Now you've already met Warren this morning and Warren will be kicking off with the first part of the story, the beginning of the story. And in line with Warren's sunny optimistic temperament, Warren is going to deal with this happy beginning of the story, where the parties are establishing their contractual relationship. Everything's optimistic, it's all going to go well. So Warren will be looking in the first four weeks with you at contract formation and the requirements that the law says have to be there for an agreement to have the status of a contract. Then it's over to me and I'll spend the first two weeks finishing off that. But I'm afraid when we get into the middle of the story, we get beset by paranoia, neurosis and soul searching. Perhaps that says something about me as well, but this is where we start asking questions like, well, we've got a contract, but what are the terms of the contract? Are those the complete terms of the contract? Have we missed something? Is there something that the court needs to imply into this contract that we haven't said? What on earth is it that we've meant when we use the words that we did in our contract? So that's the middle of the story and I'll be dealing with that aspect. And then finally we move into a stage of really doom and gloom because the end of the story, this obviously doesn't happen in real life, normally contracts all end happily, everyone does what they're supposed to do, but we're academics so we don't think like that. And in stage three, you're going to look at what happens when it all goes wrong? What happens when one party refuses to perform or performs their side of the deal defectively? What remedies does the other party have in that sort of situation? What happens if one party turns to the other and said, well, okay, we had a contract but actually I entered into that contract under a mistake or I entered into the contract because you misled me? That's the doom and gloom stage and that will be dealt with by Professor Dawson in semester two. So I hope that gives you just some flavor of the structure of the course. Finally, just a couple of practical matters. I know that Warren emailed you all last week and told you all about the case book and readings, et cetera. I just wanted to briefly mention assessment. All this is set out in Canva so please have a careful look at this, but there are three items of assessment. You'll have a test in late May, which I think is 20%, a tutorial essay due at the beginning of semester two, which is worth 10% and that final exam at the end of semester two. I'd like to finish with just a word of advice to you. And this is about tutorials. Tutorials are not actually compulsory in this course. Nonetheless, there's really no substitute for that practice of taking problem questions, identifying issues and applying the law to those facts. You may feel that you have a good grasp of the principles we teach you in the lectures in abstract, but it's not until you really come to apply those principles to factual situations that you really start to test your knowledge and understanding. So I think really key to success in this course is really engaging in the tutorials, really participate fully and prepare thoroughly. Your tutorials really are your friend in this course, so please make the best of them. That's it from me. I really look forward to getting to know you all a bit better when I take over from Warren in week five. And in the meantime, I wish you a great start to the semester. All right, everyone stand up. All right, so we've heard that it's hard to get into law school, harder to get out. This is, in my opinion, a really good test to see your intelligence, whether you're gonna survive or whether you might not. So it's a bit of physical exercise. I want you to put your hand out in front of you and then turn your palms away so they're facing away and then put one palm over the other, clasp your hands together so that your thumbs are at the bottom. Cool, all right, so make sure your thumbs are at the bottom. All right, if you're gonna make it through law school, you'd be able to do this. On the count of three, I want you to just twist your hands back. Go. Cool, grab a seat. Next up, we have a seminar on study techniques and tutorials from senior lecturer Rob Batty. So please give him a welcome. Thank you. Go on, really, really, really good to see some familiar faces. Some of you probably thought that was the last you'd ever see of me, but no, I'm back. And yes, I've even put on a suit today in a tie, much to my family's amusement when I walked out the door. But today I'm actually wearing my associate dean teaching and learning hat. And I've been asked to talk to you about study techniques and tutorials. So in preparation for this little talk, I emailed and chatted to all of our wonderful course directors that we've just met. And I asked them to think about what would you advise your incoming classes to do? What kind of behaviors, what kind of techniques would you suggest would help them maximize their chances of success? And luckily, they said a whole lot of common things. Now, some of these are kind of obvious, but hopefully within this list you might pick up something of use. The first one is to attend your lectures, which is kind of an obvious thing for course directors and lecturers to say. But everyone thought it was really important that you turn up to lectures because listening to the recordings is just not the same. The actual experience of turning up to a lecture is really beneficial. The second thing is to actively listen. And the key word there is actively listen and take notes. Now, I'm gonna say something controversial about that a little bit later. But sometimes I understand there's a bit of a black market of previous year's notes. That sounds wonderful, but I don't think it really helps you. It's the actual process of taking notes that's really important. The third thing they said is to ask questions. Now, some of you may be shy, like me, and I didn't ask a question or talk to a lecture the whole time I was at law school. But even though I didn't do that, actively paying attention to the questions that are asked are really important. You can also, as you're learning, note your own questions, talk to them with your peers, and perhaps even use your lecturers' office hours to go through those questions. But again, noticing the questions and noticing the answers is really important. Related to that, the course directors suggested you think about utilizing their office hours. Now, even for law one for one, for some of my office hours, I was sitting there by myself. I had allocated that time. I had put those two hours or three hours aside. And it's often the case that people don't utilize those office hours. But think about doing that. It's a good way to clarify concepts, to ask the questions you're perhaps too shy to ask during class. The fifth one is about preparation. Nearly everyone said that preparation is important. As Marcus talked about, for a subject like torts, there's gonna be a lot of cases, the same two for contract. Now, I remember when I was at law school that I was mostly one of my strongest memories as highlighters, sort of dimly lit rooms and casebooks. It really does help, sometimes just reading the cases over and over again, or not necessarily over and over again, just reading one case and then another case, it really builds your ability to think about legal argument and think about the area of law. So they said preparation. Number six was a suggestion by Janet, which is really important for a subject like public law. Don't expect things to be settled and for there to necessarily be a clear answer all the time. And she talked about thinking about cases and issues from both sides of the coin. Think about counter arguments, think about the main arguments being put forward. The seventh suggestion I had was to be smart in terms of your exam preparation and to use previous exams, which were all available, to practice. One of the things I found, and I talked about last year, is that there is such thing as an exam technique and some people have wonderful exam techniques and they do very well because of it. The good thing is we can all improve through practice. And the last thing picks up on something that Karen said, treat tutorials seriously. Now, because I was gonna talk to you as Associate Dean, teaching and learning, I thought I'd better put in some research. So I pulled out this collection of data. And what I want you to look at is perhaps those bottom four, particularly the bottom three. So the evidence seems to be pretty strong that one of the best ways to learn is to teach someone else. And tutorials give you that opportunity. They give you an opportunity to learn together, to talk things over with your peers. And that's really important for a subject like law. So I would really strongly encourage you to make the most of your tutorials. And sometimes it'll be hard to have the time to do the preparation, but again, that preparation is gonna be important for tutorials. The more you put in, the more you'll take out. As Karen alluded to as well, often the tutorials are another way to practice, but practice in a safe environment. Often the tutorials are framed around previous exam questions or test questions. So coming along to tutorial, having the opportunity to talk through that problem with somebody else, really it's invaluable. And I strongly encourage you to do it. So for all of those double semester courses you have to look forward to, criminal, public, torts and contract, there's eight tutorial rounds for an each semester. Now the last thing I, well, one of the things I said at the beginning was I was gonna say something provocative. This is what I'm gonna say. I was listening to a blog the other day. You know, as you do, listening to a law blog by law professor. And they started talking about the evidence around laptops. Now even when I taught you guys in part one, there's often an ocean of laptops looking back at me. There's now pretty strong evidence that there's something about handwriting. There's something about making notes that's different from laptop note-taking. Now I've got a reference there to a study. It's very scientific. It has graphs. It has formulas. I read the abstract, took the abstract away. But the main point is if you are typing on a laptop, you tend to just copy down everything the lecturer says. But if you're taking notes, there's more of an opportunity to synthesize what's been said, reflect on what's been said, and in doing so kind of encode that in your memory. Now this is just me being provocative. This is no compulsion whatsoever. Just something to think about. A number of US professors at law schools have banned laptops in their classrooms. I wouldn't ever go that far. But just something to think about in terms of your learning and study techniques. So that's all I wanted to say today. But I also wanted to reiterate how wonderful it is to see some familiar faces and to say to you, as has been said before, sincere and heartfelt congratulations for making it into part two. I hope you do very well and enjoy the journey in part two. And if you see me around, please do not hesitate to say hello. Good luck. All right guys, we're gonna have a bit of a break. 