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ANU COLLEGE OF LAW

Alumni Newsletter Autumn 2011

ANU College of Law Book Celebration

In the spirit of the College’s traditional biennial book launch, the Hon Annabelle Bennett AO celebrated a collection of books published by ANU College of Law academic staff between the last such event in 2007 and the end of 2010.

The publications showcase the College’s diverse research interests, which range across fields as varied as environmental law, family law, intellectual property, law and religion, administrative law, international law, human rights, equity and trusts, governance, sex discrimination and global health law.

The event was chaired by the ANU College of Law Dean Professor Michael Coper in the Public Hall of the High Court of Australia on 31 March.

The Hon Annabelle Bennett has been Pro-Chancellor of The Australian National University since 1998. She is a Justice of the Federal Court of Australia. Justice Bennett is also a member of Chief Executive Women, an advisory committee member of the Australian Law Reform Commission, the Centennial Park & Moore Park Trust, the Medico-Legal Society of New South Wales, and various Australian and International legal associations. Combined with this, Justice Bennett is a council member of the Australian Academy of Forensic Science and a director of the Sydney Children’s Hospital Foundation (formerly the Prince of Wales Children’s Hospital Foundation).

Transcript of the Hon Annabelle Bennett’s address

ANU College of Law book display

Professor Michael Coper The Hon Annabelle Bennett AO

The ANU CoL Book Celebration, Public Hall of the High Court of Australia

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International Review Team Visits ANU College of Law

A distinguished panel of international law deans and legal scholars, all experts in legal education, spent the week beginning 28 March 2011 at the ANU College of Law, reviewing the College's operations, assisting the College with its strategic planning, and working with the College to develop cutting-edge ideas about how the College could most effectively make a positive contribution to enhancing the discipline of law in Australia and beyond.

The panel had members from the UK, New Zealand, the US, Singapore and Canada:

Roger Burridge is former Head of the University of Warwick Law School and former Director of the UK Centre for Legal Education, and has extensive international experience, including as a foundation member of the Governing Board of the International Association of Law Schools. His areas of particular interest include legal education, legal practice, criminal law, administrative law, and socio-legal issues around housing.

Kim Economides is Director of the Legal Issues Centre at the University of Otago Faculty of Law, having previously been Professor of Legal Ethics and Head of the University of Exeter Law School. He has published widely on legal education, legal practice, access to justice, legal ethics and values, and was founding editor of the international journal Legal Ethics.

Elizabeth Parker was appointed as Dean of the University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law in 2002, following a distinguished career outside academia. She began her career as a civil rights litigator, and subsequently served for over a decade in various US federal government positions, including as general counsel for the CIA. She is an expert in national security law and terrorism, as well as in international trade law.

Tan Cheng Han was appointed in 2010 to an unprecedented fourth term as Dean of Law at the National University of Singapore, having been Dean there since 2001. He is a corporate and commercial lawyer, was previously a litigation partner at Drew & Napier, was appointed as Senior Counsel in 2004 and as a Specialist Judge in 2006. He is also a member of the Governing Board of the IALS.

Jeremy Webber holds the Canada Research Chair in Law and Society at the University of Victoria and was recently awarded a prestigious Trudeau Fellowship. He was previously at McGill University and at the University of Sydney, where he was Dean of Law from 1998 to 2002. His particular interests include legal and political theory, constitutional law, Indigenous rights, law and culture, labour law and legal history.

The panel undertook a comprehensive program of meetings, focus groups and one on one discussions and will report to the Dean of the ANU College of Law Professor Michael Coper.

Roger Burridge

Kim Economides

Elizabeth Parker

Tan Cheng Han

Jeremy Webber

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Professor Hilary Charlesworth has been appointed as a judge ad hoc of the International Court of Justice (ICJ). Hilary, who is the first Australian academic lawyer to have this honour, will be a judge ad hoc in the case of Australia v. Japan in relation to whaling.

Only two Australians have had this honour previously, Sir Garfield Barwick in 1974 (for the nuclear test case against France) and Sir

Professor Hilary Charlesworth Honoured with ICJ Appointment

The ANU College of Law congratulates Dr Daniel Fitzpatrick for his appointment in 2011 as a Global Visiting Professor in the Hauser Global Law School Program (HGLSP) at New York University (NYU). Dr Fitzpatrick is one of around 20 leading law professors and judges from around the world who were invited by HGLSP to teach at NYU School of Law.

