UNSW Law Student Representatives

20/07/2022

Dear UNSW Law Students,

We hope you are all well!

Please see a statement by the Reps on the current state of play for the T3 elective course enrolment process. We know this process has been difficult for students and we are working through these issues with Faculty.

If you have any questions or concerns about the elective enrolment process please feel free to contact the Reps via the communication channels listed on our page.

Enjoy the rest of your week!

Kind regards,
UNSW Law Student Representatives

UPDATE REGARDING LAW ELECTIVE ENROLMENT Dear UNSW Law Students, We hope you are all well! The Reps are aware that the class enrolment process has once again been particularly challenging for students wanting to enrol into elective courses in T3. We know that students have had to enrol on mu...

08/06/2022

SUMMARY OF MATTERS DISCUSSED - 1 June 2022 Student Rep Meeting with Faculty

Dear UNSW Law Students,

We hope you are all well and have settled into Term 2! Please see attached a summary of the matters we discussed with the Faculty at our meeting last week. The summary is extensive but we hope it is informative and may ease some student concerns about final exams this term

The entire meeting was devoted to addressing student concerns regarding the return to two-hour exams in some courses. The items we did not get to have been placed on the agenda for the next meeting.

All the best for this term and if any of the matters discussed in the document raise any questions please feel free to contact us via the communication channels listed on our page.

Kind regards,
UNSW Law Student Representatives

SUMMARY OF 1 JUNE 2022 STUDENT REP MEETING WITH FACULTY Dear UNSW Law Students, We hope you have had a good start to the term! Last week the Reps addressed student anxieties and concerns about the proposed return to two-hour exams in some courses with the Faculty. From the outset, Faculty c...

26/05/2022

CALL FOR AGENDA ITEMS - STUDENT REP MEETING WITH FACULTY (1 JUNE 2022)

Dear UNSW Law and Justice Students,

We hope that you have all had a great break and you were able to take some time to relax and recharge before Term 2 begins.

The Reps will be meeting with Faculty next Wednesday (1 June 2022) for one of our regular meetings. This is a great chance for the Reps to address any administrative issues before Term 2 gets into full swing and to also address any concerns arising from the Term 1 exam period. If you have any questions or concerns that you would like the Reps to address, please feel free to get in contact with us via one of the communication channels listed on our page. All questions and concerns raised with Faculty are done so anonymously.

Please send through any agenda items you may have by 11:59pm on Monday (30 May 2022).

Thank you to the students who have already been in contact with us over the break about concerns they would like us to address at this meeting. The Reps will be addressing the concerns about the proposed exam formats for some courses this term. We will publish a summary of matters discussed after the meeting.

Enjoy the final few days of your break and have a great start to Term 2!

Kind regards,
UNSW Law Student Representatives

18/04/2022

Dear UNSW Law Students,

We sincerely hope that you had an enjoyable long weekend and you were able to find some time to have a well-deserved break prior to exam season.

Tomorrow, Wednesday 20 April 2022, the Reps will be having one of their regular meetings with the Faculty. We are calling on all students who have any issues or concerns they would like us to address to contact us via the communication channels listed on our page. Please remember that we address all issues and concerns with the Faculty anonymously.

This meeting is a perfect opportunity for us to address any last-minute concerns about this term prior to exams or to deal with any other issues which can be addressed prior to Term 2.

We would appreciate it if you could please send your agenda items through to us before 9am tomorrow.

We will send a summary of matters discussed after the meeting.

Thank you as always for engaging with your Reps.

01/04/2022

UPDATE FOLLOWING FACULTY BOARD (30 March 2022) AND OTHER MATTERS

Dear UNSW Law Students,

We hope that you were all able to take even a few hours out of your reading week to have a well-earned break and that your mid-term assessments went well.

There are a few matters we wanted to address in this update about issues that we were made aware of at Faculty Board and also some other issues we are seeking to address with the Faculty over the coming weeks.

The document below contains an update on the following matters:
1) Special Consideration delays
2) Adequacy of feedback during Mid-Term Assessments
3) Access to Halsbury's Laws of Australia

As always, the Reps are here to support you. If you have any questions or concerns that you would like the Reps to address please feel free to contact us via the communication channels listed on our page. We address all concerns with Faculty anonymously.

UPDATE FOLLOWING 30 MARCH 2022 FACULTY BOARD AND OTHER IMPORTANT MATTERS DELAYS WITH SPECIAL CONS: We were informed at Faculty Board that the Central Special Consideration Team has reported they are experiencing unprecedented requests for special consideration across the university this term....

