Archived Events
May 2013
Obligations Group Seminar: Prof. David McLauchlan
6:00 pm Wednesday 22 May 2013
Refining Rectification
Transactional Law Roundtable: Liberalisation of Legal Services in Asia – an update
5:30 pm Wednesday 22 May 2013
This roundtable will provide participants with an update on developments in Asia and an opportunity to
discuss the implications for international legal practice
CCLSR Seminar - Addressing Systemic Risk in East Asia: Financial Regulatory Design
1:00 pm Wednesday 22 May 2013
The Centre for Corporate Law and Securities Regulation
(CCLSR) is pleased to host a lunchtime seminar by
Professor Douglas Arner, University of Hong Kong on
Wednesday 22 May 2013.
CILIS Public Lecture - Indonesia and Australia in the Asian Century
6:15 pm Tuesday 21 May 2013
Mr Richard Woolcott AC will launch the Centre for Indonesian Law, Islam and Society (CILIS) with a Public
Lecture, and launch four new publications and the first CILIS Policy Paper.
'Savage Anxieties: Australia's Native Title Claims Process and Western Civilization's War on Indigenous Tribal Peoples'
6:00 pm Tuesday 21 May 2013
'Translating Critical Race Theory into Practice in Classical, Post- and Neo-Colonial Legal Regimes for Extinguishing Indigenous Peoples' Human Rights to their Ancestral Lands'
3:00 pm Tuesday 21 May 2013
Student Exchange Information Session
1:00 pm Tuesday 21 May 2013
Student Exchange is a great opportunity to explore
different universities and countries whilst
contributing to your Law degree.
Book Launch: Incentivising Employees: The theory, policy and practice of employee share ownership plans in Australia
10:30 am Monday 20 May 2013
'Incentivising Employees: The theory, policy and
practice of employee share ownership plans in
Australia' will be launched by the Hon Bill Shorten at
Allens in Melbourne.
APCML Law & War Seminar: The Humanitarian Impact of the Arms Trade Treaty
1:00 pm Friday 17 May 2013
Leonard Blazeby will explore the efficacy of weapons treaties,and the Arms Trade Treaty in particular, as
vehicles for humanitarian protection, from the perspective of the ICRC.
Book Launch: 'Tax Effective Writing' by the Hon Justice GT (Tony) Pagone
5:30 pm Thursday 16 May 2013
The Melbourne Law School and the Australian Italian Lawyers Association are delighted to invite you to the
launch of Justice Tony Pagone’s book “Tax Effective Writing”.
CDS Workshop: Applying for clerkships? What are the firms really looking for?
1:00 pm Thursday 16 May 2013
ALC/ CCCS Seminar, Judicial Loyalties: Assessing the Politicization of the Venezuelan Legal System
1:00 pm Thursday 16 May 2013
The State of Suppression Orders in Victoria and New South Wales
5:30 pm Tuesday 14 May 2013
An empirical analysis of all of the suppression orders distributed to the media by the Victorian courts
between 2008 and 2012.
The State of Suppression Orders in Victoria and New South Wales
5:30 pm Monday 13 May 2013
An empirical analysis of all of the suppression orders distributed to the media by the Victorian courts
between 2008 and 2012.
ALC/GELN Seminar - Vietnam's Approach to the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement
2:00 pm Thursday 9 May 2013
Dr Nao Ngoc Tien will share Vietnam's perspective on the negotiations of the proposed TPP, together with three
leading Professors from Vietnam's Foreign Trade University.
APCML Law & War Seminar: Military Violence Against Women
6:00 pm Wednesday 8 May 2013
Professor Tanaka will discuss military violence against women, in particular Japan’s so-called 'comfort women
system' during the Asia Pacific War.
GLSA Global Thinking Lecture Series: 'Reflection on the War on Terror and the mainstreaming of Executive Directed Killings'
1:00 pm Wednesday 8 May 2013
"Reflections on the War on Terror and the Mainstreaming of Executive Directed Killings"presented by Mr Dan
Mori, Shine Lawyers Legal Counsel, and David Hicks' former representative.
CCCS Seminar: Judicial Use of Comparative Constitutional Law in Bangladesh: Method, Benefits and Perils
1:00 pm Tuesday 7 May 2013
'The Structure of Courts and International Lawmaking - Explaining Judicial Conflict'
1:00 pm Thursday 2 May 2013
April 2013
From Managing to Monitoring: The Evolution of the Listed Company Board
6:30 pm Tuesday 30 Apr 2013
The Hon Robert Austin, former Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales and co-author of Ford’s
Principles of Corporations Law will present the lecture titled ‘From Managing to Monitor
Information Session: Uni-Capitol Washington Internship
11:00 am Friday 26 Apr 2013
Information about the Uni-Capitol Washington Internship.
Should business be socially responsible? Can it be?
7:00 pm Wednesday 24 Apr 2013
Professor Moon will review the normative perspectives on business and social responsibility. The lecture will
include a discussion of Milton Friedman's infamous critique of CSR.
LSS: Seasonal Clerkship Expert Panel 1 : Mergers & Acquisitions, General Corporate, Capital Markets
7:00 pm Monday 22 Apr 2013
IFA Seminar: The Evolution of Tax Havens, Exchange of Information and Tax Treaties - Monday 22 April
6:30 pm Monday 22 Apr 2013
The Australia (Melbourne) Branch of the IFA is pleased to invite you to this panel event, presented by Mr
Terry Murphy SC, Mr Piotr Klak and Dr Michael Littlewood
APCML Law & War Seminar: the Chemical Weapons Convention
6:00 pm Monday 22 Apr 2013
Treasa Dunworth examines whether the CWC, while prohibiting chemical weapons, allows the use of toxic
chemicals such as anaesthetic and sedative drugs in 'law enforcement' situations
Majlis Screening - Tales of the Night Fairies
3:00 pm Thursday 18 Apr 2013
Majlis is the Asian Law Centre's South Asia Discussion Group. Each month, topics relating to South Asian
Law will be discussed with the use of films as a means to provoke discussion.
CELRL Labour Law Seminar - Unemployment in a Time of Full Employment - Thursday 18 April 2013
1:00 pm Thursday 18 Apr 2013
In this seminar Anthony O'Donnell from La Trobe University will speak on the topic of "Unemployment in a
Time of Full Employment: Regulating Worklessness in mid-20th Century Australia".
CLEN Discussion Group - Speaker: Mark Furse
12:30 pm Wednesday 17 Apr 2013
Topic: Private enforcement of competition law in the UK
'Labour Law in Times of Crisis - Lessons from Greece'
12:45 pm Tuesday 16 Apr 2013
In this seminar Professor Keith Ewing from Kings College in London will speak on the topic 'Labour Law in
Times of Crisis - Lessons from Greece'
LSS: Clerkship Process Seminar / Value of Networking with Career Development Services
1:00 pm Monday 15 Apr 2013
CCCS Seminar: The High Court on Free Speech: Offensive Letter Writing , Public Preaching and the Constitution
1:00 pm Wednesday 10 Apr 2013
Challenging Injustice: The American Experience
7:00 pm Tuesday 9 Apr 2013
Bryan Stevenson works extensively in the areas of social justice and human rights, and has been
instrumental in prompting criminal justice reform in USA for under-represented groups.
March 2013
Law Careers: Self Awareness Workshop: The first step towards career satisfaction
3:00 pm Thursday 28 Mar 2013
Law Careers: Self Awareness Workshop: The first step towards career satisfaction
1:00 pm Wednesday 27 Mar 2013
IFA Seminar: The New European Financial Transaction Tax 26 March 2013
6:00 pm Tuesday 26 Mar 2013
The Australia (Melbourne) Branch of the International Fiscal Association is pleased to invite you to the first
IFA seminar for 2013, presented by Professor Michael Tumpel
Law Careers: Self Awareness Workshop: the first step towards career satisfaction
12:00 pm Tuesday 26 Mar 2013
‘What to do after Evil? Scattered Thoughts on the Challenge of (Re)Education’ and ‘Governmentality and the Politics of Rape: Sex, Violence and the State ’
12:45 pm Thursday 21 Mar 2013
'10 Years On... Panel Discussion to mark 10 years since the Iraq Intervention'
1:00 pm Wednesday 20 Mar 2013
Law Careers: Self Awareness Workshop: the first step towards career satisfaction
1:00 pm Wednesday 20 Mar 2013
Deans Luncheon for Graduates of the 1940s and 50s
12:30 pm Wednesday 20 Mar 2013
Dean's Luncheon for Graduates of the 1940s and 1950s will be held in The Woodward, Level 10, Melbourne
Law School
Australia and the International Court of Justice
7:00 pm Tuesday 19 Mar 2013
In 2013 Sir Kenneth Bailey Memorial Lecture, Professor Crawford traces the involvement of Australia with
the International Court of Justice
Law Careers - Self awareness workshop: the first step towards career satisfaction
12:00 pm Tuesday 19 Mar 2013
Changing Families and an Unchanging Legal System: Birth Registration in Contemporary Japan
1:00 pm Monday 18 Mar 2013
CREEL Seminar: Aileen McHarg, The Referendum on Independence for Scotland: Where Are We Now? Where Are We Going? And How Will We Get There?
1:00 pm Friday 15 Mar 2013
'The Referendum on Independence for Scotland: Where Are
We Now? Where Are We Going? And How
Will We Get There?' Aileen McHarg, University of
Strathclyde
Transactional Law Seminar: Global Developments in the Regulation of Derivatives
6:00 pm Tuesday 12 Mar 2013
CCCS Seminar: Constitution Making: Insights from the Latest Developments in Fiji
1:00 pm Tuesday 12 Mar 2013
'Sex Workers, Their Children and the Politics of Rescue: We are Foot Soldiers' Film Screening
1:00 pm Friday 8 Mar 2013
ERRN (SA) Seminar: Election funding and Disclosure Schemes in Australia – What Experience Has Taught Us
1:00 pm Thursday 7 Mar 2013
CELRL Labour Law Seminar - Labour Law Dominos Thursday 7 March 2013
1:00 pm Thursday 7 Mar 2013
In this seminar Professor Brian Langille from the University of Toronto will speak on the topic of Labour Law
Dominos.
APCML Law & War seminar - Legality in the Contracting-Out State
6:00 pm Tuesday 5 Mar 2013
Dr Kristen Rundle (LSE) will discuss whether private legal forms can fulfill the 'public' demands that are
increasingly placed upon them by the 'contracting-
out state'.
'International Economic Law Interest Group Symposium'
9:30 am Friday 1 Mar 2013
This Annual Symposium of the International Economic Law Interest Group (IELIG) will be
hosted at the Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne. Registrations now open.
February 2013
CCCS Seminar: The Filibuster and Reconciliation: the Future of Majoritarian Lawmaking in the U.S. Senate
1:00 pm Thursday 28 Feb 2013
Making the Change to Second Year: Re-Orientation for Second Year JD Students
10:00 am Thursday 28 Feb 2013
An orientation workshop for second year JD students.
Media, Communication Publics: 2013 Conference of the Centre for Media and Communications Law
25 - 26 Feb 2013
Part-time Student Orientation
9:30 am Saturday 23 Feb 2013
Each semester, the Law School hosts an orientation program for students who are new to the Melbourne Law
Masters (MLM). A half day program on the weekend is offered for part-time students.
2013 National Wellness for Law Forum
21 - 22 Feb 2013
Promoting Wellbeing in Law Schools and the Legal Profession. A national forum presented by the Wellness
Network for Law
CELRL and FWC: Workplace Relations Lecture - 15 February 2013
1:00 pm Friday 15 Feb 2013
This is the inaugural lecture in a series of lectures that will take place in 2013, co-organised by the Fair Work
Commission and the Centre for Employment and Labour Relations Law.
Law Librarians Joint Study Institute
13 - 16 Feb 2013
The Joint Study Institute (JSI) provides law librarians
from countries with similar legal systems an
opportunity to discuss common, current and relevant
legal issues.
CCCS Expert Seminar: United States Constitutional Law for Australian Lawyers
9:00 am Friday 8 Feb 2013
Orientation for 2013 JD Students
7 - 8 Feb 2013
Melbourne Law School is committed to ensuring our new students make a
smooth transition to the study of law at graduate level.
By invitation only.
January 2013
December 2012
Dean's Welcome Evening for 2013 JD Offered Students
5:00 pm Wednesday 12 Dec 2012
Event to welcome new JD students commencing in 2013.
By invitation only.
ERRN (QLD) Seminar: Drawing Lines Without Drawing Blood: Redistricting Institutions and Criteria in America and Australia
1:00 pm Wednesday 12 Dec 2012
'Theater of International Justice'
1:00 pm Tuesday 11 Dec 2012
In this IILAH Public Seminar Professor Allen responds to the critique of international human rights tribunals as
not “real” courts by looking at what these courts do as a kind of theater.
ERRN (VIC) Seminar: Drawing Lines Without Drawing Blood: Redistricting Institutions and Criteria in America and Australia
12:30 pm Tuesday 11 Dec 2012
CCLSR/Supreme Court of Victoria Commercial Law Conference 2012
2:00 pm Monday 10 Dec 2012
The Conference features four speakers on important current issues in
commercial law, with each session chaired by justices of the Supreme Court.
‘Image and Methodology in Legal Thinking: Scopic Regimes of Sovereignty in the Photography of War’
6:30 pm Thursday 6 Dec 2012
Professor Desmond Manderson will talk about popular culture and how it is saturated by images of war
and
conflict and it creates the backdrop to our daily lives.
Book Launch ‘Kangaroo Courts and the Rule of Law - The Legacy of Modernism’ by Desmond Manderson
5:30 pm Thursday 6 Dec 2012
This Book Launch is supported by the Melbourne Law School, IILAH, CREEL, Faculty of Arts and the
Graduate School of Humanities and Social Science.
CCCS Seminar: The Fiscal Compact, the “Golden Rule” and the Paradox of European Federalism
1:00 pm Thursday 6 Dec 2012
'China and the Human: Law, Immigration, Queerness and Other Related Conversation with Professors David L Eng and Teemu Ruskola'
2:00 pm Wednesday 5 Dec 2012
Free Public Search Conference: Integrity in Government - A Work in Progress
9:00 am Tuesday 4 Dec 2012
November 2012
Reunion for Graduates of the 1970s
6:30 pm Thursday 29 Nov 2012
Melbourne Law School is delighted to welcome The Hon Justice Simon Whelan as the Speaker at the
Reunion for Graduates of the 1970s on Thursday 29 November.
CCLSR/CLMR - Regulating Culture in Financial Organisations
1:30 pm Thursday 29 Nov 2012
A seminar presented by the Centre for Corporate Law and Securities Regulation at Melbourne Law School
and the Centre for Law Markets and Regulation, Faculty of Law, University of NSW.
Graduate Student Workshop - Researching and Writing: Vietnamese Legal Change
10:00 am Thursday 29 Nov 2012
ERRN (SA) Meeting: South Australia, Returning Officers and the Talented Mr Boothby
6:00 pm Wednesday 28 Nov 2012
ERRN (NSW) Forum: NSW Electoral Funding Legislation: A Blow For or Against Democracy?
6:00 pm Wednesday 28 Nov 2012
Part IVA - Tax Benefit and the Alternative Postulate
5:15 pm Wednesday 28 Nov 2012
This seminar will consider the proposed amendments to Part IVA; why they are beingintroduced and how they
are likely to impact on taxpayers and their advisers.
Young IFA Network Seminar - Tuesday 27 November
6:00 pm Tuesday 27 Nov 2012
A panel of Young IFA Network (YIN) speakers will discuss recent developments in tax treaty interpretation
and transfer pricing.
CELRL Labour Law Seminar - Is a Right better than a Right to Request? Flexible Working in Europe and the United States
1:00 pm Tuesday 27 Nov 2012
This seminar will provide context for the introduction of flexible working laws and examine differences in the
framing of statutory rights.
ERRN (NSW) & The University of Sydney Forum: The Constitutionality of Compulsory Voting: The Implications of Holmdahl for Australian Democracy
12:00 pm Monday 26 Nov 2012
Reunion for Graduates of the 1960s
6:30 pm Thursday 22 Nov 2012
Melbourne Law School is delighed to welcome The Hon Gareth Evans AO QC as guest speaker at the
Reunion for
Graduates of the 1960s being held on Thursday 22 November.
'Common Law Divergences' presented by The Honourable Paul Finn
6:30 pm Wednesday 21 Nov 2012
The 2012 Allen Hope Southey Memorial Lecture will be entitled 'Common Law Divergences' and will be
presented by
The Honorable Paul Finn, Professorial Fellow, University of Melbourne
CREEL Seminar: Redressing Transboundary Environmental Harm
5:30 pm Tuesday 20 Nov 2012
Professor René Lefeber will present a seminar on the
topic, 'Redressing Transboundary Environmental Harm' at
the Melbourne Law School at 5.30pm, Tuesday 20 November
2012. All welcome.
ERRN (VIC) & CCCS Seminar: Party Political Funding in NSW (and Beyond?) - Can Human Rights be Deployed to Resist Dogmatic Liberalism's Intolerance of Pluralistic Party Structures?
12:00 pm Tuesday 20 Nov 2012
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8th Annual 2012 CILS Islamic Studies Postgraduate Conference
20 - 21 Nov 2012
The Annual CILS/ NCEIS Conference aims to bring
together postgraduate students researching
Islam-related topics in a collegial environment for the
exchange of information and feedback.
ERRN(QLD) Seminar:Participation or Stagnation? Parties and Participation in the US and Australia
1:00 pm Monday 19 Nov 2012
Get Ready for Work: Legal Research
9:30 am Friday 16 Nov 2012
One day workshop to prepare for practice and clerkships.
What is government’s role in regulating and fostering socially responsible behaviour from Australian companies?
6:00 pm Wednesday 14 Nov 2012
'Policing the Projects: An Ethnography of State Violence'
5:30 pm Wednesday 14 Nov 2012
This Public IILAH Twilight Seminar is by Didier Fassin, Professor James D Wolfensohn, Institute for
Advanced Study of Princeton and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris.
Rethinking Croatian Rape Laws: Force, Consent and the 'Contribution of the Victim'
12:45 pm Wednesday 14 Nov 2012
The Institute for International Law and the Humanities (IILAH) will host a Public Seminar at Melbourne Law
School. Dr Ivana Radacic, an IILAH visitor, on an Endeavour Research Fellowship.
APCML Law and War Seminar
6:00 pm Tuesday 13 Nov 2012
Reciprocity and Reprisals in the Law of Armed Conflict
CELRL Labour Law Seminar - Workplace Gender Equality: Rationale and Overview of Proposed Legislative Changes
1:00 pm Tuesday 13 Nov 2012
We are delighted to welcome Ms Helen Karatasas from the Equal Opportunity for Women in the
Workplace Agency and Professor Margaret Thornton from Australian National University.
ALC Attorney-General's Department Seminar: The Court and the Party in China's Political-Legal Order
5:30 pm Monday 12 Nov 2012
2012 Narrm Oration: Aboriginal Women and the Right to Self Determination
5:30 pm Thursday 8 Nov 2012
Professor Davis' Oration will be on Aboriginal women and the limitations of the right to self determination.
Intelligence Squared Debates: Euthanasia Should be Legalised
6:30 pm Wednesday 7 Nov 2012
Death is the most personal of matters, but it’s also a political hot potato.
‘In Conversation with Professor Megan Davis’
4:00 pm Wednesday 7 Nov 2012
Melbourne Law School presents Megan Davis, Professor of Law and Director, Indigenous Law Centre,
Faculty of Law at the University of New South Wales for an In Conversation with a panel...
ALC Brown Bag Seminar - Cracking the hardest nut of all: Reform of Re-education through Labour
1:00 pm Wednesday 7 Nov 2012
Prof Chen's current research focuses on criminal justice and, in particular, comparative criminal procedures,
the law of evidence, procedural jurisprudence and juvenile justice.
Indonesia’s transition to democracy: an anti corruption crusade
6:30 pm Thursday 1 Nov 2012
Combating corruption is a significant challenge for Indonesia's post-authoritarian transition to a democratic
society. Professor Indrayana recounts his experiences and looks to the future.
'ERRN (ACT) and the Accountability Round Table: Lobbying: Regulation in an Evolving Environment'
12:30 pm Thursday 1 Nov 2012
October 2012
The Australian Justice System – The Need for Reform
6:30 pm Wednesday 31 Oct 2012
Melbourne Law School is delighted to host the 2012 Nathan and Pamela Jacobson Lecture presented by
The Hon Ray Finkelstein QC
CREEL & NELA Public Lecture: Oceans Law and Governance
5:15 pm Thursday 25 Oct 2012
The Centre for Resources, Energy and Environmental Law
(CREEL) and the National Environmental Law Association
(NELA) present an event on marine planning in Victoria.
Centre for Transnational Legal Studies (CTLS) Program Information Session
1:00 pm Wednesday 24 Oct 2012
The Bar, the Bench and State: Fighting for Political Freedom
1:00 pm Thursday 18 Oct 2012
Melbourne Law School is delighted to present this lunchtime seminar in conjunction with the Australian-
American Fulbright Commission presented by Professor Malcolm Feeley
ERRN (NSW) Symposium: Beyond YES/NO: Ideas for Engaging Ordinary Citizens in Constitutional Referendums
12:00 pm Thursday 18 Oct 2012
Melbourne Law Masters Information Evening
6:00 pm Wednesday 17 Oct 2012
Take that first step in becoming part of the Melbourne Law Masters (MLM) by coming to the MLM Information
Evening.
Sir Anthony Mason Lecture
6:30 pm Tuesday 16 Oct 2012
The Hon. Dyson Heydon AC will present the Lecture on 'Threats to Judicial Independence'.
Practical Legal Training Information Session: ANU Legal Workshop & University of Tasmania
1:00 pm Tuesday 16 Oct 2012
2013 information session on overseas subjects: Institutions in International Law and Global Lawyer
1:00 pm Monday 15 Oct 2012
Legal Internship Information Session
1:00 pm Wednesday 10 Oct 2012
A chance to learn about the exciting opportunities to gain valuable experience over the Summer!
CELRL Labour Law Seminar - The Elusive Quest for Simplicity: Assessing the Readability of Enterprise Agreements
1:00 pm Tuesday 9 Oct 2012
In this seminar Carolyn Sutherland from Monash University will speak on the topic 'The Elusive Quest for
Simplicity: Assessing the Readability of Enterprise Agreements'.
CCCS Seminar: The Elusive Constitutional Settlement of Sri Lanka’s Ethnic Crisis
1:00 pm Monday 8 Oct 2012
The Convergence of Chemistry and Biology
6:00 pm Wednesday 3 Oct 2012
The Convergence of Chemistry and Biology: A Tale of Two Treaties
ALC Brown Bag Seminar: Key Differences between the Australian and Korean Jury Systems
1:00 pm Monday 1 Oct 2012
September 2012
CREEL & CSRG Environmental Challenges in China: Climate Change, Natural Resources and Urban Development
8:30 am Friday 28 Sep 2012
Please register for the Workshop on Environmental
Challenges in China: Climate Change, Natural Resources
and Urban Development to be held at the University of
Melbourne.
Intelligence Squared Debates 'Western Civilisation is in Terminal Decline'
6:30 pm Tuesday 25 Sep 2012
After 500 years in the spotlight, the West just might have lost its way.
Extractive Industries and Indigenous Peoples: A Changing Dynamic?
5:30 pm Monday 24 Sep 2012
Professor Ciaran O’Faircheallaigh will present a
seminar on the topic, 'Extractive Industries and
Indigenous Peoples: A Changing Dynamic?' at the
Melbourne Law School at 5.30pm, 24 September
CIPL Lecture: Fifteenth Geoffrey Sawer Lecture 2012 Democracy and the Constitution: The Dangers of Legalism
6:30 pm Friday 21 Sep 2012
Melbourne Alumni Conversation: Alice Pung, lawyer, teacher & current writer
6:30 pm Wednesday 19 Sep 2012
Join fellow alumni in a thought-provoking Conversation which in 2012
will take place in the contemporary surrounds of Charcoal Lane, one
of the finest restaurants in the University precinct.
Professor Adnan Buyung Nasution speaks to Radio Australia's Connect Asia program.
9:00 am Friday 14 Sep 2012
Prof Buyung's interview with Radio Australia
Passion and Dispassion in International Law - Public Lecture by Professor Hilary Charlesworth
6:00 pm Thursday 13 Sep 2012
Australian Law Reform Commission Copyright and the Digital Economy Issues Paper
5:30 pm Thursday 13 Sep 2012
A free public seminar in Sydney, presented by The
Centre for Media and Communications Law in association
with Baker & McKenzie
Dean's Welcome Evening for 2013 JD Offered Students
5:00 pm Wednesday 12 Sep 2012
Event to welcome new JD students commencing in 2013.
By invitation only.
Judicial Activism for Social Justice: Promises and Perils - 2012 Seabrook Chambers Public Lecture
6:30 pm Monday 10 Sep 2012
Judicial Activism for Social Justice: Promises and Perils
Transactional Law Training Seminar: Complex Financial Products, Risk Disclosure and International Trends
Monday 10 Sep 2012
Senior Lecturer Andrew Godwin delivers a training seminar to the Australian Securities and Investment
Commission (ASIC)
'War Crimes, Human Rights, Media Freedom & International Responsibility'
6:15 pm Thursday 6 Sep 2012
A rare event for Human Right advocates, Social Justice activists, law, political and journalism professionals &
students, presented by IILAH, MLS, HRLC, MAPW and ATC.
CCCS Book Launch: Legal Protection of Religious Freedom in Australia by Professor Carolyn Evans
5:30 pm Thursday 6 Sep 2012
ALC Occasional Seminar: Women and Islamic Justice in Indonesia
5:30 pm Wednesday 5 Sep 2012
Why do women keep winning in Indonesia's Islamic Courts?
Law Oration 2012 Free Public Lecture - Presented by Lord Robert Walker, Justice of The Supreme Court (UK)
6:30 pm Tuesday 4 Sep 2012
Victorian Law Foundation and Melbourne Law School present the Law Oration 2012, a free public lecture
held in the grand surrounds of the Supreme Court of Victoria's Banco Court.
CMCL - Amateur Media: Social, cultural and legal perspectives Book Launch
5:30 pm Tuesday 4 Sep 2012
Hosted by the Centre for Media and Communications Law, the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative
Industries and Innovation and the Swinburne Institute for Social Research.
'Precarious Work and the Fragmentation of International Labour Law'
1:00 pm Tuesday 4 Sep 2012
This seminar is hosted by the Centre for Employment and Labour Relations Law and the Institute for
International Law and Humanities.
August 2012
Annual Tax Lecture - The Commonwealth's taxing powers and its limits - Are we there yet?
5:30 pm Wednesday 29 Aug 2012
ALC/ CILS Research Seminar: Faith and Freedom in Indonesian Law - Religion and the Democratic State
1:00 pm Wednesday 29 Aug 2012
An exploration of whether Indonesian Law is becoming
increasingly accomodating towards Islam.
CELRL Labour Law Seminar
1:00 pm Tuesday 28 Aug 2012
In this seminar two former Melbourne Law School students will be presenting research they carried out as
part
of their undergraduate employment law studies.
Conflicts in Sudan: Historical, Legal and Personal Perspectives - Panel Discussion
6:00 pm Thursday 23 Aug 2012
ALC/CCLSR Occasional Seminar - Reserving the Window Seat: Whistleblowers in Japan (Professor Dan Rosen, Chuo University)
1:00 pm Thursday 23 Aug 2012
Tips for Writing a Legal Research Paper
5:30 pm Monday 20 Aug 2012
Workshop on planning and writing a legal research paper.
Open Day Sunday 19 August 2012
10:00 am Sunday 19 Aug 2012
Join us at Melbourne Law School for Open Day where you can learn more about studying and working in
law.
Foenander Lecture 2012 - The Fair Work Act Review and its Implications
6:00 pm Thursday 16 Aug 2012
You are invited to attend the 2012 Foenander Lecture, which is being hosted by the Faculty of Business and
Economics and Melbourne Law School on Thursday 16 August.
CCCS Seminar: Transnational Constitutionalism’s Problem with Constitutional Identity: Prospects and Pitfalls
1:00 pm Thursday 16 Aug 2012
Doctoral Roundtable with Professor Antony Anghie (Utah)
10:00 am Thursday 16 Aug 2012
Antony Anghie (Utah) to conduct an IILAH and APCML doctoral roundtable while he is visiting the Melbourne
Law School in August 2012.
'The Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948 in the History of Cosmopolitanism'
6:00 pm Tuesday 14 Aug 2012
This Public Lecture jointly hosted by IILAH (Law) at the Melbourne
Law and SHAPS (Arts) and kindly supported by Macgeorge Bequest.
Melbourne Law School Graduation Ceremony
5:30 pm Tuesday 14 Aug 2012
At this ceremony Melbourne Law Students will celebrate their graduation, and the Governor of Victoria will be
conferred with an honorary degree and present the occasional address.
Transactional Law Training Seminar: Adding Value to the Drafting Process for Young Lawyers
Tuesday 14 Aug 2012
Senior Lecturer Andrew Godwin delivers a training workshop to the Law Institute of Victoria
CCLSR & Asian Law Centre Seminar - Responding to the '97 Asian Financial Crisis: The Development of Insolvency Infrastructures in China, Japan and Hong Kong
1:00 pm Monday 13 Aug 2012
Professor Charles D. Booth of the University of Hawaii will talk on 'Responding to the 1997 Asian Financial
Crisis: The Development of Insolvency Infrastructures in China, Japan & Hong Kong'
The Sense and Direction of Multilateralism in International Trade Law presented by Helene Ruiz Fabri
6:30 pm Friday 10 Aug 2012
About the sense and direction of multilateralism in international
trade law.
Multilateralism seems to deserve a reflection because it is nowadays –
and has been for a while – called into
CCCS Seminar: Constitutions Inside Out: Outsider Interventions in Domestic Constitutional Contests
1:00 pm Thursday 9 Aug 2012
'Global' Civil Wars: Remote-Launched Attacks and the Internationalization of Non-International Armed Conflict
6:00 pm Tuesday 7 Aug 2012
ALC Brown Bag Seminar - What Comes After Law and Development? (by A/Prof David Linnan)
1:00 pm Tuesday 7 Aug 2012
Can law be employed to shape behavior as a form of
social engineering, or must social behavior change first?
ALC Attorney-General's Department Seminar - Japanese International Cooperation: Objectives, Strategies and Impacts in Legal Sector Projects
5:30 pm Thursday 2 Aug 2012
Listen to A/Prof Kuong speak about Japanese legal
cooperation in Cambodia and Vietnam
GLSA - Deal Talk - The development of the QCLNG Project
1:00 pm Thursday 2 Aug 2012
King & Wood Mallesons Deal Talk: The development of the QCLNG Project
($12 billion coal seam gas to LNG project)
July 2012
POSTPONED: CELRL Labour Law Seminar - The Effects of Age and Drug Dependency on the Emotional Exhaustion and Job Satisfaction of Adult Streetworkers in Australia
1:00 pm Tuesday 31 Jul 2012
In this seminar Christina Cregan will discuss her research on 'The
Effects of Age and Drug Dependency on the Emotional Exhaustion and Job
Satisfaction of Adult Streetworkers in Australia
CCLSR & Faculty of Business & Economics Seminar - Executive stock ownership & employment change after takeovers
12:00 pm Tuesday 31 Jul 2012
CCLSR & the Faculty of Business and Economics is hosting a seminar presented by Professor Andrew
Pendleton on 'The effect of executive stock ownership and employment change after takeovers'
IFA Seminar: Transfer pricing and permanent establishment - Recent US Cases and Developments
6:00 pm Monday 30 Jul 2012
The Australia (Melbourne) Branch of the International Fiscal Association
is pleased to invite you to the next IFA seminar for 2012, presented by
Professor Yariv Brauner.
Rare Books Lecture - The Utility and Pleasure of Collecting Antiquarian Lawbooks
6:30 pm Thursday 26 Jul 2012
Melbourne Law School’s Rare Books and Legal History
lecture series
was launched in 2002 to promote and encourage research
into the Rare
Books Collection.
Military Robotics and International Humanitarian Law: Legal, Ethical and Political Challenges
6:00 pm Thursday 26 Jul 2012
A Public Law Perspective on Intellectual Property
6:00 pm Wednesday 25 Jul 2012
Understanding the intersection of intellectual property and public
law requires appreciation of how key public law principles apply in
the field of intellectual property law.
Contract Drafting
Wednesday 25 Jul 2012
Senior Lecturers frorm Melbourne Law School deliver a training seminar to Law firm Maddocks on Contract
Drafting
CELRL Labour Law Seminar - The place of domestic work within the European employment strategy and EU social policy
1:00 pm Tuesday 24 Jul 2012
In this seminar Tonia Novitz and Phil Sypris will speak on the
topic ‘The place of domestic work within the European employment
strategy and EU social policy'.
Melbourne Law Masters Part-time Student Orientation
12:30 pm Saturday 21 Jul 2012
Each year, the Law School hosts a half day weekend for
students new
to the Melbourne Law Masters.
Constitutional Reform by The Hon Nicola Roxon MP, the Attorney-General for the Commonwealth of Australia
6:30 pm Thursday 19 Jul 2012
Recent Developments in Constitutional Law: CCCS Conference 2012
19 - 21 Jul 2012
Registrations are now opened
Defining Taxing and Regulating Not-for-Profits in the 21st Century conference
19 - 20 Jul 2012
This major international conference will examine the
definition,
taxation and regulation of not-for-profits in the 21st
century.
CREEL and IILAH International Conversations Series Book Launch
6:00 pm Wednesday 18 Jul 2012
Jacqueline Peel in conversation with a panel of
distinguished international environmental experts and
practitioners.
Melbourne Law School Career RoundTable
6:00 pm Wednesday 18 Jul 2012
The Melbourne Law School Career Roundtable is a networking event for
recent graduates and final year students to gain practical career
advice.
'The WTO Dispute Settlement System – What Does the Future Hold?'
12:45 pm Monday 9 Jul 2012
This Public Seminar is hosted by IILAH and will be chaired by
Associate Professor Tania Voon (Melbourne Law School).
PhD Confirmation Seminar by Adrian Storrier
1:00 pm Thursday 5 Jul 2012
Thesis Title: Constitutional Recognition of Aborginal and Torres
Strait Islander Peoples
Supervisors: Cheryl Saunders and Adrienne Stone
Please view the abstract here
The Wednesday Lectures hosted by Raimond Gaita - Panel discussion
6:30 pm Wednesday 4 Jul 2012
'Whatever happened to Politics' - Panel discussion with Larissa
Behrent, Raimond Gaita, Robert Manne and Gerry Simpson.
CREEL Seminar: Communal Tenure in Relation to Mining in South Africa
12:45 pm Tuesday 3 Jul 2012
CREEL presents Professor Nic Olivier 'Communal land
tenure and specific regulatory norms providing for
community involvement in matters pertaining to
prospecting and mining in South Africa.'
June 2012
Ten Years On: Reflections on the First Ten Years of the International Criminal Court
6:00 pm Thursday 28 Jun 2012
The APCML and Amnesty International invite you to this
timely reflection on the successes and challenges faced
by the International Criminal Court during its first
ten years of operation.
Book Launch: Substance and Procedure in Private International Law
6:00 pm Thursday 28 Jun 2012
An invite to the launch of Professor Richard Garnett's book:Substance
and Procedure in Private International Law which appears in the
prestigious Oxford Private International Law Series.
'Reflections on Rio +20: what role for ‘green growth’ and ‘earth summitry’ in environmental justice?'
12:45 pm Thursday 28 Jun 2012
The Wednesday Lectures hosted by Raimond Gaita - Whatever Happened to Argument?
6:30 pm Wednesday 27 Jun 2012
'Whatever Happened to Argument’ by Robert Manne
ALC Occasional Seminar: Disputed Churches in Jakarta
5:00 pm Monday 25 Jun 2012
Crucial insights drawn including regarding the
complicity of local governments and enforcement
agencies in exacerbating permit disputes, and the need
to support grassroots leaders.