Dr Fitzpatrick is the current Director of the Masters program and Convenor of the new Law, Governance and Development program at the ANU College of Law.

Earlier in his career, Dr Fitzpatrick was a legal practitioner and judge’s associate of the Federal Court. He has written widely on land law and policy in the Third World, with a particular focus on recovery from disaster or conflict. He was the

UN’s land rights adviser in post-conflict East Timor (2000) and post-tsunami Aceh (2005-6). In 2002 he published Land Claims in East Timor (230 pp., Asia Pacific Press). In 2007 he won the Hart Article Prize from the UK Socio-Legal Association for Evolution and Chaos in Property Rights Systems: The third world tragedy of contested access, Yale Law Journal (Vol. 115, pp. 996-1048 March 2006).

Dr Fitzpatrick is the primary author of the UN’s Land and Disasters: Guidance for practitioners (2010). He has undertaken professional consultancies on law and development with the World Bank, AusAID, the Asian Development Bank, Oxfam International, the OECD, UNDP and UN-Habitat. His work with AusAID includes co-authoring the 2008 Making Land Work report for its Pacific Land

New Appointment to Hauser Global Law Program

Ninian Stephen (to whom Hilary was Associate when Sir Ninian was on the High Court of Australia) in 1995 for the case against Portugal regarding Timor. Sir Percy Spender, who was President of the ICJ in the 1960s, is the only Australian to have been elected as a permanent judge.

Hilary holds the title of Professor of International Law and Human Rights in the ANU College of Law and an appointment as Professor and Director of the Centre for International Governance and Justice in the Regulatory Institutions Networks (RegNet) in the College of Asia and the Pacific. As an Australian Research Council Federation Fellow, Hilary is also currently Chief Investigator in a new three year Linkage Project, Strengthening the rule of law through the United Nations Security Council.

This appointment as judge ad hoc is a great honour and reflects the high esteem with which Hilary is held in the international law community.

For more details about Hilary’s appointment please read the joint media release from the Attorney-General, the Hon Robert McClelland MP and Minister for Foreign Affairs, the Hon Kevin Rudd MP.

For biographical details

Program. He has been a Visiting Professor at the National University of Singapore (2006-09) and at the University of Muenster (2002), and a Distinguished Visitor at the University of Toronto (2007).

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The ANU College of Law Annual Prize Ceremony was held on 9 March 2011 on the College lawns.

Dean Professor Michael Coper welcomed the prize-winning law graduates and their families and friends, and College staff to the ceremony.

Special remarks were made by Associate Professor Simon Rice OAM, who is the Director of the Law Reform and Social Justice Program at the College.

For a full list of the 2010 prize recipients and some College highlights from 2010 please see: The prize booklet

ANU College of Law Honours 2010 Prize Winners

ANU School of Music Brass Ensemble greeting the prize winners with the traditional fanfare

Associate Professor Simon Rice OAM

Multiple prize winner, Pauline Thai

Dean Professor Michael Coper

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MEDIA RELEASE - 11 March 2011

New Link Between ANU Law School and Barristers to Assist Law Students

A new link between The Australian National University’s College of Law and barristers’ chambers in Canberra would help keep law students in touch with the practical side of the Law, barrister Richard Thomas said today.

Richard Thomas is the principal barrister in Silk Chambers in Canberra. Chambers is the name given to a law office where barristers work.

The link was developed between Silk Chambers and the ANU Law Internship Program, run by ANU Visiting Fellow Peter Ford, himself a lawyer.‘ The Law Internship Program is designed to give ANU law students the opportunity to put their academic studies in a practical context, by being supervised not only by law school academics but also by experienced practising barristers,’ Peter Ford said.

‘The internship program has been operating for many years now, but this is the first time it has been formalised with barristers’ chambers in Civic,’ he said. The first student to be allocated under the new link is Jessica Brent, a fourth year law student.

‘I am really looking forward to working closely with barristers in writing my thesis,’ Jessica said.

‘The law school is located very close to Silk Chambers and the Courts, and this will enable me to get the experience I need to make sure my ideas are workable in practice.’

New Silk Chambers Internship

Jessica Brent is the first student to benefit through an internship under a newly established link between Silk Chambers, Civic and the ANU College of Law. Here is her story:

‘I am now in my final year of Arts/Law. I’ve completed my Arts degree in which I studied drama, film and English. The balance of these rather distinct subject areas has kept me sane over the past four years! I really enjoy using both the creative and the logical, problem-solving parts of my brain.