15 minutes. If you can all come back at 10.45 on the dot, that'd be great and we'll get started with the next part of the session. Hey everyone. We will make a start. Welcome back. We're in our second half. We're getting there. Our first session is on law 298. Now, as Julia and Bronn would have said earlier on in the day, one of the compulsory courses that you have to do is 298. I want to say this. It may not be about a specific area of the law, like some of these other courses that you've had introductions to, but from experience, as somebody now working in the law, this is the most, I'm not even kidding, like the most important course you'll ever do. If you go out and practice law, this is the kind of stuff you'll need to know in order to do your drug day in, day out. So it's a very useful one to wake up for if you're not already. So, can I please introduce Nicola Ronsley and Jiawei Ding. Thank you. Hello everyone. I hope you're enjoying your morning so far today. So that was a great introduction, good promotion for the course and we, Jiawei and I, really hope you enjoy it. So I'm Nicola Ronsley, my colleague Jiawei Ding. Over there, she'll take over in a few minutes. We are learning and teaching development advisors and we work for libraries and learning services. So part of what we do is help the law faculty with academic and information literacies in their courses. So we are the team that look after the legal research component of law 298. And as Bronn will have said this morning, there's also the writing and communication component. So what I'll talk about now is just the legal research component of the course. So we'll go over the content and structure of this component and just to make sure everyone's clear on exactly what's required. And just to remember that 20% of your mark for law 298 will come from this legal research component. So it's good, probably a good time to get familiar with what you will be asked to do. So what do we mean when we say research or legal research? There's really no one definition, but we pretty much mean the process of seeking out material for the purpose of extending existing knowledge. So we all do this all the time every day. So when we talk about legal research, we're talking about research, that process of seeking out information within the legal field to hopefully extend your knowledge and assist you with your assignments. The basic point is that if you do not research, you cannot write. So whenever you're asked to do a piece of legal writing in any of your papers, it will always involve a first step of that legal research process. So the legal research component of law 298 will start building those essential legal research skills. So we will look at the legal research process. And this is the basic diagram that we follow. And so for law 298, we mostly focus on the second step, which is the part where you will go out and consult primary and secondary sources for information. And then that information you will then use to produce a piece of writing. So for your research to be successful, it's really important to follow a logical progression and do some planning before you jump into the databases. And that's a little bit of what will help you do to be prepared before you jump in to find all this really useful information. And we will go through this diagram in more detail in the first lecture in the first two weeks. So just to go through the structure of the legal research component, there's two parts, basically. So weeks one and two, you will all come to a face-to-face lecture. And Jawey and I will take you through a few basics and reiterate what's required to pass the course, the legal research component at least. And there will be five online modules. And these you'll work through independently. In terms of the assessment, you will have two online tests with 10% each. As I said, week one and two, you will have a face-to-face lecture, five online modules for independent study, two online tests with 10% each. So the way the first two weeks will work is that you will have enrolled into a lecture time in both those weeks. But you do not need to come to two lectures. So you just need to come to one in one week or one in the other week. So the way it will work is if your surname begins with A to K, you need to come to your lecture time in week one. If your surname begins with L to Z, you need to come to your lecture time in week two. So it's eight versions of the same lecture. So you do only need to come to one. So come to your enrolled time in the week that matches your surname. And just note, your booking in your online timetable will say two hours. It should probably only take one hour. So a bit of time back in your lives there. So that's the main thing to remember. So that's weeks one and two. For weeks three to six, there will be no classes. But you will be expected to be working through module one and module two of the online content as independent study. So that's what you'll be doing weeks three to six. You'll have a wee break then. And from week seven and eight onwards, you'll start your regular fortnightly law 298 classes, which you all will be enrolled with. And that will be the writing and communication part of the content. And then you'll also have modules three to five of the Legal Research Online Component released during that time as well for independent study. OK? We'll go over this again. Next week and the week after in weeks one and two just to make sure everyone's clear. So in terms of the online modules, there will be five. And they will be released at different times during semester one. These are the basic dates. If there's any changes to these release dates, we will let you know. We will also put an announcement on Canvas once a module is published. And you'll be able to see it from that day onwards. So we'll remind you that way as well. And so Canvas, the Law 298 Canvas page is the place to go to access the online modules. Each of the modules will contain videos and PDF documents. And it's recommended that you work through all the material that's provided to you. And you do this independently just to make sure that you are all ready for the online test, which will assess these online modules. You'll need to schedule time to work on these outside of your other classes. And from Week 7 and 8 onwards, obviously, you'll need to schedule time outside of your Law 298 classes as well. So we recommend about two hours per module. That'll probably about how long it takes you to work through the material and then practice the skills that those videos take you through. In terms of the assessments, as I said, two online tests worth 10% each. Online Test 1 will be released to you on the 1st of April 8 AM. And you can complete it any time after that. It's due on the 7th of May 12, known. It's accessible via Canvas. So that's where you'll find the online tests. Now, Online Test 1 will assess the skills learned in modules 1 and 2. So don't start Online Test 1 until you've done all the material in both module 1 and module 2 because you'll get questions relating to content from both the modules in that one test. Now, it says Online Test 1 again. It should say Online Test 2. That's released on the 27th of May 8 AM. And that is due the 2nd of August 12, known. So you've got quite a long time to work on Online Test 2 and practice the skills that you'll need to pass that one. And that will assess skills learned in modules 3 and 4. And as I said, those tests, once they are released, will be accessible via Canvas. And we will put an announcement out to let you know that the tests are now ready to start if you wish to. Just note that module 5, which will be released quite late in semester 1 or the beginning of semester 2, is not assessed. So it's still really useful content and will still be really useful to you, but it will not form part of the assessment. So it's modules 1, 2, 3, and 4 that will be assessed. A little bit more information about those tests. Each test will have 10 questions. The questions are shuffled, so you will not get the same test as your friends. So there's no point sitting together with your computers and trying to do it together. You all will have different questions. We work very hard to create lots of questions so that it won't happen that two tests will be the same. You get two hours to complete the test. That's quite a long time. I would expect 20 to 40 minutes, depending on how quick you work through. But you do have up to two hours. And you have two attempts at each test. So if the first attempt doesn't go quite so well and you want another go, you can have another go. And whichever mark is the highest will be the one that goes towards your grade. So do have another go if the first one isn't so good. There are no extensions available for the online test. So it is important that you work through the modules, you do your practice, and then