Bullying and Harassment: Trying to Stop it!
12:00 pm Friday 22 Jun 2012
The seminar is organised jointly by the Centre for Employment and Labour
Relations Law and the Department of Management and Marketing at the
University of Melbourne.
The Wednesday Lectures hosted by Raimond Gaita - Political Literacy
6:30 pm Wednesday 20 Jun 2012
‘Political Literacy’ by Gerry Simpson
ALC/ Attorney-General's Department Occasional Seminar: The Law in Burma/ Myanmar
5:00 pm Tuesday 19 Jun 2012
An Asian Law Centre Occasional Seminar supported by the
Attorney-
General's Department, presented by A/Prof Chris Lamb,
former
Ambassador to Myanmar
ERRN (VIC) Seminar: The Victorian Independent Broad-based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC): A Toothless Tiger?
1:00 pm Tuesday 19 Jun 2012
Obligations Group Seminar - Prof. David McLauchlan
6:00 pm Thursday 14 Jun 2012
Seminar: Entire agreement clauses are now routinely included in
commercial and other contracts. Does the inclusion of such a clause
in an apparently complete written agreement preclude a fin
The Wednesday Lectures hosted by Raimond Gaita - Whatever Happened to Reconciliation?
6:30 pm Wednesday 13 Jun 2012
'Whatever Happened to Reconciliation’ by Larissa Behrendt
CELRL Labour Law Seminar
1:00 pm Wednesday 13 Jun 2012
In this seminar one current and one former Melbourne Law School student
will present research they conducted as part of their undergraduate
studies.
IILAH Public Seminar: Islamic Law, Scripture, and Women's Rights
6:00 pm Tuesday 12 Jun 2012
Interpretation of the Qur'an, its relationship with other texts and
practices, creates tensions with different sources of religious
authority and can generate patriarchal views of Islam
The New Models for Copyright Law Reform Seminar
4:00 pm Tuesday 12 Jun 2012
An IPRIA Free Public Seminar in association with the
Centre for Media and Communications Law and UTS Law.
The Wednesday Lectures hosted by Raimond Gaita - Political Dignity
6:30 pm Wednesday 6 Jun 2012
'Political Dignity' by Raimond Gaita
Obligations Seminar - Prof. Rick Bigwood - 6 June 2012
12:30 pm Wednesday 6 Jun 2012
Title: 'When Fairness Turns Bad: Reflections on the BCLI Report on
Proposals for Unfair Contracts Relief in British Columbia'
CCLSR Seminar - Improving Consumer Access to Justice in the Consumer Credit Context
1:00 pm Monday 4 Jun 2012
Prof Tony Duggan will speak about the issues in his forthcoming book
chapter, ‘Front End Strategies for Improving Consumer Access to
Justice’ in the consumer credit context.
May 2012
Village Roadshow vs iiNet: The decision and its ramifications for copyright owners and ISPs
5:30 pm Thursday 31 May 2012
A Free Public Seminar presented by the Intellectual
Property Research Institute of Australia (IPRIA) in
association with the Melbourne Law School.
ERRN (SA) Seminar: Spotlight on our Electoral Acts
6:00 pm Wednesday 30 May 2012
You are invited to the inaugural meeting of the
South Australian Branch of the Electoral Regulation
Research Network
on: Wednesday May 30th 2012, at Parliament House, 6pm
'Two States for Two Peoples': Self-determination, Population Transfer and the Palestine Papers'
5:30 pm Wednesday 30 May 2012
Convenors: Professor Dianne Otto (IILAH) and Professor Gerry Simpson
(APCML)
Dean's Luncheon for Graduates of the 1940's and '50's
12:00 pm Thursday 24 May 2012
Dean's Luncheon for Graduates of the 1940's and '50's.
CELRL Labour Law Seminar: Innovation in Employment Standards Enforcement: The Fair Work Ombudsman’s Use of Enforceable Undertakings
1:00 pm Wednesday 23 May 2012
In this seminar, they will report on the use of enforceable
undertakings
by the FWO as an alternative to litigation against employers for
noncompliance with minimum employment standards.
CCLSR Seminar - Would the post-GFC international regulatory reforms have prevented the GFC?
1:00 pm Wednesday 23 May 2012
Prof Douglas Arner, Head of the Department of Law at the Univeristy
of Hong Kong, will examine whether the post-GFC adopted international
regulatory reforms would have prevented the GFC.
ALC Occasional Seminar: Normalisation and Neoliberalism in Japanese Disability Welfare Law, 1946-2000s
1:00 pm Monday 21 May 2012
Carolyn Stevens has just been appointed the Professor
of Japanese Studies at Monash University. Her training
is in anthropology with degrees from Harvard and
Columbia Universities.
Lost Decade or Decades? Wages & Wage Inequality in the US - Monday 21 May
12:30 pm Monday 21 May 2012
This presentation will draw on the new analysis of wage trends that will
appear in the forthcoming State of Working America to be released in
September.
Law & War Seminar - From Subjectivity to Material Practice - Men, Masculinities and the Private Military and Security Contractor
6:00 pm Thursday 17 May 2012
CCCS Seminar: Models of Democracy and Models of Constitutionalism in Latin America
5:30 pm Tuesday 15 May 2012
Melbourne JD Sample Class: Mobile Phones and Math Programs: Consumer Protection Law in the Market Place
1:00 pm Tuesday 15 May 2012
'Turning Points: Remembering 'Koowarta v Bjelke-Petersen', 1982, 153 CLR 16'
9:00 am Friday 11 May 2012
IILAH, CCCS & CREEL will co-host two separate symposia to commemorate
the anniversaries of Turning Points: Remembering Koowarta v Bjelke-
Petersen (2012) & Remembering Cth vs Tasmania (2013).
International Conversation Series: 'Regime Interaction in International Law: Facing Fragmentation In Conversation '
6:00 pm Thursday 10 May 2012
Panel Discussion - The Privatisation of War: How Can Private Military and Security Companies be Regulated?
1:00 pm Thursday 10 May 2012
This panel will consider how international humanitarian
law should be applied to private military and security
companies when they deploy in or close to military
operations.
CCLSR Seminar - Public Views of the Morality of Insider Trading
1:00 pm Wednesday 9 May 2012
CCLSR welcomes Stuart P. Green, Professor of Law at Rutgers School of
Law, Newark, who will present findings from his co-authored
paper, "Public Views of the Morality of Insider Trading"
The Family & Child Law Research Group seminar
12:30 pm Wednesday 9 May 2012
The Cummins' Report: What Will it Mean for the Children's Court?
CCCS Seminar: Democracy, Liberty and Displacement of the Prerogative
1:00 pm Tuesday 8 May 2012
This seminar will explore the interaction between
executive power and statute, by considering the
approach the courts take to statutory displacement of
the royal prerogative and the Commonwealth’s inherent
executive power.
Transactional Law Training Seminar: The Interface between Drafting and Negotiating Commercial Contracts
Tuesday 8 May 2012
Andrew Godwin, Senior Lecturer at Melboure Law School delivers a training seminar to the International
Association for Commercial Contract Management
Tips for Writing Legal Research Papers
5:30 pm Monday 7 May 2012
Workshop on planning and writing a legal research paper.
Fourth International Construction Law Conference: ‘Global Challenges, shared solutions.’
6 - 8 May 2012
Registration is now open!
ERRN (NSW) Seminar: Democratic or Draconian? Recent Reforms to Political Funding in NSW
5:45 pm Thursday 3 May 2012
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ALC Brown Bag Seminar - Establishing a Carbon Trading Program in China Through Regional Experimentation: Challenges and Prospects
2 May - 2 Apr 2012
Find out about the challenges and prospects of
establishing a carbon trading program in China's
regional areas.
National GST Symposium
8:45 am Tuesday 1 May 2012
The Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia and the University of
Melbourne Law School are pleased to present the Institute’s inaugural
National GST Symposium 2012.
April 2012
Changing the GAAR: Does Part IVA need to be changed?
5:30 pm Tuesday 24 Apr 2012
This seminar brings together experts and interested parties to
discuss proposed changes to Part IVA.
'The Elusive Promise of Ethnodevelopment'
6:00 pm Monday 23 Apr 2012
Professor Dianne Otto (IILAH, Melbourne Law School) will chair this
IILAH Seminar and Drs Kirsty Gover and Mark McMillan will act as
commentators to Professor Engle’s paper.
From the UN Security Council to Charlize Theron: “Getting Cross” about Sexual Violence in War
5:45 pm Thursday 19 Apr 2012
Professor Karen Engle (Texas) ‘From the UN Security Council to
Charlize Theron: “Getting Cross” about Sexual Violence in War’
APCML/SOAS Symposium - Peacekeeping in the Asia-Pacific: Gender Equality, Law and Security
19 - 20 Apr 2012
The Symposium will discuss diverse views on and experiences with
incorporating a ‘gender perspective’ into peacekeeping operations, as
required by UN Security Council Resolution 1325.
CELRL Labour Law Seminar: Human Rights and Labor Rights – Why Don’t the Two Tracks Meet?
1:00 pm Wednesday 18 Apr 2012
In this seminar Professor Guy Mundlak from Tel Aviv University will
speak on the topic "Human Rights and Labor Rights - Why Don't the Two
Tracks Meet?
CREEL Public Lecture - Robert Glennon
11:00 am Friday 13 Apr 2012
All welcome to attend a free public lecture by Robert
Glennon, The University of Arizona, cohosted by CREEL,
NCCARF
and VCCCAR.
IFA Seminar: The Future of Controlled Foreign Corporation Rules
6:00 pm Thursday 12 Apr 2012
The Australia (Melbourne) Branch of the International Fiscal Association
is pleased to invite you to the first IFA seminar for 2012, presented by
Dr Peter Harris.
Re-reading the Berlin Conference: International Law and the Logic of Extraction
6:30 pm Wednesday 4 Apr 2012
Professor Matthew Craven - Dean of the Faculty of Law and Social
Sciences at University of London, will deliver the 2012 Sir Kenneth
Bailey Memorial Lecture.
The Doctrine of Sham in the Common Law
5:30 pm Wednesday 4 Apr 2012
The Tax Group and the Obligations Group at Melbourne Law School are
pleased to invite you to attend a seminar on ‘The Doctrine of Sham in
the Common Law’.
'TRIPS on the Web: An Analogue Treaty in a Digital Age, or the First Trade 2.0 Agreement?'
6:00 pm Monday 2 Apr 2012
The Institute for International Law and the Humanities (IILAH) and
the Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia (IPRIA)
will host this Public Seminar at Melbourne Law School
March 2012
Jon Cattapan Exhibition - Sydney
3:00 pm Saturday 31 Mar 2012
Jon Cattapan Exhibition
A special alumni viewing of Associate Professor Jon Cattapan's latest
exhibition in Sydney. - 'New Paintings', featuring a talk by the
artist.
CCCS Seminar - What's the Story? The United Kingdom Supreme Court's New Approach to Communications
1:00 pm Thursday 29 Mar 2012
What is the United Kingdom Supreme Court’s story? What
challenges does it face in getting its message out –
both about what it has done in cases, but also more
widely about its role?
Mervyn King SC - "Corporate thinking and corporate reporting is not what it used to be"
8:00 am Thursday 29 Mar 2012
The Centre for Corporate Law & Securities Regulation and Deakin Uni
School of Law welcome Mervyn King SC on the topic "Corporate thinking
and corporate reporting is not what it used to be"
Deal Negotiations: Differences between East and West - (Hong Kong) Alumni Training Seminar)
12:30 pm Wednesday 28 Mar 2012
Associate Director of the Asian Law Centre, Melbourne Law School,
Andrew Godwin will present a seminar titled 'Deal Negotiations:
Differences between East & West' at Skadden Arps Hong Kong
Melbourne Asian Law Conference - Recent reforms in the administration of justice in China
28 - 29 Mar 2012
China’s justice system has been the subject of a great
deal of critical scrutiny in recent years...
CCLSR Seminar - "The Path of Fiduciary Law"
1:00 pm Tuesday 27 Mar 2012
The Centre for Corporate Law and Securities Regulation welcomes
Professor David Kershaw from the London School of Economics, who will
speak on the topic of "The Path of Fiduciary Law".
'Local Space, Global Life: The Everyday Operation of International Law and Development'
1:00 pm Friday 23 Mar 2012
PhD Completion Seminar by Luis Eslava
1:00 pm Friday 23 Mar 2012
PhD Candidate, Luis Eslava will be presenting on his thesis, Local
Space, Global Life: The Everyday Operation of International Law and
Development
Bribery offences under Vietnamese criminal law in comparison with Swedish and Australian criminal law
8:00 pm Wednesday 21 Mar 2012
A Light-Hearted Overview of Intellectual Property with Judge Marvin Garbis
1:00 pm Wednesday 21 Mar 2012
Come along and hear District Judge Marvin J Garbis deliver a
lunchtime seminar on Intellectual Property
'International Human Rights Law and Women's Empowerment: Recent Developments on Violence against Women and Domestic Violence in Europe'
12:45 pm Wednesday 21 Mar 2012
Transactional Law Workshop: The Euro Crisis - A Practical Perspective
1:00 pm Friday 16 Mar 2012
The Euro crisis is all around us. The developments follow thick and
fast. The regulatory changes are profound, as Europe is subjected to
both a sovereign debt crisis and a second credit crunch. Aimed both
at practitioners as well as students with an specific interest, this
half-day long seminar addresses the practical impact of this crisis
on the international financial markets from a distinctly practical
perspective.
'Political sovereignty and the dual character of law: Juridification through the lens of Foucault's analysis of arts of government'
12:45 pm Thursday 15 Mar 2012
CELRL Labour Law Seminar: Recovering Compensation for Employment Entitlements in Cases of Accessorial Liability Under the Fair Work Act
1:00 pm Tuesday 13 Mar 2012
In this seminar Helen Anderson and John Howe will discuss recovering
compensation for employment entitlements in cases of accessorial
liability under the Fair Work Act.
PLSA Women's Day Open Discussion
5:00 pm Thursday 8 Mar 2012
The Postgraduate Law Student Association invites you to the
International Women's Day: Open Discussion
ALC Brown Bag Seminar - Pragmatic resistance, law, and social movements: The case of gay collective action in Singapore
1:00 pm Wednesday 7 Mar 2012
Dr Lynette Chua's research focuses on the intersections
of law and social movements. This talk analyses how law
matters to social movements in states that are not
Western liberal democracies
The Changing Face of Legal Education in China
6:30 pm Monday 5 Mar 2012
Jeffrey Lehman discusses the changing face of legal education in
China.
International Conversation Series, Melbourne Law School and Readings - Sundhya Pahuja In Conversation with Gerry Simpson
6:00 pm Thursday 1 Mar 2012
This Melbourne Law School and Readings ‘In Conversation’ will be co-
hosted by the Institute for International Law and the Humanities
(IILAH) and the Global Justice Studio (GJS).
February 2012
PhD Confirmation Seminar by Madelaine Chiam
10:00 am Tuesday 28 Feb 2012
PhD Candidate - Madelaine Chiam will present on her thesis: War-Talk:
and Non-Law in Public Debate about War
'Transnational Judicial Conversations on the Privileges and Immunities of International Organisations'
12:45 pm Thursday 23 Feb 2012
An Institute for International Law and the Humanities seminar to be
presented by Professor August Reinisch (Law, University of Vienna).
PhD Completion Seminar by Nicola Charwat
1:00 pm Wednesday 22 Feb 2012
PhD Candidate will be presenting on her thesis: Public Interest
Amicus Curiae in WTO Dispute Settlement: Contesting Global Market
Governance?
Asian Legal Dialogue - The Life of a Judge in Japan (Visiting Judge Atsuyuki Taniike)
3:00 pm Tuesday 21 Feb 2012
Judge Taniike will talk about how one may be appointed
as a judge, the
beginning of his own career, his lifestyle, and the
value and burden of the job.
Back in Your Box: Big Tobacco's Legal Challenges to Plain Packaging in Australia
5:30 pm Monday 20 Feb 2012
The lecture, part of Orientation Week, explains the
legal challenges
and issues since the Australian government introduced
legislation on
tobacco product packaging
The Rome Statute Ten Years On: Where to from here for the ICC?
6:00 pm Friday 17 Feb 2012
Mrs Fatou Bensouda of the Gambia has been elected Chief Prosecutor of
the
International Criminal Court. Hear her discuss the challenges she
expects
to face in this role.
'The WTO and International Investment Law: From Separation to Engagement'
12:45 pm Wednesday 15 Feb 2012
IILAH invites you to a seminar to be presented by Dr Tomer Broude
(Law, Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and Professor Giorgio Sacerdoti
(Law, Bocconi University, Milan).
ALC Brown Bag Seminar - Family Law in Japan, by Justice Kiyoko Okabe
10:30 am Wednesday 15 Feb 2012
Justice Okabe will explain the current state of family
law in Japan, drawing on her extensive experience as a
judge in family courts in Japan.
ALC Research Seminar - Saiban-in Seido in Japan, by Professsor Kent Anderson (ANU/ Uni of Adelaide)
3:00 pm Monday 13 Feb 2012
Professor Anderson will be presenting on the background and
structure of the new saiban-in system which was introduced
into the Japanese courts for serious criminal cases in
2009.
FREE Transactional Law Seminar: Contract Automation - What Does it Mean for the Legal Profession? (Syd)
5:30 pm Thursday 9 Feb 2012
Law firms and companies are increasingly using contract automation to
prepare business contracts. This free seminar will consider both
issues and benefits of contract automation.
ALC Brown Bag Seminar - The Derivative Action in Asia: An Inconvenient Truth, by Dr Dan Puchniak (National University of Singapore)
1:00 pm Wednesday 8 Feb 2012
Dr Puchniak will explain how the derivative action in
Asia provides a useful lens for re-evaluating several
of the foundational theories in “Asian” and comparative
corporate law.
FREE Transactional Law Seminar: Contract Automation - What Does it Mean for the Legal Profession? (Melb)
5:30 pm Tuesday 7 Feb 2012
Law firms and companies are increasingly using contract automation to
prepare business contracts. This free seminar will consider both
issues and benefits of contract automation.
January 2012
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CREEL/IILAH Book Launch - 'Trading Fish, Saving Fish' by Margaret Young
5:00 pm Wednesday 11 Jan 2012
IILAH and CREEL are delighted to invite you to the
launch of 'Trading
Fish, Saving Fish: The Interaction between Regimes in
International
Law' by Margaret Young.
December 2011
One Step Ahead - Hedge Funds and Private Equity Funds after the Global Financial Crisis
12:45 pm Tuesday 20 Dec 2011
One Step Ahead - Hedge Funds and Private Equity Funds after the
Global Financial Crisis
The Titling of Customary Land in Sabah in the Name of Poverty Alleviation: or Oil Palm through Some Other Means
1:15 pm Thursday 15 Dec 2011
1.15pm, Thursday 15 December 2011, Room G29, Ground Floor, Melbourne
Law School
'TRIPS and the non-communicable diseases epidemics'
12:45 pm Thursday 15 Dec 2011
The Institute for International Law and the Humanities (IILAH)
invites you to a Public Seminar to be presented by Professor Kevin
Outterson (Law, Boston University).
'Law and Its Accidents': Melbourne Doctoral Forum on Legal Theory
15 - 16 Dec 2011
This workshop is generously supported by: MLS, IPRIA, IILAH, CMCL,
CELRL, CREEL.
The Criminalisation of Holocaust Denial and Freedom of Speech
6:30 pm Wednesday 14 Dec 2011
Presented by Professor Dieter Grimm, Humboldt University of Berlin
'Jurisprudence of Movement'
1:00 pm Wednesday 14 Dec 2011
IILAH and the Office for Research will co-host the Completion Seminar
of Melbourne Law School's Research Higher Degree student Ms Olivia
Barr.
Joint Seminar - 'Cosmopolitan Justice in a Postcolonial World' and 'Integration Regimes and Governmentality'
6:00 pm Monday 12 Dec 2011
IILAH will present a joint public seminar presented by Professor
Nikita Dhawan (Goethe-University Frankfurt) & by Professor Maria do
Mar Castro Varela (Alice Salomon University Berlin)
CELRL Labour Law Seminar: 'Harmonized work health and safety laws – a new province for occupational health and safety'
6:00 pm Thursday 1 Dec 2011
At this seminar, Peter Rozen and Robin Stewart-Crompton will examine the
progress, content and implications of the national harmonisation of OHS
laws, with a focus on key issues.
Melbourne Contracts Workshop
1 - 2 Dec 2011
The Obligations Group at Melbourne Law School is
pleased to invite academics who teach or research in
the field of Contracts to a workshop at Melbourne
Law School.
November 2011
CCCS Seminar: Keeping things in proportion: Section 7(2) of the Victorian Charter - post Momcilovic and in Comparative Perspective
1:00 pm Wednesday 30 Nov 2011
CCCS Seminar presented by Claudia Geiringer
ALC/ CILS Research Seminar - Living in Limbo: Muslim Asylum-Seekers Stuck in Indonesia
5:00 pm Tuesday 29 Nov 2011
Indonesia has become a transit destination for refugees
and asylum seekers from war-torn countries in Asia.
Antje will talk about the living arrangements and
difficulties they face.
Eliminating Violence against Women - Changing Law, Changing Culture
6:30 pm Monday 28 Nov 2011
Presented by Jeffrey L. Bleich, the American Ambassador to Australia
7th Annual 2011 CILS/ NCEIS Islamic Studies Postgraduate Conference
28 - 29 Nov 2011
This conference aims to bring together postgraduate
students around Australia who are researching topics
relating to Islam.
Feedback panels and a thesis-writing session included.
CCCS Seminar: Declarations of Emergency and the Role of the Courts: The Nauru Experience
1:00 pm Wednesday 23 Nov 2011
Public seminar presented by Richard Niall SC
Book Launch: 'International Taxation of Permanent Establishments' by Dr Michael Kobetsky - 21 November 2011
5:30 pm Monday 21 Nov 2011
The Tax Group at Melbourne Law School is delighted to invite you to the
launch of Dr Michael Kobetsky’s book “International Taxation of
Permanent Establishments".
CCCS Seminar: Federalism and Climate Change in Canada, USA and Australia: Competitive Solutions to Collective Action?
1:00 pm Thursday 17 Nov 2011
Public Seminar presented by Dr Douglas Brown
Do we still need record labels? 2011 Vanderbilt-Melbourne Global Debate
2:00 am Wednesday 16 Nov 2011
Hear an expert panel discuss the role of record labels in the digital
age
The 2011 John Barry Memorial Lecture by Prof. Larissa Behrendt
6:30 pm Tuesday 15 Nov 2011
This free public lecture will be delivered by Professor Larissa
Behrendt, who will present on the topic: “More Upbeat than Usual:
Considering Crime Rates in Indigenous Communities”
Book Launch - 'Genocide, State Crime and the Law: In the Name of the State'
6:30 pm Monday 14 Nov 2011
Book launch of Melbourne University academic Dr Jennifer Balint. To
be launched by Raimond Gaita.
CCCS Seminar: Valerie Morse v The Police
1:00 pm Friday 11 Nov 2011
Public seminar presented by Steven Price
Transactional Law Program. Corporate Governance and Anti-bribery in Cross-border Transactions
10 - 15 Nov 2011
Two seminars will be held; one on Thursday 10 November (Melbourne),
and the
other on Tuesday 15 November (Sydney).
CELRL Labour Law Seminar - Performance Appraisal Cynicism: Subordinate and Manager Perspectives
1:00 pm Thursday 10 Nov 2011
Performance appraisals are a widely applied tool of human resource
management. In this seminar Michelle Brown will examine antecedents and
consequences of performance appraisal cynicism.
Educating Lawyers for the 21st Century: Professional Socialisation and the Construction of Professional Identity
6:00 pm Tuesday 8 Nov 2011
Professor Seron from University of California, Irvine's Department of
Criminology, argues that professional socialisation must include
hands-on apprenticeships and not just book knowledge.
20 Years of Enterprise Bargaining in Australia (4-5 November 2011)
4 - 5 Nov 2011
This event, marking the 20th anniversary of the AIRC’s October 1991
National Wage Case Decision, is being jointly organised by University of
Melbourne and Monash University.
JD Information Session
6:00 pm Thursday 3 Nov 2011
Considering Law in 2012 or beyond? Hear from Associate
Professor Elise Bant and current JD students
about the Melbourne JD experience.
APCML Lecture A normative standard for military justice?
6:00 pm Thursday 3 Nov 2011
A public lecture to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the APCML
The Global Unity of the Common Law of Torts?
6:30 pm Wednesday 2 Nov 2011
2011 Allen Hope Southey Memorial Lecture
October 2011
Postgraduate Law Students Association (PLSA) BBQ
1:30 pm Sunday 30 Oct 2011
Come join us for a Postgraduate Law Students Association (PLSA) BBQ,
a game of football and some sporting activities as we socialise in
the Melbourne sun right beside the Yarra River.
Why archive? The New Zealand Lost Cases project
5:30 pm Thursday 27 Oct 2011
2011 Rare Books Lecture
'Agonism and Abjection: Hannah Arendt, Giorgio Agamben and the Right to Have Rights'
12:45 pm Thursday 27 Oct 2011
IILAH seminar to be presented by Dr Andrew Schaap (Politics,
University of Exeter)
Melbourne Law Masters: 2012 Program Information Evening
6:00 pm Wednesday 26 Oct 2011
Experience what the 2012 Melbourne Law Masters program
has to offer.
Semester 2, 2012 Law Exchange Information Session
1:00 pm Wednesday 26 Oct 2011
Find out about applying for an exchange in Semester 2, 2012.
Electoral Reform and the Quest for Democracy in Malaysia, by Dato' Ambiga Sreenevasan
6:30 pm Tuesday 25 Oct 2011
Dato' Ambiga will explore the days prior to and after
BERSIH 2.0, its significance, and the Malaysian
government’s recently announced undertaking to repeal
some of the most oppressive laws.
2012 Institutions in International Law and Global Lawyer - Information Session
1:00 pm Tuesday 25 Oct 2011
Find out more about these overseas subjects and how to apply.
AACL Constitutional Law forum: Momcilovic’s Case
5:30 pm Friday 21 Oct 2011
The Australian Association of Constitutional Law (AACL) is pleased to
invite you to a forum on Momcilovic’s Case.
IFA Panel Discussion on Tax Treaties
6:00 pm Thursday 20 Oct 2011
You are invited to a Panel Discussion on Tax Treaties, hosted by the
Australian Branch of the International Fiscal Association (IFA). This
event is part of the Young IFA Network.
'De-linking intellectual property from exclusive rights'. 2011 Francis Gurry Lecture on Intellectual Property.
6:00 pm Monday 17 Oct 2011
Presented by James Love - Director, Knowledge Ecology International
PLSA Open House: Introduction of the 2012 Masters Program
5:30 pm Monday 17 Oct 2011
This special Open House will feature an introduction by Associate
Dean Cheryl Saunders regarding the 2012 Law Masters Program.
Legal Communication and Writing Skills tutorials and workshops
Friday 14 Oct 2011
Tutorials and clinics for Melbourne Law Masters
students who are new
to academic legal writing.
Recognising Indigenous Australians in the Constitution - Courting Controversy Public Lecture.
6:00 pm Wednesday 12 Oct 2011
Join the panel as they discuss the recognition of Indigenous
Australians in the Australian Constitution.
Panel: Malcolm Fraser, Mark McMillan & Cheryl Saunders. Chair:
Adrienne Stone
JD Information Session
6:00 pm Wednesday 12 Oct 2011
Considering Law in 2012 or beyond? Hear from Associate
Professor Elise Bant and current JD students
about the Melbourne JD experience.
ART/CCCS Inaugural Lecture: Integrity in Parliament - Where Does Duty Lie?
6:30 pm Tuesday 11 Oct 2011
Former Senator Fred Chaney to present the
Accountability Round Table and Centre for Comparative
Constitutional Studies Inaugural Lecture
CELRL Labour Law Seminar: 'Workers Compensation - The Need for a New Paradigm'
1:00 pm Tuesday 11 Oct 2011
This presentation will look at some of the difficulties related to key
aspects of workers compensation design before discussing some
alternative approaches.
2011 Sir Anthony Mason Lecture: Proportionality - a Rule of Reason
6:15 pm Friday 7 Oct 2011
Presented by The Hon. Justice Susan Kiefel AC (High Court of
Australia)
CILS Research Seminar - Islamisation, the Law and Governance in Indonesia’s Public Sphere: Muslim Religious Orientations and Support for Democracy
1:00 pm Wednesday 5 Oct 2011
Dr Fauzia will argue that Islamisation does not
affect the majority support for democracy, even though
Islamisation has influenced their knowledge, opinions
and ritual practices.
LSAT Information Session - for application for the Melbourne JD
6:00 pm Tuesday 4 Oct 2011
The LSAT is one of the criteria for selection into the Melbourne JD.
Attend this session to find out more about what it is, what it
measures, and how it is used in the selection process.
'International Law And Empire'
4 - 6 Oct 2011
The workshop is co-hosted by the Erik Castrén Institute for
International Law and Human Rights, (Helsinki) and the Institute for
International Law and the Humanities (Melbourne) in Helsinki.
September 2011
CCCS Seminar: The High Cost of Judges: Reconsidering Judicial Pensions and Retirement in an Ageing Population
1:00 pm Thursday 29 Sep 2011
Seminar presented by Professor Brian Opeskin
'Decolonising International Law: Development, Economic Growth and the Politics of Universality'
Thursday 29 Sep 2011
This Book Launch is in London. There will be one in Melbourne later
in 2011. Details will be posted in early October 2011.
'Beyond the Malaysian Solution? Refugee Responsibility Sharing in the Asia-Pacific Region'
6:00 pm Thursday 22 Sep 2011
IILAH and CCCS Public Lecture presented by Richard Towle (United
Nations), James C. Hathaway (Law, Michigan), Michelle Foster (Law,
Melbourne) and Adrienne Stone (Law, Melbourne).
'The Law of Refugee Status Workshop'
22 - 24 Sep 2011
This workshop is supported by the Institute for International Law and
the Humanities and the Australian Research Council.
Relaunch Your Career conference - Towards Success in the Law
22 - 23 Sep 2011
An initiative from the Law Institute of Victoria, Victorian Women
Lawyers, the Victorian Bar, the Australian Corporate Lawyers
Association and the Women Barristers Association.
CELRL Labour Law Seminar - 'Complementary Regulation' compared with a 'Regulatory by-pass': Strategies for Informal Work
1:00 pm Wednesday 14 Sep 2011
This seminar compares two strategies for re-regulating when an existing
institution is failing: 'complementary regulation’ and a ‘regulatory by-
pass’.
ALC/CCCS Occasional Seminar: The Social Contract and the Malaysian Constitution Revisited
6:00 pm Monday 12 Sep 2011
ALC/CCCS Seminar to be presented by Professor Andrew
Harding, University of Victoria, Canada
9/11 - Ten Years On: A student roundtable event
5:00 pm Monday 12 Sep 2011
An evening to discuss decade of global political, legal and social
change since September 11, 2001.
Construction Law in Australia (3rd ed) Book Launch and 2012 Masters Program Information
5:30 pm Thursday 8 Sep 2011
Melbourne Law School invites you & colleagues to
Construction Law
in Australia (3rd ed) book launch by construction law
program
directors of studies by Prof. Ian Bailey SC & Matthew Bell
‘Humanising' the Border: Migrant Labour, Development and the Promise of Legality
10:30 am Thursday 8 Sep 2011
The Office for Research in conjunction with the Institute for
International Law and the Humanities (IILAH) will present a PhD
Confirmation Seminar by Ms Sara Dehm.
ALC/ CILS Brown Bag Seminar: Indonesia’s Islamic Educational Institutions and Radicalism amongst the Muslim Youth
1:00 pm Wednesday 7 Sep 2011
This presentation will try to answer the question of
whether Islamic higher educational institutions, in
particular UIN Jakarta, have become hotbeds for
religious extremism and conservatism.
The Engineering Vs. Law Great Debate
6:30 pm Thursday 1 Sep 2011
The Engineering Vs. Law Great Debate
"Lawyers or Engineers - Who creates the future?"
Thursday 1st September 2011 - 6.30pm - 8.30pm
Theatre A1, Old Engineering Building
CELRL Labour Law Seminar - Thursday 1 September 2011
1:00 pm Thursday 1 Sep 2011
In this seminar two former Melbourne Law School students will
present based on their Student Working Papers recently published
by the Centre for Employment and Labour Relations Law.
'Hannah Arendt, Beginnings and Female Subjectivity in International Law'
11:30 am Thursday 1 Sep 2011
IILAH and the Office for Research will present a PhD Completion
Seminar by Ms Deborah Whitehall at the Melbourne Law School.
August 2011
International Fiscal Association (IFA) Seminar: Chinese International Tax and Treaty Policy
6:00 pm Wednesday 31 Aug 2011
The Australia (Melbourne) Branch of the International Fiscal Association
is pleased to invite you to the next IFA seminar for 2011 on Chinese
International Tax and Treaty Policy.
CCCS Seminar: From the Pursuit of Unity to Respect of Diversity: A Retrospect and Reflection of Chinese Ethnic Policy
1:00 pm Wednesday 31 Aug 2011
CCCS Seminar to be presented by Robert Li, Peking
University
GLSA Global Thinking Series - Simon McKeon: Some Thoughts on the Professional Workplace of the Future
6:30 pm Tuesday 30 Aug 2011
'Reading and Rereading the Caroline Correspondence, 1838 -1842'
5:30 pm Tuesday 30 Aug 2011
IILAH Twilight Seminar to be presented by Professor Dino Kritsiotis
(Law, University of Nottingham).
Sample Law Class: 'Taxation Law and Policy - How to Deduct your Education Expenses', presented by Associate Professor Miranda Stewart
1:00 pm Tuesday 30 Aug 2011
Are you an undergraduate student interested in law? Please join a
lunchtime sample law class: a series focussing on a variety of legal
issues across disciplines.
'Makeshift Migrants and Law: Gender, Belonging, and Postcolonial Anxieties'
5:30 pm Monday 29 Aug 2011
IILAH Twilight Seminar to be presented by Professor Ratna Kapur
(Geneva School of Diplomacy and International Relations).
Military Law in a New Dimension
26 - 28 Aug 2011
Armed Forces Deployed against Transnational Crime and Terrorism
CCCS Seminar: Wainohu v New South Wales
1:00 pm Friday 26 Aug 2011
CCCS Seminar to be presented by A/Prof James Stellios,
ANU College of Law
JD Information Session
6:00 pm Thursday 25 Aug 2011
Considering Law in 2012 or beyond? Hear from Associate
Professor Elise Bant and current JD students
about the Melbourne JD experience.
ALC Brown Bag Seminar - Collective Labour Dispute Resolution in Vietnam: The Proposed Legal Reform
1:00 pm Wednesday 24 Aug 2011
Ha aims to show why the legal framework for collective
labour dispute resolution is not effective in practice
in Vietnam.
CLEN: Second Annual Baxt Lecture on Competition Law
12:30 pm Wednesday 24 Aug 2011
The Second Annual Baxt Lecture will be given by
Professor Richard Whish, one of Europe’s foremost
competition law scholars, on Wednesday 24 August 2011.
ALC/Tax Group Seminar - Centralization of Taxing Power and Economic Development: Chinese Evidence
5:30 pm Tuesday 23 Aug 2011
Social scientists have been debating the role fiscal
decentralization has played in Chinese reform. Is China
economically
successful due to decentralization or centralization?
Sample Law Class: 'Excision, Exclusion and Exile: What is Wrong with Australia’s Refugee Policy?', presented by Associate Professor Michelle Foster
1:00 pm Tuesday 23 Aug 2011
Are you an undergraduate student interested in law? Please join a
lunchtime sample law class: a series focussing on a variety of legal
issues across disciplines.