13/02/2022

SUMMARY OF MATTERS DISCUSSED AT LAW REP MEETING WITH FACULTY - 9 FEBRUARY 2022

Dear UNSW Law Student Community,

We hope you have all had a fantastic break and that you had a successful and productive O-Week.

Apologies for the delay in publishing this document but please see a summary of the matters discussed at the Law Rep Meeting with Faculty last Wednesday.

The Reps will be in contact later this week to formally welcome our First Year students and new starters to UNSW Law. We will also outline our plans for the year!

We hope you have a fantastic start to the term and a happy academic year in 2022!

For any follow-up questions, please feel free to contact the Reps via the communication channels listed on our social media page!

Kind regards,
UNSW Law Reps.

Summary of matters discussed – Student Rep Meeting with Faculty (9 February 2022) Dear UNSW Law Student Community, Below is a summary of the matters which the Student Reps raised with the Faculty and the Faculty’s responses: Online Learning Areas in the Law Building: Due to the timetable c...

06/02/2022

CALL FOR AGENDA ITEMS - UNSW Law Student Rep Meeting with Faculty (9 February 2022)

Dear UNSW Law Student Community,

Happy New Year and we hope you have all been able to have a safe and enjoyable summer break!

The Reps will be making a more formal ‘Start of Term’ statement at the beginning of Week 1 to welcome our new students to UNSW Law and to outline our goals for the year.

However, we want to make returning students aware that the Reps will be having a meeting with the faculty this Wednesday 9 February 2022. This meeting will provide a fantastic opportunity for the Reps to ask questions on behalf of students about how T1 will operate and allow us to raise any concerns students may have.

We understand that Moodle pages should be released to students on Monday and this will allow everyone to have a better understanding of what their term will look like. We want to provide everyone with as much time as possible to review their Moodle pages and take the time to send through any questions or concerns they may have to the Reps prior to our meeting. As a result, we will be accepting any agenda items that you would like us to raise at the meeting until 6:00pm on Tuesday.

You can send through an agenda item via one of the communication channels listed on our page. Please remember that all matters raised with the faculty are done so anonymously. All personal matters should be raised with your Course Convenor or Lecturer.

We look forward to 2022 hopefully being a year with minimal disruption and hopefully a return to the normal university lifestyle we know and love. The Reps cannot wait to be back on campus and to start chatting with students face to face again soon.

Enjoy O Week/the last week of the holidays!

Kind regards,
UNSW Law Student Reps.

29/09/2021

CALL FOR AGENDA ITEMS AND UPDATE REGARDING ENROLMENT APPOINTMENTS:

Dear UNSW Law & Justice student community,

We hope you are all well and have had a great start to Term 3!

Next Wednesday, the Reps will be having one of their regular meetings with Faculty. If you have any issues which you would like to have addressed at the meeting, please feel free to send a message to one of the Reps. We raise all issues with Faculty anonymously and as always, we will provide a summary after the meeting of the matters discussed.

Additionally, during our meeting with Faculty over the holidays regarding elective enrolment issues, we also raised our concerns that some students were receiving later enrolment appointments compared to the rest of their cohort which contributed to these students having fewer enrolment options compared to their peers once they were able to enrol.

Faculty came back to us and informed us that enrolment appointments are issued based on the number of units of credit (UOC’s) students have completed but noticed that Internal Program Transfer (IPT) students were accidentally receiving later appointments due to their pre-transfer UOC’s no longer being recognised. Faculty informed us today that they have gone through the list of current IPT transfer students and ensured that these students (who have the same projected law progression as the rest of their peers) now have the same enrolment appointment time as the rest of their cohort. If this is not the case, Faculty have asked impacted students to call Student Services to ensure they are given the correct time.

If you are having any issues with Student Services regarding this matter, please inform one of the reps. We will be able to assist you in getting the issue rectified.

Despite Uni being online for the remainder of the term, the incoming end of lockdown suggests a return to everyone being back together on campus again is not too far away!! We look forward to seeing you all again soon, but in the meantime, we hope you all stay safe and have a great term!

Kind regards,
UNSW Law Student Representatives

01/09/2021

SUMMARY OF ELECTIVE ENROLMENT ISSUES MEETING WITH FACULTY:

Good evening everyone,

Please see attached our detailed summary of the matters discussed at the Rep’s meeting with Faculty today regarding the current elective enrolment situation.

