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Our young legal eagles spre Hayden Teo’s fledgling law career has taken flight, just a few years after Hayden himself was flying across the stage, in his short career as a dancer. Hayden has accepted one of the best jobs that could be offered to a law graduate, that of judge’s associate to a High Court Judge. He is one of an unprecedented number of four graduates to be offered these positions in the High Court this year. When he completes his Honours thesis this year (under the supervision of Associate Professor John Tarrant), Hayden will do a six-week internship with the Aurora Project, working on native title. He will then to go Melbourne for his graduate (or articles) year, after which he can be admitted to the Bar. After that, he begins 12 months work with UWA graduate Justice Robert French in Canberra. It is a very different career to the one that he tasted when he left school, completing a certificate in dance at the WA Academy of Performing Arts, followed by a year of full-time ballet at a studio in Sydney. “But I’d always loved reading and writing and I think if you do what you love, it will lead you to a career that you will love,” said Hayden, who won a silver medal for his argument skills at the international finals of the Jessup Law Mooting competition in Washington last year. This year, he led the UWA Students In Free Enterprise team to a second consecutive national victory. “I think I was able to transfer the confidence I learned from dancing on stage to public speaking and advocacy,” Hayden said. Hot on Hayden’s heels is the inaugural Law Student of the Year, Clare McKay. Like Hayden, she is researching an Honours project, which she will complete by the middle of next year. And she has just been chosen as a member of UWA’s Jessup Moot team, which will occupy her entire summer. Clare will follow Hayden to Melbourne for her articles, or graduate year, with Mallesons Stephen Jacques, then take up a similar offer of a 12-month position as a High Court Judge’s associate. She will start work for Justice Susan Crennan in October 2012. Hayden and Clare have both studied Arts alongside their Law degrees. And both have been active in volunteer community service. The former head girl of Shenton College, Clare won the national title Law Student of the Year for excellence, innovation and leadership in the Australian legal profession. Two other Law students have scooped positions as Associates to High Court judges. They are Jackie McArthur, who will be working with Justice Susan Kiefel in 2012, and Laurentia McKessar, who will be Justice French’s associate next year, before Hayden takes over in 2012. Deputy Dean of the Law School, Winthrop Professor Peter Handford, said the offering of four High Court Associate positions was very unusual. “It certainly says something about the high standards of our Law students, as witnessed also by the number of Rhodes Scholarships won by our graduates and the success of our students in the Jessup International Moot competition,” he said. UN calls Law student Amy Barber was on holiday in Patagonia when she received a call asking her to phone the United Nations about a job in Geneva. “I had applied for an internship with the Office for the Commissioner of Human Rights, but I didn’t think I’d get it,” said Amy. “I was at the other end of the earth and had to talk to the Commissioner, Mariana Katzarova, by Skype, on my iPod.” Hayden Teo Clare McKay 6 UWA NEWS 6 September 2010 The University of Western Australia
ad their wings Young guns grab global Google award Google champions from left: (rear) Nicky Chua, Mohammed Assiri, Lauren Williams; (front) Jeanna Atmarow, Alison Miller, Ganesh Chaudhari Amy Barber at the UN in Geneva with Mariana Katzarova Two weeks later, she was in Switzerland, taking a semester off her studies at UWA to work for five months on the issue of human trafficking in the Women’s Rights and Gender Unit of the Office. “I have always been drawn to international affairs and particularly human rights,” she said. “This is where I see my career going.” While at the UN, Amy organised a two-day seminar for experts from around the world to discuss guidelines on trafficking; co-ordinated a photo exhibition on domestic servitude in collaboration with the permanent missions of Switzerland, France and Austria; and found seven survivors of human trafficking from around the world to testify to a Human Rights Council panel. “It was incredibly intense, but invaluable professionally, academically and personally,” she said. “I am so grateful to the Vice-Chancellor, the Dean and other staff in the Law School for their support.” Amy worked for the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in Tanzania for the first two months of last year. After completing her final full year of Law studies at UWA, she went off travelling with friends, ending up in Geneva. She is now finishing her final semester at The University of Sydney and has secured a position for next year with the law firm Baker and McKenzie. “I was lucky enough to receive the Baker and McKenzie international clerkship, so I have chosen to go to Kazakhstan in January to work in their office there and plan to do some human rights work in Kyrgzstan.” Sales of a children’s book are likely to soar after a hugely successful online marketing campaign that won a UWA team a global competition. Six students from Professor Jamie Murphy’s postgraduate eMarketing unit beat 3,034 teams around the world to win this year’s Google Online Marketing Challenge. Their strategies increased visitors to the website of children’s book The Adventures of Charlie and Moon by a staggering 800 per cent. Each team was given the equivalent of $200 to spend on a Google AdWords campaign over three weeks. The AdWords program allows business to run sponsored links on Google searches based on key words that users are likely to type in when searching for products or services. Ganesh Chaudhari, one of the winning team, said the highly competitive children’s book market posed a big challenge for the students. “Big multinational companies spend good money and usually have full-time professionals working on their online marketing campaigns,” he said “Throughout this challenge, we were competing with them, but with restrictions of budget and time.” Professor Murphy, who initiated the competition in 2008, along with a former student and Google employee, Lee Hunter, said the Challenge was a great teaching and learning experience. It is the second time UWA has won the Challenge, with a team winning the inaugural competition in 2008. They beat 1,620 teams. This year, the size of the competition almost doubled. The winning team’s prizes are a trip to Google headquarters in California in October and a laptop each. Business students were also successful in the local Deloitte Dream Team competition, winning second and third prizes. The students, all studying commerce or economics, applied online to enter the competition to address a realistic business case study. The University of Western Australia UWA NEWS 6 September 2010 7
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