Handle with Care: Building rapport with your interviewer. A masterclass with David Talalla - Essential for all students undertaking a clerkship or graduate job interviews in 2011!
1:00 pm Thursday 18 Aug 2011
David Talalla is a Melbourne-based expert in legal recruitment &
career development. He has extensive experience working with law
firms, corporations and governments in Australia, Asia & UK.
'On the effective implementation of human and minority rights in Europe'
5:30 pm Wednesday 17 Aug 2011
IILAH Public Seminar to be presented by Dr Panayote Dimitras
(Greek Helsinki Monitor).
ALC Brown Bag Seminar - Recent Amendments in Korean Criminal Law - Confronting Child Sexual Abuse
1:00 pm Wednesday 17 Aug 2011
Judge Park will talk about how recent amendments Korean
criminal law on child sexual abuse, is concentrated on
reinforcing punishment and devising new security measures.
Workers and Tax Reform: A symposium to prepare for the Tax Forum - Tuesday 16 August 2011
10:30 am Tuesday 16 Aug 2011
This event will bring together celebrated US academic, Professor
Jonathan Forman, with an expert Australian panel to discuss options for
reform of income tax rates, credits and transfers
Book Launch - Philosophy, Ethics and a Common Humanity - Essays in Honour of Raimond Gaita
5:30 pm Monday 15 Aug 2011
The Supreme Court of Victoria Commercial Law Conference
2:00 pm Monday 15 Aug 2011
Current Issues in Commercial Law.
'Rights and the Australian Council for Civil Liberties'
12:45 pm Thursday 11 Aug 2011
IILAH Public Seminar to be presented by Dr James Waghorne (School of
Historical Studies, The Australian Centre, University of Melbourne).
'Facing up to Facebook in employment: The risks and benefits of social media for employers'
12:30 pm Thursday 11 Aug 2011
Join alumni Kate Jenkins & Mr Kaman Tsoi for a fascinating lunchtime
discussion on the impact of social media in this once formal and
private realm.
Location: Sotto
Cost: $35
Beyond a Carbon Price: A Framework for Climate Change Regulation in Australia
11 - 12 Aug 2011
Beyond a Carbon Price: A Framework for Climate Change
Regulation in Australia
August 11-12, 2011, University of Melbourne
'The Criminal Law - A Mildly Vituperative Critique' presented by The Hon Mark Weinberg
6:30 pm Wednesday 10 Aug 2011
Justice Weinberg will deliver the 2011 Peter Brett Memorial Lecture
Life in the JD: the student experience
6:00 pm Wednesday 10 Aug 2011
Are you interested in studying law but want to know
whether it’s for
you? Come along to our JD Student Panel and hear from
current
Melbourne Law School JD students about their experiences.
'Enemies of Mankind: Warmongers and Warlike Peoples in Vattel’s Law of Nations'
10:30 am Wednesday 10 Aug 2011
IILAH and the Office for Research will present a PhD Completion
Seminar by Mr Walter Rech at the Melbourne Law School.
Sample Law Class: 'Caring for children after separation: Does legislating for shared parenting time help children?', presented by Professor Belinda Fehlberg
1:00 pm Tuesday 9 Aug 2011
Are you an undergraduate student interested in law? Please join a
lunchtime sample law class: a series focussing on a variety of legal
issues across disciplines.
CELRL Labour Law Seminar: Labour as a ‘Fictive Commodity’: Radically Reconceptualising Labour Law
1:00 pm Tuesday 9 Aug 2011
This seminar will begin by recontextualizing and re-interpreting the
dominant story of labour law in order to offer a different account, one
that treats labour as a ‘fictive commodity’.
Information Session - Tax Library Resources for Melbourne Law Masters students
12:30 pm Tuesday 9 Aug 2011
Essential training in Melbourne Law School's outstanding specialist
Tax law resources.
Institutions in International Law and Global Lawyer Reunion
6:00 pm Friday 5 Aug 2011
An invitation to a class reunion of all Institutions in International
Law and Global Lawyer students at Sotto e Sopra in Melbourne's CBD.
Reforming the World Health Organization - Presented by Professor Lawrence Gostin
1:00 pm Friday 5 Aug 2011
Join Professor Gostin as he offers five proposals for re-establishing
the leadership of the World Health Organization.
Annual Tax Lecture - 'International Tax Policy: A Current View from the United States' - 3 August 2011
5:30 pm Wednesday 3 Aug 2011
The Annual Tax Lecture was launched by the Tax Group with the purpose of
placing the development of the tax law in its historical context, and to
inform public debate on current tax issues.
CILS Research Seminar - Sanctions for Popstars and Politicians? The Aftermath of Indonesia's Pornography Law
1:00 pm Wednesday 3 Aug 2011
Although Indonesia’s Pornography Law was passed in
2008, after much controversy. Indonesia’s vast black
market pornography business has been allowed to thrive
unchecked...
LSAT Information Session - for application for the Melbourne JD
6:00 pm Tuesday 2 Aug 2011
The LSAT is one of the criteria for selection into the Melbourne JD.
Attend this session to find out more about what it is, what it
measures, and how it is used in the selection process.
Rufus Black: How to Succeed in the 21st Century
1:00 pm Monday 1 Aug 2011
GLOBAL THINKING GUEST LECTURE - RUFUS BLACK: How to Succeed in the
21st Century
July 2011
Call for submissions - Journal of Commonwealth Criminal Law
31 Jul - 20 Sep 2011
The JCCL invites submissions for future issues from academics, judges and practitioners, in the field of
Commonwealth criminal law and practice.
Melbourne Law Masters - Induction Day 2011
9:30 am Saturday 30 Jul 2011
Induction Day is an opportunity for students to to discover the Law School's facilities, learn about graduate research and assessment and to meet their fellow classmates.
JD Information Session
6:00 pm Thursday 28 Jul 2011
Considering Law in 2012 or beyond? Hear from Associate
Professor Elise Bant and current JD students
about the Melbourne JD experience.
'Jurisprudence, Politics & Ethics in an International Frame'
10:00 am Monday 25 Jul 2011
IILAH Masterclass to be presented by Professor JIll Stauffer
(Haverford College, USA) for Melbourne Law School Research Higher
Degree students.
'The experience of an extreme loneliness: Resentment and Reconciliation as Affective States of International Criminal Law'
5:30 pm Thursday 21 Jul 2011
IILAH / APCML Keynote address at the 'Affective States of
International Criminal Justice' symposium to be presented by
Professor Jill Stauffer (Haverford College, USA).
' 'Terrorist': Diasporic Emotions, Sense of Justice and International Criminal Classification'
6:00 pm Wednesday 20 Jul 2011
IILAH Public Seminar to be presented by Professor Ghassan Hage
(Future Generation Professor of Anthropology and Social Theory,
University of Melbourne)
'Affective States of International Criminal Justice'
20 - 22 Jul 2011
IILAH / APCML Symposium presented by distinguished and emerging
scholars from Australia and internationally.
ALC/CILS Occasional Seminar - Sisters in Islam: A Study of the Impact of Polygamy on Muslim Families in Malaysia
6:00 pm Monday 18 Jul 2011
This seminar will look at how polygamy affects the
quality of family
life; and develop understanding of the dynamics of
polygamous families, their different experiences, needs
and concerns
Book Launch: Electoral Democracy: Australian Prospects
1:30 pm Friday 15 Jul 2011
Edited by Joo-Cheong Tham, Brian Costar and Graeme Orr. To be
launched by Colin Barry (NSW Electoral Commissioner), Friday 15 July
2011 1.30pm, at Melbourne Law School.
Law and Religion: Legal Regulation of Religious Groups, Organisations and Communities
15 - 16 Jul 2011
This international conference will explore the role of law in
regulating religious communities and how the law should respond to
conflicts between individual and group rights.
Do Bills of Rights Protect or Endanger Religious Freedom: The American Constitutional Experience
6:30 pm Thursday 14 Jul 2011
Professor Witte argues that the American experience demonstrates that
the constitutional protection of religious freedom can be a benefit
to religion
In Conversation with Brendan Schwab and Ross Levin: What Does It Take To Run A Football Club?
12:30 pm Thursday 14 Jul 2011
In Conversation with Brendan Schwab and Ross Levin:
Topic: What Does It Take to Run a Football Club
Cost: $35 Banquet Lunch
The Wednesday Lectures: Helen Pringle presents 'Gimme Shelter: The Power of Secrecy and Silence in Democracy'
6:30 pm Wednesday 6 Jul 2011
This is the fifth lecture in a series of five, as part of The
Wednesday Lectures - Hosted by Raimond Gaita titled.
The Sportsworlds of Japan, Australia and the United States
5:30 pm Tuesday 5 Jul 2011
In this presentation, Professor Kelly will bring attention to the
importance of sports in and as globalisation by considering the
growing importance of soccer, both men’s and women’s.
'The Clash of Analogies and Approaches in the Investment Treaty System'
12:45 pm Monday 4 Jul 2011
IILAH Seminar to be presented by Ms Anthea Roberts (Department of
Law, London School of Economics (LSE)).
JSAA Biennial Conference - Internationalising Japan: Sport, Culture and Education
4 - 7 Jul 2011
The University of Melbourne is hosting the 17th
Biennial Conference
of the Japanese Studies Association of Australia (JSAA)
in July 2011.
Queensland Dean's Alumni Reception
6:30 pm Friday 1 Jul 2011
Queensland Dean's Alumni Reception
Location: Zenbar Restaurant, 215 Adelaide Street, Post Office
Square, Park Level, Brisbane
June 2011
CELRL/CCLSR Seminar: Corporate Governance in the Common-Law World: The Political Foundations of Shareholder Power - Thursday 30 June
1:00 pm Thursday 30 Jun 2011
Professor Bruner will discuss his comparative research on stakeholder-
centric regulatory structures.
The Wednesday Lectures: Kevin Heller presents 'Can the U.S. Prosecute WikiLeaks for Espionage? Should It?'
6:30 pm Wednesday 29 Jun 2011
This is the fourth lecture in a series of five, as part of The
Wednesday Lectures - Hosted by Raimond Gaita titled 'Power, the State
and Wikileaks’.
Triggering Institutional Change - The Indonesian Corruption Eradication Commission (PhD Completion Seminar)
1:00 pm Wednesday 29 Jun 2011
In this presentation, Sofie Schuette will discuss how
effective anti-corruption
reform can be achieved in a highly corrupt environment
using a case study on
the KPK.
CREEL Seminar: Interacting Regulatory Frameworks for Climate Change
12:45 pm Friday 24 Jun 2011
Join CREEL for a seminar presented by Dr Ottavio
Quirico on 'Interacting Regulatory Frameworks for
Climate Change'.
Focus on Law - JD Information Session (for School Leavers)
6:30 pm Thursday 23 Jun 2011
Primarily for current school students (students in years 10-12), this
session will discuss the advantages of graduate law, and why the
Melbourne JD should be your first choice to study law.
The Wednesday Lectures: Secrecy, Power and Democracy - Panel Discussion
6:30 pm Wednesday 22 Jun 2011
Join Raimond Gaita, Guy Rundle, Gerry Simpson & Robert Manne as
they discuss the overall theme of this lecture series.
CELRL Labour Law Seminar: Pressing the Right Buttons: Case Studies in the Protection of Employee Entitlements
1:00 pm Thursday 16 Jun 2011
This seminar will examine how the law appears to play very little part
in the protection of employee entitlements when a company becomes
insolvent.
The Wednesday Lectures: Raimond Gaita presents 'Power and Consent'
6:30 pm Wednesday 15 Jun 2011
This is the second lecture in a series of five, as part of The
Wednesday Lectures - Hosted by Raimond Gaita titled 'Secrecy, Power
and Democracy'.
Role of Community Organisations in Enforcing Labour Law - Thursday 9 June
1:00 pm Thursday 9 Jun 2011
Effective enforcement is vital to Australian labour law: gaps in
enforcement seriously undermine the integrity of the system.
The Wednesday Lectures: Guy Rundle presents 'From Cold War to Cyberwar: Power, the State and the Wikileaks Effect'
6:30 pm Wednesday 8 Jun 2011
This is the first lecture in a series of five, as part of The
Wednesday Lectures - Hosted by Raimond Gaita titled 'Secrecy, Power
and Democracy'.
CREEL/EDO Seminar - New directions in climate change law and policy
5:45 pm Wednesday 8 Jun 2011
Join the Parliamentary Secretary for Climate Change and
Energy Efficiency, Mark Dreyfus QC MP for a seminar on
'New directions in climate change law and policy'.
The University of Melbourne Mid-Year Entry Expo
4:30 pm Thursday 2 Jun 2011
Come along to the University's Mid-Year Entry Expo to discuss your
study options with staff from Faculty and Graduate Schools,
Admissions, Transition and Orientation.
May 2011
Effective Legal Writing Workshop - 31 May 2011
9:00 am Tuesday 31 May 2011
This workshop will focus on the principles that every legal writer
must master to produce concise, down-to-earth, and powerful prose.
ALC Brown Bag Seminar: Electronic Litigation in Korea
1:00 pm Monday 30 May 2011
South Korea is currently one of the leading countires
in establishing electronic litigation systems. Judge Oh
will introduce the e-filing and computerised
case-management systems.
Burmese Studies Workshop
9:00 am Thursday 26 May 2011
This workshop provides the opportunity for academics
and PhD students
to present their research on Burmese studies and
receive valuable
feedback.
CILS Research/ PhD Completion Seminar: The Emergence of Islamic Feminism in Contemporary Indonesia
1:00 pm Monday 23 May 2011
The presentation will discuss how Islamic texts on
gender have been reinterpreted substantively, to argue
for gender justice and equality
CCCS Seminar: Constitutional Courts in Fragile Democracies
6:00 pm Thursday 19 May 2011
The Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies invites you to a
seminar on 19 May to hear Professor Sam Issacharoff discuss work in
progress on Fragile Democracies.
Careers in Law Evening
6:00 pm Thursday 19 May 2011
Ever wondered where a law degree might take you? Hear
from a range of speakers working in different areas of the law, and
see the range of opportunities available to law graduates.
A Construction Law Showcase: Prize-winning Papers and Announcement of the 2011 Brooking Prize
5:30 pm Thursday 19 May 2011
Melbourne Law School in association with the Society of Construction
Law Australia present an evening reception to showcase
construction law papers and announce the 2011 Brooking Prize.
'Torture: Can Law Prevent It?’ presented by Professor Stephen Toope
6:30 pm Wednesday 18 May 2011
A novel theoretical account of how a sense of obligation is created,
maintained and destroyed in international society. Exploring the
contemporary legal status of the anti-torture norm
New Natures Seminar Series: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World
6:30 pm Tuesday 17 May 2011
In the first New Natures event for 2011, Professor
Timothy Morton
will deliver a lecture titled 'Philosophy and Ecology
after the End
of the World'. Room 102, Melbourne Law School.
JD Information Session
6:00 pm Tuesday 17 May 2011
Considering Law in 2012 or beyond? Hear from Associate
Professor Andrew Mitchell and a current JD student
about the Melbourne JD experience.
Guest Lecture: Mallesons Partner Joseph Muraca on the $14.6bn AXA/AMP Deal
1:00 pm Monday 16 May 2011
Stop on by for this great opportunity to talk to the Mergers and Acquisitions team on the inside of the
$14.6bn AXA/AMP deal.
CREEL Seminar: Learning from the USA experience in diffuse source regulation
12:45 pm Friday 13 May 2011
Professor Robin Kundis Craig is visiting Victoria as
part of Department of Primary Industries’ Visiting
Scientists Program.
JD Information Session - at Queen's College
7:15 pm Wednesday 11 May 2011
Are you a student at Queen's College and considering Law in 2012 or
beyond? Professor Andrew Christie will be visiting Queen's College to
talk to students about the Melbourne JD experience.
'Human Rights and Intellectual Property: Mapping the Global Interface'
5:30 pm Wednesday 11 May 2011
A free public seminar proudly presented by IPRIA in association with
the Centre for Media and Communications Law (CMCL) and the Institute
for International Law and the Humanities (IILAH).
Victorian Ombudsman George Brouwer presents the Law Week Oration 2011
6:30 pm Tuesday 10 May 2011
The 2011 Law Week Oration will be presented by the Victorian
Ombudsman, Mr
George Brouwer
'Contesting Legitimacy: Sources of Authority within the Just War Tradition and International Law'
4:15 pm Tuesday 10 May 2011
IILAH invites you to a seminar presented by Dr Tarik Kochi, Lecturer
in Law and International Security (Law and the Centre for Social and
Political Thought) at the University of Sussex, UK.
Graduate Study Expo
3:30 pm Tuesday 10 May 2011
Find out more about graduate study at Melbourne. Speak with our staff
about our diverse range of programs and get the answers you need
before you apply.
Remedial Pleas and Awards: Investigating Collective Protection of Individual Employee Rights in Unfair Labour Practice Cases
1:00 pm Thursday 5 May 2011
In this seminar Dr Slinn will investigate collective protection of
individual employee rights in unfair labour practice cases in relation
to remedial pleas and awards.
CILS Research Seminar/ PhD Completion Seminar: Opposition to Christian Proselytisation in Indonesia
1:00 pm Wednesday 4 May 2011
This presentation will question how and why some Muslims oppose the
construction of Christian churches in West Java.
Global Thinking Guest Lecture: Rufus Black - Making a Difference in the 21st Century.
1:00 pm Tuesday 3 May 2011
What are the traits and qualities needed to thrive and succeed in the unique environment of the 21st
century?
April 2011
Shanghai Alumni Seminar and Reception
5:00 pm Thursday 28 Apr 2011
Shanghai Alumni Seminar and Reception, featuring a presentation by Mr
Andrew Godwin
Bridging the Divide (Shanghai)
2:00 pm Wednesday 27 Apr 2011
Understanding how cross-border contracts are drafted
and negotiated between Chinese and Western counterparties
International Developments in the Regulation and Structure of Law Firms Seminar Beijing
4:00 pm Tuesday 26 Apr 2011
An update and discussion on:developments, including limited liability
partnerships and alternative business structures, and the impact on
China and Asia.
Bridging the Divide: Drafting and Negotiating Contracts in Cross-Border Deals seminar (Beijing)
2:00 pm Friday 22 Apr 2011
Understanding how cross-border contracts are drafted
and negotiated between Chinese and Western counterparties
Beijing Alumni Seminar and Reception
6:00 pm Thursday 21 Apr 2011
Beijing Alumni Seminar and Reception at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
'The World Trade Organization’s Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property (TRIPS) Agreement and Access to Medicines'
5:30 pm Thursday 21 Apr 2011
IILAH and IPRIA will co-host a Twilight Seminar at the Melbourne Law
School presented by Professor Jayashree Watal, currently Counsellor
in the Intellectual Property Division of the WTO.
ALC Brown Bag Seminar: The Indonesian Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK)
1:00 pm Wednesday 20 Apr 2011
The presentation will focus on the main forms of resistance the KPK
have faced, and what effect they have had.
LSAT Information Session - for application for the Melbourne JD
6:00 pm Tuesday 19 Apr 2011
The LSAT is one of the criteria for selection into the Melbourne JD.
Attend this session to find out more about what it is, what it
measures, and how it is used in the selection process.
Hong Kong Alumni Seminar and Reception
5:30 pm Tuesday 19 Apr 2011
Hong Kong Alumni Seminar and Reception at Mallesons Stephen Jaques
ALC Brown Bag Seminar: Shareholder Derivative Lawsuits in China
1:00 pm Tuesday 19 Apr 2011
Professor Donald Clarke, from the George Washington University Law
School is a visitor at the MLS, teaching "Chinese Law" in the
Melbourne Law Masters Program.
Sample Law Class: 'Is War Within the Law?', presented by Associate Professor Alison Duxbury
1:00 pm Tuesday 19 Apr 2011
Are you an undergraduate student interested in law? Please join a
lunchtime sample law class: a series focussing on a variety of legal
issues across disciplines.
CCCS Seminar: The Right to Information in International Human Rights Law
1:00 pm Thursday 14 Apr 2011
A/Prof McDonagh will present her paper 'The Right to Information in
International Human Rights Law', which explores conceptual basis for
the right to information.
Rob Stary: In Conversation Wikileaks -
12:30 pm Thursday 14 Apr 2011
Rob Stary: In Conversation: Wikileaks - "Shooting the Messenger"
$35.00 - payment prior to event - Venue: Sotto e Sopra
ALC Occasional Seminar: Access to Justice (by Iur. Zulminarni)
6:00 pm Wednesday 13 Apr 2011
Iur. Zulminarni will discuss the challenges PEKKA, a
non-government organisation supporting the rights of
female-headed households in Indonesia, faces.
The Legal Construction of Personal Work Relations: A New Model for the Foundation of Employment Relationships
5:30 pm Tuesday 12 Apr 2011
One of the most intractable issues in employment law concerns the
adequacy of the contract of employment as a basis for regulating
employment relationships and social protection.
Sample Law Class: 'Law in Virtual Worlds', presented by Professor Andrew Christie
1:00 pm Tuesday 12 Apr 2011
Are you an undergraduate student interested in law? Please join a
lunchtime sample law class: a series focussing on a variety of legal
issues across disciplines.
'Slavery as Ownership: Exploring the Property Elements of Contemporary Slavery'
12:45 pm Friday 8 Apr 2011
Drs Allain and Hickey from Queen's University, Belfast provide a
sneak-preview of their project meant to establish the parameters of
what constitutes 'slavery' in law.
The Policy, Politics and Law of Obama's Health Care Reform: Rhetoric vs. Reality
7:00 pm Thursday 7 Apr 2011
Mark Hall outlines major elements of U.S. health care
reform,
explains key policy goals accomplished & compromised, &
forecasts
overturning reform through constitutional or political
attacks
JD information session
6:00 pm Thursday 7 Apr 2011
Considering Law in 2012 or beyond? Hear from Associate
Professor Caron Beaton-Wells and current JD students
about the Melbourne JD experience.
Human Rights Panel: Using the Universal Periodic Review to Improve Human Rights
1:00 pm Wednesday 6 Apr 2011
ALC Occasional Seminar: Ahmadiyah & Religious Persecution in Indonesia
6:00 pm Tuesday 5 Apr 2011
Dr Nasution, Honorary Professorial Fellow (MLS) will speak
on "Ahmadiyah and Religious Persecution in Indoneisa".
Book Launch: Kirsty Gover, 'Tribal Constitutionalism: States Tribes and the Governance of Membership'
6:00 pm Tuesday 5 Apr 2011
The CCCS and CREEL are co-hosting the launch of Kirsty
Gover’s book: Tribal Constitutionalism: States Tribes
and the Governance of Membership (OUP, 2010) on Tuesday
5 April at 6pm.
'Panel Discussion on the International Intervention in Libya'
1:00 pm Friday 1 Apr 2011
GJS and IILAH will present Tim McCormack, Anne Orford and Elizabeth
Wilmshurst in conversation with Gerry Simpson on the international
intervention in Libya, at Melbourne Law School.
March 2011
Forced Labour or Slavery: Probing their Legal Parameters - Thursday 31 March
1:00 pm Thursday 31 Mar 2011
During this lunchtime Labour Law Seminar, Dr Allain will consider the
continuum of coercion from free labour through exploitation.
'The Targeted Killing Judgment of the Israeli Supreme Court and the Critique of Legal Violence'
12:45 pm Thursday 31 Mar 2011
The seminar will focus on Walter Benjamin’s critique: distinction
between two modalities of ‘legal violence’–lawmaking or foundational
violence and law-preserving or administrative violence.
Elizabeth Wilmshurst CMG presents ‘The Crime of Aggression and its place in the international criminal justice system’
6:00 pm Wednesday 30 Mar 2011
JD information session - Adelaide
6:00 pm Thursday 24 Mar 2011
Hear from Associate Professor Andrew Mitchell about the benefits of
graduate law and the Melbourne JD experience at this Adelaide
information session.
JD information session - Sydney
6:00 pm Thursday 24 Mar 2011
Hear from Professor Pip Nicholson about the benefits of
graduate law and the Melbourne JD experience at this Sydney
information session.
CREEL Seminar: The Legal Protection of the Amazon
12:45 pm Thursday 24 Mar 2011
The Legal Protection of the Amazon.
CREEL Guest Speaker: Dr Beatriz Garcia will discuss her
book, “The Amazon: from an International Law Perspective”.
Tolerance or Toleration? How to Deal with Religious Conflicts in Europe
1:00 pm Wednesday 23 Mar 2011
Dr Zucca, of King's College London School of Law, distinguishes
between tolerance and toleration as competing attitudes towards
religious diversity.
JD information session
6:00 pm Tuesday 22 Mar 2011
Considering Law in 2012 or beyond? Hear from Associate
Professor Caron Beaton-Wells and current JD students
about the Melbourne JD experience.
'Financial Services in the GATS and the Global Financial Crisis: A View from Singapore'
12:45 pm Thursday 17 Mar 2011
The Institute for International Law and the Humanities invites to
this public seminar presented by Associate Professor Dora Neo (Law,
National University of Singapore).
Guest Lecture Series - Starting at Law School. Ending on the High Court
1:00 pm Thursday 10 Mar 2011
A series of weekly lectures on current issues in law and legal
practice for Melbourne Law School students.
Melbourne Law School Graduation Ceremony and Reception
10:30 am Saturday 5 Mar 2011
Melbourne Law School will celebrate the graduation of students
completing their studies in 2010, at the Conferring of Degrees Ceremony
at 10.30 am, and a celebration Reception afterwards.
Regulating decent work for domestic workers? Promise and perils of international standard setting
1:00 pm Thursday 3 Mar 2011
This presentation builds on the ILO’s 2009 law and practice report from
the International Labour Conference.
Guest Lecture Series - Can 'Solution Focussed Judging' exist in a milieu of 'Law and Order'?
1:00 pm Thursday 3 Mar 2011
A series of weekly lectures on current issues in law and legal
practice for Melbourne Law School students.
February 2011
Melbourne Torts Workshop
9:00 am Friday 25 Feb 2011
The Obligations Group at Melbourne Law School will host
the Melbourne Torts Workshop on Friday 25 February 2011.
Dean's Luncheon for Graduates of the 1940's and 1950's
12:00 pm Thursday 24 Feb 2011
Alumni Event:
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2011 ELSA Moot Court Competition on WTO Law
6:00 pm Wednesday 23 Feb 2011
Can we import cloned sheep? Or adopt precautionary
measures in
situations of scientific uncertainty?
Join us as the Moot Team presents their case in a
simulated dispute
before a WTO panel
Book Launch - “Australian Cartel Regulation: Law, Policy and Practice in an International Context”
5:45 pm Tuesday 22 Feb 2011
The launch will be hosted by Professor Bob Baxt AO,
Chair of the Melbourne Law Masters Competition Law
Program Advisory Board.
'On the (possible) relationship of the EU Court of Justice with the UN Security Council and International Tribunals'
5:30 pm Thursday 17 Feb 2011
The Institute for International Law and the Humanities is delighted
to invite you to an IILAH Twilight Seminar presented by Professor Joe
Verhoeven, Université Panthéon-Assas, Paris II.
CCCS Seminar: The Emergence of East Asian Constitutionalism
1:00 pm Tuesday 15 Feb 2011
National Taiwan University
'Decon-figuring Borders – Re-bordering Figures'
12:45 pm Thursday 10 Feb 2011
In this IILAH seminar Matthew Nicholson will explore how we have
thought about 'international law' and how, perhaps, we might think
differently.
Asian Legal Dialogue: The Life of a Judge in Japan (in Japanese)
12:00 pm Wednesday 9 Feb 2011
Judge Ueno will give an insight to the start of his
career, as well
as his experience as a legal apprentice.
A Further Conversation with Elders: Bringing you up to date with the impacts of living under the Intervention
5:45 pm Monday 7 Feb 2011
Hear from Elders from the Northern Territory and Central Australia
how
the government's Intervention program has had an impact on their
communities.
'Achieving greater coherence and mutual supportiveness between the trade and climate change regimes'
12:45 pm Thursday 3 Feb 2011
This seminar will be hosted by the Centre for Resources, Energy and
Environmental Law and the Institute for International Law and the
Humanities at the Melbourne Law School.
Graduate Study Expo
4:00 pm Wednesday 2 Feb 2011
The Graduate Study Expo is the University of Melbourne's premiere event for potential graduate students to
gather all the information required prior to applying for graduate study.
'In The Name of the Victim: The Figure and Figuration of the Victim in International Criminal Justice '
1:00 pm Tuesday 1 Feb 2011
Maria Elander (PhD Candidate, Melbourne Law School) will present her
confirmation seminar at the Melbourne Law School, hosted by the
Office for Research in conjunction with IILAH.
January 2011
2011 Philip Jessup Exhibition Moot
5:00 pm Thursday 27 Jan 2011
This is a simulated hearing before the International Court of
Justice.
Hear the debate on a range of aspects of international law -
assasinations, hospital attacks, bribery & religious attire
'Tax - it's more than numbers' Australasian Tax Teachers Association Conference
19 - 21 Jan 2011
Join the 23rd Annual Conference of the Australasian Tax Teachers
Association, co-hosted by the Melbourne Law School and the Monash
University Taxation Law and Policy Research Institute.
December 2010
'Nomos, physis and sexual difference in 17th century civil philosophies: some reflections upon law and feminist politics' by Dr Maria Drakopoulou (Kent Law School)
5:30 pm Thursday 16 Dec 2010
Professor Anne Orford (Melbourne Law School) and Ms Erica Millar
(PhD, Gender Studies/Law) will act as discussants following the
presentation of Dr Drakopoulou's paper.
Vietnamese Legal Studies Graduate Student Workshop - "Researching and Writing: Vietnamese Legal Change"
10:00 am Thursday 16 Dec 2010
This Workshop aims to bring together postgraduate students around
Australia and New Zealand who are researching topics relating to
Vietnamese legal studies.
'figuring borders, bordering figures': Melbourne Doctoral Forum on Legal Theory
16 - 17 Dec 2010
A two-day workshop for doctoral and early career researchers to
discuss questions of legal theory and methodology.
'Empirically Evaluating ICSID' presented by Professor Susan Franck (Washington and Lee University School of Law)
12:45 pm Wednesday 15 Dec 2010
The Institute for International Law and the Humanities invites you to
a lunch-time seminar at the Melbourne Law School presented by
Professor Susan Franck.
'ACT UP/Feel Up: Remembering ACT UP's Libidinal Politics ' by Professor Kendall Thomas
5:30 pm Monday 13 Dec 2010
In this IILAH Public Seminar, Kendall Thomas, as a member of ACT UP
New York, will explore recent critical writing on the "emotional
politics" of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power.
'Responsibility Sharing or Shifting? Australia’s Proposals for a regional System of Refugee Protection', IILAH Workshop
9:00 am Friday 10 Dec 2010
The Institute for International Law and the Humanities will host an
academic workshop to discuss the implications of Australia’s
proposals for a regional protection framework.
'Property Law' Conference
Friday 10 Dec 2010
The Obligations Group is pleased to invite all
academics who teach or
research in the field of Property Law in Australia and
New Zealand to
a one day conference at Melbourne Law School
'Regional Processing of Refugees: Is it Legal?' presented by Professor James C. Hathaway
6:30 pm Thursday 9 Dec 2010
What are the legal limits on Australia's right to force refugees away
from its refugee protection system?
How have courts in other countries reacted to such plans?
'Fissured Employment' by Professor David Weil
1:00 pm Thursday 9 Dec 2010
This seminar will explore the causes of fissuring and its
consequences on workplace conditions.
The 2011 Melbourne JD Preview Night
5:00 pm Tuesday 7 Dec 2010
Opportunity for students who have been offered a place
for the 2011 Melbourne JD to meet our current academic
staff and students.
Conversation at Masani
6:00 pm Thursday 2 Dec 2010
Alumni and their guests are invited to join us for a conversation at
Masani Restaurant in Carlton.
The Impact of the Fair Work Act Collective Bargaining Framework: Is It Achieving the Government’s Policy Objectives?
1:00 pm Wednesday 1 Dec 2010
This Labour Law Seminar will look at the collective bargaining rules
in Part 2-4 of the Fair Work Act which have been in operation for
around 16 months.
November 2010
‘Mistrust, and the Pharmacology of Transformational Technologies’ presented by Professor Bernard Stiegler
7:00 pm Thursday 25 Nov 2010
In this third seminar in the New Natures Series,
Professor Bernard
Stiegler will explore ‘Mistrust, and the Pharmacology of
Transformational Technologies’
The Future of Police Industrial Regulation in Australia: Lessons from Victoria
1:00 pm Thursday 25 Nov 2010
This labour law seminar will examine the particular problems arising
from the referral of police IR powers in Victoria and consider
implications and lessons for future regulatory models.
Book Launch: Exploring Private Law
6:00 pm Wednesday 24 Nov 2010
Invitation to attend a book launch: 'Exploring Private Law' edited by
Elise Bant and Matthew Harding.
6th Annual CILS Postgraduate Conference 2010
22 - 23 Nov 2010
This conference aims to bring together postgraduate
students around
Australia researching topics relating to Islam,
benefiting from peer
review and feedback from academic experts.
The Eighth Annual Australasian Jury Conference; New Directions in Jury Reform, Research and Policy
9:00 am Friday 19 Nov 2010
Bringing together those interested in jury research and practice.
Rare Books Lecture 'The Modern History and Contemporary Issues of Law Reporting: From 1850 to the Online Revolution'
5:30 pm Thursday 18 Nov 2010
Tracing the history of law reporting from the mid-ninteenth century
to the modern era.
ALC Brown Bag Seminar -
1:00 pm Thursday 18 Nov 2010
Judge Shimobaba will speak about his experience as a Judge in a rural
Japanese Court, particularly the Omura Branch of the Nagasaki
District Court.
Conduct of Lawyers in Discovery: Room for Improvement?
5:15 pm Wednesday 17 Nov 2010
The Civil Justice Research Group invites you to
an inquiring and invigorating roundtable discussion
focusing on the conduct of lawyers and ethical
obligations in discovery.
Formal justice, community justice: initial discussion on tensions, territories and cooperation in Afghanistan, with Ms Sonja Litz (World Bank)
12:45 pm Wednesday 17 Nov 2010
IILAH invites MLS faculty staff and students for a lunch-time seminar
followed by a discussion.
'Equity and Commercial Law' seminar by Mr Ben McFarlane
5:30 pm Tuesday 16 Nov 2010
Melbourne Law School’s Obligations Group is pleased to
invite you to a seminar to be presented by Mr Ben
McFarlane of Trinity College, Oxford on ‘Equity and
Commercial Law’.
Melbourne JD Careers Counsellors' Seminar
11:00 am Wednesday 10 Nov 2010
Seminar for Victorian Careers Counsellors to learn more about the
Melbourne JD, and meet academic and professional staff.
Our forests, your pollution: Indonesian environmentalists speak out against Australia's carbon offset schemes
6:30 pm Monday 8 Nov 2010
Two climate justice activists from Friends of the Earth
Indonesia are joined by Muliadi from Central Kalimantan
to discuss Australia’s plans for forest offsets in
Indonesia.
JD information session
6:00 pm Thursday 4 Nov 2010
Considering Law in 2011 or beyond? Hear from Associate Professor Pip
Nicholson and current JD students about the Melbourne JD experience.
'Development Law in India' - seminar
1:00 pm Thursday 4 Nov 2010
In preparation for a Development and the Law study trip
to India, four LLB students will be presenting their
research topics on an area of development law.
'Critical Legal Pluralism and the Everyday Life of Secondary School Students: Legal For Whom? Critical For What?'
12:45 pm Thursday 4 Nov 2010
This IILAH presentation will appeal to anyone with an interest in
legal pluralism, law and film scholarship, education law or young
people and governance.
October 2010
'The end of the line' screening, hosted by IILAH and CREEL
5:30 pm Thursday 28 Oct 2010
The End Of The Line, first major documentary on the devastating
effect of overfishing and the profound implications of a future world
with no fish resulting in certain mass starvation.
