22 Sep New Academic Home as of March, 2009
I hope readers will forgive me for arrogating the “Featured Post” section of the blog, but I wanted to report some professional news: I have accepted a Senior Lecturer position at the University of Melbourne School of Law. I begin next semester — March, 2009.
I will greatly miss the University of Auckland. It’s a wonderful law school, with excellent students and an accomplished faculty that is so collegial you would think you’re in a movie entitled “The Stepford Professors.” The opportunity to join one of the world’s great law schools was simply too attractive to pass up. Melbourne is particularly strong in public international law — Jenny Beard, Helen Durham, Tim McCormack, Anne Orford, Dianne Otto, Gerry Simpson, James Hathaway (the new Dean), and many more. And it is in the process of becoming the first Australian law school to shift completely to graduate legal education, admitting only JD students as of this year. It should be a wonderful place to write and teach.
To my current colleagues at Auckland: thank you for restoring my faith in legal academia. To my future colleagues at Melbourne: I can’t wait to join you!
Kevin, congratulations! sounds terrific.
Yes, congratulations Kevin, I’m delighted to see your academic career flourishing. And Melbourne does indeed have an impressive roster of law school faculty.
Kevin–congratulations! This is wonderful news and I hope that you’ll be very happy there. A friend of mine recently moved to teach at Monash and apparently as a city Melbourne is simply amazing. I have no doubt you’ll flourish even further there!!
Wow that is great news! I’m sure you’ll love Melbourne Law School.
I’m finishing off my LLB here right now and it’s been a fantastic experience. Unfortuneately, I hope to be doing an internship overseas in 2009, so probably won’t get to be taught by you. I love reading Opinio Juris so it would have been great to see you lecture in the flesh.
Please encourage more lecturers here to start blogging. I think we’ve got one who blogs regularly, I’d love to see more taking it on.
Oh and for good/cheap lunch the dodgy Pearl’s Cafe is meant to have substantial and cheap pasta salads around here, and the best coffee is on main campus from a coffee cart called Kerekere.
Those ‘Australia invades New Zealand’ ads had an impact!
Congratulations and best wishes on the move.