you complete the test by the due date, because we don't give extensions for those. Now at the end of each module, there will be practice questions that you can do once you've gone through the content. And we highly recommend that you take that opportunity to practice before doing the online test. So what you'll get in those practice tests will be very similar to what you see in the actual test. So a really good chance to make sure you've got all the skills down. I'll now pass over to Jiawei, who's gonna take you through to the canvas page to give you a look at how this all looks there. Okay, good morning, everyone. First of all, congratulations on making it into part two. I have to make it clear that you won't see your course now because course has not been published. I'm going to show you a live demo and we'll just in my log in, so you will see just published mode. Sorry. So this is my dashboard, trying to find, this is 208, so we need someone to click this button to publish it. So if you don't see it, don't panic, so you'll see it as soon as it's published. And on the left-hand side, and you've got a navigation, you've got a modules here, so it's not visible yet. And if you click on modules, here are the modules we were talking about and you need to, this is only module one. Under each modules, we have something. Just take one example here, Laws of New Zealand. And we have learning objectives, so after you watch the videos, you will achieve these learning objectives. You will see what you're going to achieve. And also, if you up to here, if you click on the picture, you will see the video, right? You can see it's quite low. And also we have some demo, how to teach you how to search in the database and you can minimize it if you don't want it. If you click on the link, you actually download the video. It's MP4 and should play well on your cell phone and also your tablet. And here we've got some transcript. If you need some transcript, you can just click on the icon, you will see the transcript straight away. And if you want to download, it can click on the link. And again, you minimize it. And if you want to, after you watch the video, you want to jump into the practice yourself. And here we've got the link. Laws of New Zealand is available on Lexus Advanced, so you can click on it and get into the database and practice straight away. From this module, from this section of the module, you can go back to the module itself or you can click on this. Previous, you got into Dictionary of Law and you can click on next to navigate between the different sections of the module. All right, if I click on back to the modules and you have multiple sections within the module and as Nikki said, remember to click on this test yourself. We haven't put anything yet, but this test yourself will contain questions, similar to the one in your real test. So this is a very good opportunity of practice the similar question, not the same question, but the similar type of questions. So you'll see that. And as soon as we put up the quiz and you should be able to access your quiz here under assignment, so here you'll have online test one or you can access your quiz from quizzes here. It's kind of great. And after it's published, you can click on here, there will be online test one, so from assignment and quizzes. Any questions about how to find modules and the videos and everything? Good, so you're not studying in isolation, so we also provide, we will provide some dropping sessions and we will advertise these sessions on Canvas. So please keep an eye on your announcement. And the sessions will happen in Belgali Computer Lab at the Davis Law Library. I think some of you might be familiar with the lab. You go into the library and just on your right hand side. So pay attention to your announcement. So here I got some tips for completing the course successfully. So make sure you work through all the modules and independently outside your class time, you have to use your, this is a self-paced learning so you can use your own time and at your own pace and make sure you watch all the videos and make sure you schedule some time to practice on searching on database and practice using databases via using the test, test yourself questions and you will see what type of questions in your real test. And if you have any question, you can just come along with your question to our dropping sessions. Okay, that's pretty much about us. Any questions? All good? Yes? Week one next week. Yeah, week one is next week. Just cheeky. Sorry to keep you in the frame, so thanks. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. All right guys. So if there's one person you should know while you're here at law school, it's Clona. I kid you not. So this is a fantastic place. We've talked all about the stuff that you learn in class, but at the end of the day, most of you are here to get a kick-ass job and have some success in their job, whatever that success might look like. And it doesn't matter how good your grades are, you will not get that success unless you prepare outside of the classroom as well. And Clota is your key to doing that. So we've got a session from Clota on how you can start thinking about stuff now. I'm Kaira for quite a while and I'm very proud to see what Kaira is achieving in his professional life. It's always amazing to see. So I am Clota Higgins and I am the employer engagement manager. I've actually had a job title since you saw me last year. I'm now career development and employer engagement manager. So who am I? So career development manager, you're very lucky. I am still the only me in New Zealand. We are the only law school that has a dedicated career service within the faculty. So my advice to you is use-ish. The amount of students that go through their degree and only start thinking about their career towards the end. It's almost too late. You'll be stressed. You'll struggle. Come see me early. I'm really helpful and I'm quite nice. Okay, we did this last year. So you're probably looking at me going, are you that lazy that you didn't update your slides? No. I just want to do another check-in. So I'm gonna read out three career statements and we're gonna do the standing up be city day anything. So I'm gonna read the three out and then we're gonna ask you back and you're gonna stand up at the one you most agree with. I want to be a lawyer and the LLB program is how I get to do that. I'm thinking about being a lawyer but willing to keep my options open. I have absolutely no intention of being a lawyer but I know that the LLB degree is a great degree to have and my parents may have made me do it. Okay, statement one. Stand up if you definitely 100% want to be a lawyer and you know this is the way to do it. Oh, I think that's gone down from last year. Okay, sit down. I'm thinking about being a lawyer but willing to keep my options open. Yeah. Yep. Okay, you guys can sit down. Whoops. I have absolutely no intention of being a lawyer. Gary, sit down. But I know that the LLB degree is a great degree to have slash my parents are making me be here. Accept and acknowledge all your stances in life so far but stay open. Keep your blinkers off while you're at law school. Take every opportunity to find out about being a lawyer or being one of the million other things you can do with a law degree but it's your job to educate yourself. No one else can take responsibility for you. Okay, quiz time. So once again, you've been sitting for a while. There's only so much wisdom I could depart to you in 10 minutes so we might as well make it a bit of fun and get the blood going again. Okay, this is one of those ones. So you stand up if you agree with the statement. Everyone got that? It's not what you know, it's who you know. Stand up if you agree. Okay, sit down. Okay, there is a but. Sure, it's not, there is some meritcraftcy coming out of here but use the time you have at law school to meet as many people from the industry you're choosing to go into. The law school bends itself backwards bringing you practitioners to lecture. I bring in so many practitioners, I'm sick of the sight of them by the end of the year. It is your responsibility to get out of your comfort zone, make time in your timetable to come meet these people. When people come to the law school they really want to talk to you. They want to help and they want to depart their knowledge so utilize every opportunity you can to grow your networks. And when I say the word networking, law students go, it's not that scary. It's having a genuine conversation with someone. It's not that you have job, I want job, give me the job. Okay, question number two. A law degree has a limited number of career paths. Stand up if you agree. Oh, you guys are good. Yeah. 100% false, you can do whatever you want essentially. While you're at law school there are some conversations that happen that you have to get into certain types of law or you have to do this or you have to do that. Do whatever you want is my life advice but think about how you're gonna get there and also remember, if you're a school leaver you probably have at least 45 years of working in front of you. Four and a half decades to put that. You have plenty of time to achieve as many career objectives as you want. So keep your mind open and also this whole thing that we've been talking about but no one really knows what it means. We don't know what the future's gonna hold. If you told my parents when they were in first year that we'd have the internet they would have been very confused. So we just send these messages on a computer and that's a formal way of communicating, what? So we don't know what the future's gonna hold. So what we need from you guys is gonna change. Okay, I am guaranteed a job straight out of law school. Stand up if you agree. Sorry, but false, yeah. Look, you guys have to work hard but you will get there. You are smart. You have a law degree from Auckland Law School but you have to work while you're here as well as working on your degree. Okay, what do you think employers look for from law graduates? Anyone wanna hazard a