I chose to do an internship because unlike many law students, I had never had a law related job (preferring to work in theatres and restaurants!). I hoped that by doing an internship I would gain some insight into the practical workings of the law and have an opportunity to utilize my classroom knowledge in more practical situations. Also, not having made any firm decisions on what I’d like to do upon graduating, I thought that having an insight into the legal profession might give me some ideas!

The main goal of the internship program is to write a research paper which (if successful) can make a valuable, original and potentially influential contribution to the development of policy, administration or legal systems. I meet with my professional supervisor, Fergus Thompson, on a regular basis to

discuss my paper. I am also able to study the briefs that come to the barristers at Silk Chambers and follow them around as they meet with clients and appear in the courts and tribunals.

I was lucky to be placed in a Barristers chambers as I have considered this as a career option for sometime down the track. The great thing about being placed with a Barrister is that they cover such a wide gamut of law that I was able to choose from just about any area of law I wanted. My other main interest is theatre and acting. I think that there is definitely some overlap of skills utilised in the court room and the theatre!

The great thing about my internship is that it has been extremely flexible. So, for example, when I had a take home exam for another subject my supervisor was happy to let me work on that and meet twice the following week to make up for it.

At law school you learn a lot in all the courses, such as how a case is constructed, but it’s totally different seeing how it’s done in real life. I’m really interested in how my barrister seems to do everything so naturally, and how calm everyone is at the chambers.’

When asked what she wants to do when she graduates, Jessica suggested becoming ‘an actor or advocate for the little guy’ so she can ‘advocate for the poor, fight for the environment and defend civil rights’. However she couldn’t decide ‘which option was the more far fetched’. She added, ‘eventually, perhaps, I’d like to be a barrister.’

Her advice to students contemplating an internship is to ‘work hard and gain experience wherever you can!’

Jessica Brent

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Special congratulations to ANU College of Law Emeritus Professor Dennis Pearce who has been named the Best Lawyers’ 2011 Canberra Government Lawyer of the Year.

Congratulations also to ANU College of Law migration law teachers, Nigel Dobbie, David Prince, Joanne Kinslor, Michael Jones, Rania Skaros and Sudrishti Reich who were listed in The Australian Financial Review’s table of Best Lawyers, 4 March 2011.

Congratulations to Best Lawyers’ 2011

Professor Dennis Pearce joined the ANU Law Faculty in 1968 as a lecturer. In 1982–84 and 1991–94 he was the Dean of the Law School. On retirement in 1996 he was appointed an Emeritus Professor of the ANU and a Visiting Fellow in the ANU College of Law.

In addition to his academic appointments, Professor Pearce has held many public positions, such as Commonwealth Ombudsman(1988–90); Chairman of the Australian Press Council (1997–2000); Member and later Chair of the Copyright Law Review Committee (1983–2000); foundation adviser to the Senate Scrutiny of Bills Committee (1981–83) and President ACT Racing Appeals Tribunal (2001–04). He has conducted many inquiries for the Commonwealth and ACT governments.

Dennis is currently Chair of the Defence Force Honours and Awards Tribunal; Member of the Copyright Tribunal; Chair of the ACT Cricket Appeals Tribunal; Discipline Officer for the Australian Quarter Horse Association; Special Counsel DLA Phillips Fox, Lawyers.

Sudrishti Reich

David Prince

Michael Jones

Nigel Dobbie

Rania Skaros

of the graduate certificate is a prerequisite for registration with the Migration Agents Registration Authority (MARA).

The program has also been approved by MARA for Continuing Professional Development (CPD) for existing agents.

The Graduate Certificate in Australian Migration Law & Practice is ideal for anyone wanting to study online, either within Australia, or from overseas. Two face to face weekends of teaching in each course add value for those who can travel, usually to Sydney. The actual location of face to face classes is subject to enrolments

ANU Legal Workshop is Australia's leading university provider of accredited professional legal education. It is also Australia’s largest provider of the Graduate Certificate in Australian Migration Law and Practice.

The graduate certificate is open to those without a legal background, as well as lawyers. It comprises four compulsory courses covering Australian migration law and practice, and provides students with the competencies to become a registered migration agent.