Construction Law in 2010: Putting the Principles into Practice seminar and reception
28 Oct - 28 Sep 2010
An opportunity for lawyers and industry professionals to share ideas
about the key principles underpinning the law relating to the
construction industry in Australia and overseas.
Melbourne Law Masters 2011 Information Evening
6:00 pm Wednesday 27 Oct 2010
The Melbourne Law Masters offers specialist masters degrees and
graduate diplomas of unrivalled quality.
Allen Hope Southey Memorial Lecture 2010: 'Are Property Rights Efficient?'
6:30 pm Tuesday 26 Oct 2010
Economists say property law makes the market economy work. Following
the global financial crisis, is this still true? Are property rights
the best framework for modern commercial activity?
'Foucault’s Critical (Yet Ambivalent) Affirmation: Three Figures of Rights' presented by Ben Golder
12:45 pm Tuesday 26 Oct 2010
In this IILAH seminar Ben Golder will present a paper attempting to
articulate a Foucaultian politics of human rights along the lines of
a critical affirmation of human rights.
ALC/ CCCS Roundtable - Visit by Delegation from China University of Political Science and Law
4:15 pm Monday 25 Oct 2010
A visiting delegation from the China University of Political Science
and Law will speak on the topic: "The Role of Law in Balancing the
Rights of Citizen and State in the PRC".
Launch: Third Edition of the Australian Guide to Legal Citation
6:00 pm Thursday 21 Oct 2010
The Melbourne University Law Review and the Melbourne
Journal of International Law cordially invite you to
the launch of the third edition of the Australian Guide
to Legal Citation.
Gender Pay Equity Regulation in Australia and the Equal Remuneration Test Case
1:00 pm Thursday 21 Oct 2010
This labour law seminar will address the current shape of gender pay
equity regulation in Australian labour law.
Inaugural Professorial Lecture by Professor Dr. Iur. Adnan Buyung Nasution - "Towards Constitutional Democracy in Indonesia"
6:15 pm Wednesday 20 Oct 2010
Prof. Dr. Iur. Adnan Buyung Nasution is widely regarded as
Indonesia's leading advocate and trial lawyer. He has been appointed
a Honorary Professorial Fellow in the Melbourne Law School.
Europe: Construction & Perception - Guest Lecture
1:00 pm Tuesday 19 Oct 2010
His Excellency Mr Patrick Renault, Ambassador of
Belgium will present
a public lecture titled "Europe: Construction & Perception"
'The Crime of Aggression' Public Lecture
6:00 pm Thursday 14 Oct 2010
The Lecture is the keynote address for the three-day international
symposium "Untold Stories: Hidden Histories of War Crimes Trials"
'Untold Stories: Hidden Histories of War Crimes Trials'
14 - 16 Oct 2010
A three-day international symposium with over thirty scholars
including PhD students, which will uncover and explore some of the
less well-known war crimes trials.
ALC Book Launch, "Legal Education in Asia: Globalization, Change and Contexts"; Launch of Malcolm D H Smith Memorial Scholarship
5:45 pm Wednesday 13 Oct 2010
“Legal Education in Asia: Globalization, Change and Contexts”
(Routledge, 2009) has been published in remembrance of Professor
Malcolm Smith, Founding Director of the Asian Law Centre.
ALC Brown Bag Seminar: Indonesia: Religious Freedom at the Crossroads? by Dr M. Syafi'i Anwar
1:00 pm Wednesday 13 Oct 2010
Dr Anwar will discuss threats to the future of democracy and human
rights in Indonesia, particularly religious
freedom.
JD Information Session
6:00 pm Tuesday 12 Oct 2010
Considering Law in 2011 or beyond? Hear from Associate Professor Pip
Nicholson and current JD students about the Melbourne JD experience.
Rights, Interpretation and the Rule of Law
1:00 pm Tuesday 12 Oct 2010
Dr Richard Ekins will present his paper 'Rights, Interpretation and
the Rule of Law'
Book Launch, 'Events: The Force of International Law' by Sundhya Pahuja, Fleur Johns and Richard Joyce.
6:00 pm Friday 8 Oct 2010
The Institute for International Law and the Humanities will host the
launch of a new book 'Events: The Force of International Law' by
Sundhya
Pahuja, Fleur Johns and Richard Joyce.
ALC/CILS Research Seminar: All Politics is Local: MUI at the Sub-National Level
1:00 pm Wednesday 6 Oct 2010
Mr. Fenwick's will speak about the MUI, including its internal
governance, operation and challenges.
Bushfires-Leadership-Royal Commission and Legalities (Guest Lecture Series)
1:00 pm Tuesday 5 Oct 2010
A series of weekly lectures on current issues in law and legal
practice for Melbourne Law School students.
Law in the Field legal research workshop
1:00 pm Friday 1 Oct 2010
A half-day workshop exploring the collection and use of fieldwork
data in legal research.
September 2010
ALC / CILS Research Seminar: Gender Discourse and Activism of Progressive Muslims in Indonesia: Struggles and Strategies
1:00 pm Wednesday 29 Sep 2010
This presentation will argue that Indonesian Islamic Feministis have
articulated diverse voices and strategies along a spectrum of
traditionalist Muslims.
Public Interest Law Opportunities and Obstacles: The 2010 Conference of the Civil Justice Research Group Melbourne Law School
27 - 28 Sep 2010
The conference aims to promote dialogue between groups
with a common
interest and trigger discussion on public interest law,
cases and
issues.
ALC Occasional Seminar - Inter-Religious Conflict in Eastern Indonesia
6:15 pm Wednesday 22 Sep 2010
The Rev. Prof. Haire will analyse the background and dynamics to the
conflict in Eastern Indonesia and the processes by which resolution
was achieved.
Not So Simple: Child Soldiers, Justice, and the International Legal Imagination
5:30 pm Thursday 16 Sep 2010
Professor Mark A Drumbl from Washington and Lee
University will present a lecture titled "Not So
Simple: Child Soldiers, Justice, and the
International Legal Imagination" on 16 September.
'The Civil Procedure Bill 2010 - What It Means For Law And Practice In Victoria', presented at the Supreme Court of Victoria
5:00 pm Wednesday 15 Sep 2010
The Civil Justice Research Group (Melbourne Law School)
together with
the Supreme Court are delighted to invite you to a
seminar hosted at
the Supreme Court of Victoria.
ALC/CILS Research Seminar: Art or Pornography? Threats of Violence and the Law against Pinkswing Park Art Installation by Indonesia’s Islamic Defenders Front
1:00 pm Wednesday 15 Sep 2010
This seminar will demonstrate that the outcome of the Pinkswing Park
case was a victory for the conservative Islamists, as was the
subsequent passing of the Pornography Law in 2008.
Getting your Act Together (Guest Lecture Series)
1:00 pm Tuesday 14 Sep 2010
A series of weekly lectures on current issues in law and legal
practice for Melbourne Law School students.
'Justice: What's the Rights Thing to Do', presented by Mr John Tobin
5:15 pm Thursday 9 Sep 2010
Are you interested in a law degree or curious to find out more about
how the law relates to the world you live in? Come along to one of a
series of lunchtime sample law classes.
ALC: Asian Legal Dialogue - Controlling Financial (White-collar) Crime in China: The Role of Criminal Penalty
1:00 pm Wednesday 8 Sep 2010
This seminar will address issues currently faced in
controlling financial crime in China.
JD information session
6:00 pm Tuesday 7 Sep 2010
Considering Law in 2011 or beyond? Hear from Associate
Professor Caron Beaton-Wells and current JD students
about the Melbourne JD experience.
Careers in Human Rights - From the local to the international
5:15 pm Tuesday 7 Sep 2010
Melbourne Law School invites you to a seminar where
three former students will speak about their human
rights work in Australia and overseas.
Reforming the Law - Public Sector Approaches (Guest Lecture Series)
1:00 pm Tuesday 7 Sep 2010
A series of weekly lectures on current issues in law and legal
practice for Melbourne Law School students.
ALC Asian Legal Dialogue KS Yun
1:00 pm Monday 6 Sep 2010
Mr Yun is a labour attorney in Korea and a member of the Certified
Public Labour Attorneys Association of Korea.
'Using Environmental Law To Respond To Climate Change', presented by Professor Lee Godden
1:00 pm Monday 6 Sep 2010
Are you interested in a law degree or curious to find out more about
how the law relates to the world you live in? Come along to one of a
series of lunchtime sample law classes.
2010 Great Academic Debate: Is law more important than engineering?
1:00 pm Wednesday 1 Sep 2010
Is the 21st century the age of the machine or the mind?
Who really is
leading society - the lawyers or the engineers?
August 2010
The Principle of Military Necessity in International Humanitarian Law
6:00 pm Tuesday 31 Aug 2010
Professor Michael Schmitt, University of Durham, will
present a public lecture, titled 'The Principle of
Military Necessity in International Humanitarian Law'
on Tuesday 31 August at 6.00pm
Lifting the Veil of Secrecy on Legalised Cruelty - My Life as an Animal Lawyer (Guest Lecture Series)
1:00 pm Tuesday 31 Aug 2010
A series of weekly lectures on current issues in law and legal
practice for Melbourne Law School students.
'Law in Virtual Worlds", presented by Professor Andrew Christie
1:00 pm Monday 30 Aug 2010
Are you interested in a law degree or curious to find out more about
how the law relates to the world you live in? Come along to one of a
series of lunchtime sample law classes.
1970-1979 Reunion of MLS Graduates
6:00 pm Thursday 26 Aug 2010
Alumni Reunion for Melbourne Law School Graduates of the 1970's
'Legal regulation of human stem cell technology" presented by Professor Loane Skene
1:00 pm Wednesday 25 Aug 2010
Are you interested in a law degree or curious to find out more about
how the law relates to the world you live in? Come along to one of a
series of lunchtime sample law classes.
'The erosion of the right to privacy in the fight against terrorism', presented by Professor Martin Scheinin
5:30 pm Tuesday 24 Aug 2010
Martin Scheinin will discuss his recent report to the Human Rights
Council in which he raised a number of concerns about the protection
of the right to privacy in the fight against terrorism
Towards a World Court of Human Rights (Guest Lecture Series)
1:00 pm Tuesday 24 Aug 2010
A series of weekly lectures on current issues in law and legal
practice for Melbourne Law School students.
'Consumer Protection Law and Online Shopping', presented by Dr Jeannie Paterson
1:00 pm Monday 23 Aug 2010
Are you interested in a law degree or curious to find out more about
how the law relates to the world you live in? Come along to one of a
series of lunchtime sample law classes.
Workshop - Women and Tax: The Impact of the Henry Tax Review
2:15 pm Friday 20 Aug 2010
The workshop will address the implications of the Review of Australia's F
uture Tax System (the Henry review) for
women's financial wellbeing/incomes; and child care funding
Why Become a Lawyer? A Conversation with Indigenous Lawyers
5:30 pm Thursday 19 Aug 2010
Four indigenous lawyers and law students will discuss why they
considered a legal career worthwhile and the key challenges they have
experienced.
ALC Brown Bag Seminar: The Shortcomings of the International Law on Piracy and Maritime Terrorism: Options for Strengthening Maritime Security in the Malacca Strait
1:00 pm Wednesday 18 Aug 2010
This research seminar will investigate the shortcomings of the
international law of the sea in combating piracy and maritime
terrorism in the Malacca Strait.
Annual Tax Lecture 2010
5:30 pm Tuesday 17 Aug 2010
This lecture series was launched by the Tax Group with the purpose of
placing the development of the tax law in its historical context, and
to inform public debate on current tax issues.
'Genes, Biotechnologies and Legal Imaginings: A Feminist Analysis of Intellectual Property', PhD Completion Seminar by Ms Cressida Limon
2:30 pm Tuesday 17 Aug 2010
The Institute for International Law and the Humanities
together with
the Office for Research will host Ms Cressida Limon's
PhD Completion
Seminar at the Melbourne Law School.
'Religious Freedom and Women’s Rights: Conflicts and Convergence', presented by Professor Carolyn Evans
1:00 pm Tuesday 17 Aug 2010
Are you interested in a law degree or curious to find out more about
how the law relates to the world you live in? Come along to one of a
series of lunchtime sample law classes.
Andrew Lovett - An AFL Employment Law Case Study (Guest Lecture Series)
1:00 pm Tuesday 17 Aug 2010
A series of weekly lectures on current issues in law and legal
practice for Melbourne Law School students.
'Distinguishing between exploitative and non-exploitative peacekeeping sex: the wrongs of ‘zero tolerance’', PhD Completion Seminar by Ms Olivera Simic
12:45 pm Tuesday 17 Aug 2010
The Institute for International Law and the Humanities
together with
the Office for Research will host Ms Olivera Simic’s
PhD Completion
Seminar at the Melbourne Law School.
The Supreme Court of Victoria Commercial Law Conference - Current Issues in Commercial Law
2:00 pm Friday 13 Aug 2010
This conference is co-sponsored by the Supreme Court of Victoria and
the Centre for Corporate Law and Securities Regulation, Melbourne Law
School, in association with the Victorian Bar Association and the Law
Institute of Victoria.
'Competition Authorities for the 21st Century' presented by Professor William Kovacic
1:00 pm Friday 13 Aug 2010
The Inaugural Baxt Lecture in Competition Law,
"Competition Authorities for the 21st Century" will be
presented by Professor William Kovacic
Constitutionalization of the European Court of Human Rights through “pilot judgments”?
1:00 pm Friday 13 Aug 2010
Professor Wojciech Sadurski
JD information session - Novotel Glen Waverley
6:00 pm Thursday 12 Aug 2010
Considering Law in 2011 or beyond? Hear from Associate
Professor Pip
Nicholson and current JD students about the Melbourne
JD experience.
'Fixing the Prices of Cardboard Boxes: Should Cartel Conduct be Criminal?' Presented by Associate Professor Caron Beaton-Wells
1:00 pm Thursday 12 Aug 2010
Are you interested in a law degree or curious to find out more about
how the law relates to the world you live in? Come along to one of a
series of lunchtime sample law classes.
'Power to Create Change: National Inquiry Experiences of National Human Rights Institutions in the Asia-Pacific', PhD Completion Seminar by Ms Meg Brodie
12:45 pm Thursday 12 Aug 2010
The Institute for International Law and the Humanities
together with
the Office for Research will host Ms Meg Brodie's PhD
Completion
Seminar at the Melbourne Law School.
ALC Brown Bag Seminar - A/Prof Kota Fukui: The Changing Role and Image of Lawyers in Japanese Corporations
1:00 pm Wednesday 11 Aug 2010
This presentation aims to introduce the current legal needs, role and
image of lawers in Japanese corporate society, and discusses the
future of corporate in-house attorneys in Japan.
Sentencing - A Judge’s Perspective (Guest Lecture Series)
1:00 pm Tuesday 10 Aug 2010
A series of weekly lectures on current issues in law and legal
practice for Melbourne Law School students.
'Past Lives and Future Hopes: A Vision to End Animal Suffering' presented by Ms Joyce Tischler
1:00 pm Monday 9 Aug 2010
Joyce Tischler, Co-Founder and General Counsel for the US Animal
Legal Defense Fund, will visit Melbourne Law School as part of a
nationwide lecture series.
Israel as a Jewish State: What Does it Mean? Can it be Justified?
6:30 pm Thursday 5 Aug 2010
Professor Ruth Gavison will present the 2010 Sir Kenneth Bailey
Memorial Lecture honouring the Fourth Dean of Melbourne Law School,
Kenneth Hamilton Bailey
A Stifling Climate: Democracy, Coal Protest Laws and the Climate Movement
6:00 pm Thursday 5 Aug 2010
'The Use and Abuse of Resulting Trusts', Presented by William Swadling
5:30 pm Thursday 5 Aug 2010
Melbourne Law School's Obligations Group is pleased to invite you to
a seminar by William Swadling, Senior Law Fellow, Reader in Property
Law at the University of Oxford.
'Humanitarian Intervention: Noble Cause or Gendered Paradigm?', presented by Ms Gina Heathcote
12:45 pm Thursday 5 Aug 2010
This paper analyses international legal justifications for
the use of force on humanitarian grounds, also
reiterated by
President Obama in his Nobel acceptance speech (2009).
Book Launch - 'Money and Politics: The democracy we can’t afford' by Joo-Cheong Tham
5:45 pm Tuesday 3 Aug 2010
A panel will discuss the key challenges posed by money in Australian
politics.
The Role of Law for a Company Director (Guest Lecture Series)
1:00 pm Tuesday 3 Aug 2010
A series of weekly lectures on current issues in law and legal
practice for Melbourne Law School students.
July 2010
International Public Lecture – Presented by the Chief Justice of the United States, the Honourable John G. Roberts, Jr.
6:30 pm Tuesday 27 Jul 2010
We are delighted to present this significant
international public
lecture by the Chief Justice of the United States, the
Honourable
John G. Roberts, Jr.
Peace vs Justice (Guest Lecture Series)
1:00 pm Tuesday 27 Jul 2010
A series of weekly lectures on current issues in law and legal
practice for Melbourne Law School students.
'Looking into the Void: A Dialogue on Cinematic Representations of Lawless Spaces' presented by Professor Shulamit Almog and Professor Ruth Buchanan
5:30 pm Monday 26 Jul 2010
The Institute for International Law and the Humanities
will present a seminar on ‘law and film’, a dialogue between Professor
Shulamit Almog and Professor Ruth Buchanan.
Book Launch: ‘Tax Avoidance in Australia’ by The Hon Justice Tony Pagone
5:30 pm Friday 23 Jul 2010
The Melbourne Law School and the Australian Italian Lawyers
Association are delighted to invite you to the launch of Justice Tony
Pagone’s book “Tax Avoidance in Australia”.
'Non-union collective voice mechanisms: Employer strategies and union responses' presented by Dr Paul Gollan
1:00 pm Wednesday 21 Jul 2010
This seminar will explore management strategies towards the
development of NCV arrangements and union responses to such
arrangements in predominately English speaking countries
JD information session
6:00 pm Tuesday 20 Jul 2010
Considering Law in 2011 or beyond? Hear from Associate Professor Pip
Nicholson and current JD students about the Melbourne JD experience.
New Voices in Media Law: Centre for Media and Communications Law Medal 2010
16 Jul - 2 Aug 2010
The inaugural Centre for Media and Communications Law Medal seeks
succinct, innovative analyses of contemporary issues in media law.
Applications close on 26 July 2010.
'Obligations V: Rights & Private Law' Conference
14 - 16 Jul 2010
Melbourne Law School's Obligations Group presents 'Obligations V:
Rights & Private Law' Conference, co-hosted by University of
Melbourne and University of Oxford
Whistleblowing Law Reform in the USA & Australia: Challenges and Next Steps
1:00 pm Tuesday 13 Jul 2010
The Australian Government has committed to a far-reaching new public
sector Public Interest Disclosure Act, and is currently reviewing
private sector whistleblower protection under Part 9.4AAA of the
Corporations Act 2001 (Cth).
Who Owns The News?
5:30 pm Thursday 8 Jul 2010
A Panel Discussion hosted by CMCL, Melbourne Business School and
IPRIA.
'The South of International Law'
8 - 9 Jul 2010
The aim of this intensive workshop is to develop the
repertoires of
thinking through the laws that position the South in
the domains of
international laws.
'Treaty Enforcement in Domestic Courts: A Comparative Analysis' presented by Professor David Sloss
1:00 pm Thursday 1 Jul 2010
Professor Sloss will discuss the question 'Do domestic courts provide
remedies to private parties who are harmed by a violation of their
treaty-based primary rights?'
June 2010
'The Future of Human Rights Litigation in US Courts', presented by Professor Ingrid Wuerth
6:00 pm Tuesday 29 Jun 2010
In this seminar Professor Wuerth will present a paper that will
provide a “state of play” look at important legal issues under the
Alien Tort Statute.
'Workplace Consequences of Electronic Exhibitionism and Voyeurism' presented by Mr William Herbert
1:00 pm Tuesday 22 Jun 2010
This Labour Law seminar will explore contemporary workplace issues
resulting from the related social phenomena of electronic
exhibitionism and voyeurism.
'The Atomic Bombing and the Shimoda Case: The Lessons of Hiroshima and Nagasaki' presented by Professor Yuki Tanaka
6:00 pm Tuesday 15 Jun 2010
Prof Tanaka analyses the damage caused by the atomic bombings, and
explores ways to criminalize the use of nuclear weapons through an
examination of the relevant positive international laws.
Private Military Companies on the battlefield: Challenges for IHL
6:00 pm Tuesday 8 Jun 2010
Dr Melzer, Legal Adviser for the ICRC, addresses the
challenges that
States and non-state actors face when dealing with
increasing numbers
of private military companies on the battlefield.
'Secrecy, security and the media: how counter-terrorism laws affect media reporting in Australia and the UK' presented by Dr Lawrence McNamara
1 - 2 Jun 2010
This seminar explores preliminary research into how the
media is affected by laws that govern how information about terrorism
is obtained and conveyed to the public. Sydney & Melbourne.
May 2010
'The (Ir)relevance of North America in Australia's National Charter Debate' presented by Dr Jason Pierce
1:00 pm Monday 31 May 2010
The CCCS invites you to a seminar by Dr Jason Pierce who will address
the topic 'The (Ir)relevance of North America in Australia's National
Charter Debate'.
'Does Judicial Independence Matter?' presented by The Hon Chief Justice Marilyn Warren AC
6:30 pm Thursday 27 May 2010
The Annual Law Week Oration proudly presented by Melbourne Law School
and the Victoria Law Foundation
Melbourne Law School Awards Ceremony
6:00 pm Tuesday 25 May 2010
Celebrating the achievements of Melbourne Law School
students - Awards presentation ceremony for awards and scholarships
Considering Law? Sample a typical law class: 'The Duke, his gardener and Tax Avoidance' - presented by Associate Professor Ann O'Connell
1:00 pm Tuesday 25 May 2010
Are you interested in a law degree or curious to find out
more about how the law relates to the world you live in? Come along
to one of a series of lunchtime sample law classes.
'Chivalry without a Horse: The Impact of Military Honour on the Modern Law of Armed Conflict', presented by Rain Liivoja
12:45 pm Tuesday 25 May 2010
This presentation considers the imprint that military honour in its
medieval guise, usually called chivalry, has left on the modern law
of armed conflict.
Book Launch: 'Gender Stereotyping Transnational Legal Perspectives' by Rebecca J. Cook and Simone Cusack
5:30 pm Thursday 20 May 2010
Professor Hilary Charlesworth (ANU) will launch the “Gender
Stereotyping Transnational Legal Perspectives” book, hosted by the
Institute for International Law and the Humanities.
JD information session - Sydney
6:30 pm Wednesday 19 May 2010
Considering law? Consider the Melbourne JD. Don't miss this
opportunity to hear from Professor Professor Adrienne Stone,
Melbourne Law School, about the Melbourne JD experience.
'A Conversation with Aboriginal Elders from the Northern Territory'
6:00 pm Wednesday 19 May 2010
The Panel will be discussing the NT Intervention and invites you to
suggest topics to be included.
CILS Research Seminar: Local Women's NGO's and the Reform of Islamic Law in Aceh
1:00 pm Wednesday 19 May 2010
This presentation focuses on how a local women's NGO in Aceh has
responded to the implementation of Islamic Law. Dina Afrianty is a
PhD student in the Centre for Islamic Law and Society.
JD information session - 18 May
6:00 pm Tuesday 18 May 2010
Considering Law in 2011 or beyond? Hear from Associate Professor Pip
Nicholson and current JD students about the Melbourne JD experience.
Considering Law? Sample a typical law class: "Informed Consent" - presented by Professor David Studdert
1:00 pm Tuesday 18 May 2010
Are you interested in a law degree or curious to find out more about
how the law relates to the world you live in? Come along to one of a
series of lunchtime sample law classes.
The Beverly Case: Litigating against government
1:00 pm Tuesday 18 May 2010
This is part of a series of weekly lectures focussing on current
issues in law and legal practice for Melbourne Law School students.
'The U.S. Supreme Court Meets the 'War on Terror': A Discussion of U.S. Supreme Court Decisions' presented by Professor Elizabeth Magill
1:00 pm Tuesday 18 May 2010
The CCCS invites you to a seminar by US constitutional law scholar
Elizabeth Magill on the US Supreme Court decisions that consider
various aspects of the post-9/11 legal regime in the USA.
Considering Law? Sample a typical law class: 'Using contracts effectively: to sign or not to sign' presented by Mr Matthew Bell
1:00 pm Monday 17 May 2010
Are you interested in a law degree or curious to find out
more about how the law relates to the world you live in? Come along
to one of a series of lunchtime sample law classes.
JD information session - Canberra
6:00 pm Thursday 13 May 2010
Considering law? Consider the Melbourne JD. Don't miss this
opportunity to hear from Associate Professor Pip Nicholson, Associate
Dean, Melbourne JD, about the Melbourne JD experience.
JD information session - Brisbane
4:30 pm Thursday 13 May 2010
Considering law? Consider the Melbourne JD. Don't miss this
opportunity to hear from Professor Michael Crommelin AO, Dean,
Melbourne Law School about the Melbourne JD experience.
Career Pathways: Teach for Australia Information Session
1:00 pm Thursday 13 May 2010
Teach For Australia is an innovative, not for profit organisation
working to confront educational disadvantage in Australia. Come along
to find out how to get involved.
'Transnational Labour Regulation and the Limits of Governance' presented by Professor Kevin Kolben
1:00 pm Wednesday 12 May 2010
In this Labour Law seminar, Professor Kevin Kolben will outline an
alternative approach to transnational labour regulation that seeks to
create discursive mechanisms and institutions.
Considering Law? Sample a typical law class: 'How the law regulates financial services: too much, too little or just right?' presented by Mr Andrew Godwin
1:00 pm Tuesday 11 May 2010
Are you interested in a law degree or curious to find out
more about how the law relates to the world you live in? Come along
to one of a series of lunchtime sample law classes
'The Shape of the Australian Legal Profession and the Impact of the National Profession Reform Project' presented by Mr Andrew Grech
1:00 pm Tuesday 11 May 2010
This is part of a series of weekly lectures focussing on current
issues in law and legal practice for Melbourne Law School students.
'The Public Functions and Accountability of ADR' presented by Professor Carrie Menkel-Meadow
6:00 pm Monday 10 May 2010
Professor Menkel-Meadow will address the issues raised by the
critiques of ADR (alternative dispute resolution) as a “privatisation
of public dispute resolution
functions.”
Considering Law? Sample a typical law class: 'Music and the copyright instrument: beyond Down Under' - presented by Associate Professor David Brennan
1:00 pm Friday 7 May 2010
Are you interested in a law degree or curious to find out
more about how the law relates to the world you live in? Come along
to one of a series of lunchtime sample law classes
JD information session
6:00 pm Thursday 6 May 2010
Considering Law in 2011 or beyond? Hear from Associate Professor Pip
Nicholson and current JD students about the Melbourne JD experience.
ALC/CILS Research Seminar: 'Indonesia, Militant Islam and Ahmadiyah: Origins and Implications' presented by Ms Melissa Crouch
1:00 pm Wednesday 5 May 2010
Melissa will analyse the origins of Ahmadiyah and, in particular, its
formation in Indonesia. This presentation is the launch of Melissa's
Background Paper.
JD information session - Perth
5:00 pm Tuesday 4 May 2010
Considering law? Consider the Melbourne JD. Don't miss this
opportunity to hear from Professor Michael Crommelin AO, Dean,
Melbourne Law School about the Melbourne JD experience.
April 2010
London Market Update
1:00 pm Thursday 29 Apr 2010
Angela Edwards, Careers Office Manager, has recently returned from
London where she met with key London firms. Come and hear her give
an update on the London legal market.
'Regulating Unfair Terms in Standard Form Consumer Contracts' - presented by Dr Jeannie Paterson
5:30 pm Wednesday 28 Apr 2010
Melbourne Law School's Obligations Group presents
‘Regulating Unfair Terms in Standard Form Consumer
Contracts’ by Dr Jeannie Paterson
Litigating CAL in the High Court (Guest Lecture Series)
1:00 pm Tuesday 27 Apr 2010
A series of weekly lectures on current issues in law and legal
practice for Melbourne Law School students.
POSTPONED TO SEMESTER 2: Career Pathways: Commercial law not for you? An overview of career opportunities in the not-for-profit sector
1:00 pm Thursday 22 Apr 2010
Open for Business? China’s Telecommunications Service Market and the WTO
5:30 pm Wednesday 21 Apr 2010
This seminar investigates key commercial and legal
barriers to foreign entry into China’s telecommunications service
market.
‘Strengthening Statutory Unconscionable Conduct and the Franchising Code of Conduct - The Report, The Government's Response, and The Regulatory Road Ahead’ by Bryan Horrigan
5:30 pm Wednesday 21 Apr 2010
‘Strengthening Statutory Unconscionable Conduct and the
Franchising Code of Conduct - The Report, The
Government's Response, and The Regulatory Road Ahead’,
by Professor Bryan Horrigan
Law Public Lecture Series - Legal issues across disciplines
1:00 pm Wednesday 21 Apr 2010
Are you a current University of Melbourne student interested in legal
issues? Come along to our lunchtime law lecture series which focusses
on different legal issues across disciplines.
New Natures Seminar Series. 'The People's Two Bodies: Modernity and the Endgames of Sovereignty'
9:30 am Wednesday 21 Apr 2010
Conversations between political, theological and psychoanalytic
theory, as well as literary and artistic criticism, reflecting on the
nature of human life, law, politics, thought and history
CREEL Book Launch: Comparative Perspectives on Communal Lands and Individual Ownership: Sustainable Futures
5:45 pm Tuesday 20 Apr 2010
CREEL invites you to the launch of Professor Lee Godden’s and
Associate Professor Maureen Tehan’s book,Comparative Perspectives on
Communal Lands and Individual Ownership Sustainable Futures
Litigation Seeking to Protect the Environment – Why is it so Hard to Win? (Guest Lecture Series)
1:00 pm Tuesday 20 Apr 2010
Please be advised this lecture will now take place on Tuesday 20
April.
ALC Asian Legal Dialogue: LSM, Perempuan dan Islam di Indonesia (NGO's, Women and Islam in Indonesia)
12:30 pm Tuesday 20 Apr 2010
Kyai Muhammad Husein is one of Indonesia's leading progressive Muslim
thinkers, working on gender and law in Islam. Marzuki Wahid is an
Indonesian Muslim leader and gender activist.
UK Law Alumni Cocktail Reception
6:00 pm Thursday 15 Apr 2010
Melbourne University Law School cocktail reception for UK-based
alumni and friends
CELRL Labour Law Seminar - Just the Facts: The Case for Workplace Transparency
5:00 pm Thursday 15 Apr 2010
Professor Cynthia Estlund from New York University School of Law will
present a Labour Law Seminar on the topic - "Just the Facts: The Case
for Workplace Transparency".
Civil Justice Twilight Seminar, Settlement and Closure in Mass Litigation: Private Claims, Aggregate Rights
4:30 pm Thursday 15 Apr 2010
An intimate Twilight Seminar presented by The Civil Justice Research
Group, Settlement and Closure in Mass Litigation: Private Claims,
Aggregate Rights by Professor Sam Issacharoff.
CCCS/Electoral Regulation Network Seminar: “The relationship between the First Amendment and US Campaign Finance Law.”
1:00 pm Thursday 15 Apr 2010
The CCCS and the Electoral Regulation Network invite you to attend a
seminar by Professor Samuel Issacharoff, NYU, with commentary
provided by Dr Joo-Cheong Tham, MLS.
2010 New Natures Lecture Series: 'When Natural Differences Substitute for Constructed Oppositions: Towards a World Culture'
5:30 pm Wednesday 14 Apr 2010
New Natures Public Seminar Series - an opportunity for sustained
reflection on nature's capture by juridical thought, and its
implications for the most pressing governmental questions
ALC Brown Bag Seminar: Dr Gunbileg Boldbaatar: Transitional Legal System of Mongolia
1:00 pm Wednesday 14 Apr 2010
The development of Mongolia’s present legal system, factors affected
by the former Soviet ideology, transplantation suggestions and these
influences on reality are examined by Dr Boldbaatar.
Navigating the Maze: The Australian Law Reform Commission's Family Violence Inquiry (Guest Lecture Series)
1:00 pm Tuesday 13 Apr 2010
A series of weekly lectures on current issues in law and legal
practice for Melbourne Law School students.
JD Breakfast information session - at the State Library
7:30 am Tuesday 13 Apr 2010
Considering a change of career? Hear from Assoc. Prof. Pip
Nicholson about the the opportunities the Melbourne JD could open up
for you - breakfast information session at the State Library
March 2010
ALC Brown Bag Seminar Series - Mr Peter Dirou: Food Security, Development and Law: Insights from the Indonesian Experience
1:00 pm Wednesday 31 Mar 2010
Mr Dirou will explore the background to the Indonesian
approach to
food security.
IILAH/IPRIA Seminar: TRIPS at 15: A New Centre of Gravity? Reflections on the Evolution of the TRIPS Agreement
12:45 pm Friday 26 Mar 2010
IILAH and IPRIA warmly invite you to attend this seminar presented by
Tony Taubman, Director, Intellectual Property Division, World Trade
Organization.
Career Pathways: Insights into Working in China
2:00 pm Thursday 25 Mar 2010
Jesse T H Chang has been advising clients on direct investments in
China for almost 30 years. He will present a seminar discussing the
Chinese legal environment and working there.
CELRL Labour Law Seminar: Women at work in Nordic countries – the workfare model and the ideology of the self-supporting individual
1:00 pm Thursday 25 Mar 2010
This seminar will address present issues concerning equality between
men and women at work in the Nordic countries, with a focus on Sweden
and Norway.
JD information session
6:00 pm Wednesday 24 Mar 2010
Considering law in 2011 or beyond? Hear from Assoc. Prof. Pip
Nicholson and current JD students about the Melbourne JD experience.
IILAH Seminar: Making Women’s Rights a Reality in Australia: Engaging the procedures of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
4:00 pm Wednesday 24 Mar 2010
Seminar for Women’s Rights Supporters: Activists, Researchers,
LegalPractitioners, Students, Non-Governmental Organisations,
Community Legal Centres.
IILAH Seminar: Developing Countries in WTO Dispute Settlement
12:45 pm Wednesday 24 Mar 2010
Mr Frieder Roessler, Executive Director of the Advisory Centre on WTO
Law (ACWL), will present this seminar as part of the IILAH Global
Trade Research Programme.
CREEL Climate Change and International Intervention - Examining the Implications of Donor Based Organisations and Ecological Service Provisions Workshop
9:00 am Wednesday 24 Mar 2010
‘Climate Change and International Intervention- Examining the
Implications of Donor Based Organisations and Ecological Service
Provisions’ Workshop
The Professional Landscape for the Media/Entertainment Lawyer (Guest Lecture Series)
1:00 pm Tuesday 23 Mar 2010
A series of weekly lectures on current issues in law and legal
practice for Melbourne Law School students.
CCCS Seminar: “Shades of Dialogue: How Different are the NZ Bill of Rights and the Victorian Charter?”
1:00 pm Tuesday 23 Mar 2010
The CCCS invites you to a brownbag seminar by Claudia Geiringer,
Victoria University of Wellington, on differences between the NZ Bill
of Rights and the Victorian Charter of Human Rights.
ALC Brown Bag Seminar Series: Professor Zhan Kun Sun - The U.S.-Japan Security Alliance
1:00 pm Monday 22 Mar 2010
Prof Sun will examine China’s stance on the US-Japan
alliance from 1950-1980, and its effects on China,
China’s “new strategy” and “new diplomacy", and
Sino-Japanese relationships.
Melbourne Law School Graduation Ceremony
3:30 pm Saturday 20 Mar 2010
Melbourne Law School will celebrate the graduation of students
completing their studies in 2009, at a ceremony held in Wilson
Hall on Saturday 20 March 2010 at 3.30 pm.