guess? Yep. Yes, that's a good one. Kair, you wanna pipe in? You higher? Yep. What do you want from these guys? Tell us. I put them on the spot. I did not warn him I was gonna do this, so. All I would say is a praise is not enough. Yes, I would agree. Yep. People skills. Yes, absolutely, lawyers deal with people. Anything else? Okay, here's a list. Just write them down. Analytical thinking, problem solving, initiative, communication, a passion for what they do. That's the big one. If you can showcase them, they know you know nothing when you start working with them. They want you to be passionate about what they do. They'll teach you that, they'll train you but they wanna make sure you have the right mindset, you have the right passion and everything else will fall into place. Okay, what to do while you're studying? Maintain your grades but make sure you do other stuff. Now, you're probably thinking I've been sitting here for less than two hours and they're already going on about grades. That doesn't mean it has to be this magical number that seems to circulate around the law school. Just do the best that you can do. Be proud of the grade you get. Not everyone is an A plus student. That's absolutely fine but make sure you're doing the very best you can do. The other stuff is what we call the co-curriculars. The stuff that happens outside the classroom. Whether it be your church, whether it be your football club, whether it be a club or society, you gotta get involved. Educate yourself on your career. Your last semester is too late. I'm actually not that helpful. It's usually a panicked crying conversation. You need to start thinking about it now. You don't need to make a decision now but you need to start thinking about it. Get involved. There's a reason why everyone says this. You've probably heard this a few times already this morning. A, it's fun. B, you make friends. C, it's good for your mental well-being but also it gives you great transferable soft skills. Get some work experience. Volunteer, an internship, a summer clerkship. These words probably all sound quite technical and foreign but get involved. Make sure you get some experience while you're here. Grow your networks. Okay, that's me. One shout out. We're doing the pop-up moot event again this year. So we partner with the pop-up globe and we do this incredibly fun event where the pop-up globe actors run around and create a scene and then students moot the legal problem. It's a really fun event but you also get to meet practitioners. Last year we bought in a bunch of QCs. We brought in a lot of lawyers from Anthony Harper and they were dying to talk to students. So not only is it a really fun event, you get to see a moot, you get to meet lots of practitioners. So make sure you go and it makes me look good. Any questions? Yes. Oh, you can come whenever you want. I am very busy in March. So if you're a stage two or rather you waited until after March because a lot of our panels with your students are getting ready for summer clerk application but the sooner you see me the better. I'm rather fearsome mean when you first meet me and I will say, what have you been doing your entire life? That's okay. It's because I see so many students and we can go through your CV and I could point out bits that maybe need to develop a bit more. Yep. Any other questions? No, yep. Oh, yes. Please take it all down. So how you RSVP is by emailing lawstudentengagementatauthent.ac.nz. You can bring as many people as you want essentially if you want to bring a friend or a partner or a family member that's a-okay. And there's beer and pizza at the end. Any other questions? Speaking of co-curricular stuff, who's heard of Auckland Law Review? You guys, I was trying to figure out where I saw this next name from. And I think the last time I, I finally registered the last time I saw Gary, I think I was singing a Kendrick Lamar song at Sky City. And you might not have had all your clothes on. Gary Hoffman, everybody. Hi, everyone. As you can see by the screen behind me, my name is Gary Hoffman. And I am a law student. Oh, there's a program. There we are. Well done for getting into part two. Huge achievement. I remember when I received notice that I got into part two. I was in the middle of the bush in South Africa. And I was like whooping, and my dad was like, shut up. Look above you. And there was a boomslung in the tree above us sleeping. So like, fun story. But anyway, with a little bit about me, I'm in the final semester of my degree. And I'm, thank you. Oh, stop it. I am so excited to finish. I also did an arts degree majoring in drama and history. Besides uni, I'm involved with my community. I'm involved with other co-curricular stuff. I'm involved in the Auckland theatre scene. And when I was asked to talk to you today, I thought to myself, what do I wish I learned from this here had I turned up? Cause I didn't come to this when I was in part two. So I've got nine handy tips for you. I couldn't think of a 10th. I was also convinced 10 is like, has a hegemony over numbers. So nine handy tips. And I'm sure you've actually heard a lot of these. I wasn't listening to most of what you've been hearing. So I'm so sorry if I'm just giving you the same feel again. Number one, complacency is your worst enemy. Too many times people come into part two and they're sort of like, oh, I'm in now. So they can't really kick me out. False. But also, the hard work doesn't stop here. It is not time now to just stop working just because you're in. In fact, now that you're in, you wanna start to do even better. This is when employers will start to look at these subjects, your core subjects, your part two subjects. They're extremely important for laying the foundations for your electives. So make sure that you continue working really hard. Second tip, don't disregard your other degree. I'm sure a lot of you guys are doing conjoins, right? Yeah, I see a few vacant nods, which is like, yes. Your other degree can be a huge point of difference for you. Up until a few years ago, I was the only person in New Zealand doing a drama conjoin with law. It's pretty cool. But on top of that, it can be really, really helpful with what you're studying. It can lay other foundations for what you're learning if you're doing history. A lot of what we cover is the history of the law in our subjects. And on top of that, there are other amazing networks and facilities in the other schools that can help you out. On top of that, it also somewhat becomes recreational at a point. It did for me. I told this the other day as well. I used to read my law readings. No, no, I still do read my law readings. No, no, sorry. When I was reading my law readings, I would sort of read five pages of my law readings and as a reward, I'd let myself read a history reading, which sounds awfully nerdy because it is, but it was really nice to have something else to go back to because sometimes law school can become a bit monotonous. Word. And so don't disregard it. That's what I'm trying to say. Number three, which I know you've probably heard a lot, get involved with things. Apply for everything. I mean, everything. It's really fun. I could tell you what you would expect to hear. You'll make great friends for life and it'll look great on your CV, but there are things on top of that applying for everything and doing co-curriculars. The benefits of them become quite obvious when you do them. So yes, it's true. You'll make great friends and it'll look great on your CV, but you will also have a sort of well-being network set up for you if you join these co-curriculars because when, oh, when shite hits the fan, it's nice to have a group of people that you can be with who are also going through the same experiences as you. And I wanna caveat something. Rejection is fine. Rejection is human, it's normal. Life goes on and it doesn't mean that you shouldn't apply for things again. A lot of the times when people get a no, they think, oh, that's it, my life's over, I can't do anything else. But that's not true. If you get a rejection letter, if you receive a no, what you do after that is really what matters. If you continue to apply and then you get in after being rejected, it's a huge show of resilience and it's a huge show of really wanting to be involved. I can give you an example for me. When I was in my third year, I, third year, third year, I applied to be elected onto AULSS, which you'll hear about more about later. I wanted to, myself and a friend, we wanted to be the educational vice presidents of AULSS, so we put ourselves up for elections. We lost terribly. We, like, there were like 300 votes to like 18. Like, I'm saying like we got smashed. It was embarrassing. But you know what? The next year, myself and another friend, another friend because the friend that I applied with the first time was on exchange, throw it out there, but, we applied to be EVPs the next year and this time we smashed everyone else. And so I think some key points to take from that is we were showing a real commitment to the role. People definitely saw that. They saw that there was re-application. They saw that we genuinely wanted. We didn't want it for the wrong reasons. And that makes a huge difference in a lot of people's eyes. Number four, don't struggle in silence. This is a really, really important one. Our mental wellbeing is extremely important to us personally. There's a lot of ums happening. Something to point out to you guys. Everybody is entitled to six free sessions with the university counselors a year. It's like a coffee card, you get six and they'll like kind of stamp it. Use that resource. It is super, super, super important that you use that resource if you need it. Don't bottle it up. The counselors are amazing. They can help you with literally anything. Wow, with a lot of things. They can do the simplest practical things. They can help you make a study calendar or a guide or they can just be people to talk to if you're feeling really down. Use the service. Don't struggle in silence. Make sure you tell someone. Number five, this wasn't around when