Speakers


The conference convenors are pleased to announce the following speakers for the 2018 Public Law Conference

  • Keynote Speakers
    • Professor Nicholas Aroney (Queensland), 'The Frontiers of Australian Federalism'
    • Professor Mark Aronson (UNSW), Closing Plenary
    • Sir Jack Beatson (English Court of Appeal), 'UK Public Law after Brexit'
    • Professor Hilary Charlesworth (Melbourne), 'Assessing Comparative International Law: The Case of Australia'
    • Professor Anne Davies (Oxford), 'The 'Contracting State' and the Public/Private Divide'
    • Professor Megan Davis (UNSW) tbc
    • Professor Laura A Dickinson (George Washington), 'National Security Policy-making in the Shadow of International Law'
    • Professor David Feldman (Cambridge), 'Changing Boundaries: Crime, Punishment and Public Law'
    • Professor Charles Fombad (Pretoria), ‘Taming Executive Authoritarianism in Africa: Some Reflections on Current Trends in Horizontal and Vertical Accountability’
    • Justice Ellen France (NZ Supreme Court), Closing Plenary
    • Professor Fu Hualing (Hong Kong), ‘Dialogue with Autocrats: Security and Freedom in Post-Transition Hong Kong’
    • Professor Carol Harlow (LSE), ‘Public and Private Law: A Porous Boundary’
    • Hon Mr Kenneth Hayne (formerly High Court of Australia), ‘Keeping Pace with Changes in the Use of Executive Power’
    • Justice Grant Huscroft (Ontario Court of Appeal), ‘Blurred Lines? Rights Litigation and Democratic Deliberation’
    • Professor Benedict Kingsbury (NYU), ‘The Frontiers of Global Administrative Law’
    • Lord Mance (UK Supreme Court) tbc
    • Professor Janet McLean (Auckland), ‘For a Law of Public Contract Per Se’
    • Justice Debbie Mortimer (Federal Court of Australia), ‘Coming to Terms with Communal Decision-Making by Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Peoples in a Public Law Context’
    • Justice Matthew Palmer (New Zealand High Court), ‘Judicial Review and Indigenous Rights’
    • Professor Cheryl Saunders (Melbourne), ‘Global Constitutionalism – Between Myth and Reality’
    • Professor Anne Twomey (Sydney), ‘Peering into the Black Box of Executive Power - Cabinet Manuals, Secrecy and the Identification of Convention’
    • Associate Professor Jason N E Varuhas (Melbourne), ‘The Reformation of Private Law? From Private Right to Public Good’
    • Kristen Walker QC (Solicitor-General of Victoria), Closing Plenary
  • Speakers
    • Farrah Ahmed (Melbourne), ‘Delineating Constitutional and Administrative Law’
    • Margaret Allars (Sydney/NSW Bar), ‘Public and Private Boundaries of Administrative Law’
    • Michael Asimow (Stanford) and Yoav Dotan (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), ‘Between the Agency and the Court: Ex Ante Legality Review’
    • Mikolaj Barczentewicz (Surrey), ‘Bringing Rigour to Fundamental Rights and Principles Reasoning’
    • Benjamin Berger (Osgoode Hall), ‘The Renaissance of Sovereignty in Freedom of Religion’
    • Janina Boughey (UNSW), ‘Justiciability: Its Purpose, Scope and Continued Utility’
    • Eoin Carolan (University College Dublin), ‘Remedial Creativity in Common Law Courts: Transgressing the Frontiers of Public Law?’
    • Eddie Clark (Victoria University of Wellington), ‘Parliamentary Adjudication: Pushing the Boundaries of the Legislative Function’
    • Laurence Claus (University of San Diego), ‘Deciding Distribution’
    • Margit Cohn (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), ‘The Boundaries of Executive Power? “Grey Holes”, Patchwork Legislation and Creative Compliance’
    • Paul Daly (Cambridge) and Stephen Daly (King’s College London), ‘Identifying the Frontiers of Public Law Principles: Soft Law and the Normal Justification Thesis’
    • Rosalind Dixon (UNSW), ‘Responsive Judicial Review and Unresponsive Legislatures’
    • Andrew Geddis and Jacinta Ruru (Otago), ‘Places as Persons: Creating a New Framework for Māori-Crown relations’
    • Kate Glover (Western University, Ontario), ‘The Constitutional Status of the Administrative State’
    • Ryan Goss (ANU), ‘What Do Australians Talk About When They Talk About Parliamentary Sovereignty?’
