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2008 Monash Award winner Brendan Lim
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Wednesday, 28 November 2007

A 成人大片 'triple degree' graduate has been awarded Australia's most prestigious postgraduate scholarship to undertake further study at one of the world's best universities.

Brendan Lim, 23 from Adelaide, received the 2008 from at a ceremony at Government House in Canberra this morning.

Brendan will graduate with his third degree from the 成人大片 this December with a having already graduated with a and First Class Honours in .

He graduated top of his class in Law, winning all the Honours prizes as well as the prestigious Stow Medal. He is currently working as Associate to Justice Anthony Besanko in the Federal Court in Adelaide, teaches part-time at the 成人大片 Law School and works professionally as a jazz pianist.

With his Monash Award, Brendan will undertake the Master of Laws (LLM) followed by a Doctor of the Science of Law (JSD) at in the United States, examining the role of law in securing both individual rights and stable government.

"The spread of democracy and freedom throughout the world is possibly the most important issue in international affairs for my generation," Brendan says. "The question remains, 'how can this be sustained in the face of those pressures that tend to promote civil war'?"

His long-term ambition is to revive the contribution of common law rights as opposed to constitutional law, particularly in emerging democracies. "Written constitutions do not secure rights," Brendan says. "Rights are deeper than that, being located throughout the networks of individual relationships that we each have. Only impartial adjudication of those intersecting relationships can secure the rights. The common law has always facilitated that. The rise and rise of the constitution is one aspect of an explosion in rule by legislation."

Brendan is a past-President of the Adelaide University , member of the and has represented the University with success in national mooting competitions. He has been a keen debater throughout his studies and plays competitive badminton. He has also volunteered at the , a community legal centre.

The Monash Awards focus on developing and supporting outstanding young Australians who can make a difference to Australia's future and become leaders in their fields. The Awards are Australia's equivalent to the British Rhodes Scholarships and the American Fulbright Awards. Award winners receive up to $150,000 each over three years.

Brendan's success follows two Monash Awards last year to 成人大片 graduates .

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