I was in part two. There's a note bank. If you are on the AULSS page, go into the details section. There's a link, it takes you to a Google Drive. The note bank is incredible. It is a resource that has past people's notes. Something that you might have heard is at law school it's kind of about who you know. This resource was created to mitigate that. You no longer need to know an older student to get past notes. The note bank is there so that everybody can access things and everyone can be on a level playing field. It is an amazing resource. Do not think that just because you have past notes that you don't need to make your own notes or you don't need to go to class, that's not true. Made that mistake. Seriously, it's a very great resource, but it's a resource to be used in moderation. Number six, open book exams are not as easy as they seem. I wish I knew this one as well. You guys all in part one would have only had closed book exams, right? No. You had an open book exam? No, I didn't do that one. Oh, I didn't do that one. Oh, wow. Oh, just, what did I do? It's okay. There it is, don't worry. In any case, open book exams are not as easy as they seem. You are no longer expected to know knowledge. You should have the knowledge in front of you. You won't get applauded for knowing the knowledge. Rather, what they are testing you on is the hardest stuff, which is analysis. Do not be fooled by open book exams. Don't think that you can just go in with an open book and not have actually used the notes. You wanna study with those notes. You wanna know how to use those notes, how to navigate those notes. If you make the notes yourself, you probably won't even need the open book. I've done that before. Made a full set of notes. It's been hundreds of pages, printed them all out, and I haven't opened it in an exam and wasted paper, but also great knowledge. Number seven, utilize all your other resources. I keep on coming back to this, utilize your resources. So this is kind of like a general utilize your resources. I spend so much time in Clota's office, it's not funny. Like, I'm kind of like that stain that you just can't get rid of. No, that wasn't funny. But in all seriousness, if you're planning to do something like careers and exchange, if you need an extension, if you're just feeling down, go to the Student Center. It's incredible. If you just need a yarn, go to the Student Center. I do that all the time. Use those resources. On top of that, the Davis there to be used. The Davis is sort of like that scary building with all the books in it. I didn't go into it for like a year, which was probably not great, but books are in there. If you guys have like prescribed textbooks, you could buy them, but that's expensive. They're in the Dave. So make sure that you use the Dave. And with Law 208, you'll be taught how to navigate through the wild world that is the Dave. Number eight, be friendly, not competitive. Really, really, really important. It's actually quite fundamental. I mean, Clota was talking before about making networks in law school. You're not gonna do that if you aren't friendly. It's just a fact. My first day of university, I came to my first lecture and I was wearing this shirt and it said, I'm in shape, round is a shape. Great shirt. I gave it to my dad after the story though. And I went up to this guy and I was like, hi, my name's Gary. It's lovely to meet you and you know one else and I didn't even know this guy in the class. And the guy looked me up and down and was like, hmm, and just walked away and moved seats. Haven't seen him again, so who's the winner? But like, that is a really, really good example of how to not make friends. And I've made friends since then, I think. Um, yeah. Great story, everyone's always like, what a great story. Great. It's really important that you find your people as well. Your people could be your closest friends at law school but also your people might be different people in different contexts. My closest friends are awful to study with. I always get the side eye when they text me like we're gonna study and I'm like, I'm not gonna come. And they'll like catch me with another group studying. It's like, jacuzzi. No, so sometimes your closest friends are really not productive. Make sure that you find a group of people to study with that are gonna be the right people to study with. And then finally, number nine, which is a very important one to me, don't get caught up in the commercial web. Very few people actually, well, I think, very few people come into law school with the intention of being a commercial lawyer. I think that most people come in with like absolutely amazing intentions. They wanna do really, really good work for people. And I'm not saying commercial law is not good work for good people. I'm just saying a lot of people come in with this common narrative of I wanna do things to the environment or I wanna do human rights or international law. But after a few years, you think that comm law is the only option that's available for you. That's not true. It's absolutely false. There are other opportunities. If you wanna do CREM or you wanna do human rights or environmental law or international law, any of the other, any of the other vocations that are on this list five miles long, do them. If you don't wanna be a lawyer, don't be a lawyer. It's as simple as that. You know, it might be a bit more work if you wanna do a vocation that's outside of those conventional areas of work, but that doesn't mean that the opportunity isn't there and you should really seize that opportunity. It's another awesome point of difference. Everybody's unique and I really highly doubt that everybody in this room wants to be a commercial lawyer. Am I wrong? Anyway, that is nine pieces of advice from Gary Hoffman, the ALLB. Does anyone have any questions? I know that it's a lot easier to ask someone who is currently a student a question about law school than it is to ask someone who is not currently a student. My favorite course, it was this summer, I did summer school, woo. And I did a course called Contemporary Issues of Disarmament Law, taken by Tristad Dunworth. Incredible course, such a good course at looking at international law around bombs and weapons and real cool stuff. Yeah? Yeah, sure. What is your end game? Like, what's way too next for you? Great question. No, no, no, I'm actually doing my honours in theatre next year, this year, this year. So after I finished my honours in theatre, I have done an internship at an organisation called Equity New Zealand, which is a trade union for actors. They are a subsidiary of another organisation called the Media Entertainment Arts Alliance, which is in Australia, and I'm in talks with a person from Equity about trying to gain some sort of employment opportunity within the entertainment industry, somehow utilising my degree. Yeah. Any other questions? I love talking about me. LAUGHTER Nah, go. OK, great. Good luck, guys. I guarantee none of your lectures will be that exciting. So it's all downhill. No, I'm kidding. Hang on, a bit of a series. So the next session is titled... Oh, before we do that, stand up. No, no, no. Cool, so a lot of people have told you during various parts of the day that you should go and talk to the lovely ladies at the Student Centre, so can I please put you on the spot? Can you stand up? So Surajika Managers' team, you will have a very tough time at law school if you don't see them. And I mean that in all seriousness. If you are having issues with getting assignments done, whether as Gary said, you just need a chat, we need help in whatever form. Talk to the guys over here at the Student Centre. They have specific roles as well, OK? And they're all up there on the board for you to have a look at, but there's specific people you can go see, depending on the type of help you need. All good? Cool, thank you. Give them a round of applause. So, next session, a safe, inclusive and supportive law school for all. I don't work here, so I can say some stuff. You may have all heard of stuff going on in the industry, right, over the last maybe two, three years ago. And I am absolutely so proud to be in an organisation that has some pretty strong views of what is happening and what we can do to make sure that our graduates are armed with the right information, the right experiences to make sure that when they get into industry, that they are the type of people that should be in the industry as well. So, Professor Julia told me, you've seen it before, but she's going to come and talk a little bit about what we're doing at this law school to make sure that we get that and we nail it well. Cool, thank you. Kia ora again. I'm speaking to you, of course, now in my capacity as well-being convener at the law school. And you're also going to hear from the Associate Dean, Equity, Carrie Leonetti. So, one of the things that we've done in the well-being spaces, we've done some big surveys of people's experiences at the law school. So, there was the gender report, which Dr. Anahood and myself wrote, and there was the well-being surveys done by Dr. Claire Charters. And they revealed, surprise, surprise, that the law school experience can be a very stressful and lonely one for a lot of people. So, I'm here with a couple of key messages about that. The first is that you're not alone. If you're having issues, I mean, I think this is probably a theme right throughout the talks this morning. Don't keep it to yourself, reach out. There's a list of people to contact depending on what it is you're dealing with, whether they're academic concerns, financial concerns, careers concerns, well-being issues, or equity concerns. And you'll see the appropriate people in the front page of every casebook. There'll be a list of people that you can contact. So, you've met our fabulous student services team, our career support person. I hope you've had information on our financial hardships grants. We have a very good health and counseling service at the university. One thing to be aware of, sometimes it can be hard to get in, particularly at stressful