Program

CCCS Constitutional Law  Conference 2023
Woodward Conference Centre
Melbourne Law School
20-21 July 2023

Thursday 20 July 2023

  Public Lecture
(Room GM15, Melbourne Law School)
6:00pm

Inaugural Michael Crommelin Lecture: Reflections on Williams v Commonwealth - Ten Years On

Welcome: Professor Matthew Harding (Dean, Melbourne Law School)

Chair: Professor Jason Varuhas

Speaker: The Hon. Robert French QC AC, former Chief Justice, High Court of Australia
Executive Power and the Parliament - before and after Williams

Vote of Thanks: Professor Adrienne Stone

7.30pm

Conference Opening Dinner: University House at Woodward

Toast to Michael Crommelin: Professor Matthew Harding

Friday 21 July 2023

8:45am
to
8.50am		 Conference Opening and Welcome
CCCS Directors: Professors Adrienne Stone and Jason Varuhas

9:00am
to
10.30am

Panel One: The Future of Australia's Federal Democracy

Speakers:

  • Professor Nicholas Aroney (University of Queensland)
    The High Court’s Federalism Jurisprudence: A Small Revival?
  • Professor Cheryl Saunders AO (University of Melbourne)
    Federalism and Responsible Government: Tensions and Rapprochement
  • Professor James Stellios (ANU)
    Federal Democratic Government as a Theory of Judiciary Review
  • Mr Eddie Synot (Griffith)
    Title tbc
10:30am
to
11.00am		 Morning Tea

11.00am
to 12.30pm

Panel Two: Executive Power

Speakers:

  • Professor Denis Baranger (Paris-Panthéon-Assas University)
    Independant Executives? Central Banks and Monetary Policy from a Constitutional Law Point of View
  • Professor Anne Twomey (University of Sydney)
    Can the Executive use Parliament to entrench government policy against future change?
  • Professor Jason Varuhas (University of Melbourne)
    Judicial Review of Non-Statutory Executive Power
12:30pm
to
1.30pm		Lunch

1:30pm
to
3.00pm 

Panel Three: Public Law, Resources Law and Australia's Environmental Future

Speakers:

  • Professor Liz Fisher (University of Oxford)
    Natural Resources, Environment, and Australia's Public Law Imagination
  • Professor Barry Barton (University of Waikato)
    The Evolution of Natural Resources Law in the Net-Zero Transition
  • Associate Professor Rebecca Nelson (University of Melbourne)
    Title tbc
3:00pm
to
3.30pm		 Afternoon Tea

3:30pm
to
4.30pm

Panel Four: Michael Crommelin : Dean and Colleague

Speakers:

  • Professor Terence Daintith (IALS, University of London)
  • Professor Cheryl Saunders AO (University of Melbourne)
  • The Hon. Justice Kristen Walker (Court of Appeal, Victoria)
  • Professor Carolyn Evans (Griffith University)
  • Professor Simon Evans (University of New England)

Response:

  • Professor Michael Crommelin AO
4.30pm
to
4.45pm		 Closing Remarks
CCCS Directors: Professors Adrienne Stone and Jason Varuhas


Please note this is a draft programme and may be subject to change.