The Care Factor: The Care, Skill and Diligence Standard for Directors after ASIC v Rich (Sydney)
5:30 pm Thursday 18 Mar 2010
The recent decision in ASIC v Rich, along with other court judgments,
highlights the importance of the duty of care, skill and diligence
owed by company directors and officers.
Authorship, Anthems and Authorisation: a legal and economic review of the copyright triptych
18 - 19 Mar 2010
Australia is currently awash with landmark, first instant copyright
cases. To discuss these cases in-depth, Associate Professor David
Brennan in conjunction with IPRIA and CMCL will be hosting a
discussion amongst Australia’s leading experts in law and economics.
SEMINAR POSTPONED TILL LATER DATE TBC - Career Pathways: Escape the rat race - Careers in rural Victoria
1:00 pm Thursday 18 Mar 2010
The Relationship Between International Humanitarian Law and International Human Rights Law: Complementarity or Collision?
6:00 pm Tuesday 16 Mar 2010
The Relationship Between International Humanitarian Law
and International Human Rights Law: Complementarity or
or Collision? presented by Lt Col Christopher Jenks
The Work of the High Court (Guest Lecture Series)
1:00 pm Tuesday 16 Mar 2010
A series of weekly lectures on current issues in law and legal
practice for Melbourne Law School students.
CCCS Seminar:
1:00 pm Wednesday 10 Mar 2010
The CCCS is pleased to invite you to a seminar by A/Prof James
Stribopoulos from Osgoode Hall Law School, Canada, reflecting on over
25 years of constitutional criminal procedure in Canada.
Career Pathways: Working in London: Linklaters Information Session
1:00 pm Wednesday 10 Mar 2010
Linklaters is the innovative, global law firm that advises high-
profile clients on their most challenging transactions and
assignments.
When Athletes Offend? (Guest Lecture Series)
1:00 pm Tuesday 9 Mar 2010
A series of weekly lectures on current issues in law and legal
practice for Melbourne Law School students.
Can a lawyer serve the public interest and still make money? Presented by The Hon Michael Kirby AC CMG
1:00 pm Thursday 4 Mar 2010
The Care Factor: The Care, Skill and Diligence Standard for Directors after ASIC v Rich
5:30 pm Wednesday 3 Mar 2010
The recent decision in ASIC v Rich, along with other court judgments,
highlights the importance of the duty of care, skill and diligence
owed by company directors and officers.
ALC Brown Bag Seminar Series - Kristen van Zwieten: Corporate Insolvency Law in India: The Case for a New Focus on Legal Institutions
1:00 pm Wednesday 3 Mar 2010
Kristin van Zwieten will present the preliminary findings of her
doctoral research on the development of corporate insolvency law in
India in the period following economic liberalisation.
A Right is a Right is a Right – Whether Constitutionally Protected or Not (Guest Lecture Series)
1:00 pm Tuesday 2 Mar 2010
A series of weekly lectures on current issues in law and legal
practice for Melbourne Law School students.
2010 Francis Gurry Intellectual Property Lecture presented by Alison Brimelow CBE, President of the European Patent Office
6:15 pm Monday 1 Mar 2010
Ms Alison Brimelow CBE, President of the European Patent Office will
present the 2010 Annual Francis Gurry Intellectual Property Lecture
February 2010
Professor Jamie Cameron presents Do Constitutional Rights Really Make A Difference?
1:00 pm Tuesday 23 Feb 2010
The CCCS is pleased to invite you to a seminar by Professor Jamie
Cameron, Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto on Canada's Charter of
Rights "Do Constitutional Rights Really Make a Difference?"
Professor Philippe Sands to launch Lee Godden's and Jacqueline Peel's New Book
12:30 pm Monday 22 Feb 2010
Professor Philippe Sands will launch Lee Godden's and
Jacqueline
Peel's innovative book and interdisciplinary book on
environmental
law recently published with Oxford University Press.
ALC Research Seminar: A Judge's Work - A seminar in Japanese
5:30 pm Thursday 11 Feb 2010
An Associate Judges' work is not limited to writing drafts of
judgements. Drawing on his own experiences, Judge Abe will take
about the beginning of his career.
CELRL Seminar: Bargaining Processes in the US - Including the Requirement to Bargain in Good Faith
5:30 pm Tuesday 2 Feb 2010
This lecture will provide an opportunity for academics and
practitioners in workplace relations and labour law to gain an
insight into the US experience of good faith bargaining.
January 2010
Baker & McKenzie Open House Evening - Hong Kong
6:00 pm Tuesday 19 Jan 2010
Come to our Open House evening in our Hong Kong office to meet our
lawyers, trainees and graduate recruitment team.
December 2009
Remedies Conference (please note registrations are now closed due to an overwhelming number of registrations)
9:00 am Friday 11 Dec 2009
REGISTRATIONS NOW CLOSED
Remedies courses are assuming a far greater prominence within
undergraduate and postgraduate law degrees. What is the future of
Remedies teaching and scholarshi
CERDIN/IILAH Workshop: Evaluating Critical Approaches to International Law, Université Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne)
11 - 12 Dec 2009
The workshop is sponsored by CERDIN (Université Paris I) and IILAH
(Melbourne Law School).
Legality, Legitimacy & the United Nations: A Public Lecture delivered by the APCML Sir Ninian Stephen Visiting Scholar 2009 Professor Ramesh Thakur
6:00 pm Monday 7 Dec 2009
Legality, Legitimacy & the United Nations: A Public Lecture
delivered by the APCML Sir Ninian Stephen Visiting Scholar 2009
Professor Ramesh Thakur
Moving the Children’s Rights Agenda Forward: An Interdisciplinary Australian Perspective
10:00 am Friday 4 Dec 2009
Using the UNCRoC as the starting point, this conference will
investigate what a children's rights focus looks like in the
Australian context within different disciplines.
CELRL Labour Law Seminar: Change and Evolution in New Zealand Employment Law
1:00 pm Thursday 3 Dec 2009
This seminar will focus on the way the statutory good faith
obligation has developed over the last decade.
The future of Breach of Confidence
12:00 pm Wednesday 2 Dec 2009
The doctrine of breach of confidence has come a long way since its
humble beginnings in 18th Century case law.
Climate Justice and International Environmental Law: Rethinking the North–South Divide
5:30 pm Tuesday 1 Dec 2009
Melbourne Journal of International Law Symposium Launch
November 2009
CCCS: International and Comparative Perspectives on Constitutional Law
9:00 am Friday 27 Nov 2009
You are invited to attend this major conference hosted by the CCCS
with a range of leading Australian and international scholars and a
keynote speech by the Chief Justice of Australia.
Book launch by the Honourable Justice Kenneth Hayne
6:00 pm Thursday 26 Nov 2009
Melbourne Law School’s Obligations Group is pleased to
invite you to the launch by the Honourable Justice
Kenneth Hayne of two books.
ALC/CILS Research Seminar: Growing Together in Partnership: Women's Views of the Business Practices of an Islamic Savings and Credit Cooperative
1:00 pm Tuesday 24 Nov 2009
This seminar explores the impact of the rise of Islamism on women in
Indonesia, and how Islamic jurisprudence has been linked to the
business operations of the BMTs (Baitul Maal wat Tamwil).
INTERNATIONALISATION OR ISOLATION: THE AUSTRALIAN CUL DE SAC? THE CASE OF CONTRACT LAW
5:30 pm Monday 23 Nov 2009
The Obligations Group invite you to a seminar presented by Justice
Finn
Centre for Islamic Law and Society and National Centre of Excellence in Islamic Studies Postgraduate Conference 2009
23 - 25 Nov 2009
The Centre for Islamic Law and Society (CILS), will
host its 5th
annual Islamic Studies Postgraduate Conference at the
University of
Melbourne on 23-25 November, 2009, co-hosted by the NCEIS
IILAH/CCCS Seminar: Women's Autonomy, Religion on Trial
5:30 pm Thursday 19 Nov 2009
The IILaH and the Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies
present a seminar by Professor Frances Raday on Women’s Autonomy -
Religion on Trial.
Inaugural Frank Costigan Oration 2009 presented by Hon John Cain
6:30 pm Wednesday 18 Nov 2009
With the new challenges of turbulent and financially
uncertain times,
can we take up Frank Costigan QC's fight against
corruption? How can
we work to foster broader ethical practice?
Blogging and Media Law - Centre for Media and Communications Law Seminar
5:30 pm Wednesday 18 Nov 2009
The seminar will address key issues about blogging that arise
internationally, especially related to defamation and privacy law.
Celebrating the Twenty-Year Anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (Seminar 8)
1:30 pm Wednesday 18 Nov 2009
This seminar is the eighth of the Vice Chancellor's Interdisciplinary
Steering Committee on Children's Rights, Participation and
Citizenship Lunchtime Seminar Series.
The Supreme Court of Victoria Inaugural Commercial Law Conference - Current Issues in Commercial Law
2:00 pm Thursday 12 Nov 2009
Some of the topic that will be discussed are:
. "Current Issues in Shareholder Remedies under the
Corporations Act"
. "Insolvent Managed Investment Schemes - issues
arising out of Timbercorp and Great Southern"
. "Company Director's and Officer's Conflicts of
Interest"
. "The Role of the Modern Commercial Court"
The James Hardie Case - A Timely Reminder to Consider Your D&O Cover and Deeds of Indemnity, Insurance and Access
5:30 pm Wednesday 11 Nov 2009
The Supreme Court decision that James Hardie directors and officers
were in breach of their duties resulting in the imposition of
substantial banning orders and financial penalties, coupled with the
Court's decision not to exonerate them, is a timely reminder that
directors and officers should periodically review their D&O Insurance
and Deeds of Indemnity, Insurance & Access.
Chancellor's Human Rights Lecture: Victorian Charter of Human Rights and the Criminal Law - Perspectives from the European Convention on Human Rights
6:00 pm Tuesday 10 Nov 2009
This lecture will address the potential effects of the Victorian
Charter of Human Rights on criminal law and procedure from the
perspective of the European Convention of Human Rights.
10th Anniversary of Melbourne Law School’s Construction Law Program - 10th November
2:00 pm Tuesday 10 Nov 2009
Please join us as we look forward to the way in which law and
construction practice will – and, more importantly, should –
interact in the future. Please RSVP by the 19th of Oct.
ALC Occasional Seminar (with IPRIA): An introduction to the Intellectual Property High Court of Japan
5:30 pm Monday 9 Nov 2009
In light of his extensive experience in Intellectual
Property Law,
Judge Hiroki Morishita will provide an introduction to the
Intellectual Property High Court of Japan
IILAH/ARC Workshop: Reasons of State: Security, Civility, Immunity, Life
9 - 10 Nov 2009
This two-day workshop will explore the histories, objects,
passions and strategies of modern statecraft.
The James Hardie Case - A Timely Reminder to Consider Your D&O Cover and Deeds of Indemnity, Insurance and Access
5:30 pm Thursday 5 Nov 2009
The Supreme Court decision that James Hardie directors and officers
were in breach of their duties resulting in the imposition of
substantial banning orders and financial penalties, coupled with the
Court's decision not to exonerate them, is a timely reminder that
directors and officers should periodically review their D&O Insurance
and Deeds of Indemnity, Insurance & Access.
CCCS Book Launch: 'Choosing the Republic' by Glenn Patmore
5:00 pm Thursday 5 Nov 2009
The CCCS is pleased to invite you to the launch of Glenn Patmore's
new book 'Choosing the Republic' by Peter Van Vliet, Secretary of the
Committee of the Australian Republican Movement.
Inaugural Professorial Lecture. Death, Desire, Sin, Redemption: Climate Change and the Rationality of Environmental Law
6:00 pm Wednesday 4 Nov 2009
NEW DATE Professor Lee Godden's lecture will address
climate change and its pressing environmental and regulatory
concerns.
CELRL Labour Law Seminar: The Regulatory Paradigm in Australian Labour Law
1:00 pm Wednesday 4 Nov 2009
This presentation will examine the labour law and labour market
regulation project and the potential which this work has for
developing a new paradigm of labour law.
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October 2009
Rare Books Lecture 2009 - William Blackstone: Lawyer and Judge with Professor Wilfrid Prest
5:30 pm Thursday 29 Oct 2009
Join the Melbourne Law School Library to celebrate the work of
William Blackstone: Lawyer and Judge, with guest lecture Professor
Wilfrid Prest.
CILS Research Seminar: Weak State - Strong Communities? Tuan Guru, Tradition and Peace-Building in Lombok, Indonesia
1:00 pm Wednesday 28 Oct 2009
Like many other parts of Indonesia, Lombok has faced considerable
challenges since the fall of President Soeharto. This presentation
focuses on peace-building & dispute resolution processes
IILAH Symposium: Interregnums: Between the National and the Post-National
9:00 am Wednesday 28 Oct 2009
The Symposium will look at a key question: From the perspective of
the Left can nation states offer space for political or revolutionary
projects?
Cultural Collections, Creators and Copyright Conference
9:00 am Friday 23 Oct 2009
How can we understand current and emerging ways of
using digital material held by collections in Australia in light of
copyright law
and the interests of creators?
Melbourne Law Masters 2010 Information Evening
6:00 pm Thursday 22 Oct 2009
Find out more about the 2010 Melbourne Law Masters
program at our information evening – you can even apply
on the night.
The National Human Rights Consultation: Outcomes from the Australian Human Rights Commission Perspective
6:00 pm Wednesday 21 Oct 2009
The CCCS and AHRC are pleased to invite you to a seminar to consider
the Committee findings of the Report of the National Human Rights
Consultation.
CCCS Seminar: “The Grammar of Customary Law.”
1:00 pm Wednesday 21 Oct 2009
The CCCS invites you to attend a lunchtime seminar by Professor
Jeremy Webber, Faculty of Law, University of Victoria, Canada on the
topic of “The Grammar of Customary Law.”
Celebrating the Twenty-Year Anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (Seminar 7)
1:00 pm Wednesday 21 Oct 2009
This seminar is the seventh of the Vice Chancellor's
Interdisciplinary Steering Committee on Children's Rights,
Participation and Citizenship Lunchtime Seminar Series.
CILS Research Seminar: Reviving Islamic Traditions of Sulh for Resolving Islamic Finance Disputes
1:00 pm Tuesday 20 Oct 2009
Andrew White is an Associate Professor of Law, Singapore Management
University. He is in Melbourne to co-teach with Professor Tim
Lindsey; Islamic Law and Politics in the Masters program.
Responses to Mass Atrocities and National Trauma - A Panel Discussion
6:30 pm Monday 19 Oct 2009
A panel discussion on 'Responses to Mass Atrocities and
National Trauma', organised by Latrobe University Law
School and Global Justice Studio Melbourne University.
THE HUMAN RIGHTS FORUM ACTIVATE SERIES - Making it Real: Experiences of Enforcement in International Criminal Law
5:30 pm Tuesday 13 Oct 2009
The final session of the Activate Series will bring
together speakers who have worked at the coal face of
legal human rights enforcement.
BOOK LAUNCH: Voluntary Simplicity: The Poetic Alternative to Consumer Culture
4:20 pm Tuesday 13 Oct 2009
CREEL is pleased to invite you to the launch of Samuel Alexander’s book, Voluntary Simplicity: The Poetic Alternative to Consumer Culture, by Senator Bob Brown of the Australian Greens
Career Pathways: Working in Family Law- is it for you? 8 October 2009
1:00 pm Thursday 8 Oct 2009
Family law practitioners will discuss their work and careers from
three different perspectives of family law practice – private
practice, a Legal Aid and the bar.
APCML Seminar: The United Nations and Iraq’s Weapons of Mass Destruction
5:30 pm Wednesday 7 Oct 2009
Rod Barton, former UN Weapons Inspector, discusses Iraq's WMD program.
Centre for Islamic Law and Society Research Seminar: Yusman Roy and the Language of Devotion: 'Innovation' on Trial in Indonesia
1:00 pm Wednesday 7 Oct 2009
Stewart's research examines the 2005 prosecution of Muhammad Yusman
Roy of 'disgracing religion' and 'spreading hatred or contempt' in
Indonesia.
Preparing for Work: Ace that interview! 7 October 2009
1:00 pm Wednesday 7 Oct 2009
Tips and techniques to perform in job interviews.
APCML/CCCS Joint Seminar: The High Court versus Military Justice: Where to Next?
5:30 pm Tuesday 6 Oct 2009
The APCML and CCCS invite you to attend a seminar on: "The High Court
versus Military Justice: Where to Next?"
Is Justice Possible for First Nation’s Peoples? (Guest Lecture Series)
12:45 pm Tuesday 6 Oct 2009
A series of weekly lectures on current issues in law and legal
practice for Melbourne Law School students.
CCCS Seminar: Reassessing the New Commonwealth Model of Constitutionalism.
1:00 pm Monday 5 Oct 2009
The CCCS invites you to attend a lunchtime seminar by Professor
Stephen Gardbaum, Professor of Law, University of California on:
Reassessing the New Commonwealth Model of Constitutionalism.
September 2009
ALC Brown Bag Seminar: Japanese Innovations in the Public-Private Divide: Lessons for Australia?
1:00 pm Monday 28 Sep 2009
Australian courts have been slow to develop administrative law
doctrine, Trevor Ryan attempts to show that Japan is a useful point
of reference.
'The Responsibility to Protect: Ending Mass Atrocity Crimes Once and For All'
6:30 pm Tuesday 22 Sep 2009
Melbourne Law School and the Victoria Law Foundation
invite you to
the 2009 Law Week Oration to be presented by Gareth
Evans AO QC,
President Emeritus, International Crisis Group
CCCS Seminar:
1:00 pm Monday 21 Sep 2009
The CCCS invites you to attend a lunchtime seminar by Professor Hugh
Corder, University of Cape Town, on: "The Constitutionalisation of
South African Administrative Law: Has it Worked?"
Career Pathways: Criminal Law – what it’s really like 17 September 2009
5:30 pm Thursday 17 Sep 2009
Criminal law practitioners will discuss their work and careers from
three different perspectives of criminal law practice – private
practice, a legal centre and the bar.
Career Pathways: How to become a Legal Aid lawyer 17 September 2009
1:00 pm Thursday 17 Sep 2009
Leah Borsboom will discuss Legal Aid’s New Lawyer Program and how to
set yourself up for a career in Legal Aid.
Meeting the Basic Survival Needs of the World's Least Healthy People: Towards a Framework Convention on Global Health
6:00 pm Wednesday 16 Sep 2009
Miegunyah Distinguished Fellow Lecture: Prof Gostin will ask what
humans need for basic survival and explore how these might be met for
people living in some of the least healthy communities
Will freeing parallel imports make books cheaper at the cost of authors?
5:30 pm Tuesday 15 Sep 2009
Speakers: Professor Allan Fels AO, Dr Rhonda Smith,
Arlen Duke,
Graeme Connelly, Professor Sam Ricketson (Chair)
International Humanitarian Law and the Young Lawyer
5:30 pm Tuesday 15 Sep 2009
A forum about opportunities to work abroad in humanitarian law,
chaired by Sarah Finnin.
Current Developments in South African Constitutional Law (Guest Lecture Series)
12:45 pm Tuesday 15 Sep 2009
A series of weekly lectures on current issues in law and legal
practice for Melbourne Law School students.
Law Computer Labs unavailable on 11 September
8:00 am Friday 11 Sep 2009
PC Labs 317 and 319 will be unavailable for use between 8 am and 6 pm
on Friday September 11th.
Getting development right: current campaigns for a just world (Human Rights Forum Activate Series)
5:30 pm Wednesday 9 Sep 2009
The activate series is designed to provide students with an
opportunity to engage with practitioners and advocates in human
rights and related fields.
Preparing for Work: Networking is not a dirty word! 9 September 2009
5:30 pm Wednesday 9 Sep 2009
Making professional contacts is essential in your working life. This
seminar will provide tips to develop your network and help you get
the job you want.
Preparing for Work: Considering PLT? College of Law Information Session 9 September 2009
1:00 pm Wednesday 9 Sep 2009
Practical Legal Training is an alternative pathway to admission to
practice. Come and hear about the College of Law’s course.
Directors' Duties in a Time of Crisis
5:30 pm Tuesday 8 Sep 2009
The global financial crisis means that the
environment in which directors are operating is
more challenging and more difficult than ever
before.
The Coroner: An Ancient Role in a Modern World (Guest Lecture Series)
12:45 pm Tuesday 8 Sep 2009
A series of weekly lectures on current issues in law and legal
practice for Melbourne Law School students.
ALC Occasional Seminar: The Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights in China: Institutional Challenges
5:00 pm Monday 7 Sep 2009
The enforcement of intellectual property rights in China is a serious
and controversial issue. Professor Nie will discuss how intellectual
property rights are enforced in China.
CCCS Seminar: Backlash Against Judicial Activism: The Case of Israel.
1:00 pm Friday 4 Sep 2009
The CCCS invites you to attend a seminar by Professor Claude Klein,
Professor of Law, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem to discuss the
Backlash Against Judicial Activism: The Case of Israel
Career Pathways: Management Consulting – what is it and is it for you? 3 September 2009
1:00 pm Thursday 3 Sep 2009
This seminar will explain what you actually do as a management
consultant; and give you tips to position yourself for a job in this
exciting profession.
The 2009 Nathan and Pamela Jacobson Lecture
6:15 pm Wednesday 2 Sep 2009
Despite Carl Schmitt's unforgivable affiliation with the Nazis, his
contributions to 20th Century legal science constitute real
breakthroughs. Claude Klein will explain why in this lecture.
Melbourne Graduate Expo
3:00 pm Wednesday 2 Sep 2009
Discover the graduate study options available in 2010 and beyond. Register now!
Preparing for Work: Current visa issues - Know the facts 2 September 2009
1:00 pm Wednesday 2 Sep 2009
This seminar is for international students who wish to work
professionally in Australia. It will provide an update on the
current visa situation and give advice on steps to gaining PR.
Australia and Refugees: are rights still at risk? (Human Rights Forum Activate Series)
5:30 pm Tuesday 1 Sep 2009
The activate series is designed to provide students with an
opportunity to engage with practitioners and advocates in human
rights and related fields.
Your Legal Career Now and into the Future (Guest Lecture Series)
1:00 pm Tuesday 1 Sep 2009
A series of weekly lectures on current issues in law and legal
practice for Melbourne Law School students.
August 2009
Career Pathways: Life as a Government Lawyer 27 August 2009
5:30 pm Thursday 27 Aug 2009
For those considering a career as a government lawyer, this seminar
will inform you of career opportunities and help you develop your own
career plan.
Career Pathways: What is life as an academic really like? 27 August 2009
1:00 pm Thursday 27 Aug 2009
Professor Jenny Morgan, Faculty Advisor for Academic Careers, will
present a seminar on life as a legal academic and career pathways in
academia.
CELRL Labour Law Seminar - Temporary Foreign Workers in Canada: The Low-skilled Stream
1:00 pm Thursday 27 Aug 2009
Professor Judy Fudge will speak on Temporary Foreign Workers in
Canada.
Preparing for Work: How to get a job in Australia 26 August 2009
1:00 pm Wednesday 26 Aug 2009
This seminar for international students will provide advice on
preparing yourself for successfully securing professional work in
Australia.
CILS Research Seminar: Muslim Women in Radical Islamist Circles: The Case of Al-Mukmin Pesantren, Ngruki
1:00 pm Wednesday 26 Aug 2009
Farha Abdul Kadir Assegaf is a well-known activist and
consultant on
issues concerning gender and religion. She will
present on recent
religious fundamentalism and radicalism in Indonesia.
CREEL Public Seminar: Breeding Asian Tigers: The Shifting Regulation of Wildlife Trade in Southeast Asia
1:00 pm Tuesday 25 Aug 2009
CREEL and OEP invite to a lunch time seminar by Chris
Turton on the recently passed Biodiversity Law in
Vietnam and its failure to protect the region’s unique
biodiversity. 1 pm Tue 25 Aug.
How does BHP Billiton Approach Executive Remuneration - Is There a Need for Legislative Intervention? (Guest Lecture Series)
12:45 pm Tuesday 25 Aug 2009
A series of weekly lectures on current issues in law and legal
practice for Melbourne Law School students.
'Shakespeare, Law and Authorship'
6:30 pm Monday 24 Aug 2009
His Honour Justice Cummins has a longstanding interest in
Shakespeare. This is arguably evident in some of his judgments, and
makes him ideal to present 'Shakespeare, Law and Authorship'
APCML Professorial Lecture: The Australian Military Court
6:00 pm Thursday 20 Aug 2009
Delivered by Professorial Fellow, Brigadier Ian
Westwood AM. This
lecture will consider the reasons for a separate
discipline system
for the Defence Force.
Annual Tax Lecture - Tax Uncertainty
5:45 pm Thursday 20 Aug 2009
The Melbourne Law School presents the 2009 Annual Tax Lecture - "Tax
Uncertainty".
IILAH Public Seminar, Multilateralism as Terror: International Law, Haiti and Imperialism presented by Dr China Miéville
5:30 pm Thursday 20 Aug 2009
The Institute for International Law and the Humanities invites you to
a public seminar presented by Dr China Miéville.
Meeting with the Dean of the Law School
1:00 pm Thursday 20 Aug 2009
JD students are invited to a meeting with Professor
Hathaway, the Dean of the Law School.
Preparing for Work: Traineeships and Seasonal Clerkships - Changes to the recruitment calendar 20 August 2009
1:00 pm Thursday 20 Aug 2009
The LIV Guidelines have recently changed significantly. This seminar
will detail the changes to the recruitment schedule for traineeships
and seasonal clerkships.
Climate change responsibility, ethics and law
1:00 pm Wednesday 19 Aug 2009
An internationally-recognised expert in climate change, Professor
David Karoly explores the role of ethics and the law in this
important global issue.
CILS Research Seminar: Playboy on Trial: 'Pornography', The Law and the Islamic Defenders Front in Indonesia
1:00 pm Wednesday 19 Aug 2009
Helen will analyse the anti-pornography Bill as an 'Islamic legal
transplant' in the context of discourse theory. She will argue that
the Islamic Defenders Front chose to report Playboy.
Celebrating the Twenty-Year Anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (Seminar 5)
1:00 pm Wednesday 19 Aug 2009
This seminar is the fifth of the Vice Chancellor's Interdisciplinary
Steering Committee on Children's Rights, Participation and
Citizenship Lunchtime Seminar Series.
ALC Occasional / Indonesia Forum Seminar: Politics and Islamisation in Aceh: An Update
6:00 pm Tuesday 18 Aug 2009
Dr Arskal Salim visits Melbourne and is supported by the Indonesia
Forum as part of the University of Melbourne's Asia Week to discuss
legal Islamisation in modern Indonesia.
Preparing for Work: Traineeships and Seasonal Clerkships - Changes to the recruitment calendar 18 August 2009
1:00 pm Tuesday 18 Aug 2009
The LIV Guidelines have recently changed significantly. This seminar
will detail the changes to the recruitment schedule for traineeships
and seasonal clerkships.
The Role of the WTO in Protecting the Global Commons - is there scope for Unilateral Environmental Measures?
5:00 pm Monday 17 Aug 2009
The Institute for International Law and the Humanities
will host an
evening seminar prestented by Ms Jo Feldman - Senior
Legal Officer in
the Attorney-General's Department.
Preparing for Work: Fit to Practise: the rationale underlying the test and how it has been applied in admission proceedings
1:00 pm Thursday 13 Aug 2009
Career Pathways: Against the death penalty? Consider a Reprieve internship
1:00 pm Thursday 13 Aug 2009
Former Reprieve interns will speak of their experiences working on
death penalty cases in the US.
Directors' Duties in a Time of Crisis
5:30 pm Wednesday 12 Aug 2009
The global financial crisis means that the environment in which
directors are operating is more challenging and more difficult than
ever before.
Preparing for Work: Considering PLT? Leo Cussen Institute Information Session
1:00 pm Wednesday 12 Aug 2009
Practical Legal Training is an alternative pathway to admission to
practice. Come and hear about the Leo Cussen Institute’s course.
Life with a Law Degree - In and Out of the Law (Guest Lecture Series)
12:45 pm Tuesday 11 Aug 2009
A series of weekly lectures on current issues in law and legal
practice for Melbourne Law School students.
ALC/ILLAH Seminar: Enforcement Problem in the WTO - Success, Limitations and Possible Improvement
6:00 pm Monday 10 Aug 2009
Professor Yasuhei Taniguchi is renowned world-wide for his expertise
in insolvency law, civil procedure, arbitration and the World Trade
Organisation.
From the international to the local: making human rights count at home (Human Rights Forum Activate Series)
5:30 pm Monday 10 Aug 2009
The activate series is designed to provide students with an
opportunity to engage with practitioners and advocates in human
rights
and related fields.
Hamlet on Trial
6:30 pm Thursday 6 Aug 2009
What will happen when Hamlet is brought to trial for the death of
Polonius? Find out at the upcoming mock trial of Hamlet under
Australian common law.
Policy Arguments for Proprietary Restitution
5:30 pm Thursday 6 Aug 2009
Melbourne Law School’s Obligations Group is pleased to
invite you to a seminar by William Swadling, Senior Law
Fellow, Brasenose College, CUF Lecturer in Law at the
University of Oxford.
Career Pathways: Demystifying the pathways into International Organisations
1:00 pm Thursday 6 Aug 2009
Associate Professor Cally Jordan, Faculty Advisor for International
Careers, will present this seminar on how to position yourself for a
career in international organisations.
Call and Response: Free Preview Screening
6:00 pm Wednesday 5 Aug 2009
A free preview of the film 'Call and Response'.
Crisis or Opportunity: Where do you want your career to be in 5 years?
6:30 pm Tuesday 4 Aug 2009
The Melbourne Law School is pleased to invite you to a
career
planning event exclusively for our alumni. This event
is generously
supported by David Talalla and Associates.
New Zealand Graduate Information Sessions
4 - 6 Aug 2009
Learn how the University of Melbourne can help you go
further, faster at one of the information sessions in New Zealand
this August.
Francis Gurry: 'Intellectual Property, Innovation and Creativity - Future Global Directions'
6:00 pm Monday 3 Aug 2009
Greater demand for property rights in knowledge has come with
increased scrutiny in this field.
What will be the effect of this on international policy regulating
intellectual property?
July 2009
How to be a Thinker not just a Finder – Evaluating Resources for Legal Research
11:00 am Friday 31 Jul 2009
The objective of this workshop is to assist students in evaluating
what resources to use, and why, when conducting legal research.
Media Law Inaugural Professorial Lectures
5:30 pm Wednesday 29 Jul 2009
Presenting two Inaugural Professorial Lectures:
Professor Andrew Kenyon- Might Media Law Matter?
Professor Megan Richardson- Kant Stand It - Breach of Confidence and
the Right to Privacy
Advancing the Rule of Law (Guest Lecture Series)
12:45 pm Tuesday 28 Jul 2009
A series of weekly lectures on current issues in law and legal
practice for Melbourne Law School students.
IILAH Seminar: From Security Council Resolution 1325 to 1820
12:45 pm Tuesday 28 Jul 2009
Ms Gina Heathcote (SOAS) will explore the capacity of Security
Council resolutions to offer tools for achieving gender justice in
post-conflict situations.
National Human Rights Institutions Workshop: Creating change? NHRIs’ (In)Action in the Asia-Pacific Region
9:00 am Wednesday 22 Jul 2009
This workshop will be hosted by the Institute for International Law
and the Humanities (IILAH) and the Postgraduate Law Students
Association (PLSA), at the Melbourne Law School.
CCCS Seminar: The Regulatory Constitution
1:00 pm Monday 20 Jul 2009
The CCCS is pleased to invite you to a seminar by Associate Professor
Michael Dowdle, Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore
on 'The Regulatory Constitution'.
Celebrating the Twenty-Year Anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (Seminar 4)
1:00 pm Wednesday 15 Jul 2009
This seminar is the fourth of the Vice Chancellor's Interdisciplinary
Steering Committee on Children's Rights, Participation and
Citizenship Lunchtime Seminar Series.
IILAH Seminar: International Law and Translation: Overcoming Legal Pluralism and Linguistic Diversity
12:45 pm Wednesday 15 Jul 2009
Sieglinde Pommer (Harvard) will discuss legal translation as a means
of addressing the challenges of multilingualism and diverse legal
cultures and institutions in international law.
CILS Research Seminar: Reforming Islamic Law
12:00 pm Wednesday 15 Jul 2009
Professor Kamali will introduce the salient features, scope and
methodolies of the reform of Islamic Law seen in during the 20th
Century.
Recent developments is stem cell research: social, ethical and legal issues for the future
6:00 pm Tuesday 7 Jul 2009
In the 4th David Danks Lecture Professor Loane Skene will outline
some regulatory issues raised by new technology, and explore legal
responses in Australia, USA and the UK
June 2009
AustLII Training in Free-Access Online Legal Research
Monday 29 Jun 2009
One-day seminar aims to assist users obtain the maximum
benefit from
their use of AustLII, WorldLII, and other Internet
legal research
tools. Alumni discount available
Get Ready for Work Series 2009
9:30 am Friday 26 Jun 2009
Not sure whether the legal research skills you’ve developed through
your degree will be good enough for practice?
Regime Interaction in International Law: Theoretical and Practical Challenges
26 - 27 Jun 2009
This conference is co-sponsored by IILAH and the Lauterpacht Centre
for International Law and Pembroke College (Cambridge).
The James Hardie Decision - Implications for Directors and Their Advisors
5:30 pm Thursday 25 Jun 2009
The decision of the NSW Supreme Court in James Hardie
is one of the most widely discussed judgments in recent
years. It was extensively reported in the media and its
implications are now being analysed. The court found that
seven former non-executive directors and three former
executives of James Hardie had breached their duties.
James Hardie was also found to have breached disclosure
obligations in relation to ASX announcements.
CCCS Seminar: 'Inglis Clark, Edmund Barton, Marbury v Madison, and the familiar story about the deletion and re-insertion of section 75(v) of the Commonwealth Constitution. A longer ending.'
1:00 pm Thursday 18 Jun 2009
The CCCS is pleased to invite you to a brown bag seminar by Professor
William Buss, University of Iowa, on the American influence on the
making of the Australian constitution.
Celebrating the Twenty-Year Anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (Seminar 3)
1:00 pm Wednesday 17 Jun 2009
This seminar is the third of the Vice Chancellor's Interdisciplinary
Steering Committee on Children's Rights, Participation and Citizenship
Lunchtime Seminar Series.
Tax Group - Free Public Seminar
8:00 am Wednesday 17 Jun 2009
Is Tax Reform Good for Business? Is a Pro-Busines Tax System Good for
the Country?
The James Hardie Decision - Implications for Directors and Their Advisors
5:30 pm Tuesday 16 Jun 2009
The decision of the NSW Supreme Court in James Hardie
is one of the most widely discussed judgments in recent
years. It was extensively reported in the media and its
implications are now being analysed. The court found that
seven former non-executive directors and three former
executives of James Hardie had breached their duties.
James Hardie was also found to have breached disclosure
obligations in relation to ASX announcements.
Asian Legal Dialogue: Public Religion and Intergenerational Change in Indonesia: A Snapshot of Current Developments
1:00 pm Thursday 11 Jun 2009
A discussion in Bahasa Indonesia with three Indonesian Muslim
writers, thinkers and community leaders who are in Melbourne under
the Australia-Indonesia Muslim Leaders Exchange Program.
ALC 'Brown Bag' Seminar: Justice for Munir
1:00 pm Wednesday 10 Jun 2009
There is no case more central to the security of human rights
defenders in Indonesia than the 2004 murder of the prominent human
rights lawyer Munir. That case is now at risk of collapse.
IILAH Seminar, Transnational Law and Transnational Legal Pluralism: Methodological Observations presented by Professor Peer Zumbansen
6:00 pm Wednesday 3 Jun 2009
Professor Zumbansen will argue that global responses to the unfolding
economic crisis should not come at the price of disregarding local
regulatory experiences and normative trajectories.