times in the year. If you're having a crisis, Soranjika has a fast-track process into that counseling service. So, she should be your first port of call. We also have a process for bullying, harassment, and discrimination. And there's a link to those policies and also an overview of the complaints process again at the front of every casebook that you have. In addition to our Associate Dean Equity and our Associate Dean for Māori students, Dr Flur Te Aho and our Associate Dean, Pacifica, Associate Professor Trusser Dunworth, we have a range of other faculty members who are targeted for particular student groups. So, a faculty advisor for students with disabilities, Karen Fairweather, the faculty advisor for LGBTI students, Jane Kelsey and Ron Patterson, the faculty advisor to students from refugee backgrounds, Dr Anna Hood, the faculty advisor to students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds, Kate Dulan, the faculty advisor to students who appearance myself and to women students again, Anna Hood. If it's too hard to reach out to someone on the list, reach out to someone you actually know and trust, someone on the professional staff, an academic staff member that you have a particular rapport with or another student who can segue you into the appropriate channel. One of the things as New Zealanders we struggle with is admitting that we're not coping. There's a real sense of shame attached to it, but I'm here to tell you there's no shame attached. The profession actually needs sensitive people. It needs people who are real and who understand the struggle of being a human being. My second message is that there are many different ways of being successful. I really liked what Gary was saying about this. One of the most personally discouraging things for me about writing the gender report was realizing that we talk an incredibly brilliant bunch of young people, you. And how many were actually feeling really stupid or second rate because they weren't getting A grades and they didn't think they were gonna get an offer from a large commercial downtown law firm. I think that's an incredibly impoverished vision of success. Something that's tied up with grades or an offer for these commercial firms. I'm here to tell you I did get an offer from a commercial firm. Worst professional experience I personally ever had. I discovered about myself that I'm not good at the combination of being bored and stressed. Bored and relaxed, stressed and challenged I can cope with. I also discovered I have a strong sense of social justice. I thought it was gonna be enough for me to have sharp pinstripe suits, a convertible MG, a fabulous downtown pad. I thought that I cared about these things and I discovered I didn't. I'm not particularly materialistic. So I think you really need to sort of get to know yourself and it's okay to have false starts in that process. Think about what you stand for and what kind of contribution you want to make. Allow yourself a journey of discovery around that. A few years back I had Sandra Alofi Vai and Laverne King come in to talk about to my woman in the law course and they talked about the firm that they set up as young Maori and Pacifica women. So they struggled to get employment. They scraped into employment. I think Sandra talks about having a job that just paid her bus fare to and from her employment. And then they lost their jobs after a couple of years for reasons that were no fault of their own. And one of their employers who was going overseas for several years provided them with the capital and security to start their own firm. He's now Judge Philip Recorden, a pretty extraordinary man. And they set up a firm and their mission was to employ other Maori, young Maori and Pacifica women graduates and give them a couple of years experience so they could then go on and set up their own firms. And so tons of little law firms have come out of this particular firm. That was what they stood for. Not only that, they decided they wanted it all. Professional success in motherhood. They set up a creche in their own law firm. They were one of the first firms to actually do that. So that is extraordinary success for me. And it's not measured by the fact that they got, well they didn't get downtown offers from large law firms or A-grades, necessarily. Humans at the law school is a project that we are doing in the well-being space at the moment which is trying to give people a sense of connection, insight to others at the law school, inspiration. A sense that people with successful careers have failures. Failures are part of success. The most successful people have the most failures. They're just people that focus on those, try and learn from those failures. They're not scared to take risks. So our aim as part of this project is to introduce people as human beings and give you insight into them, what makes them tick, what their passion and vision is, the hardships that they've overcome. So we do Instagram postings. We do posters around the law school. There are some fantastic videos. Sandra Lofiwai is on one of our videos. Naomi Tewhari has just been had a video loaded on, an incredibly inspiring story if you need some inspiration to go and have a look at. So we want stories about you. If you have an interesting story, not your CV, not your achievements, who you are as a person, please contact Martina. Martina, is she here? Oh, she just popped out, unfortunately. Contact Martina, here's her email if you're interested in that. We have lots of well-being initiatives going on around the law school, including a fantastic student well-being group who championed well-being at the school. They organised mentoring programs, events and study groups. And I just got contacted by one who was telling me that there are going to be a series of open discussion forums in the cafe on different aspects of a law student's year, beginning in week three, where part two students get to ask past part two students questions about study habits and law school, cultural life and all the things you might want to know to have a balanced life. Here's Martina here. To assist you in having an easier and less stressful transition into the law school by giving you connection and a real-life forum in which to be able to ask questions that actually matter. Okay, without much ado, I'm going to hand over now to Carrie, who is our Associate Dean, Ikori. Bonjour, no? Kia ora, talofa, and warm Pacific greetings. I feel the need to add an extra one on. I am sure by now you have been both welcomed and congratulated all morning long, but I'm still going to welcome you to part two and congratulate you on the extraordinary achievement of getting into law school. I am the Associate Dean of Equity for the Law School. That means that my job is, along with everyone else on the slide that Julia showed you, is to promote the law school's equity goals, to develop programs to enhance equity at the law school, and to sort of enforce and design metrics for making sure that we are achieving those equity goals. This, of course, I think leads to an obvious question, which is what is equity? I really actually had to think about that because that's not a word that we use in this space in America. So what does it mean to promote equity at the law school? And really what it means is that my mission, the mission of all the other colleagues I have that work at Equity, and the mission of everyone in this room, because you are now a member of this community, is to really try to make the law school a safe, inclusive, and supportive space for everybody. That's really what we mean when we talk about equity. Sometimes I conceive of my job in terms of no's and yeses. That's probably the lawyer in me. So this means no discrimination, no hate speech, no bullying, and that goes for students and staff of the law school with one another, and it means yes to creating safe spaces and equal opportunities from people who come to this law school with all kinds of backgrounds and needs and prior experiences. The university identifies sort of official specific equity groups, which really are just groups of people who have historically been underrepresented in institutions of power, including universities and of course the practice of law and government. So at the top of the list usually are Mari staff and students, although to be clear, Mari are not an equity group, right? Mari are the indigenous inhabitants of this land and they're partners in the government under the Treaty of Waitangi. Also, students from Pacific Islands, students with disabilities, students who are LGBTQIA, I'm not sure that's the acronym you use in New Zealand, but you get the idea, students from refugee backgrounds, students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds, students who are non-traditional because they are, if not mature, at least a little bit older because they're parents, because they're carers, and even women, right? Women are a majority of people in the world. They are traditionally quite a majority of students at the law school, but are nonetheless historically underrepresented from the law. And so I'm really just here today in addition to introducing myself and the other colleagues who work to promote equity at the law school, to sort of ask all of you to join in the equity goals. You're consumers of equity at this law school, but you're also producers of equity at this law school, hopefully. So one of the things to think about is to be aware of your privilege. I really don't care how underprivileged your background was. Welcome to part two, you're on your way to becoming a lawyer, which gives you access to incredible power and privilege. What we do at this law school is teach you to speak a language. It is the language of power in society. So you are now the person who can understand the language that is often a barrier to access to everyone who can't. And there are obligations that come with that. I guess if you fail out, I'll let you off the privilege lecture, but otherwise if you successfully proceed through law school, you have become a member of a really privileged