In Principio v14 no3 (2003)

• Appointments THE University of Notre Dame Australia's new College of Arts (see story page 9) will be headed by Austra lian and Irish history specialist, Associate Professor Simon Adams. Dr Adams was educated at the University of New South Wales, and while under– taking his PhD research in 1995, was attached to the University of the Witwater– srand in South Africa, where he worked with former political prisoners in Soweto. Dr Adams is current ly head of the School of Arts and Letters at Notre Dame. In other appointments, the University's Professor Tony Ryan has been appointed Dean of Research and Quality Manage– ment, and Professor Jennifer Nicol as Provost. Professor Ryan joined Notre Dame in 1991 as Foundation Dean of the College of Education, having accumulated more than 15 yea rs of experience in university teaching and senior management. He was appointed as Notre Dame's Director of Quality Management in 2003, after periods as Dean of Education and, in 2002, Dean of t he University's Broome Campus. He has also worked i n senior management at Curtin University of Technology. Professor Nicol has had experience in school management as Head of Depart– ment of Science, has been a Deputy Principal and the Principal of a K- 12 school. In addition to this work in schools, Professor Nicol held a leadership position in the Catholic Education Office of WA for several years. & Prof Jennifer Nicol - Dean, College of Education and Provost and Prof Tony Ryan - Dean, Research and Quality Management. College of Law makes top teaching appointments THE University of Notre Dame Australia has announced a restructure of its College of Law with two new appointments and the creation of a new school. The University's current College of Law Assistant Dean, Associate Professor Mary Mccomish, has been appointed Dean, while Professor Gabriel Moens, Garrick Professor of Law at the University of Queensland, will become Assistant Dean and Head of Notre Dame's new School of International and Postgraduate Legal Education. Notre Dame's Vice Chancellor Dr Peter Tannock said the two new appointments heralded an exciting future for the University's College of Law. " From 2004 our Law College will be divided into two with the School of Law and the new School of International and Postgraduate Legal Education," he said. " The new school, headed by Professor Moens, will aim to attract local and international students to the University to study international trade and business law and comparative law. It will run the University's Juris Doctor program and will develop and operate new international and postgraduate law programs, including a Masters of Laws and internationa l exchange programs." Dr Tannock said the new school would provide students with a law education beyond purely domestic law. "We live in a global economy and this new school will train lawyers who w ill be prepared for this environment," he said. Associate Prof essor McComish's appoint– ment as Dean of the College of Law acknowledged her outstanding work and her association with the Un iversity's College of Law since its inception and her six years as Assistant Dean . Prior to worki ng at Notre Dame, she was a Lecture r in Commercial Law at the University of Western Australia for eight years, a solicitor for the Youth Lega l Service and a referee of the Small Claims Tribunal. She is currently a Commissioner of the WA Gaming Commission and a member of the Burswood Park Board. Professor Moens is currently a Visiting Professor of Law at Loyo la Un iversity New Orleans School of Law and has an internationa l reputation in such fields as constitutional law, legal philosophy, inter– national trade law and arbitration law. Dr Tannock paid tribute to the University's former Dean of Law, Prof essor Greg Craven. "We were fortunate to have Greg as our Foundation Dean of Law and our Law School enj oyed considerable success under his leadership," he said. Maria wins our top prize & Maria Trichilo LAW graduate Maria Trichilo has won the University of Notre Dame Australia's top academic award for 2003. The 22-year-old graduated with a Bachelor of Laws and was awarded the University's prestigious John Ra lph prize. The annual prize is awarded to the student 4 judged by the College Deans to be the most outstanding in the 2003 graduating class. Notre Dame's foundation Dean of Law, Professor Greg Craven, congratulated Miss Trichilo on her award and academ ic achievements at the University over the past four years. "Maria has been an outstand ing student having won the Mallesons Stephens Jacques prize for the best third year student for the 2002 academic year, the James Mazza prize i n evidence and also t he Butterworths prize in adm inistrative law," he said. " Now, she's capped off her t ertiary education by graduating with f irst class honours and winning the University's most prestig ious p rize."