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Law Graduate Research Colloquium
10:15 am Wednesday 3 Jun 2009
Law Graduate Research Colloquium
For more information: research.law.unimelb.edu.au
For queries tel: 8344 8946 or Email: law-research@unimelb.edu.au
May 2009
Get Ready for Work Series 2009
9:30 am Friday 29 May 2009
Not sure whether the legal research skills you’ve developed through
your degree will be good enough for practice?
Meeting with the Associate Dean (Undergraduate)
1:00 pm Thursday 28 May 2009
This is an informal meeting where the Associate Dean (Undergraduate)
will be available to answer questions or clarify issues concerning
the LLB.
Conversation with Professor Peer Zumbansen (Melbourne Conversations Series)
5:00 pm Wednesday 27 May 2009
Join a discussion with a prominent lecturer and author
from York
University, Canada.
ALC/CILS Research Seminar: Women’s movement in Aceh: Identity, mobilization and autonomy
1:00 pm Wednesday 27 May 2009
Ms Dina Afrianty will highlight issues pertaining to
Sharia
Implementation and how it mobilizes Acehnese women.
Inaugural Professorial Lecture: 'Pushing Feminism off the Map? International Law in Times of Crisis'
6:00 pm Wednesday 20 May 2009
Do emergencies necessarily displace law’s emancipatory potential
(assuming it exists) and, if not, what opportunities does a time of
crisis present for advancing feminist goals?
Celebrating the Twenty-Year Anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (Seminar 2)
1:00 pm Wednesday 20 May 2009
This seminar is the second of the Vice Chancellor's Interdisciplinary
Steering Committee on Children's Rights, Participation and Citizenship
Lunchtime Seminar Series.
An Australian Human Rights Act: Dispelling the Myths
6:00 pm Tuesday 19 May 2009
The Hon Catherine Branson QC, President of the
Australian Human Rights Commission, will offer her
reflections on the state of human rights protection in
Australia.
Australian Human Rights Commission - National Human Rights Consultation
2:00 pm Friday 15 May 2009
Be a part of the Australian Human Rights Commission National Human
Rights Consultation!
CCCS Seminar: Interrogating Birthright Citizenship
1:00 pm Friday 15 May 2009
The CCCS is pleased to invite you to seminar by Professor Peter
Spiro, Temple University, Beasley School of Law, Philadelphia,
on 'Interrogating Birthright Citizenship.'
Animal protection law: Why it's everyone's business
1:00 pm Thursday 14 May 2009
Leading US animal protection litigator, Bruce Wagman, will share his
experiences seeking justice for animals in the courtroom
Issues in Market Integrity and Regulatory Responses
5:30 pm Wednesday 13 May 2009
This important seminar brings together leading speakers to discuss
key market integrity issues.
Labour Law Seminar: 'His Master's Voice? Work Choices as a Return to Master and Servant Concepts'
1:00 pm Wednesday 13 May 2009
In this seminar, Mary Gardiner suggests that an
explanation for this
conundrum can be found by examining the legislation
through the lens
of master and servant concepts and laws.
WTO Moot Team - Victory Toast
1:00 pm Wednesday 13 May 2009
It is with great pleasure that the Melbourne Law School
invites staff and students to toast the winners of
Pacific Regional
Round and wish them success in Taipei.
ACLA Competition Law Master Class for In-House Counsel in Melbourne on May 8 and 13.
8 - 13 May 2009
This seminar, will provide members of the Australian Corporate Lawyers
Association with an understanding of the ‘essentials’ of competition
law.
ALC/CILS Asian Legal Dialogue: Islam and Religious Minorities in Post-Reformasi Indonesia
1:00 pm Thursday 7 May 2009
A discussion in Bahasa Indonesia with three Indonesian Muslim
writers, thinkers and community leaders visitng under the Australia-
Indonesia Institute’s Muslim Leaders Exchange Program.
KickStart Skills 4 Work : Visa Options for Temporary and Permanent Residency
1:00 pm Thursday 7 May 2009
Book Launch and Panel Discussion - 'Fair Work: The New Workplace Laws and the Work Choices Legacy' - Wednesday 6 May 2009
5:30 pm Wednesday 6 May 2009
You are invited to attend a Book Launch and Panel
Discussion to
celebrate the publication of ‘Fair Work: The New
Workplace Laws and the Work Choices Legacy'
Judicial Associateships Information Seminar
1:00 pm Wednesday 6 May 2009
Professor Adrienne Stone will lead a discussion about Judicial
Associateships.
Using International Treaties for Local Change: Shadow Reporting under Human Rights Conventions
1:00 pm Wednesday 6 May 2009
Uni-Capitol Washington Congress Internship
11:30 am Friday 1 May 2009
Want to learn more about the US legal and political system? Live in
the US for 2 months? Immerse yourself in the US Congress?
April 2009
IILAH Seminar: Situational Gravity Under the Rome Statute
5:30 pm Wednesday 29 Apr 2009
Mr Kevin Heller (Melbourne) will critique the quantitative conception
of situational gravity currently informing the focus on African
states by the Office of the Prosecutor of the ICC.
ALC/CILS Research Seminar: Gendering Islam or Islamizing Gender? A Case Study of Progressive Muslim Women's Organization in Indonesia
1:00 pm Wednesday 29 Apr 2009
Ms Hidayah argues that the shift towards gender
activism in Indonesia
by younger Muslims has made Islamic texts more dynamic
through a
constructive dialogue with contemporary human reality.
Celebrating the Twenty-Year Anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child
1:00 pm Wednesday 29 Apr 2009
This seminar is the first of the Vice Chancellor's Interdisciplinary
Steering Committee on Children's Rights, Participation and Citizenship
Lunchtime Seminar Series.
The Constitution and a Human Rights Act.
5:30 pm Tuesday 28 Apr 2009
The CCCS and the Australian Human Rights Commission invite you to a
public seminar on the constitution and a Human Rights Act.
The W. E. Hearn Lecture - The Australian Law of Restitution: Has the High Court lost its way?
6:00 pm Thursday 23 Apr 2009
Andrew Burrows QC (Hon) one of the most eminent
private law scholars in the common law world, delivers
the 2009 W.E. Hearn Lecture.
Issues in Market Integrity and Regulatory Responses
5:30 pm Thursday 23 Apr 2009
This important seminar brings together leading speakers to discuss
key market integrity issues.
Inaugural Professorial Lecture: War Crimes Trials, Solemnity and the Problem of Evil
6:00 pm Wednesday 22 Apr 2009
This lecture will consider international law’s
encounter with evil; and, in, particular, the way in
which this encounter has been defined. **Please note new lecture
date**
Labour Law Seminar: ‘Unfair Dismissal Law: From Work Choices to the Fair Work Act 2009’
1:00 pm Wednesday 22 Apr 2009
In this seminar the federal unfair dismissal jurisdiction under Work
Choices will be briefly reviewed, and the ‘new’ regime of the Fair
Work framework will be explored.
ALC 'Brown Bag' Seminar:Impeachment and the Writ of Amparo as Mechanisms to Curb Impunity: The Case of the Philippines
1:00 pm Wednesday 22 Apr 2009
Neri Colmenares will discuss the state of human rights in the
Philippines, covering the issues of impunity and the effectivness of
judicial intervention to curb impunity.
KickStart Skills 4 Work: Beyond Graduate Programs: How else do new grads find jobs?
1:00 pm Wednesday 22 Apr 2009
KickStart Skills 4 Work : Beyond Graduate Programs: How else do new grads find jobs?
1:00 pm Wednesday 22 Apr 2009
After the 2008 Election: Politics and Governance in the United States
6:00 pm Tuesday 21 Apr 2009
In this lecture, Tom Mann will discuss the implications of the Obama
Presidency for public involvement in politics.
KickStart Skills 4 Work: Staying on - International Students working in Australia
1:00 pm Tuesday 21 Apr 2009
ALC Event: China Law Network - Registration Page
20 Apr - 20 May 2009
A national China Law Network (CLN) has been launched under the
auspices of the ARC Asia-Pacific Futures Research Network. Follow
this link to register your interest.
ALC/CILS Research Seminar: Regulating Sacred Sites: Conflict at Places of Worship in Indonesia
1:00 pm Wednesday 15 Apr 2009
Melissa will discuss the impact Indonesia's national policy on places
of worship has had on the relationship between Muslims and Christians
in Indonesia.
CCCS Seminar: Politicians' Influence over Regulatory Decisions Ostensibly Based on Sound Science.
1:00 pm Tuesday 7 Apr 2009
The CCCS invites you to a seminar by Professor Peter Strauss,
Columbia Law School, New York on "Politicians' Influence over
Regulatory Decisions Ostensibly Based on Sound Science."
DreamLarge Knowledge Transfer Grants - Information Session
1:00 pm Monday 6 Apr 2009
There will be an information session about the grants scheme on
Monday 6 April 2009 at 1:00pm in Room 222, Melbourne Law School.
'Beyond Straight and Gay Marriage'
6:00 pm Thursday 2 Apr 2009
Prof Nancy Polikoff argues that while same-sex marriage
is a civil rights victory for lesbian, gay, bisexual and
transgendered it's not the fix to what's wrong with the
law of families.
IILAH Seminar: Safety Standards and Indigenous Products: What Role for Traditional Knowledge?
12:45 pm Thursday 2 Apr 2009
This seminar considers the role of traditional knowledge in
determining the legality of trade bans on products with indigenous
uses.
ALC Asian Legal Dialogue: Dealing with drug addicts, sex workers and minor offenders: Debates about reforming the administrative powers of the Chinese police
6:00 pm Wednesday 1 Apr 2009
The debates about reform of police administrative detention powers
touch upon issues central to notions of state power and its limits...
Reprieve Information Session
1:00 pm Wednesday 1 Apr 2009
Reprieve Australia provides legal and humanitarian assistance to
impoverished people facing the death penalty.
March 2009
KickStart Skills 4 Work: How employers assess 'culture fit' in interviews
1:00 pm Tuesday 31 Mar 2009
HK Law Fair
12:00 pm Tuesday 31 Mar 2009
Are you interested in vacation work, qualifying as a Solicitor or
furthering your legal studies in Hong Kong?
Get Ready for Work Series 2009
9:30 am Friday 27 Mar 2009
Not sure whether the legal research skills you’ve developed through
your degree will be good enough for practice?
Fortresses, Cathedrals & Monuments to Law: What does the Architecture of the Law Court tell us about the Role of Law in Societies Across Time
5:15 pm Thursday 26 Mar 2009
In this seminar, Linda will look at attitudes to courthouse design
over time and reflect on what the various trends presented suggest
about the role of law in English society over time.
Fighting the Death Penalty in America
6:30 pm Wednesday 25 Mar 2009
Alumnus Richard Bourke, Director of the Louisiana Capital Assistance
Center will share his stories from the front line of fighting the
death penalty in the Southern United States.
State Building and International Law: Problems, Paradigms and Prospects
6:00 pm Wednesday 25 Mar 2009
IILAH is delighted to invite you to a Twilight Seminar presented by
Professor Antony Anghie (Utah), examining legal issues of
international territorial administration and 'state building'.
Book Launch - 'Landmarks in Australian Intellectual Property Law'
5:30 am Wednesday 25 Mar 2009
Please join us to celebrate the publication of this new book
published by Cambridge University Press and edited by Professors
Andrew Kenyon, Megan Richardson and Sam Ricketson of the MLS.
Court Security in an Age of Terror: Can Architecture Interfere with Justice?
6:00 pm Tuesday 24 Mar 2009
Justice Bernard Bongiorno, Frank Greene, Kate Auty, Thomas Schuster,
Graham Turnbull SC & Chief Judge Patsy Wolfe join a discussion on the
design of courtrooms used for major security trials
CCCS Book Launch: Challenging Women: Towards Equality in the Parliament of Victoria
5:00 pm Tuesday 24 Mar 2009
The CCCS invites you to attend the launch of Dr Grey's
book 'Challenging Women: Towards Equality in the Parliament of
Victoria' by the Minister for Women's Affairs, Maxine Morand MP.
Asian Legal Dialogue: Jaringan Islam Liberal (JIL): Its Anatomy and Legal Thinking
12:00 pm Friday 20 Mar 2009
Hamid Chalid, lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the University of
Indonesia will address an Asian Legal Dialogue on the topic of
Jaringan Islam Liberal (JIL).
Allen Hope Southey Memorial Lecture: Reflections on the History of Women in Law
6:30 pm Thursday 19 Mar 2009
Professor Mary Jane Mossman, a leading figure in feminist legal
thought & pioneer in Canadian legal education, will deliver the 27th
Memorial Lecture
Upcoming Melbourne JD Information Sessions
6:00 pm Wednesday 18 Mar 2009
Learn more about the Melbourne JD - the law degree for graduates.
WTO Dispute Settlement: Recent Australian Experience
6:00 pm Tuesday 17 Mar 2009
IILAH will host a seminar presented by Ms Amanda Gorely (Melbourne
Law School graduate) on her first hand involvement in dispute
settlements and her successful career at DFAT and beyond.
Leo Cussen Institute Info Session
1:00 pm Tuesday 17 Mar 2009
The Leo Cussen Institute will speak about the Practical Training
Course and Traineeship Modules and answer questions about pathways to
admission to legal practice.
CMCL Seminar - 'Internet content and ISP-level filtering: the Australian experiment'
8:15 am Tuesday 17 Mar 2009
Government-initiated trials are currently underway in Australia into
ISP-level filtering of various internet content..click here for
further information.
ALC Book Launch: Examining Practice, Interrogating Theory: Comparative Legal Studies in Asia
5:30 pm Monday 16 Mar 2009
Your are invited to a book launch to celebrate the publication
of 'Examining Practice, Interrogating Theory: Comparative Legal
Studies in Asia', edited by Pip Nicholson and Sarah Biddulph.
Conferring of Degrees Ceremony
16 Mar - 23 May 2009
The Hon Michael Kirby AC CMG will join our 300
graduands and their
family and friends at the 23 May graduation ceremony. A
graduation
information sheet is now available for graduands.
ALC/CCCS Round Table: Transnational Judging: A Judicial Conversation on Foreign and International Law in Domestic Courts
5:00 pm Friday 13 Mar 2009
The Asian Law Centre and Centre for Comparative Constitutional
Studies co-hosted a judicial roundtable featuring five Australian
judges and Prof Jimly Asshiddiqie.
ALC Asian Legal Dialogue: Conversation with Jimly Asshiddiqie
12:00 pm Friday 13 Mar 2009
As part of his visit to Melbourne, Prof Dr Jimly Asshiddiqie will
deliver a lecture in Indonesian on the rule of law in Indonesia and
discuss current political issues with the audience.
Exhibition Moot : 2009 World Trade Organization Moot Competition
6:00 pm Thursday 12 Mar 2009
On behalf of the students competing in the 2009 World
Trade Organization (WTO) Moot competition, Melbourne
Law School invites you to an Exhibition Moot and
refreshments.
Conversation with Professor Tony Anghie (Melbourne Conversations Series)
5:00 pm Thursday 12 Mar 2009
Join a discussion with this prominent lecturer and author from the
University of Utah.
ALC Occasional Seminar: Seabrook Chambers Lecture - Creating a Constitutional Court for a New Democracy
6:00 pm Wednesday 11 Mar 2009
Professor Dr Jimly Asshiddiqie was the first Chief Justice
of the Consitutional Court of Indonesia. He will speak on his
experiences in creating a constitutional court for a new democracy.
Linklaters London Information Session
1:00 pm Wednesday 11 Mar 2009
The Linklaters team will shortly be visiting Melbourne Law School and
invite you to join us for a short presentation,refreshments and an
opportunity to meet some of Linklaters global team.
From Australia to China: From Study to Work to Career
1:00 pm Wednesday 11 Mar 2009
Jesse Chang, Managing Partner of TransAsia Lawyers will talk about
his career: from studying law in Australia in the 70s, to a legal
career in China.
Graduate Careers Fair - Big Fair Out
12:00 pm Wednesday 11 Mar 2009
On Wednesday 11th March, 2009 Careers & Employment will be hosting
the annual Graduate Careers Fair in the iconic Royal Exhibition
Building, Carlton Gardens.
CMCL & IPRIA Exhibition Moot – Oxford IP Moot Team
5:30 pm Tuesday 10 Mar 2009
CMCL and IPRIA are please to invite you to join us for an exhibition
moot by Melbourne University’s inaugural team in the Oxford
International IP Moot.
2009 Jessup Moot Team - Victory Toast
4:15 pm Tuesday 10 Mar 2009
It is with great pleasure that the Melbourne Law School
invites students and staff to toast the winners of the
2009 Australian Jessup Tournament.
KickStart Skills 4 Work : What are employers looking for?
12:00 pm Friday 6 Mar 2009
What are employers looking for?
The R Douglas Wright Lecture: 'If Human Rights Matter, Why Not Protect Them?'
5:30 pm Wednesday 4 Mar 2009
Julian Burnside is a well known advocate on human
rights issues and
was recently recognised for this work with the award of
Officer of
the Order of Australia
ALC Special Lecture: Foreign Lawyers in Asia: Developments in Market Access with a Specific Focus on China
5:30 pm Wednesday 4 Mar 2009
This is the inaugural seminar in the ALC's new Professional
Development Strategy Series, designed to provide specialist training
in commercial law and legal practice in Asia.
International Women's Day Lecture with Justice Marcia Neave
1:00 pm Wednesday 4 Mar 2009
In recognition of International Women's Day 2009, the LSS Women's
Officers and Dr Ann Genovese have invited Justice Marcia Neave to
speak to staff and students at a special lunchtime lecture
International Women’s Day Lecture
1:00 pm Wednesday 4 Mar 2009
International Women’s Day is a major day of global celebration for
the economic, political and social achievements of women past,
present and future.
Scholarship applications now open
4 - 27 Mar 2009
Melbourne Law School has one of the most generous and prestigious
awards and scholarships programs in Australia. See below for further
information. Hurry - applications close 27 March 2009
February 2009
Employment, Tax and Work Visa Information Session
1:00 pm Thursday 26 Feb 2009
Want to know what your rights and responsibilities are in relation to
tax, work visa requirements and working in Australia?
Forum on the Proposed Building and Construction Division of Fair Work Australia
9:00 am Thursday 26 Feb 2009
The Centre for Employment and Labour Relations Law is
holding a Forum
on the Proposed Building and Construction Division of
Fair Work
Australia here at the Law School.
Privacy Case Law Implications for Contemporary Media Practices
5:30 pm Wednesday 25 Feb 2009
The Victorian Court of Appeal’s decision in Giller v Procopets, is
the latest in a series of privacy decisions having implications for
contemporary media practices.
Recognition, Redistribution and Resistance: Assessing the Usefulness of the Right to Health in Sub-Saharan Africa
12:45 pm Tuesday 24 Feb 2009
IILAH will host Mr Daniel Muriu's PhD Completion Seminar at the
Melbourne Law School. All welcome to attend!!!
ALC/CELRL/GRADS Workshop: Enforcement of Labour Law in China and Australia
17 - 19 Feb 2009
This workshop is designed to promote improved enforcement of labour
law in China and Australia, through an exchange between scholars,
community workers and government representatives.
Commercialising Inventions - What's the Story
17 - 19 Feb 2009
IPRIA and the AIC are hosting a one-day conference on 17 February
2009 (Brisbane) and 19 February 2009 (Melbourne) on commercialising
inventions.
Australian Tax Research Foundation Housing & Taxation Research Symposium
8:30 am Wednesday 11 Feb 2009
Melbourne Law School is hosting the Australian Tax Research
Foundation Symposium on Housing & Taxation featuring leading
international and Australian speakers on law and economics.
ALC Asian Legal Dialogue: A Judge's Work - A seminar in Japanese
5:30 pm Tuesday 10 Feb 2009
Judge Shiraishi will talk about the work of Assistant
Judges in Japan
and his own attraction to the profession. This seminar
will be
presented in Japanese.
CCCS Seminar: Legislating Like Judges? A Preliminary Assessment of Parliamentary Bills of Rights.
1:00 pm Tuesday 10 Feb 2009
CCCS invites you to attend a seminar by Professor Janet
Hiebert,
Queen's University, on a comparison of parliamentary
bills of rights
and their impact on governing.
Community Observance for the Opening of the Legal Year
9:00 am Monday 2 Feb 2009
The International Commission of Jurists (Victoria) will host the
second Community Observance for the Opening of the Legal Year.
January 2009
Exhibition Moot - 2009 Philip C Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition
6:00 pm Thursday 29 Jan 2009
Come and show your support for 2009 Jessup Moot team before they head
to Canberra for the regional rounds.
Graduate Study Expo
4:00 pm Wednesday 28 Jan 2009
Join us at the University of Melbourne's Graduate Study Expo to
discover the range of graduate study options available in 2009 and
beyond.
The Regulation of Female Nudity in Public Spaces: Why are Breasts Such a Threat?
12:45 pm Wednesday 21 Jan 2009
The Institute for International Law and the Humanities will host a
day-time seminar presented by Ms Chantal Morton (Osgoode Hall Law
School).
December 2008
In Search of Authority, Rebellion and Action
18 - 19 Dec 2008
A two day Postgraduate and Early Career Researchers Workshop on
Methodological Approaches to Legal Scholarship organised by PLSA and
IILAH.
CCCS Seminar: Real Constitutional Dialogue: From Canada to Australia.
1:00 pm Tuesday 16 Dec 2008
CCCS invites you to attend a seminar on 'Real Constitutional
Dialogue'by Assistant Professor Rosalind Dixon, University of Chicago
Law School
Get Ready for Work Series
9:30 am Tuesday 16 Dec 2008
The Law School's Legal Research Skills Advisor is providing a one day
workshop from 9.30am to 4.30 pm to help get you ready to work in a
law firm.
ALC 'Brown Bag' Seminar: The Political Determinants of Corporate Governance in China
1:00 pm Monday 15 Dec 2008
Chenxia Shi will present her PhD completion seminar. She will
discusss whether Chinese corporate governance will converge with
international models in the age of globalisation.
The Review of the Equal Opportunity Act 1995 - proposed new directions
1:00 pm Wednesday 10 Dec 2008
In this seminar, Julian Gardner will speak about the recommendations
of the Review, their rationale and aims, and the changes they would
bring to anti-discrimination law and practice...
Risk-Based Regulation, the Credit Crisis and the Compliance Conundrum
1:00 pm Tuesday 9 Dec 2008
The focus of the seminar is on the relationship between risk based
regulation and enforcement in the context of the credit crisis and
the implications for regulatory reform.
Systemic and adaptive water governance: Reconfiguring institutions for social learning and more effective water managing?
10:00 am Friday 5 Dec 2008
CREEL invites to a seminar and workshop exploring the role of social
learning in water policy and law.
ALC 'Brown Bag' Seminar: Pakistan’s Islamic Identity, its Blasphemy Law and the International Law of Human Rights
1:00 pm Wednesday 3 Dec 2008
Hajrah Saboor will discuss Pakistan's blasphemy laws, arguing that
they must be analysed in the context of Pakistan's history as well as
the country's religious, social and political trends.
Full Court of the High Court sits in Melbourne (December)
Tuesday 2 Dec 2008
The Full Bench of the High Court is expected to sit during the first
two weeks of December, commencing Tuesday 2 December at 9.30am.
November 2008
Inaugural Professorial Lecture: Professor Adrienne Stone
6:00 pm Wednesday 26 Nov 2008
Prof Stone defends the practice of refering to international
judgments in her lecture 'Foreign Law and Constitutional
Interpretation: Cautious Comparativism or Judicial Activism?'
CHANCELLOR’S HUMAN RIGHTS LECTURE: Criminal Defence Lawyers: Unwitting Human Rights Defenders
6:30 pm Monday 24 Nov 2008
The University of Melbourne’s 2008 Chancellor’s Lecture on Human
Rights will this year be delivered by Justice Lex Lasry. The lecture
will discuss the role that particular practitioners in the area of
criminal law have played in terms of human rights issues, both in
Victoria and more broadly.
ALC Occasional Seminar: Combating Corruption in Indonesia: How the Anti-Corruption Commission catches the Big Fish
1:00 pm Monday 24 Nov 2008
Recent receipient of the 2008 Bung Hatta Anti Corruption Award, Amien
Sunaryadi will speak on:'Combating Corruption in Indonesia: How the
Anti-CorruptionCommission catches the Big Fish'
CCCS Seminar: The Office of Lord Chancellor, the Judiciary and the Constitutional Reform Act 2005: ... a new and original plan?
1:00 pm Monday 24 Nov 2008
CCCS invites you to a seminar by Professor Peter Leyland, Professor
of Public Law, London Metropolitan University, United Kingdom.
Annual CMCL Conference - Media, Communications and Public Speech
20 - 21 Nov 2008
This is the major annual academic conference for the Centre for Media
and Communications Law with plenary speakers from Singapore, South
Africa, UK, USA and Australia.
Talking to Ourselves: Should International Lawyers Take a Break from Feminism?
6:00 pm Wednesday 19 Nov 2008
IILAH is pleased to invite you to a public seminar delivered by
Professor Hilary Charlesworth (ANU) with Melbourne Law School's Dr
Ann Genovese and Prof Dianne Otto acting as respondents
ALC 'Brown Bag' Seminar: Thailand's Constitutional Watchdogs: More Bark than Bite?
1:00 pm Wednesday 19 Nov 2008
Peter Leyland will discuss the various bodies which act as
constitutional watchdogs in Thailand, assessing their performance,
taking into account Thai values and the constitutional context.
IILAH Doctoral roundtable with Professor Hilary Charlesworth (Australian National University)
12:30 pm Wednesday 19 Nov 2008
It is of relevance to doctoral students working on questions of post-
conflict reconstruction, state-building, democracy and international
law or feminist approaches to international law.
My Story: The Tale of a Terrorist Who Wasn't
6:00 pm Tuesday 18 Nov 2008
A public conversation with Prof Tim McCormack and
authors, Mr Mamdouh Habib and Ms Julia Collingwood. Concluding
comments will be made by Rt Hon Malcolm Fraser
CILS Book Launch: Expressing Islam- Religious Life and Politics in Indonesia
5:30 pm Monday 17 Nov 2008
CILS will host a book launch to celebrate the publication of
Expressing Islam: Religions Life and Politics in Indonesia
CCCS Seminar: Disintegration through Law? - On the Decomposition of Citizenship in Europe.
1:00 pm Monday 17 Nov 2008
CCCS invites you to a seminar by Professor Dr Alexander Graser, LLM
Harvard),Professor of Comparative Public Law and Social Policy,
Hertie School of Governance, Berlin, Germany.
CILS Islamic Studies Postgraduate Conference 2008
17 - 18 Nov 2008
CILS will host its 4th annual Islamic Studies Postgraduate
Conference - to bring together postgraduate students
around Australia
who are researching topics relating to Islam.
2008 Labour Law Teaching Workshop
2:00 pm Thursday 13 Nov 2008
To provide a forum for teachers of labour law subjects, broadly
construed to include employment & industrial law to discuss the
challenging questions we face in our teaching, such as....
'Who Gets Born? Pre-Birth Testing in New Zealand.'
1:00 pm Thursday 13 Nov 2008
The New Zealand Bioethics Council has explored issues, and growing
concerns, raised by pre-birth testing with a view to informing future
laws regulating this area.
Rare Books Evening: Early English Law Reporting
5:30 pm Wednesday 12 Nov 2008
Melbourne Law School Library presents an evening of
Rare Books on the
subject of 'Early English Law Reporting'
Upcoming Melbourne JD Information Sessions
6:00 pm Tuesday 11 Nov 2008
Learn more about the Melbourne JD - the law degree for graduates.
PUBLIC LECTURE: The Tokyo War Crimes Trial: Humanity’s Justice or Victors’ Justice?
6:00 pm Monday 10 Nov 2008
Professor Fujita will provide an overview of the international legal
significance of the Tokyo War Crimes Trial from a Japanese
perspective. This public lecture will open the the conference
Tokyo War Crimes Trial Conference and Public Lecture
10 - 12 Nov 2008
Major international conference and public lecture to
commemorate the
60th Anniversary of the Judgment in the Tokyo War
Crimes Trial: The
future of international law and the law of war crimes
Labour Law Seminar - Prohibiting religious discrimination: Fundamental human rights and political reality intersect!
1:00 pm Thursday 6 Nov 2008
This Labour Law Seminar will involve a panel including visiting
scholar Ms Anne Hewitt and Melbourne Law School’s Associate Professor
Beth Gaze.
October 2008
Melbourne Law Masters Information Evening
6:00 pm Thursday 30 Oct 2008
Find out about our outstanding programs for law and non-law
graduates. You can even apply on the night!
CCCS Seminar: Political Responsibility for Rights Protection in New Zealand.
1:00 pm Tuesday 28 Oct 2008
CCCS invites you to a seminar by Dr Petra Butler, Associate Director
of the New Zealand Centre for Public Law at the Victoria University
of Wellington, New Zealand.
Competition Law Overview - Saturday 25 October in Sydney
Saturday 25 Oct 2008
This one day seminar, taking place in Sydney, is designed to give a
general understanding of competition law and the provisions of Part
IV of the Trade Practices Act 1974.
ALC Public Lecture: 10 Years of Reform in Indonesia: Reflections from a Human Rights Commissioner
5:30 pm Thursday 23 Oct 2008
The Asian Law Centre and Indonesia Forum is pleased to announce a
free public lecture by Yosep Stanley Adi Prasetyo, a Commissioner for
the Indonesian Human Rights Commission.
Asian Law Centre Occasional Seminar: The Sidoarjo Mud Flow Disaster: Abuse of Human Rights?
1:00 pm Wednesday 22 Oct 2008
Mr Stanley Yosep Adi Prasetyo, Commissioner at the Indonesian
National Human Rights Commission, will speak about the disasterous
Sidoarjo mudslide, which has been flowing since May 2006.
CCCS Seminar: Bicameralism and the British House of Lords
1:00 pm Tuesday 21 Oct 2008
CCCS invites you to a seminar by Dr Meg Russell, Reader in British
and Comparative Politics, University College, London on 'Bicameralism
and the British House of Lords.'
Upcoming Melbourne JD Information Sessions
6:00 pm Wednesday 15 Oct 2008
Learn more about the Melbourne JD - the law degree for graduates.
Labour Law Seminar - Looking for the Hook: The Problem in Proving Race Discrimination'
1:00 pm Wednesday 15 Oct 2008
Dr Jennifer Nielsen will discuss the difficulties involved in proving
complaints of race discrimination, arguing that anti-discrimination
jurisprudence is informed by 'white' ways of thinkin
Careers Information Seminar : Victoria Legal Aid’s New Lawyers Program
1:00 pm Wednesday 15 Oct 2008
Victoria Legal Aid if no longer offering Articles. Instead they have
developed the New Lawyers Program.
Sport: A Political Football - The 18th Annual ANZSLA Conference
15 - 17 Oct 2008
The Australian and New Zealand Sports Law Association's 18th Annual
Conference will be held in Melbourne during October 2008.
Commonwealth v Tasmania.
6:30 pm Tuesday 14 Oct 2008
The Tasmanian Dam Case Retrospective - 25 years later
International Criminal Court - recent developments
1:00 pm Tuesday 14 Oct 2008
The Deputy Prosecutor will outline developments in the situations and
cases currently before the Court - Northern Uganda, DR Congo, Darfur
Sudan and the Central African Republic.
Melbourne Law School Lunchtime concert Series
1:00 pm Monday 13 Oct 2008
This is the first in a series of free lunchtime musical performances
hosted by the Postgraduate Law Students' Society.
International Humanitarian Law and the Young Lawyer
6:30 pm Thursday 9 Oct 2008
Australian Red Cross in conjunction with Melbourne Law School wishes
to invite you to a free public seminar entitled “International
Humanitarian Law and the Young Lawyer”.
Inaugural MJIL Public Forum:
6:30 pm Wednesday 8 Oct 2008
Three eminent speakers will confront this question at the Melbourne
Journal of International Law's inaugural public forum.
CMCL Melbourne Seminar: Privacy Law Reform and the Media
5:30 pm Wednesday 8 Oct 2008
This seminar brings together experts from law reform, legal practice
and the media to examine the implications of recent law reform
proposals and case law developments.
CILS Research Seminar: Beauty Queens, the Law and the Islamic Defenders Front in Indonesia
1:00 pm Wednesday 8 Oct 2008
Helen will consider the implications of the 'Indonesian Princess'
case for the continuing debate about pornography in Indonesia more
broadly.
Careers Information Seminar: Careers at the Environmental Defenders Office
1:00 pm Wednesday 8 Oct 2008
The EDO is an independent, non-profit, community legal service,
practising in public interest environmental law.
'Unleashing the Tiger? Competition Law in China and Hong Kong' A Melbourne Law School - Gilbert + Tobin Conference, supported by ANZSOG and Asian Competition Forum
8:30 am Saturday 4 Oct 2008
Melbourne Law School's significant one day conference on competition
law in Australia and Hong Kong took place on 4 October 2008
Australia's Asia Pacific Community Proposal
1:00 pm Friday 3 Oct 2008
Professor Chin Lim will discuss Australia's role in the proposed
ASEAN plus 6 model and what a future regional arrangement would look
like for Asia-Pacific trade.
2008 Protecting Human Rights Conference
8:30 am Friday 3 Oct 2008
The CCCS invites you to attend a one day National Conference on
Australian Bills of Rights focussing on developments in relation to
legislative protection of human rights.
Privacy Law Reform and the Media - Who will be protected by a private right of action?
2:15 pm Thursday 2 Oct 2008
Held in conjunction with the Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre, UNSW,
as part of its full day seminar “Meeting privacy challenges-the ALRC
& NSWLRC Privacy Reviews”.
Melbourne Law Masters international visiting lecturers – October 2008
1 - 31 Oct 2008
In 2008, more than 50 international scholars and practitioners will
be teaching in the Melbourne Law Masters, sharing their international
expertise with our graduate students.
September 2008
CCCS Seminar: “The Evolution of a Revolution: The Singapore Constitution after 40 Years.”
1:00 pm Wednesday 24 Sep 2008
CCCS is pleased to invite you to a seminar by Professor Li-ann Thio
Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore on the Singapore
constitution.
Labour Law Seminar 'Towards National Child Employment Laws?'
1:00 pm Tuesday 23 Sep 2008
Professor Andrew Stewart will review what we know about the work
young Australians perform, outline the fragmented and sometimes
conflicting systems of laws and processes....
Obama v McCain - Who will win, does it matter? International public lecture
6:30 pm Thursday 18 Sep 2008
Ambassasor Derek Shearer will provide an 'insider' analysis of the
upcoming US Presidential election.
Thursday 18 September – The Victorian Attorney-General, The Honourable Robert Hulls MP, Melbourne Law School Lecture
1:00 pm Thursday 18 Sep 2008
The Victorian Attorney-General, The Honourable Robert Hulls MP, will
deliver a lecture to Melbourne Law School staff and students.
IILAH Lunch-time Seminar: The Governance of International Refugee Law: Time for a Change?
12:45 pm Thursday 18 Sep 2008
The Institute for International Law and the Humanities will host a
lunch-time seminar presented by Martin Jones, PhD Candidate at
Osgoode Hall Law School (Canada). Online registration...
CILS Research Seminar: Yusman Roy and the Language of Devotion
1:00 pm Wednesday 17 Sep 2008
Concentrating mainly on the ‘fatwah’ and the legal process, Stewart
Fenwick will apply the work of John Rawls to explore to what extent
Indonesian constitutionalism is ‘liberal’ or ‘Islamic'
University of Melbourne issues Forum: The Death Penalty in Indonesia
1:00 pm Tuesday 16 Sep 2008
This forum is part of a series organised by the Office of the Provost
and is an internal event for staff, student and visitors of the
University of Melbourne.