minority in society. So just be aware of that. Be aware that people come here with really different backgrounds, really different experiences with privilege and power, and use sort of the power that you gain access to here, wisely and fairly and inclusively. The other thing is if you feel like you need better access, you need better integration, like you're not having the same opportunity as other students at the law school, please reach out. We actually have lots of support, but it does rely on students to speak up when their needs aren't being met. So there are official support programs, mentoring and tutorials for students from certain equity groups. There are student advisors, you're gonna meet in a minute, the student equity officers who I'm going to introduce to you. And there are student groups, and those student groups can provide all kinds of peer support for people who maybe are having trouble feeling like they have full access to the experience at the law school. Students, other sort of students in student groups are a great source of social support, pastoral support, but also career networking. It's not who you know in a sort of back room nepotistic way, but it absolutely is the networks you build for yourself. So I'm almost 20 years out of law school now, and I have definitely at least gotten into the room for the interview because of somebody that I networked with in law school, not again in some back room deal sense, but because they knew my background, they knew my commitment and my passion, and employers do care about that. When I said this is what I want to do for a living, they could say, yeah, that is what caring wants to do for a living, and it at least gets you into the room. So rely on each other for those networks. This is a huge law school. You're not all gonna stay in touch in every unions every year, I don't think, when you leave here, but you will find a core of students here at the law school with whom you share a lot of various commonalities, and you will actually be in touch with each other for the rest of your life. So start building those networks of peer support now. There are also sort of specific student groups. There's Teira Kauture, which is the Morae student group, Pilsa, Rainbow Law, Women in Law. So reach out to those groups if you are members of those groups or if you are allies of members of those groups, they're important peer support networking programs. And finally, ask. If you need some kind of accommodation, if you need resources that haven't been provided to you or you can't figure out how to find them, ask anyone on that page. I didn't, I was gonna put my email on my office on a slide for you. I didn't because there's an equity page at the law school and I thought, ooh, I wanna make you all go to the equity page. So if you go to the law school's equity webpage, there's contact information for me for all of the faculty advisors and conveners, student advisors that you're gonna meet today and who work in this space. But reach out to any of us and ask. Part of my job is not just sort of to enforce equity goals, it's to advocate for students who are not finding inclusion and access at the law school. So please avail yourself of all of us because we really care about making this a safe, welcoming and inclusive place. So with that, one last time, congratulations. As of Monday morning, good luck. Have a wonderful sort of first real great year at law school. And with that, are the student equity officers here? I wear bifocals, I'm not very good at, oh, you're right there, Diana's right there. Okay, is Anusha here? Okay, so I'm gonna introduce you to Diana Q, who is one of your student equity officers. Kia ora everyone, my name is Diana and I am a fifth year law and art student with majors in economics and French. And together with my fellow colleague, friend, and also student Anusha, are your student equity officers at law school for this year. You've heard from Carrie that she and Julia manage the staff side of equity and equity at the law school generally. And the student equity officers are the people who like you, are students, and another resource that you can reach out to if you are looking for somebody to talk to or to bring a equity concern that you have to us. So over the next couple of minutes, and I'll keep this very short, I'm just going to chat to you about what the student equity officer position is and what some of our general responsibilities are. So first, what the position is, is that we're basically students and we look after your equity concerns at the law school as well as advocate generally for some of the systemic equity issues that underpin your law school experience. So those equity concerns might look like issues pertaining to your wellbeing. They may look like incidents you encounter throughout your law school experience in the form of discrimination, harassment, assault, and bullying. And if those are incidents that happen to you or somebody that you know, you are welcome to get into contact with either Anusha or I. We will keep your accounts and incidents anonymous and do the best we can to help you with that if you feel most comfortable chatting to a student. So some of our general responsibilities can be seen up on the slide behind me. The first I've addressed this before is hearing independent student concerns. The second is fostering relationships between the different equity groups that exist at law school. After me, you're going to hear from some of the leaders of those equity groups and our responsibility as student equity officers is to foster relationships between them in order to address equity concerns on a broader macro level. Third, we advocate generally for systemic issues that we see addressing the law school as a more general responsibility. And finally, we also run events that help to increase the knowledge of equity concerns at the law school, including, for example, mental health who is, we help to organize substantive equality month, which happens in semester two, as well as cultural month in semester one, which is coming up in May, I think. We are contactable on the email that you see there, at lawequityofficeratgmail.com. It's also posted in the description of the LSS Facebook group. Anusha cannot be here today at the moment, but for those of you who are going to camp, you will see her there. I am also a student. I am in my final year, so I understand the law school journey and how stressful it can be. And I just want to reassure you that there are plenty of resources here, including us, that can help you with that journey as well. So if you have any questions, I'll be lingering around the law school during the barbecue coming up, so you can approach me then and ask me any questions then. Thank you very much. Awesome, so in true law school fashion, we're gone over time, that's all good. One session left and we've just got a bunch of student reps, do you guys want to come down? We're going to do a quickfire plug from a number of different student organizations, just to talk to you about who they are, what they do, and why you should be interested. Quickfire plug and then we'll close up. Thank you. Kia ora everyone, my name's Lena and I am president of AULSS. Now who here knows what AULSS stands for? Anyone want to give it a go? Yeah, absolutely, there we go. Woo! So we are Auckland University Law Student Society. Since 1971, we have been an organization led by students for students. Yes, we hold big events like the Ball Law Camp, which is tomorrow. We have the barbecue today, as well as different signs, social events, networking opportunities and whatnot. However, at the end of the day, we're here as your advocates and your representative. So if you do have any concerns, if you do want to see some sort of change within the student body, within AULSS, you want to voice something about the law, to the law faculty, we're the first point of contact. So in terms of events, our first kind of networking opportunity that you have is on the 14th of March. We have a recruitment series day where firms, representatives will come and would like to speak to the students about the different cultures, the values that they hold. So that will be all on AULSS, and we have a Facebook event for that as well. We've got one for big firms and small firms coming up. But aside from the different events, and we've also got a sign coming up on the 11th of March. So once again, join the AULSS page. But at the end of the day, I just want to remind you two things. Firstly, don't compare yourself to others. Your law school journey, it's going to be a very full-on, next three, four years or so, five even. But yeah, don't compare your notes, your grades, expectations with others. Find your why as to why you're studying this degree, as to why you're here in New Zealand's most prestigious law school, and also open, be open in terms of networking, friendships, try out new opportunities, new competitions, and moots that you've never done before. Because every event you go to, you'll meet at least one new person. And that new person is what will make your law journey an enjoyable, exciting one. So once again, I'll see you guys at the barbeque in about 10 minutes or so at the law school. Be careful when you're crossing the road, because it is quite rush traffic. Sign up for AULSS, $20 membership, if you have already signed up. Still queue up to get your AULSS stickers. And for those of you coming to camp, see you then, and I'll see you around at law school. Thank you. I'll just make this real brief. I'm gathering you guys have been here for several hours now, so. Oh, I'm Lauren, and I'm the Advocacy Officer for Woman in Law. Our president is actually still overseas, and she sends her apologies. She couldn't make it today. We're a student society, created a couple years in response to the gender report, which is by Julia Tomey and Anna Hood. And the whole thing is, we want to have a diverse range of events so that basically girls can meet other girls and just you can make better friends, because law school is actually real hard, but if you have friends, it