The summary contains information about what has caused the problem, what is being done to rectify the issues, as well as information about course registration dates and the myUNSW waitlist function (these last two items have relevance for students in ALL years - not just those doing electives).

We sincerely apologise for the length of the summary, but this is quite a complex situation and we wanted to provide you with as much information and detail as possible.

The Reps understand that some students may be rightfully disappointed with the outcome but we are going to continue working hard to ensure as many students as possible gain access to an elective course in T3 2021. Our discussions with Faculty do not end after this meeting. We will continue updating the Faculty about your circumstances and pressing for more places to be opened in elective courses so please keep us informed about your circumstances.

Thank you for your patience whilst we have obtained this information. Apologies once again for the length of the summary.

Please feel free to contact us or make a comment on this post if you have any questions about any of the information that we have provided.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/13Mg-MDZvDB9bRmOp7NhRFZN8UN6asiiSqA72ZHmqYos/edit?usp=sharing

Kind regards,
UNSW Law Student Representatives

SUMMARY OF STUDENT REP MEETING WITH FACULTY REGARDING ELECTIVE ENROLMENT CONCERNS: The Faculty began the meeting by thanking students for raising their elective enrolment concerns with the Reps. It was because of the information we obtained from you through our Google form and the summary we ...

30/08/2021

UPDATE ON ELECTIVE ENROLMENT ISSUES

Good evening everyone,

We hope you are all safe and well!

Firstly, thank you to all of the students who provided us with further information about their current elective enrolment issues. We ended up receiving 42 responses to the survey which were incredibly helpful and we are very grateful for the time students took out of their holidays to respond to the Google Form.

We are meeting with Faculty on Wednesday to discuss the concerns raised in the responses and we will provide an update about the matters discussed on Wednesday evening.

We understand students may be a bit stressed about the current circumstances but we hope to be able to resolve this situation as soon as possible!

Kind regards,
UNSW Law Student Representatives

26/08/2021

T3 ELECTIVE ENROLMENT ISSUE GOOGLE FORM CLOSES 5pm TODAY!

Thank you to all of the students who have provided details about their current issues with T3 Elective Enrolment. We have currently had 14 responses so far and would love to get this number to at least 30 in order for the data we obtain from the form to be completely representative of the current struggles students are having and for the form to provide us with an insight into how many students are effected by the current problems.

We totally appreciate that filling out a google form is the absolute last item on anyones holiday bucket list but your responses will be appreciated and will greatly assist us in sorting out the issues with the Faculty at our meeting early next week.

If you are keen to share the issues you are currently facing with enrolling into electives for T3, please see the link below to access the google form.

Thank you in advance for your assistance.
https://forms.gle/T2HrrbfWS5m9LBcYA

Kind regards,
UNSW Law Student Representatives

We have created an anonymous google form for you to please provide a brief description of the problems you are facing with enrolling into elective courses for T3 2021. Specifically, the Reps are interested in finding out how many courses you have been waitlisted on? What number are you on those wait...

25/08/2021

SUMMARY OF MATTERS DISCUSSED AT STUDENT REP MEETING WITH FACULTY - 25 AUGUST 2021

Dear UNSW Law and Justice Students,

We sincerely hope that you are all enjoying your time off from readings and assessments over these holidays despite the current circumstances.

Please see below for a summary of the issues which the Reps discussed with the Faculty today at our meeting. These issues include:

1) T3 Elective Enrolment Issues
2) JD Class Timetabling Concerns
3) Structure of Online Classes in T3 2021
4) International Student Access to Readings
5) Transcription of Online Materials and equitable access.
6) Online Database Access
7) Core Course Enrolment

The Reps are having another urgent meeting early next week with the School Manager to address the elective enrolment concerns. We would greatly appreciate as many students as possible contributing to the google form we have created so we can have as much information as possible to support us during our meeting next week.

Please stay safe and enjoy your break!

As always, if there any questions please feel free to contact the Reps via our communication channels.

Kind regards,
UNSW Law Student Representatives

SUMMARY OF MATTERS DISCUSSED DURING STUDENT REP MEETING WITH FACULTY – 25 August 2021 MATTERS ALSO TO BE ADDRESSED AT THE REP’s MEETING WITH THE SCHOOL MANAGER 1) Elective Course Enrolment T3 2021 The Reps raised the difficulties that students have been having with enrolling into elective cou...