The History of the Insanity Plea: Medical Diagnosis and Criminal Culpability
6:00 pm Thursday 11 Sep 2008
This public lecture will survey the changing courtroom dynamics that
have framed the evolution of medical terms connoting mental
derangement.
Melbourne Graduate Expo
3:00 pm Wednesday 10 Sep 2008
Go further, faster at Melbourne. Speak to Melbourne Law School
representatives about your study options for 2009 at the Melbourne
Graduate Expo.
CILS Research Seminar: Muslim Women in Australia and the Challenges of Securing a 'Complete' Divorce
2:15 pm Wednesday 10 Sep 2008
Anisa Buckley will discuss the challenges Muslim women in Australia
face, which arrise out of the interplay between civil divorce
proceedures and the involvement of religious authorities.
CILS Research Seminar: Interest Free? Attitudes of Australian and British Muslims towards Conventional and Islamic Banking
1:00 pm Wednesday 10 Sep 2008
Imran Lum will discuss the implications the prohibition of 'riba'
(interest) has on Muslim banking practices in secular societies.
Labour Law Seminar: 'Making Labour Law in Nepal: the ILO in Action'
1:00 pm Wednesday 10 Sep 2008
The seminar is designed to offer some insight into the challenges of
revising labour laws in a developing economy. Click here to view
full details and to register online.
Insider Trading: Recent Developments and Implications for Market Players - Sydney
5:30 pm Tuesday 9 Sep 2008
ASIC has recently announced that it is giving
higher priority to detecting and prosecuting
insider traders. Other international regulators
have made similar announcements. The
current market volatility has, according to some
commentators, facilitated insider trading. At
the same time, there have been criticisms of
the insider trading laws, including criticisms by
judges.
Careers Information Session: ANU Legal Workshop (PLT provider)
1:00 pm Tuesday 9 Sep 2008
Speakers from the ANU Legal Workshop will speak about their program
and pathways to admission to practice.
Better Information Security Regulation Seminar
5:30 pm Thursday 4 Sep 2008
Professor Jane Winn (University of Washington, USA), Karin Clark
(Special Councel, Allens Arthur Robinson) and Anthony Bendall Deputy
Privacy Commissioner, Victoria)
ALC 'Brown Bag' Seminar: Challenging and Moving Beyond the Asian Rejection Hypothesis: Exploring Refugee Law in Asia
1:00 pm Wednesday 3 Sep 2008
This seminar will explore a more elaborate definition of refugee law,
and sketch out a regional legal landscape in which refugee law
figures more prominently than previously recognised.
August 2008
Labour Law Seminar: 'Do Investment Attraction Incentives Create Decent Jobs? A Study of Labour Conditions in Industry Assistance Contracts'
1:00 pm Friday 29 Aug 2008
This seminar presents preliminary findings from research on how three
state governments in Australia use industry assistance to pursue
public policy goals... Click here to rsvp.
Privacy Awareness Week: Privacy vs Security public debate
12:00 pm Friday 29 Aug 2008
Privacy vs Security - Where do you draw the line? Join the debate on
August 29.
Insider Trading: Recent Developments and Implications for Market Players - Melbourne
5:30 pm Thursday 28 Aug 2008
ASIC has recently announced that it is giving
higher priority to detecting and prosecuting
insider traders. Other international regulators
have made similar announcements. The
current market volatility has, according to some
commentators, facilitated insider trading. At
the same time, there have been criticisms of
the insider trading laws, including criticisms by
judges.
Careers Information Seminar: Internships at Reprieve Australia
1:00 pm Thursday 28 Aug 2008
Representatives from Reprieve Australia will talk about the
internship program and their experiences acting for those facing the
death penalty in the USA.
CILS Resarch Seminar: Responses of Local Women's NGO's to Sharia Implementation in Aceh: Competing ideas of Local Adat, Islamic Law and Universalist Feminism
1:00 pm Wednesday 27 Aug 2008
Dina Afrianty will discuss how women activisits from local women's
NGOS in Aceh deal with the competing ideological frameworks
CCCS Seminar: “Codification system in the Anglo-American Legal Tradition: The case of New York.”
1:00 pm Wednesday 27 Aug 2008
CCCS invites you to a seminar by Professor Aniceto Masferrer,
University of Valencia, Spain: “Codification system in the Anglo-
American Legal Tradition: The case of New York.”
Vice-Chancellor's Research Lecture - Bad babies: law, medicine and the battle over neurological birth injury
6:30 pm Monday 25 Aug 2008
One in 500 babies is born with cerebral palsy. This lecture will
outline the divide that has arisen between law & medicine over
neurological birth injury.
Celebrating 50 years of the Allen Hope Southey Memorial Lecture at Melbourne Law School: 'The Torture Team: The Responsibility of Lawyers for Abusive Interrogation '
6:00 pm Thursday 21 Aug 2008
Professor Philippe Sands lays out the story behind the human-rights
abuses sanctioned by the most senior lawyers in the Bush
Administration and the terrible consequences of their actions
Annual Tax Lecture
6:00 pm Wednesday 20 Aug 2008
High Court Justice Michael Kirby will be presenting the Melbourne Law
School's Annual Tax Lecture on "Sham In Australia After Raftland Pty
Ltd v Commissioner of Taxation".
CILS Research Seminar: Challenging the Myth of the Happy Celibate: Muslim Women Negotiating Contemporary Relationships
1:00 pm Wednesday 20 Aug 2008
Dr Imtoual will discuss how cultural attitudes, higher divorce rates
and the rising age of marriage have led Muslim women to feeling they
should perform the 'myth of the happy celibate'.
Inaugural Nathan and Pamela Jacobson Lecture: “The Many Faces of the International War on Terrorism
6:00 pm Tuesday 19 Aug 2008
Visiting Melbourne as the Inaugural Guest Speaker for the Nathan and
Pamela Jacobson Lecture, International Law expert, Dr Yoram
Dinstein, will explore this topic for a public audience.
Human Rights Forum Lunchtime Lecture Series: Working with an NGO from the South: Experiences from India
1:00 pm Wednesday 13 Aug 2008
Having spent 2007 working for a pan-Commonwealth NGO based in Delhi,
India. Gudrun Dewey will describe the day-to-day of working in a
small international NGO.
The Fight for Justice in Afghanistan: Victims of Childhood Marriage and Forced Labour
1:00 pm Wednesday 13 Aug 2008
Suraya Pakzad was presented with the International Women of Courage
Award earlier this year, and will speak about her work in the field
of development for women and children in Afghanistan
Local Election (Pilkada) and Shari'a Implementation in South Sulawesi, Indonesia
1:00 pm Wednesday 13 Aug 2008
Andi Amiruddin will discuss the political position of KPPSI during
the election process and the legitimacy of its attempts to push its
Shari'a agenda in South Sulawesi.
CCCS Seminar: "The Party and the Judges: Threats to the Independence of the Judiciary in South Africa."
1:00 pm Wednesday 13 Aug 2008
CCCS invites you to a seminar by Professor Christina Murray,
University of Cape Town: "The Party and the Judges: Threats to the
Independence of the Judiciary in South Africa."
ALC 'Brown Bag' Seminar: The Legal Profession and Building Legal Aid in Afghanistan
1:15 pm Tuesday 12 Aug 2008
Khalil will examine what the legal profession looks like in
Afghanistan's unstable situation. He will discuss who the lawyers
are and how they are operating in this mixed legal system.
Can (and How Can) Lawyers Distinguish Between High Quality Work and Its Converse Among Psychological Experts? (Public Lecture)
6:00 pm Thursday 7 Aug 2008
ALC/CILS Research Seminar: 'Faith and the State: A History of Islamic Philanthropy in Indonesia'
1:00 pm Tuesday 5 Aug 2008
Amelia will argue that although political circumstances do influence
the development of Islamic philanthropy, the state cannot
successfully control it.
Graduate Study Information Sessions – Australia and New Zealand
5 Aug - 15 Oct 2008
The University of Melbourne is holding information sessions across
Australia and New Zealand. Come along and learn how we can help you
go further, faster. Register now!
CCCS Seminar: THINKING ABOUT 'CONSTITUTIONAL DICTATORSHIP'.
5:30 pm Monday 4 Aug 2008
CCCS invites you to attend a seminar by Professor Sanford Levinson,
Professor of Government, The University of Texas, USA: "Thinking
about 'constitutional dictatorship.'"
Full Court of the Federal Court of Australia sits in Melbourne
4 - 27 Aug 2008
The Full Court of the Federal Court of Australia will be sitting in
Melbourne from 4 to 27 August 2008 commencing at 9.30am.
Melbourne Law Masters international visiting lecturers – August 2008
1 - 31 Aug 2008
In 2008, more than 50 international scholars and practitioners will
be teaching in the Melbourne Law Masters, sharing their international
expertise with our graduate students.
July 2008
DELIMITING ACCOUNTABILITY: WRITING HISTORY OUT OF TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE
5:45 pm Thursday 31 Jul 2008
This seminar, with Vasuki Nesiah, Ann Genovese and Gerry Simpson,
examines the embrace of history by the field of transitional justice.
IILAH Twilight Seminar: Law and Development in Practice – The Dutch Development Bank - 30th July 2008
5:00 pm Wednesday 30 Jul 2008
This seminar is about development finance and provides an overview of
how FMO (the Dutch development bank) assists the private sector in
emerging country economies...
Continuous Disclosure: Key Issues for Companies and Their Advisers - Melbourne 23 July 2008
5:30 pm Wednesday 23 Jul 2008
Speakers are:
Malcolm Cooke, Partner-Freehills;
James Gerraty, Manager of Issuers-ASX Ltd;
Marie McDonald, Partner-Blake Dawson;
John Walker, Managing Director-IMF (Australia) Ltd
Obligations IV Conference 2008: 'The Goals of Private Law'
23 - 25 Jul 2008
Melbourne Law School, National University of Singapore and the
Singapore Academy of Law will co-host the 4th Obligations
Conference 'The Goals of Private Law' in Singapore in 2008
Crime and Justice Festival 2008
18 - 20 Jul 2008
A festival of literary offerings and judicial debate
CCCS Seminar: “Giving Teeth to International Human Rights Treaties: Commissions, Courts and Corporations - A Practitioner's Perspective.”
6:00 pm Thursday 17 Jul 2008
CCCS invites you to a seminar by Prof Brian Burdekin, a leading
international expert on National Human Rights Institutions, on recent
international developments in protecting human rights.
Continuous Disclosure: Key Issues for Companies and Their Advisers – Sydney 16 July 2008
5:30 pm Wednesday 16 Jul 2008
Speakers include:
David Barnett - ASX Ltd,
Quentin Digby - Freehills,
Elizabeth Pakchung - Blake Dawson,
John Walker - IMF (Australia) Ltd.
Legal Technology Conference 2008
10 - 11 Jul 2008
This conference, hosted by the VSCL and Melbourne Law
School, will explore emerging and innovative
technologies and processes relating to the practice of law.
IILAH Twilight Seminar: Rule of Law in Post-Conflict Rebuilding
5:30 pm Tuesday 1 Jul 2008
Associate Professor Balakrishnan Rajagopal, teaching in the 2008
Human Rights Law Graduate Program, will present a seminar hosted by
the Institute for International Law and the Humanities.
Melbourne Law Masters international visiting lecturers – July 2008
1 - 31 Jul 2008
In 2008, more than 50 international scholars and practitioners will
be teaching in the Melbourne Law Masters, sharing their international
expertise with our graduate students.
June 2008
Private Law Seminar 'The UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts'
5:30 pm Monday 30 Jun 2008
Private Law Seminar 'The UNIDROIT Principles of International
Commercial Contracts'
Prof MJ Bonell, the Hon Justice Finn, Prof MP Ellinghaus
Competition Law Overview: Saturday 28 June 2008
8:30 am Saturday 28 Jun 2008
This one day seminar is designed to give a general understanding of
competition law and the provisions of Part IV of the Trade
Practices Act 1974
Asian Law Centre Brown Bag Seminar: "Reading the Tea Leaves in the Indonesian Commercial Court: How to Account for Vastly Differing Court Performance by Substantive Area"
1:00 pm Thursday 19 Jun 2008
What is the explanation for the perceived differing performance of
the Commercial Court in two different substantive areas, and what
does it tell us about judicial reform in Asia?
Law Institute of Victoria Traineeships Information session
1:00 pm Wednesday 18 Jun 2008
Students, HR & Practice Managers and anyone seeking information on
the new traineeship rules are invited to attend this essential
information session held by the Law Institute of Victoria.
Labour Law Seminar - 'Employee Majority Bargaining Systems: Comparing Developments in the United States and Australia'
1:00 pm Monday 16 Jun 2008
One of the key planks of the ALP's election policy was the
introduction of a system of employee majority bargaining at
workplaces. The ACTU has adopted....... register online for this event
Tax Competition, Tax Arbitrage and the International Tax Regime
5:30 pm Thursday 12 Jun 2008
The Australian Branch of IFA in conjunction with the University of
Melbourne Tax Masters Program will host a talk given by Prof. Reuven
Avi-Yonah
Labour Law Seminar - “Time on your back”: Billable Hours and the Work of Solicitors in Private Practice.
1:00 pm Friday 6 Jun 2008
This seminar presents preliminary results from a research project
that examines working-time arrangements amongst solicitors in private
practice....online rsvp...
Indigenous People & The State
6:00 pm Thursday 5 Jun 2008
Smoking Ceremony commences at 6pm in University Square followed by
the Forum at 6.30pm in Theatre G08
Melissa Conley-Tyler on the 20/20 Summit and ADR
5:15 pm Thursday 5 Jun 2008
Melissa Conley-Tyler, National Executive Director of the Australian
Institute of International Affairs, will speak about ADR at the
Victorian Association of Dispute Resolution.
Law Graduate Research Colloquium
10:00 am Wednesday 4 Jun 2008
The first Law Graduate Research Student Colloquium for the year is
taking place on Wednesday 4 June 2008.
The Future of the International IP System
5:30 pm Tuesday 3 Jun 2008
Free Public Seminar in association with AIPPI Australia
Melbourne Law Masters international visiting lecturers – June 2008
1 - 30 Jun 2008
In 2008, more than 50 international scholars and practitioners will
be teaching in the Melbourne Law Masters, sharing their international
expertise with our graduate students.
May 2008
The Globalisation of Sport: How Australian Law teaches an American Law Professor how to Advise a British Sports Manager Helping Build an Indian Sports League
6:00 pm Thursday 29 May 2008
Leading American sports law and antitrust scholar, Professor Ross
will discuss the Indian Premier League and the role Australian Sports
Law has played in its development.
Graduate Study Expo
4:00 pm Thursday 29 May 2008
Meet representatives from Melbourne Law School at Melbourne's
Graduate Study Expo. Discover the range of graduate study
options available to you and accelerate your career.
ALC Round Table Discussion: Law and Development Reading Roundtable with Alvaro Santos
4:00 pm Thursday 29 May 2008
IILAH, CELRL and ALC with host an intimate research workshop with
visiting professor Alvaro Santos who will engage in discussions with
academics and research students.
Melbourne Law School Awards Ceremony
6:00 pm Wednesday 28 May 2008
The Melbourne Law School Awards Ceremony celebrates the achievements
of students from LLB, JD, Melbourne Law Masters and Research programs
with occassional address by Hon Alastair Nicholson
Labour Law Seminar: What Kind of “Flexibility” in Labour and Employment Regulation for Economic Development?
1:00 pm Wednesday 28 May 2008
Scholars have long debated the role of protective labour and
employment regulation in economic performance, arguing for or against
regulatory “flexibility”. This debate .....
CILS Research Seminar: Resistant to Change:Muslim Educational Thought on Children's Motivation from Ibn Sahnun to Ibn Khaldun
1:00 pm Wednesday 28 May 2008
This seminar presents some findings of a larger part of doctoral
research that examines the development of Muslim educational thought
on children's motivation from Ibn Sahnun to Ibn Khaldun
High Court of Australia to hear Special Leave Applications in Melbourne
9:30 am Friday 23 May 2008
The High Court of Australia will hear Special Leave Applications in
Melbourne on Friday May 23 from 9.30am.
IILAH Seminar - ‘Taking Your Beefs to the WTO: The Continuing Hormones Dispute and Issues in WTO Dispute Settlement'
6:00 pm Thursday 22 May 2008
The Institute for International Law and the Humanities at
Melbourne Law School, presents Victoria Donaldson who will discuss
issues in WTO dispute settlement.
CILS Research Seminar: Progressive Muslim Gender Discourse and Activism in Contemporary Indonesia: A Case Study of Rahima
1:00 pm Wednesday 21 May 2008
The emergence of public Islam in Indonesia has been
marked by the resurgence of religious issues into
public sphere and growing civil society organizations
since the late New Order.
Courting Controversy Lecture Series: Inaugural public lecture 'War on the West: Changing Ideas of Jihad'
6:00 pm Tuesday 20 May 2008
Is jihad a violent manifestation of religious fanaticism or is it
just the Western misconception of a complex and contested idea of
Islamic thought?
Walk for Justice
7:30 am Monday 19 May 2008
The inaugural Walk for Justice will be held in Melbourne in May. The
Public Interest Law Clearing House is conducting the walk to raise
money for PILCH.
IILAH Booklaunch: Rights and Redemption: History, Law and Indigenous People by Ann Curthoys, Ann Genovese, Alexander Reilly
6:00 pm Thursday 15 May 2008
Rights and Redemption: History, Law and Indigenous People by Ann
Curthoys, Ann Genovese, Alexander Reilly will be launched by The Hon
Robert Nicholson AO, Professorial Fellow of Melbourne.
Asian Law Centre Asian Legal Dialogue -
1:00 pm Thursday 15 May 2008
Professor Fan will discuss the main problems with the current
Criminal Procedure Law and proposed amendments to the law to address
those problems.
ALC/CILS Research Seminar - "Is a Special 'Fiqh Al-Aqallayyat' for Muslims Living Outside Muslim Lands Really that Different and Is It Even Needed?"
1:00 pm Tuesday 13 May 2008
This seminar will examine the socio-political circumstances of Muslim
minorities and the desire for a new 'fiqh', both in terms of
methodology as well as positive jurisprudence.
Asian Law Centre Brown Bag Seminar - "Japan's New Trust Law and Creditor's Rights"
5:30 pm Monday 12 May 2008
This seminar will focus on the issue of balancing the benefits of
trusts with protection of creditors' rights, particularly in the case
of the insolvency of a trustee.
Practical Legal Training at Leo Cussen
1:00 pm Monday 12 May 2008
Leo Cussen Institute presents its Practical Training course and
Traineeship Modules and answers your questions on pathways to
admission to practice.
Law Week: 12 - 18 May 2008
12 - 18 May 2008
The Victorian Law Foundation and the Law Institute of Victoria
present Law Week 2008.
CILS Research Seminar: Sundanese/Indonesian: Islamic Preaching and Social Difference in West Java
7 - 10 May 2008
This presentation explores the difference between
preaching in Indonesian and Sundanese, using exemplary
illustrations from Sundanese preachers.
ALC/CILS Book Launch: Indonesia Law and Society (2nd Edition) Book Launch
6:00 pm Tuesday 6 May 2008
Indonesia: Law and Society surveys the legal system of the world's
largest Muslim society, the gigantic Southeast Asian democracy with
the world's fourth-largest population.
Lunchtime Lecture: Reflections on the Commission of the Status of Women 2008
1:00 pm Tuesday 6 May 2008
The University of Melbourne Human Rights Forum presents Susan
Brennan, President of the World YWCA who will discuss her recent
visit to the UN Commission on the Status of Women.
Full Court of the Federal Court sits in Melbourne (5-30 May)
Monday 5 May 2008
The Full Court of the Federal Court will sit in Melbourne during May
2008.
IILAH Twilight Seminar: Constitutions and Democracy-Building in Africa, with Dr Hashim Tewfik, State Minister for Justice and Deputy Attorney General, Ethiopia
5:30 pm Thursday 1 May 2008
Dr Tewfik will present a seminar on Constitutions and Democracy-
Building in Africa.
Seminar – Directors’ Duties: Navigating the Storm on Board - Sydney
5:30 pm Thursday 1 May 2008
Issues to do with directors’ duties have recently been the subject of
extensive media and regulatory scrutiny.
April 2008
Private Law Seminar 'Better than Fuller: A Two Interest Model of Remedies of Contract'
5:30 pm Wednesday 30 Apr 2008
Professor Campbell will argue that the most productive reform of the
three interest model will be to reduce it to two contractual
interests by completely eliminating the restitution interest
Asian Law Centre Brown Bag Seminar - "Punishing Bodies, Securing the Nation: Singapore's Vandalism Act"
1:00 pm Wednesday 30 Apr 2008
It is argued that Singapore's 1966 Punishment for Vandalism Act has
shaped 'law', 'nation' and 'politics' in a manner that has
established a State discourse of national vulnerability.
Employees' IP and the Employment Relationship - Incentives to Innovate
6:00 pm Wednesday 23 Apr 2008
Celebrate World Intellectual Property Day 2008.
Free Public Seminar by IPRIA and CELRL in association with IP
Australia; generously sponsored by Davies Collison Cave.
Alternatives to Defamation (Sydney)
5:30 pm Wednesday 16 Apr 2008
The seminar addresses the extent to which legal ingenuity and
innovation may enable an ‘end-run’ around the removal of the right of
most corporations to sue for defamation.
CCCS Seminar:
1:00 pm Wednesday 16 Apr 2008
CCCS invites you to attend a seminar by Mr Richard Gordon QC,
Barrister, UK: 'Legitimate Expectations in Administrative Law.'
ALC and CILS Research Seminar: Keluarga Besar – When a Family Fights: Muslim Internal Conflicts in Lombok, Indonesia
1:00 pm Wednesday 16 Apr 2008
This paper will consider outbreaks of violence between Muslims on the
eastern Indonesian island of Lombok over the last decade.
Alternatives to Defamation (Melbourne)
5:30 pm Tuesday 15 Apr 2008
The seminar addresses the extent to which legal ingenuity and
innovation may enable an ‘end-run’ around the removal of the right of
most corporations to sue for defamation.
Research Workshop Series
12:45 pm Monday 14 Apr 2008
Dr Helen Durham
The Laws of War and Traditional Practices in the Pacific: Dangers
in Self-defeating Universalism
IILAH Roundtable: Doctoral Student Roundtable with Professor Susan Marks
5:30 pm Thursday 10 Apr 2008
IILAH will host a Doctoral Student Roundtable with Professor Susan
Marks (King’s College London, University of London) on Thursday, 10
April from 5.30 - 7.00pm at the Melbourne Law School.
Launch of Carolyn Evans and Simon Evans' book 'Australian Bills of Rights' by Justice Chris Maxwell
5:30 pm Wednesday 9 Apr 2008
You are invited to attend the launch of Carolyn Evans and Simon
Evans' new book 'Australian Bills of Rights' by Justice Chris Maxwell.
Vietnamese Legal Studies Graduate Student Workshop
10:00 am Wednesday 9 Apr 2008
This Workshop aims to bring together postgraduate students around
Australia who are researching topics relating to Vietnamese legal
studies.
Visits to Legal Institutions, Semester 1 2008
9 Apr - 11 Jun 2008
As part of Induction for semester one, a series of legal visits have
been organised, which will be of particular interest to international
students.
Gain-based Damages for Breach of Contract
6:00 pm Tuesday 8 Apr 2008
This Melbourne Private Law Group seminar will be delivered by Mr
Ralph Cunnington (Birmingham Law School), a Senior Fellow in
the Melbourne Law Masters.
IILAH Lunch-time Seminar: Legal Conceptualization of Security Council 'Sanctions'
12:45 pm Thursday 3 Apr 2008
Ms Devika Hovell (Balliol College Oxford) currently researching on
procedural guarantees and UN sanctions will present a seminar at the
Institute for International Law and the Humanities
Human Rights Forum - Defending Human Rights
6:00 pm Tuesday 1 Apr 2008
Public lecture delivered by Ms Hina Jilani, the Special
Representative of the UN Secretary-General on Human Rights Defenders.
Introduced by The Hon. Lex Lasry, Supreme Court of Victoria.
CCCS Seminar: “Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea? Administrative Law in an Age of Rights.”
1:00 pm Tuesday 1 Apr 2008
CCCS invites you to a seminar by Dr Thomas Poole, Department of Law,
London School of Economics, UK: “Between the Devil and the Deep Blue
Sea? Administrative Law in an Age of Rights.”
March 2008
CCCS Seminar: 'The Kable Principle: After Forge and Gypsy Jokers.'
5:30 pm Monday 31 Mar 2008
CCCS invites you to a seminar by Jonathon Redwood, Victorian Bar:'The
Kable Principle: After Forge and Gypsy Jokers.'
Litigating Privacy: Australia and the UK (Sydney)
5:30 pm Wednesday 19 Mar 2008
This seminar will include a broad discussion of issues arising in the
current privacy cases and ways in which they have been resolved to
date and might be in the future.
CCLSR Seminar: Directors' Duties: Navigating the Storm on Board
5:30 pm Wednesday 19 Mar 2008
The Centre for Corporate Law and Securities Regulation will host this
seminar in Melbourne on March 19, 2008.
Guest lecture presented by The Honourable Justice Susan Crennan AC, High Court of Australia
2:30 pm Wednesday 19 Mar 2008
The guest for the JD guest lecture will be The Honourable Justice
Susan Crennan AC, High Court of Australia. Justice Crennan will
present: The Practice of the Law and 'Hawk-tossing
Asian Law Centre and Centre for Employment and Labour Relations Law Lunchtime Seminar - Union Revitalisation Campaigns: A US-Japan Comparison
1:00 pm Wednesday 19 Mar 2008
Professor Charles Weather, political scientist, Graduate School of
Economics, Osaka City University, Japan, will be discussing thw two
union movements of the US and Japan.
The Future of International Human Rights Protections: Reflections from the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counter-Terrorism
5:45 pm Tuesday 18 Mar 2008
Professor Martin Scheinin is the United Nations Special Rapporteur on
the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights while Countering
Terrorism.
Melbourne Law Masters Academic Orientation for ESL and International Students
12:30 pm Saturday 15 Mar 2008
As part of the Melbourne Law Masters Induction Day 2008 on Saturday
15 March, the Law School is offering an additional academic
orientation and lunch for ESL and international students.
Melbourne Law Masters Induction Day 2008
9:00 am Saturday 15 Mar 2008
New students in the Melbourne Law Masters are invited to attend the
Semester One 2008 Induction Day on Saturday March 15.
Tax Group Lunch with International Students
12:30 pm Friday 14 Mar 2008
An opportunity for international students in the graduate tax program
to meet with members of tax faculty and enjoy a free buffet lunch.
The London Takeover Panel – Approach to Regulation and Current Issues
6:00 pm Thursday 13 Mar 2008
The CCLSR and The Australian Takeovers Panel are pleased to invite
you to a free public lecture presented by Mr Noel Hinton, Deputy
Director General of the London Takeover Panel.
Litigating Privacy: Australia and the UK (Melbourne)
5:30 pm Thursday 13 Mar 2008
This seminar will include a broad discussion of issues arising in the
current privacy cases and ways in which they have been resolved to
date and might be in the future.
CCCS Seminar: ‘The co-operative constitution? Inter-institutional ‘dialogue’ and the separation of powers after the Human Rights Act 1998’
1:00 pm Thursday 13 Mar 2008
CCCS invites you to a seminar by Roger Masterman, University of
Durham, UK: ‘The co-operative constitution? Inter-
institutional ‘dialogue’ and the separation of powers after the HRA
1998.'
Optional Information Skills Class - Advanced Word Processing for Melbourne JD Students
12:45 pm Thursday 13 Mar 2008
Asian Law Centre Brown Bag Seminar - "The Trustee (or Administrator) System under the Chinese Enterprise Insolvency Law (2006)"
1:00 pm Wednesday 12 Mar 2008
Dr Jin Chun, Research Fellow from Kyoto University, will describe the
roles, rights and duties of insolvency professionals under the new
Chinese Enterprise Insolvency Law.
Melbourne JD Information Sessions for 2009 Admission
Wednesday 12 Mar 2008
Register now to learn more about the Melbourne JD program, taking
a graduate law degree, selection guidelines and career outcomes.
Film screening and discussion: 'We will be remembered for this'
6:00 pm Tuesday 11 Mar 2008
Film of the stories of people detained at the Baxter Immigaration
Detention Centre, and the group of young people who went to meet them
in 2006
Senate Standing committee on Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
9:00 am Friday 7 Mar 2008
Inquiry into the Workplace Relations Amendment (Transition to Forward
with Fairness) Bill 2008
WTO Exhibition Moot
6:00 pm Thursday 6 Mar 2008
Come and see Melbourne Law School students Olaf Ciolek, Emily Long,
Jessica Rae and Devon Whittle in this exhibition moot.
Research Workshop Series
12:45 pm Monday 3 Mar 2008
Professor Anne Orford
The Responsibility to Protect and the Politicization of
International Law
February 2008
Uganda: From Child Soldiers to Human Rights
6:00 pm Thursday 28 Feb 2008
The University of Melbourne Human Rights Forum and Caritas Australia
present a public lecture on the issue of Human Rights in Uganda.
In the Shadow of the China-Australia FTA Negotiations: What Australian Business thinks about IP
6:00 pm Thursday 28 Feb 2008
Free public seminar in association with the Australia China Business
Council
CCCS Seminar:“Twenty-Five Years under the Canadian Charter of Rights: Problematic Dialogue and an Unfinished Rights Revolution”'
1:00 pm Thursday 28 Feb 2008
CCCS invites you to a seminar by Dr James Kelly, Concordia
University, “Twenty-Five Years under the Canadian Charter of Rights:
Problematic Dialogue and an Unfinished Rights Revolution."
Gala Dinner to Celebrate the 35th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Vietnam and Australia
Tuesday 26 Feb 2008
The Deputy Prime Ministers of Vietnam and Australia will host a Gala
Dinner to celebrate 35 years since the establishment of diplomatic
relations between the two countries.
Criminalising Serious Cartel Conduct: Issues of Law and Policy
5:30 pm Monday 25 Feb 2008
The Centre for Corporate Law and Securities Regulation invites you
to attend a seminar highlighting the key points and critical
policy issues relating to the new draft bill.
Melbourne Law School at World Health Organization Tobacco Control Negotiations
Friday 22 Feb 2008
Dr Andrew Mitchell, Senior Lecturer, and Sarah Kemeny recently
attended the First session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Body
(INB) on a Proton Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products.
In the Shadow of the China-Australia FTA Negotiations: What Australian Business thinks about IP
6:00 pm Thursday 21 Feb 2008
Free public seminar in association with Australia China Business
Council
In the Shadow of the China-Australia FTA Negotiations: What Australian Business thinks about IP
6:00 pm Wednesday 20 Feb 2008
Free Public Seminar in association with Australia China Business
Council
Gaire Blunt Scholarship
Wednesday 20 Feb 2008
The Gaire Blunt scholarship is being offered by the Business Law
Section of the Law Council of Australia. Students enrolled in the
competition law graduate program are encouraged to apply.
CCCS Seminar: 'A Comatose Canine? The UK Human Rights Act 1998 and the Criminal Trial'
1:00 pm Tuesday 19 Feb 2008
The Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies is pleased to
invite you to a seminar by Professor Ian Leigh, Professor of Law at
the University of Durham, UK
Asian Law Centre Asian Legal Dialogue - "A Japanese Judge's Life"
12:45 pm Tuesday 19 Feb 2008
The daily life of recently appointed Judges is full of surprises.
Judge Hagiwara is the fifth Visiting Research Scholar and he will
talk about the beginning of his career.
CELRL presents 'Control over Working Time: Lessons from Canada' by Professor Judy Fudge
1:00 pm Monday 18 Feb 2008
This free public seminar is presented by the Centre for Employment
and Labour Relations Law
Melbourne Law School has welcomed the 2008 cohort of the new Melbourne JD
13 - 20 Feb 2008
The 2008 cohort of seventy-five students have begun their University
of Melbourne JD experience this week.
Asian Law Centre Roundtable Seminar - "Reaching Out: Participation in Asian Legal Exchange"
6:00 pm Monday 11 Feb 2008
This Roundtable Seminar will discuss the experiences of the panel
members in mentoring, hosting and dealing with overseas' visitors
and, in particular, Japanese judges.
Full Court of Federal Court sits in Melbourne
11 Feb - 7 Mar 2008
The Full Court of Federal Court will sit in Melbourne from February
11 to March 7, 2008.
The Kirby Cup Law Reform Competition
11 Feb - 6 May 2008
The Kirby Cup Law Reform Competition is a unique opportunity for
Australian law students to gain recognition for their vision for law
reform.
CILS Public Dialogue: Homosexuality, Transgenderism and Islam in Indonesia
5:30 pm Friday 1 Feb 2008
Dr Dédé Oetomo from GAYa NUSANTARA Foundation, Surabaya, Indonesia
will discuss a range of different constructions of homomsexual
behaviour that occur in Indonesian Society.
International visiting lecturers – February 2008
1 - 29 Feb 2008
International experts from all over the world teach into the
Melbourne Law Masters each year.
January 2008
Graduate Study Expo
4:00 pm Wednesday 30 Jan 2008
Thinking about enhancing your career opportunities or changing career
direction in 2008?
December 2007
Course Information Day
10:00 am Thursday 20 Dec 2007
Year 12 students are invited to attend Course
Information Day and learn about the Melbourne JD (Juris
Doctor) - a graduate degree leading to admission to
practice.
2007 Chancellor's Human Rights Lecture
6:00 pm Thursday 13 Dec 2007
The 2007 Chancellor's Human Rights Lecture delivered by Radhika
Coomaraswamy is entitled Protection of Women and Children During
Armed Conflict. Whose Responsibility?
The Changing Meaning of Self-determination: “The Stealing of the Sahara” Redux?
12:45 pm Thursday 13 Dec 2007
Seminar chaired by Professor Gerry Simpson and presented by Dr
Catriona Drew of the School of African and Oriental Studies in London.
IILAH Booklaunch: International Law and the Question of Western Sahara
5:30 pm Friday 7 Dec 2007
iILah is pleased to announce that Dr Stephen Zunes, a Professor of
Politics (University of San Francisco), will launch the book
International Law and the Question of Western Sahara.
November 2007
Graduate Program in Competition Law Information Sessions
1:00 pm Thursday 29 Nov 2007
Please join us at one of our information sessions in Melbourne or
Sydney to hear about Melbourne Law School’s exciting new graduate
program in competition law.
Law and Society Association of Australia and New Zealand 2007 International Conference
28 - 30 Nov 2007
MARKINGS: sites of analysis, discipline, interrogation.
The conference theme examines questions of disciplinary, geographic,
figurative and jurisdictional markings.
Marks of Disobedience
5:00 pm Wednesday 28 Nov 2007
This forum will be a conversation about the increased impossibilities
of disobedience in contemporary law and society. Speakers are Julian
Burnside QC, Juliet Rogers and Patrick Wolfe.
ALC Brown Bag Seminar - "The Chief Justice Saga and the Place of Judicial Activism in Pakistan"
1:00 pm Wednesday 28 Nov 2007
Assistant Professor Sadaf Aziz will review the Chief Justice Saga
and the Place of Judicial Activism in Pakistan.
Launch of Dr Pamela Hanrahan's new book 'Funds Management in Australia: Officers' Duties and Liabilities' by ASIC Chairman Tony D'Aloisio
5:30 pm Thursday 22 Nov 2007
CCLSR invites you to the launch by ASIC Chairman Tony D'Aloisio of
the new book 'Funds Management in Australia: Officers' Duties and
Liabilities' by CCLSR Deputy Director Dr Pamela Hanrahan
150th Gala Dinner - Celebrating 150 years of teaching law
Wednesday 21 Nov 2007
Don’t miss out! Join us in celebrating this watershed year at a very
special dinner on Wednesday, 21 November 2007 in the Great Hall,
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
Launch of Dr Charles Parkinson’s new book 'Bills of Rights and Decolonization: the emergence of domestic human rights instruments in Britain's overseas territories.'