    • Kirsty Gover (Melbourne) and Nicole Roughan (Auckland), ‘Public, Private or International? Crown-Indigenous Fiduciary Relationships’
    • Steve Hedley (University College Cork), ‘Public Law, Private Law, and the Inconvenient Truth’
    • Martin Hinton (Supreme Court of South Australia) and Fiona J McDonald (Solicitor-General’s Office (South Australia)), ‘Testing the Boundaries: The Evolution of Australian Legislative Attempts to Shield Administrative Decisions from Judicial Scrutiny’
    • Cora Hoexter (Witwatersrand), ‘Judicial Review and the Frontiers of South African Administrative Law’
    • John Hunter (Court of Appeal for British Columbia), ‘Autonomy, Proportionality and Deference in Constitutional Adjudication: The Case of Physician-Assisted Death’
    • Swati Jhaveri (National University of Singapore), ‘Executive Constitutionalism: Recognising the Constitutional Authority of the Executive’
    • Tarun Khaitan (Oxford/Melbourne), ‘Constitutional Directive: At the intersection of Constitutional Morality, Constitutional Politics and Constitutional Law’
    • Kathryn Kovacs (Rutgers), ‘Rules or Rulers? The Rise of the Unitary Executive’
    • Mary Liston (British Columbia), ‘Representing Jurisdiction: Decolonizing Elections Law in a Multijural State’
    • Chris Maxwell (President, Victoria Court of Appeal), ‘Administrative Law and Criminal Law’
    • Sarah Nason (Prifysgol Bangor University), ‘Egalitarian Public Law: The Welsh Crucible Experiment’
    • William Partlett (Melbourne), ‘Cooperative Federalism and Criminal Law’
    • Jennifer Raso (UNSW), ‘Frontiers of Administrative Governance: Reconciling Norms at the Front Lines of Social Assistance Agencies’
    • Ellen Rock (ANU), ‘Locating the Courts within the Australian Government Accountability Network’
    • Paul Scott (Glasgow), ‘Public Law at the Frontier: the Law of Passports and Their Use as a Tool of National Security’
    • David Sloss (Santa Clara University), ‘The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Living Constitution’
    • Shona Wilson Stark (Cambridge), ‘Elusive Boundaries: Non-fettering, Consistency of Policy and Legitimate Expectations’
    • Scott Stephenson (Melbourne), ‘Against Interpretation as an Alternative to Invalidation’
    • Matthew Stubbs (Adelaide) and Adam Webster (Oxford), ‘Ensuring the Fidelity of Elected Representatives to the People: A Comparative Common Law Study’
    • Joe Tomlinson (Sheffield), ‘Designing Digital Administrative Tribunals: A New Analytical Framework for A New Frontier’
    • Kristen Walker (Solicitor-General of Victoria/Melbourne Law School), ‘Judicial Review of Governmental Publications’
    • Jacob Weinrib (Queen’s, Ontario), ‘The Morality of Administration’
    • Lael Weis (Melbourne), ‘Legislative Baselines’
    • Hannah Woolaver (Cape Town), ‘Clarifying the Frontier between Domestic and International Public Law when States Withdraw from Treaties’
  • Doctoral Speakers
    • Oliver Butler (Oxford), ‘The Distinctiveness of Public Authorities in the Regulation of Information’
    • Justine Collins (Max Planck Institute for European Legal History), ‘Legal Transplantation in the British West Indies and the Reverberations Thereof, 1500-1700s’
    • Anna Dziedzic (Melbourne), ‘Constitutional Adjudication by Foreign Judges and the Boundaries of the Judicial Role in Pacific Constitutional Systems’
    • Jelena Gligorijević (Cambridge), ‘Privacy on the Frontiers of Public Law'
    • Jeffrey Gordon (Columbia), ‘Comparative Judicial Federalism at the Intersection of Public and Private Law’
    • Aishani Gupta (Toronto), ‘ICANN and Global Administrative Law: Perspectives of Public and Private’
    • Harry Hobbs (UNSW), ‘Making Public Law’s Boundaries Permeable: Exploring the Relationship between Public Law, Indigenous Law and Legitimacy’
    • Mariyam Kamil (Oxford), ‘Horizontal Application of Privacy: The Indian Experience’
    • Caroline Kelly (Melbourne), ‘Public Law and Labour Law: The Emergence and Development of Public Law Principles in the Termination of Employment’
    • Christina Lienen (University College London), ‘The Boundaries of Public Law Reasoning: Common Law Constitutional Rights as the New Frontier?’
    • Katrina Malone (Cambridge), ‘The Shrinking Boundaries of Public Law in Australia: Judicial Review vs. Habeas Corpus’
    • Richard Martin (LSE), ‘Beyond Lawyers: How do the Police Interpret and Apply the Human Rights Act 1998?’
    • Joanne Murray (McGill), ‘The Court’s Inherent Jurisdiction Over Trusts: An Entry Point to Understanding the Legitimacy of Judicial Review?’
    • Fiona Roughley (ANU), ‘Law, Politics and the Commonwealth Attorney-General’