makes it just so much more bearable. We have an event coming up called Girls Night In, and this event over the last couple years has been a bit of a fan favorite because we have great platters, great mocktails, great cocktails, and wine. So if you like wine and cheese, please come along. Who doesn't have a free feed? It's free to join. We'll be at the barbecue. Ask us questions, sign up. It's a good time. All right, see you guys. Hi, guys. Salam, namaste, sasirkal, and kiora. We are the South Asian Law Students' Association, our Salsa, as we like to say it. And we just want to congratulate you for getting into law school, first of all. I'm Haya. I'm Tanuvi. And we're your president and vice president for Salsa. And so our goal is to foster a sense of community and diversity within law school, as well as showcasing our South Asian culture. Yeah, so we've got a number of pretty cool events coming up. We've got Holy Festival at law school, and we have the DLA Piper Networking series so if that sounds like a bit of you, then come sign up at our booth. And we have Jalebi there as well, so if anyone wants Jalebi. Good Indian sweets, so if that doesn't convince you, I don't know what will. All right, thank you. G'day, I'm Josh. I make up one-fifth of the Auckland Law Review Directors for this year. If you don't know what Auckland Law Review is, it is a show that is put on in August every year. Three shows, Thursday, Friday, Saturday. If you have any kind of discernible talent or not, feel free to come sign up. If you can sing, dance, or act, that is preferable, but it is not a guarantee that you're gonna get in. I can't do any of those. If you do want to know more about it, the other Law Review Directors are Emily Lyons, Hugo Wagner-Hillyale, Fintan Walsh, and Olive Brown. Those names probably don't mean anything for you right now, but you'll see them around. If you have any questions about Law Review, about what it might entail, how much of a commitment it is, or anything like that, feel free to come and hit me up or any of those other people, and I'll see you guys around. Hey, guys, I'll keep this very brief because I know you're all very hungry for the barbecue. My name is Fiorento Bola, and this is the ESF, and we are the co-presidents for PILSA for 2019. So PILSA is the Pacific Island Law Students Association. Our main focus is to promote and facilitate Pacifica growth and excellence, and that's in all facets, so cultural, academic, and of course social. Anyway, we have some amazing events coming up, so I'll hand over to Dee and she'll do a quick rundown for those. Cool, so a couple of the events that are coming up over the next few weeks. Next Tuesday we have our chapel, and so that's when we welcome our part two students into law school. We bless the Pacific Island flags that we all come from, and then week three we have our PILSA social, so this will be held at the birdcage on Friday the 22nd. Also, just for our membership, you don't necessarily need to be Pacific Islander, so we welcome all cultures. So yeah, it's very family-orientated, so if you need some friends, just come to PILSA. We'll help you out. That's all. Thank you guys. Also buy tickets from me for the social as well, because I'm great for that. And me. And me. Thanks. Hiya. It's said that every morning in Africa a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle or go hungry. Equally every morning a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or be eaten. I'm Nadia. I lead the Auckland Law School Running Club. We lead casual runs around the city for law students. We cater for all fitness or unfitness levels. So if you're interested, look for our Facebook page and come say hi afterwards. I'm also here on behalf of Niles, who couldn't be here today. They are not your average law students. And not that there is an average law student, but they cater for students who don't come to law school from a slightly different life path. So maybe they've had other degrees, other careers. Maybe they're raising families at the same time. It can seem like everyone is 19 and hitting up all the Steins. But when you look around, they're actually more of you than you think. So if this is you, come speak to me down at law school after and I'll put you in touch with Tariqa. Thank you. Hey everyone. So my name's Jane and this is Sophie and we're from the Equal Justice Project. For the people who don't know, the Equal Justice Project is a pro bono charity which is based at the law school. We use law students to help grow things like social equality and inclusivity within our wider community. And we have 14. So we've got four teams like Jane said and those are access, community, communications and pro bono. And honestly, one of the cool things about our charity is that you will be exposed to legal experience and other forms of experience before you actually head out and try and get a clerkship or whatever. So a little bit about what access does is they go into schools and promote social justice issues to our high school students or in other education centres. Community, if that's something that you're interested in, they will pop you in a community law centre so that you'll get in contact with lawyers and you'll be working with them triaging all the cases that they work with which is really, really cool experience. Yeah, and communications, if you're really interested in writing, they write articles and parliamentary submissions on topics which relate to our values. And pro bono, which is a team that I study often, they do legal research for legal practitioners in our community who are working on pro bono projects. And the work they've done is really amazing, like they've had work go to the UN and the Supreme Court. So yeah, it's a really great experience. Yeah, so if you have any questions, we'll be holding an information session on Friday the 8th of March, so that's next Friday, at 1 to 2 p.m. and the location is to be determined. And applications are opening on Monday the 11th of March, so we do have limited places, so we do encourage that you think about which team you'd like to apply for. And if you have any questions about those teams, we'll be hanging around down at the barbecue, so come give us a chat and we'll let you know. And saying that in the past, we've had this kind of image that you have to be the perfect A-plus student to be involved, we're looking to people who are genuinely passionate about helping the community and really passionate about increasing these values. Whether you want to be a corporate lawyer or you want to be the next Helen Clark, we want all types of law students and we want to bring this experience to as many people as possible. So yeah, come talk to us, we'll be down at the barbecue and I think you'll be out of here soon. Hey everyone, I'm Mike from Veritas. Veritas is a Christian group for law students. We get together because if you're a Christian and you're a law student, we have a lot in common. We meet weekly in the law school and we have stellar Bible studies and I think law school is one of the best places to learn about the Bible and the Christian faith because we get quite good at deriving the meaning of a text and the light of its purpose. Sound familiar? You don't have to be a Christian to come along because the opportunities to talk openly and honestly about matters of faith is something that's quite rare at law school and it's something really important to do. We also host bigger events and the past we've had talks from prominent lawyers and judges. So if you're interested, you can like our Facebook page where also they have a stool set up at the barbecue down in law school. Thanks guys. Good afternoon everyone. My name is Charlie and this is Pierre. We're here to talk to you guys about mooseing. So we're on the mooseing site exec. I am a co-president for this year alongside Rachel who can't be here today. She's preparing for an international moose so she's quite busy and then Pierre's our engagement officer. So mooseing. Some of you guys might have heard about it in your first year. Basically mooseing is like mock court. So there's only really one club at the law school where you can sharpen a suit and pretend to be a lawyer and that's mooseing. You're given a legal problem. You have to research it and develop arguments and then present in front of a judge. So obviously it's good from just straight up law point of view. It really helps with your study, thinking on your feet. It's also very good for the CV. Law firms like to see that you've actually taken the initiative to moose. And often you'll be judged by either practicing lawyers or older students. So it's a really good way to get contacts and talk to them after the competition and get their view on things. So like Charlie said, you get to come up and pretend to be a respecter for a couple of hours but we do have different kinds of competitions because we are trying to get as many of you guys involved as possible. So if you're not interested in joining a competition where you can win money at the end, we do have ones where you can just show up on the night, meet some new people, practice your speaking skills, practice your thinking on your feet in a totally non-competitive environment. So we are trying to cater to that whole range and we'll hopefully see you guys there because we do also feed you when you come to our competitions. Free food as always, guys. So in a moment, you'll head down to the law school and all the clubs will be doing sign-ups. When you sign up for AUSS, at that moment, they'll also ask, do you want to join the Mooseing Society? So you say yes. What that will do is it will put you on our emailing list. So we'll mail out updates the next time we have a competition. Also, we've made an Instagram. So for everyone who has Instagram, please like us or whatever you do on Instagram. I don't have it myself. But thank you very much, guys, and we'll see you down there. All right, that's it. Head over to law school. We've got a barbecue coming up. Thank you very much for coming. Hope you enjoyed it and we'll see you on a few minutes.