6:30 pm Tuesday 20 Nov 2007
CCCS invites you to a launch of Dr Charles Parkinson’s new
book 'Bills of Rights and Decolonization' by Justice Hayne.
Launch of the collected papers of Sir Anthony Mason 'The Mason Papers'
5:30 pm Thursday 15 Nov 2007
The CCCS is pleased to invite you to a launch of The Mason Papers: a
selection of Sir Anthony Mason’s articles and speeches chosen and
edited by Professor Geoffrey Lindell.
Dealing with the Dead: History, Medicine, Ethics and Law Symposium
Thursday 15 Nov 2007
This symposium draws together medical scientists, historians, legal
scholars, anthropologists and museum practitioners to examine the use
and abuse of human remains.
Melbourne JD Information Sessions for 2009 intake
6:00 pm Wednesday 14 Nov 2007
Hear about the Melbourne JD – a fully graduate law degree leading to
admission to practice in Australia which can also be used as the
basis to apply for admission in many other jurisdictions
UK Media Law: 2007 Update
9:15 am Wednesday 14 Nov 2007
This half-day seminar will be presented by John Battle, Head of
Compliance at ITN, one of the world’s leading news and multi-media
content companies. John is one of the most influential medi
UK Media Law: 2007 Update
9:15 am Tuesday 13 Nov 2007
This half-day seminar will be presented by John Battle, Head of
Compliance at ITN, one of the world’s leading news and multi-media
content companies.
Between Radicalism and Liberalism? Islamic Law in Southeast Asia Colloquium
9:00 am Monday 12 Nov 2007
The Centre for Islamic Law and Society (CILS) will host
a one-day
colloquium on Islamic Law in Southeast Asia on Monday
12 November,
2007
Book Launch: Freedom from Poverty as Human Right
12:15 pm Monday 5 Nov 2007
The Hon. Justice Michael Kirby will launched the new book, "Freedom
from Poverty as Human Right" edited by Professor Thomas Pogge of
Columbian University and CAPPE ANU.
October 2007
Melbourne Law Masters Information Evening
6:00 pm Tuesday 30 Oct 2007
Tuesday 30 October 2007, 6 pm.
Find out how you can gain a
professional edge with the Melbourne Law Masters. Programs are
available for law and non-law graduates.
Full Court of the Federal Court sits in Melbourne
29 Oct - 23 Nov 2007
The Full Court of the Federal Court will sit in Melbourne from
October 29 to November 23 at the Commonwealth Law Courts
Inaugural Professorial Lecture - ‘Finding Security in Terrorism’s Shadow: the Importance of the Rule of Law’ presented by Rt Hon Malcolm Fraser AC CH
6:30 pm Thursday 25 Oct 2007
Australia’s 22nd Prime Minister, and Professorial Fellow at the
University of Melbourne the Rt Hon Malcolm Fraser AC CH will deliver
this Inaugural Professorial Lecture
Islamic Banking and the Tensions Between 'Homo Economicus' and 'Homo Islamicus'
1:00 pm Wednesday 24 Oct 2007
Using Timur Kuran’s concepts of Homo Economicus and Homo Islamicus,
this presentation will argue that tensions arise within the
individual Muslim because the two exist concurrently.
Asian Law Centre Brown Bag Seminar - "Water Pollution in China: Can Law Turn the Tide?"
1:00 pm Monday 22 Oct 2007
Despite abundant and comprehensive legislation in relation
to water pollution, most of China's large rivers and lakes
are seriously polluted.
Criminalising Business Cartels conference paper delivered
19 - 20 Oct 2007
Dr Caron Beaton-Wells, Director of Studies in Competition Law, will
present a paper on business cartels in the wake of the Visy/Amcore
price fixing case at a conference this week.
'Is George W Bush guilty of war crimes?'
6:30 pm Thursday 18 Oct 2007
Debating culpability of the US President under international
humanitarian & criminal law for Iraq's invasion by the 'coalition of
the willing' & treatment of civilians by occupying forces
Australia’s return of Asylum Seekers to Indonesia and Papua New Guinea: Lawful protection elsewhere policies?
12:45 pm Tuesday 16 Oct 2007
A free public seminar open to all students and academics.
Post-Graduate Law Students Association Second Semester Dinner
7:00 pm Friday 12 Oct 2007
Mr Waleed Aly, author of "People like Us" (2007) will speak on post-
September 11 and Moslem and Western communities at the PLSA Second
Semester Dinner
Public Lecture: Burma: Prospects for Democracy?
6:30 pm Thursday 11 Oct 2007
The University of Melbourne Human Rights Forum and the School of
Political Science, Criminology and Sociology present a forum on the
current crisis in Burma.
Knowledge transfer and the right to education: An examination of open-source models
12:00 pm Thursday 11 Oct 2007
In this forum, the speakers will discuss current practices and issues
in the use of open-source models.
Islam, Rebellion and Terrorism - Then and Now
10 Oct - 11 Nov 2007
The audio transcript of this lecture is now available. ICJ Oration is
presented by The International Commission for Jurists and supported
by Melbourne Law School.
Melbourne JD Information Sessions for 2009 intake
6:00 pm Tuesday 9 Oct 2007
Hear about the Melbourne JD – a fully graduate law degree leading to
admission to practice in Australia which can also be used as the
basis to apply for admission in many other jurisdictions
CCCS Seminar: An Analysis of the Office of Attorney General in Australia and Directions for the Future
5:30 pm Tuesday 9 Oct 2007
The Seminar will explore issues raised by Fiona in her recently
submitted PhD thesis An Analysis of the Office of Attorney General in
Australia and Directions for the Future.
Lunchtime Lecture: Human Rights Careers in the Field
1:00 pm Tuesday 9 Oct 2007
The University of Melbourne Human Rights Forum Lunchtime Lecture
Series for Semester 2 will conclude on Tuesday 9 October 2007 with a
panel presentation on Human Rights Careers.
ALC/CILS Research Seminar: "Violence in Southern Thailand: Causes, Agents and Trajectory" (with Centre for Islamic Law and Society)
1:00 pm Monday 8 Oct 2007
The Muslim-majority provinces of Southern Thailand
are currently embroiled in one of Southeast Asia’s
most violent conflicts.
High Court to sit in Melbourne
9:30 am Friday 5 Oct 2007
The High Court of Australia will sit in Melbourne to
hear Special Leave Applications on Friday 5 October at
9.30am.
ICJ Oration: Islam, Rebellion and Terrorism - Then and Now
6:00 pm Thursday 4 Oct 2007
The International Commission for Jurists, supported by Melbourne Law
School, is pleased to announce this lecture presented by
Mr Waleed Aly, prominent commentator on Islam-West Relations
CILS Research Seminar - From Prohibiting Levirate to Mandating Conditional Talaq: The Interplay of Islamic Laws and Cultural Practices in Marriage and Divorce
1:00 pm Wednesday 3 Oct 2007
This presentation will explore how social and cultural
norms have featured in the various stages of Islamic legal
formulation in matters of family law.
Public Lecture: UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People
6:00 pm Tuesday 2 Oct 2007
The University of Melbourne Human Rights Forum is hosting a public
lecture by Professor Mick Dodson, Director of the National Centre for
Indigenous Studies.
September 2007
Protecting Human Rights Conference
9:00 am Tuesday 25 Sep 2007
This major Conference, co-hosted by the CCCS, will present timely
analysis of Australian Human Rights Acts, with insights from
comparative experience in the UK and other jurisdictions.
A Fair and Balanced Industrial Relations Policy for Australia
6:00 pm Monday 24 Sep 2007
At this free public address, the Deputy Labor Leader, Ms Julia
Gillard, MP, will outline the industrial relations policy that the
ALP is taking to the forthcoming federal election.
Conference: Democracy, Development and Civil Society in India
20 - 21 Sep 2007
In 2007 India celebrates its 60th year of independence. One of its
achievements is the endurance of its democratic institutions despite
internal & external challenges to its governance.
International workshop, International Law and Wars of Religion
19 - 21 Sep 2007
The workshop aims to explore what the resources of the secular, civil
jurisprudence of Europe offer those seeking to understand and respond
to the political challenges of our time.
CCCS Seminar: The Concept of Public Law
5:00 pm Tuesday 18 Sep 2007
Professor Elisabeth Zoller, University of Paris II, will speak
on 'The Concept of Public Law' exploring the reasons for the divide
between public and private law.
Asian Law Centre Comparative law Seminar: In Search of the Grundnorm: Coups and Constitution-Making in
6:15 pm Wednesday 12 Sep 2007
In Search of the Grundnorm: Coups and Constitution-Making in
Thailand. Professor Andrew Harding will offer insights on the causes
and effects of the coup and prospects for Thai democrac
Salvaging the Constitution for Europe
10 - 30 Sep 2007
Audio transcript of this lecture now available
Professor Pernice is chair for public law, international & European
law at the Humboldt-Universität of Berlin and Dean of the Faculty of
Law
Justice David Byrne addresses the future of construction law disputes
5:30 pm Wednesday 5 Sep 2007
Justice David Byrne addressed more than 100 members of the
construction law community in a reception to mark his
appointment as
Patron of the Melbourne Law Masters Construction Law
Program
The Future of Litigation of Construction Law Disputes
5:30 pm Wednesday 5 Sep 2007
The Melbourne Law Masters Graduate Program in Construction Law
invites you to a reception to celebrate the appointment of The
Honourable Justice Byrne as Patron of the Program
Melbourne Graduate Expo
3:30 pm Wednesday 5 Sep 2007
The University of Melbourne will be showcasing the broad range of
graduate coursework & research opportunities available in 2008 and
beyond at the Melbourne Graduate Expo
ALC/CILS Brown Bag Seminar - "Local Women's NGOS Responses to Sharia Implementation in Post Conflict Aceh"
1:00 pm Wednesday 5 Sep 2007
Ms Dina Afrianty speaks on the current implementation of Sharia in
Aceh.
Trade Practices Committee Meeting at the Law School
Tuesday 4 Sep 2007
Melbourne Law School will provide the venue for the September meeting
of the Trade Practices Committee of the Business Law Section of the
Law Council of Australia on Tuesday 4 September.
August 2007
IILAH In conversation with Paul Cleary and Dr Jenny Beard
6:00 pm Wednesday 29 Aug 2007
Paul Cleary in conversation with Dr Jenny Beard will be discussing
his latest book Shakedown: Australia's Grab for Timor Oil. The
session will be chaired by A/Prof Sundhya Pahuja
CILS Research Seminar - Tribal Law in Islam and in Saudi Arabian Law
1:00 pm Monday 27 Aug 2007
Dr Hossein Esmaeili is a Senior Lecturer in Law at Flinders
University. He previously taught at the University of New South
Wales, University of New England and University of Western Sydney.
Sixth Annual International Abraham Conference 26 August 2007: Shaping a Nation's values: The Abrahamic Tradition
10:00 am Sunday 26 Aug 2007
This conference will explore the much debated question of how to
define core values in a modern society, in which a number of
different religious and secular perspectives are upheld.
Don't miss your opportunity to study Law in 2008!
Friday 24 Aug 2007
Apply now for the Melbourne JD. Applicants must sit an
aptitude test (the LSAT). Register for the September
LSAT test today. Deadline for registration
Perspectives on Iraq
6:30 pm Thursday 23 Aug 2007
Mr Matt Howard (Former Corporal, United States Marine Corps) &
Professor Gerry Simpson (International Lawyer, Melbourne Law School)
discuss entry into Iraq bu US, rules of war & occupation
'Enemy Law: Criminal Trials Abroad' - Free Public Lecture
6:30 pm Thursday 23 Aug 2007
'Enemy Law: Criminal Trials Abroad - National identity and other
people's laws, from the Crusades to Schapelle Corby' by Associate
Professor Richard Pennell
ALC Brown Bag Seminar Series - "Financial Sector Development in East Asia and the Role of Law"
1:00 pm Thursday 23 Aug 2007
Ten years after the Asian financial crisis, what has
been achieved?
IILAH Research Seminar: Corporate social responsibility and international soft law: Opportunities and limits for TNCs’ accountability for human rights
12:45 pm Thursday 23 Aug 2007
Professor Elena Pariotti teaches Human Rights; Legal Theory; and
Human Rights and International Justice with a legal theory and legal
philosophy perspective.
Asian Dialogues: The New Chinese Enterprise Insolvency Law (2006) (in Japanese)
1:00 pm Wednesday 22 Aug 2007
China recently introduced a new insolvency
law regime for enterprise.
History, Memory and Denial: Reflections on the Irving-Lipstadt Libel Trial
6:30 pm Tuesday 21 Aug 2007
Professor Richard Evans, author of 'Lying about Hitler: History,
Holocaust, and the David Irving trial' reflects on the trial of
Professor Deborah Lipstadt and subsequent events.
Public Hearing – Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade
Tuesday 21 Aug 2007
Topic: Australia’s Involvement in Peacekeeping Operations
Open Day
10:00 am Sunday 19 Aug 2007
August 19 is the day when the University opens its gates to potential
students and interested newcomers to see just what the University of
Melbourne has to offer.
LLB Guest Speaker Forum: What Practical Relevance Does International Law Have For People?
1:05 pm Thursday 16 Aug 2007
CILS Research Seminar - Islam, Modernity and the Enlightenment: 'A New Perspective'
1:00 pm Thursday 16 Aug 2007
This talk will explore aspects of the intellectual history of the
Arab-Ottoman world in the 17th and 18th centuries, which sheds new
light on the roots of modernity in Islamic thought.
ALC Brown Bag Seminar Series - "Increasing Press Freedon: The Effect of the Abolition of the 'lese majeste' and 'hate-sowing' provisions on the Media"
1:00 pm Wednesday 15 Aug 2007
This paper considers the issue of press freedom in
Indonesia by examining two recent Constitutional Court
decisions...
Afghanistan 2007: Women liberated or a continued struggle for fundamental human rights?
12:45 pm Tuesday 14 Aug 2007
Presented by Sohalia from the Revolutionary Association of the Women
of Afghanistan, speaking about women’s rights in Afghanistan.
SLIDE-SHOW–MUSIC–FOOD–SLIDE-SHOW–MUSIC–FOOD
Women Barristers in Victoria – then & now
13 - 31 Aug 2007
Women Barristers Association and Victoria Law Foundation present
an exhibition about the key developments in the history of women
barristers in Victoria
The New System of International Criminal Justice and the International Criminal Court
1:00 pm Friday 10 Aug 2007
The ICC is the first ever permanent judicial body with jurisdiction
over genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.
Futures without Frontiers or Fuss
12:30 pm Thursday 9 Aug 2007
This will be an informal, highly interactive and conversational
lunchtime event bringing together senior people from different parts
of the media and communications world.
Islamic Educational Thought on Children's Motivation: Ibn Sahnun to Al-Ghazzali
1:00 pm Wednesday 8 Aug 2007
This seminar presents some findings from a larger piece of research
that looks at the history of Islamic educational thought on
children’s motivation from Ibn Sahnun to Ibn Khaldun.
CCCS Seminar: The Human Rights Act in the United Kingdom
5:00 pm Tuesday 7 Aug 2007
Mr Rabinder Singh QC will speak on "The Impact of the Human Rights
Act in the United Kingdom" and Dr Angela Ward on "Commercial
Undertakings and the Enforcement of Human Rights."
High Court sits in Melbourne to hear Special Leave Applications
Friday 3 Aug 2007
The High Court will sit in Melbourne on August 3 to hear Special
Leave Applications.
The State of the European Union
6:00 pm Thursday 2 Aug 2007
The Melbourne Law presents a Distinguished Alumnus Public Lecture.
Delivered by the esteemed alumnus Dr Samuel Pisar.
Responding to Mass Harms: Private Litigation and Public Action
6:00 pm Wednesday 1 Aug 2007
Professor Hensler holds a PhD degree from the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology and is currently the John Judge Professor of Dispute
Resolution at the Stanford Law School
July 2007
The distribution of everything: new p2p logics in production, governance, and property
5:30 pm Tuesday 31 Jul 2007
Two scenarios of adaptation between the world of peer production and
the institutional world will be presented, examining the political
and social consequences of a peer-enabled society.
The Courts and the Media
11:00 am Friday 27 Jul 2007
This conference brings together lawyers, journalists and academics
involved in the operation, reporting and analysis of the courts and
the media in Australia.
Public Hearing – Senate Standing Committee on Economics (Commonwealth Parliament)
Thursday 26 Jul 2007
Public Hearing – Senate Standing Committee on Economics Inquiry into
Private Equity Markets
CILS Research Seminar - Conflict and Conformity in Islamic Education
1:00 pm Wednesday 25 Jul 2007
Dr Saleem H. Ali is A/ Prof of environmental planning and conflict
resolution at the University of Vermont in the U.S.
Dr Michelle Foster's book launch by Justice Tony North
6:00 pm Thursday 19 Jul 2007
Justice Tony North from the Federal Court of Australia will launch Dr
Michelle Foster’s new book International Refugee Law and Socio-
Economic Rights: Refuge from Deprivation.
Defamation and opinion under US and Anglo-Australian Law (Melbourne)
5:30 pm Thursday 19 Jul 2007
The seminar will examine the defence of honest opinion under
Australia’s uniform defamation law and consider how different
countries deal with fact and opinion in defamation.
Human Rights Conditionality in International Trade: Revisiting the Debate
6:00 pm Wednesday 18 Jul 2007
This lecture will revisit the controversial issue of human rights
conditionality and international trade.
Defamation and opinion under US and Anglo-Australian Law (Sydney)
5:30 pm Tuesday 17 Jul 2007
The seminar will examine the defence of honest opinion under
Australia’s uniform defamation law and consider how different
countries deal with fact and opinion in defamation.
CILS Research Seminar - Islam and Democracy in Indonesia
1:00 pm Tuesday 17 Jul 2007
This presentation examines the roles of Indonesia's two biggest
religious organisations, Muhammadiyah and Nahdlatul Ulama
(NU), in the ongoing process of democratisation in Indonesia.
An alternative research and development framework to the World Trade Organization TRIPS regime
9:00 am Tuesday 17 Jul 2007
Alternatives considered in light of current failure to ensure
adequate levels of innovation in research & development on medicines
for 'neglected diseases' affecting developing countries
ALC Brown Bag Seminar: What Happens When A Comparativist Starts Listening To Stories?
1:00 pm Wednesday 11 Jul 2007
What happens when a legal comparativist goes out into the field,
leaving behind their comfort zone? How should the
comparativist chronicle what they encounter?
CCCS Seminar: 'Judicial Activism and Democratic Dialogue in Canada' by Professor Kent Roach
3:00 pm Tuesday 10 Jul 2007
The Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies is pleased to
invite you to a seminar by Professor Kent Roach.
ALC Legal Education in Asia: Professor Malcolm DH Smith, in Memorium
8:30 am Monday 9 Jul 2007
The conference will be held in honour of the late Professor Malcolm
DH Smith. Professor Smith was the Founding Director of the Asian Law
Centre and an important figure in Asian Legal Studies
ALC Dinner in Memory of Professor Malcolm Smith
7:00 pm Sunday 8 Jul 2007
A dinner will be held in memory of Professor Malcolm Smith. Professor Smith was the Founding Director of the Asian Law Centre and a leading figure in Asian Legal Studies
ALC Occasional Seminar Series - "A Scenario of Chinese Crime: Towards a Thieving or Violent Society?"
1:00 pm Thursday 5 Jul 2007
Modernisation theory has often claimed that
modernity leads to a thieving, rather than
violent, society.
Australia and New Zealand Communication Association 2007 Conference.
5 - 6 Jul 2007
The ANZCA 2007 conference will be held at the Melbourne Law School
and is supported by the Media Studies Program at La Trobe University
and the CMCL at the University of Melbourne.
Making Copyright Safe for Parody and Satire
5:00 pm Monday 2 Jul 2007
Graeme Austin will offer a US perspective on the new parody or satire
exception in the Australian Copyright Act 1968 (Cth).
June 2007
Exchange email & calendar briefing
1:00 pm Friday 29 Jun 2007
Learn about the new University email and calendaring
system (Outlook for PC users, Entourage for Mac users).
'Know thine enemy as thyself': Discerning friendly neighbour from terrorist foe
12:30 pm Friday 29 Jun 2007
Professor Clive Walker of the Centre for Criminal Justice Studies at
the University of Leeds will explore the nature and usage of the
special stop and search powers.
Climate Change and Nuclear Power in Australia: A free public lecture
6:30 pm Tuesday 12 Jun 2007
The University of Melbourne in association with Australian Institute
of Physics presents a free public lecture by Dr Ziggy Switkowski,
Chair of Australian Nuclear Science and Technology
'State power, patent power and patent offices - lessons for developing countries from history.'
5:30 pm Thursday 7 Jun 2007
A lot is known about the history of patent law. Much less in known
about the history of patent administration. Prof Drahos will explore
this area and Prof Chimni will offer a response.
CCCS Seminar presented by Dr Dirk Hanschel, University of Manheim, Germany
1:00 pm Thursday 7 Jun 2007
'Approaches to interpretation of the federal provisions
of the German Constitution'
IILAH Seminar
9:00 am Thursday 7 Jun 2007
This roundtable seminar is designed to allow postgraduate research
students to present their work in progress, with comments by
Professor Drahos, Professor Chimni and audience members
Switching to Digital Television: UK Experience and Lessons for Australia(Sydney)
5:30 pm Wednesday 6 Jun 2007
Michael Starks will digest the experiences of the pioneers of digital
television switchover and spell out the learning points for the next
wave of countries due to follow.
The 2007 Sir Kenneth Bailey Memorial Lecture with Professor B S Chimni, 'The Past, Present and Future of International Law: A Critical Third World Approach.'
5:30 pm Wednesday 6 Jun 2007
Professor B S Chimni is an internationally renowned legal academic
and a key figure in the Third World Approaches to International Law
(TWAIL) network of scholars.
Switching to Digital Television: UK Experience and Lessons for Digital Australia (Melbourne)
5:30 pm Tuesday 5 Jun 2007
Michael Starks will digest the experiences of the pioneers of digital
television switchover and spell out the learning points for the next
wave of countries due to follow.
Graduate Program in Competition Law
Monday 4 Jun 2007
From 2008, Melbourne Law School will offer a significantly expanded
graduate program in competition law and the first specialist graduate
qualification of its kind in Australia.
May 2007
'Public Enforcement of Securities Laws'
5:30 pm Tuesday 29 May 2007
Distinguished Visitor Public Lecture by Professor Howell Jackson.
This lecture explains cross-jurisdictional research into the
pattern and impact of public enforcement of securities law
Public lecture by Dr.Thomas Faunce
6:00 pm Monday 28 May 2007
The Australia-US Free Trade Agreement and the Demise of Reference
Pricing: Beginning of the End for the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme?
High Court sits in Melbourne
Friday 25 May 2007
The High Court will be sitting in Melbourne to hear Special Leave
Applications on Friday 25 May.
CCCS Lunchtime Seminar 1 presented by Dr Dirk Hanschel, University of Manheim, Germany
1:00 pm Thursday 24 May 2007
Seminar 1: 'The German Federalism Reform (Part 1) - A New
Distribution of Legislative Powers?'
Melbourne Law School 2007 Awards Ceremony
5:45 pm Wednesday 23 May 2007
The Melbourne Law School will host its annual prize giving ceremony
for undergraduate, graduate and research student prizes. Guest
speaker, Mr John Waugh, Senior Lecturer
The State of the Victorian Judicature Address
5:30 pm Tuesday 22 May 2007
The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria, The Hon Marliyn
Warren AC, will deliver the State of the Victorian Judicature Address
on May 22, 2007.
Postgraduate Information Evenings
4:00 pm Tuesday 22 May 2007
Talk to admissions staff about your study options, find out about the
graduate study opportunities made available by the Melbourne Model
ALC/CREEL Forum: Water, Energy and Climate Change Futures: Australia and China
22 - 23 May 2007
Involves CREEL and the ALC at the University of Melbourne and the
Australia-China Centre on Water Resources Research. Support also
from AMPLA, ARC, BDW and the Intl Office at Uni of Melb
Law Week Exhibition: Life of Women at the Bar
21 May - 1 Jun 2007
Women Barristers in Victoria Then and Now is a new exhibition
presented as part of Law Week and funded by the Victoria Law
Foundation.
The exclusion of the geisha system from Japan's 1956 Prostitution Prevention Law
3:15 pm Thursday 17 May 2007
In this research forum, Caroline Norma will examine the political
measures of anti-abolitionists who sought to exclude the geisha
system from the Prostitutions Prevention Law prior to 1956
ALC/CSCI Research Seminar: “Substantive Equality and Legal Pluralism in Indonesia: A Case Study of Joint Ministerial Decrees on the Construction of Worship Places
1:00 pm Wednesday 16 May 2007
A 1969 joint Ministerial Decree of the national Religious
Affairs and Home Affairs Ministers required regional
heads to consider input from heads of religious affairs...
2007 Law Week Oration
5:30 pm Tuesday 15 May 2007
"Does Australia need a Bill of Rights?" The Hon Michael McHugh AC,
former Justice of the High Court of Australia will explore this
question
ALC Brown Bag Seminar Series - "Citizen Lawyer: Lawyers, Civil Society and the Rule of Law in Singapore"
1:00 pm Tuesday 15 May 2007
Are lawyers a particular kind of citizen, with a unique
ability (if not responsibility) to express and defend
‘rights’?
Law Week - Getting the best from your Lawyer
1:00 pm Monday 14 May 2007
The LIV invites you to a FREE public seminar on how to get the best
from your lawyer and provide you with the tools to ensure you are
better prepared when you meet with your solicitor.
Postgraduate Law Students Association Dinner
7:00 pm Friday 11 May 2007
All post-graduate law students are invited to attend the PLSA's first
semester dinner
Cultural Wars and Constitutional Law: Australia and the United States Compared
1:00 pm Wednesday 9 May 2007
Detainee 002: The Case of David Hicks
6:45 pm Tuesday 8 May 2007
Melbourne University Press Ideas Series and the Melbourne Law School
proudly present "Leigh Sales in Conversation with Gerry Simpson
Detainee 002: The Case of David Hicks"
ALC/CSCI Research Seminar: “Cultural Diversity in the South of Thailand: Language, Policy and Reconciliation
1:00 pm Tuesday 8 May 2007
The Muslim-majority provinces of Southern Thailand are
currently
embroiled in one of Southeast Asia’s most violent
conflicts.
Formally incorporated into Thailand...
'The Situtation in Zimbabwe' presented by Archbishop Pius Ncube
5:30 pm Monday 7 May 2007
Archbishop Pius Mcube, Catholic Archbishop of Bulawayo, will comment
on the situation in Zimbabwe, in particular, the Mugabe regime.
'No Seat at the Table: How Corporate Governance and Law Keep Women Out of America's Boardrooms' presented by Professor Douglas M Branson, University of Pittsburgh
12:45 pm Monday 7 May 2007
In the US women constitute only 8% of senior managers & 10% of major
corporation directors. Do the same expectations hold for Australian
women, or is the situation fundamentally different?
ALC/CSCI Research Seminar: “Islamic Commercial Law Reform in Afghanistan: A First-Hand Account
1:00 pm Wednesday 2 May 2007
A new commercial legal system is being developed in
Afghanistan. It is a blend of Islamic law
(Shari’ah), centuries-old traditional or customary law,
and a modern legal system of civil codes
Parliamentary Joint Committee on the Australian Crime Commission
12:30 pm Tuesday 1 May 2007
Public Hearing - Future Impact of Serious and Organised Crime
April 2007
Full Court of the Federal Court in Melbourne
30 Apr - 25 May 2007
The Full Court of the Federal Court will be hearing matters from 30
April to 25 May at the Commonwealth Law Courts in Melbourne.
'Zero Tolerance Policy' - 'Sexual exploitation and abuse' in peace support operations and the zero tolerance approach promoted by the Secretary-General's Bulletin (2003)
Friday 27 Apr 2007
The main objective will be to open a dialogue among interested
practitioners and scholars with a view to understanding the most
effective approaches to end the sexual exploitation and ...
'Unveiling the Political: A Postcolonial Theory Seminar'
12:45 pm Tuesday 24 Apr 2007
Following opening remarks by Assoc Prof Peter Rush, Dr
Motha & Dr
Silva-Wijeyeratne will each present papers (abstracts
available at
http://iilah.unimelb.edu.au/)
followed by discussion.
High Court of Australia sits in Melbourne
9:30 am Tuesday 24 Apr 2007
The High Court will sit in Melbourne to hear
Special Leave applications on Tuesday 24 April at the Commonwealth
Law Courts.
ALC Public Lecture: Guantanamo Bay: The David Hicks Case
7:00 pm Friday 20 Apr 2007
A free public presentation by Terry Hicks, father of Guantanamo Bay
detainee David Hicks and Prof. Tim McCormack (Melbourne Law School),
adviser to the Hicks defence counsel.
Annual Tax Lecture: 'Managing Tax Avoidance: Recent UK Experience'
6:30 pm Thursday 19 Apr 2007
UK courts have experimented with ways of controlling tax avoidance
and Parliament has intervened with legislative techniques. Prof
Tiley's lecture looks at the UK's recent experience.
ALC Occasional Seminar Series - "Two Major New Commerical Laws for China: The Enterprise Bankruptcy Law and the Property Rights Law
6:30 pm Wednesday 18 Apr 2007
Andrew Godwin will discuss recent major
legislative developments in China
ALC Brown Bag Seminar Series - "'Perda Syariat': Its implementation and Implication in South Sulawesi, Indonesia"
1:00 pm Wednesday 18 Apr 2007
During the last few years, a significant number of
‘Perda Syariat’ (Sharia-based Regional Regulations)
have been passed, not only in South Sulawesi but also
in other provinces of Indonesia..
The Future of Television: Legal Protection of Digital Broadcast Content – Technology, Copyright, Law
5:30 pm Wednesday 4 Apr 2007
This evening seminar in Melbourne will outline significant issues for
the future of
digital television in Australia.
Lunchtime Seminar: 'Contesting Accountability and Legitimacy in Non-State Regulatory Regimes
1:00 pm Wednesday 4 Apr 2007
The Centre for Employment and Labour Relations Law and the Centre for
Corporate Law and Securities Regulation are pleased to invite you to
this lunchtime seminar.
The Future of Television: Legal Protection of Digital Broadcast Content – Technology, Copyright, Law
9:30 am Wednesday 4 Apr 2007
This monring seminar in Sydney will outline significant issues for
the future of
digital television in Australia.
Book Launch: 'Inside Lawyers' Ethics'
5:30 pm Tuesday 3 Apr 2007
Monash Law School in conjunction with the University of Melbourne and
Cambridge University Press launch 'Inside Lawyers' Ethics' by
Christine Parker (Melbourne)& Adrian Evans (Monash)
Labour Law Seminar: 'Good Faith Bargaining in Practice: Lessons from the New Zealand Experience
1:00 pm Tuesday 3 Apr 2007
For further detail please visit our website
http://celrl.law.unimelb.edu.au/
Public Hearing: Senate Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs
Monday 2 Apr 2007
Senate Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional
Affairs
Migration Amendment (Maritime Crew) Bill 2007 (Provisions)
March 2007
Graduation Ceremony followed by Graduation Reception
3:30 pm Saturday 31 Mar 2007
Graduation Ceremony at 3.30 pm in Wilson Hall will be followed by a
celebration Reception from 5.00 pm in the Melbourne Law School.
Student-Staff Forum: "Global Poverty: What are our Obligations?"
1:00 pm Wednesday 28 Mar 2007
Come to a free staff-student forum, the first for the year designed
to promote general debate on campus through high-profile speakers
addressing public issues of importance.
CILS Research Seminar - The Dilemma of Equality in Traditional Societies: Kafa'ah in Marriage in Oman
1:00 pm Wednesday 28 Mar 2007
This presentation aims to highlight conflicting accounts among Omanis
regarding modern and traditional values, by concentrating on a case
study of kafa’ah/equality in marriage.
International Humanitarian Law and the Muslim World - Free Public Lecture
6:00 pm Wednesday 21 Mar 2007
Presented by the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Islam in
association with the Australian Red Cross, Islamic Council of
Victoria & Mallesons Stephen Jaques
ALC Brown Bag Seminar Series - "The Recent Reform of Vietnamese Company Law and Corporate Governance Issues"
1:00 pm Wednesday 21 Mar 2007
In order to create a convenient legal environment
for investors and to support international
economic integration, especially the WTO
accession, the National Assembly of Vietnam
enacted...
The Rule of Law in Blair's Britain
5:30 pm Tuesday 20 Mar 2007
The Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies
invites you to attend 'The Rule of Law in Blair's
Britain', a seminar presented by Professor Adam Tomkins
on Tuesday 20 March.
Hong Kong Law Fair 2007
12:00 pm Tuesday 20 Mar 2007
A must for students considering a legal career in Hong Kong. Come and
ask representatives of major firms everything you've ever wanted to
know about living and working in Hong Kong
Who are we?
19 - 23 Mar 2007
It's Diversity Week from 19-23 March. It's a good time to reflect on
our engagement with a diverse range of staff and students within the
Law School community. Find out more...
Corporate Governance Conference - Finding Governance Equilibrium in Turbulent Markets
8:45 am Friday 16 Mar 2007
Presented by Institutional Shareholder Services in
conjunction with
the Centre for Corporate Law and Securities Regulation
at the
University of Melbourne
New Thinking in International Law with Professor Antony Anghie (University of Utah)
Friday 16 Mar 2007
Antony Anghie is the Samuel D Thurman Professor of Law at the
University of Utah. He received a B.A. (1986) and an LL.B. (1987)
from Monash University in Melbourne, and his ...
New Thinking in International Law with Professor Antony Anghie (University of Utah)
Friday 16 Mar 2007
Antony Anghie is the Samuel D Thurman Professor of Law at the University of Utah. He received a B.A. (1986) and an LL.B. (1987) from Monash University in Melbourne, and his ...
Postgraduate Law Students' Association AGM
5:30 pm Thursday 15 Mar 2007
All postgraduate law students are welcome to attend!
Design Quality as Value for Money: Using PPPs to develop social infrastructure projects
9:00 am Thursday 15 Mar 2007
This free workshop will be of immense interest to leaders and
decision makers interested in discussing the role of design as well
as its impact on ongoing service delivery in PPPs.
World Trade Organization Moot Court Team: Exhibition Moot
7:00 pm Tuesday 13 Mar 2007
For the first time Melbourne Law School is competing in the European
Law Students' Association (ELSA) Moot Court Competition on the law of
the World Trade Organization (WTO).
'Law and the Market: The Impact of Enforcement'
12 - 6 Mar 2007
Explores relationships between enforcement efforts intensity by
securities regulators in some nations; cost of capital & listing
premium non-US corporations exhibit listing on US exchanges
'Outwork Regulation in Australia: Does it Work?'
1:00 pm Friday 9 Mar 2007
CELRL is pleased to invite you to our first Labour Law Seminar for
2007. Sally Weller and Shelley Marshall will speak on the
topic 'Outwork Regulation in Australia: Does it Work?'
2007 Postgraduate Law Welcome Drinks
6:00 pm Thursday 8 Mar 2007
Join other postgraduate students for an informal gathering before you
kick off a new year of study!
Vivienne O'Connor
7 - 15 Mar 2007
Ms O'Connor will be in Melbourne from March 7-13 to teach Criminal
Law and Development as part of the Graduate Program.
Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services Public Hearing
Monday 5 Mar 2007
"Exposure Draft of the Corporations Amendment (Insolvency) Bill 2007"
Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services Public Hearing
5 - 7 Mar 2007
"Structure and Operation of the Superannuation Industry"
Graduate Law Induction 2007 – Academic Orientation for ESL and International Students
12:30 pm Saturday 3 Mar 2007
Additional academic orientation and lunch for ESL and internationa