Only registered migration agents can provide migration advice. Completion

in capital cities. Overseas students do not need to travel to Australia to attend these weekends.

For more information please see the Migration Law website.T: (02) 6125 9233E: certmigration@law.anu.edu.au

Joanne Kinslor

The Migration Law Program

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The ANU College of Law congratulates Anthea Roberts, winner of the 2011 Francis Deàk Prize. Anthea graduated from ANU in 2000 with a Bachelor of Arts (philosophy and mathematics) and a Bachelor of Laws with first class honours in Law and a University Medal in Law.

The Francis Deàk Prize is awarded for a meritorious contribution to scholarship by a younger author (under 40 years of age) published in the American Journal of International Law, which is the top peer reviewed

journal in the international law field.Anthea received the 2011 prize for an article entitled: Power and Persuasion in Investment Treaty Interpretation: The dual role of states 104 American Journal of International Law 104 (2) pp.179–225 (2010).

She also won the prize in 2002 for an article based on her ANU honours thesis: Traditional and Modern Approaches to Customary International Law 95 American Journal of International Law 757 (2001).

Hilary Charlesworth also won the award in 1992 for her work on feminist approaches to international law. Anthea acknowledged a tremendous debt to Hilary for supervising her thesis and for helping her to see law in a new light.

ANU College of Law Alumna Honoured

In 2008 Anthea joined the Department of Law in the London School of Economics (LSE) as a Lecturer in Law. She teaches Public International Law, International Dispute Resolution and Investment Treaty Law. She is one of the co-founders of LSE’s Transnational Law Project.

Anthea will be presenting this article during a CIPL seminar at the ANU College of Law.

LSE biographical details

Farewell Lunch for Former ANU Vice Chancellor Ian Chubb

(L-R) Kent Anderson, Ven Alex Bruce, Fiona Wheeler, Peta Spender, Mick Dodson and Ian Chubb.

ANU College of Law staff held a farewell lunch for the former ANU Vice– Chancellor Professor Ian Chubb on 22 February 2011.

ANU Chancellor Professor the Hon Gareth Evans AO QC, also paid tribute to the leadership of Professor Chubb at a farewell dinner at University House.

For more details please see: Chancellor honours VC’s enduring legacy

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Catching up with Alumni

The Hon Reginald Hamilton, Deputy President Fair Work Australia (Melb.)

When I began my LLB/BA studies at the ANU in 1975 I was struck by the many gum trees and expanses of green grass. Not all the major universities can offer this to students. Then of course there was the study. This involved many hours in the law library, and arts library. In those days students wrote everything by hand, essays, notes in lectures, and case summaries. Now I type everything on a computer.

The character and humour of the lecturers was often as interesting as the lectures they gave. Douglas Whalan told us that a noted Lord Chancellor, Francis Bacon, admitted to taking bribes, but took them from both sides, so that it did not affect the result of any case. Geoffrey Lindell brought Alfred Deakin to life as a man who, remarkably, wrote anonymous articles for British newspapers on Australian politics while a leading Australian politician. Paul Finn assigned a long English trusts decision to be read which appeared not to actually lead to a ruling for either party. He then asked us to describe the result, ensuring

that we read cases more thoroughly in future. Their lectures were literally memorable, because I write from memory over 30 years later!

The disciplined argument required by a law degree was essential later in my career as an advocate, appearing for the main employer group (the Confederation of Australian Industry, now Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry) in most of the test cases in the Australian Industrial Relations Commission during the 1990s. These cases included eight Safety Net Cases, test cases on movements in minimum award wage rates, three cases on family leave provisions, the award simplification test case, and other matters. It was not all conflict. While the amounts of award wage increases were always highly contested, many clauses were largely agreed, such as the supportive wage system, a system of discounted award wage rates for persons with disabilities, or the expansion of the National Training Wage Award to include wage rates for higher skilled employees and more training packages, and some of the clauses

expanding sick leave to include leave for ill family members. Many of these agreed award provisions are still in awards.

Another area of work involved attending tripartite consultative committees, such as the Committee on Industrial Legislation (COIL), usually chaired by the Minister. Acronyms abound in government. COIL was the forum for negotiations which led to three complete rewrites of the federal industrial relations system in 1988, 1993, and 1996, and there were discussions over many smaller amendments. I began as an overwhelmed apprentice and by the end was doing a considerable amount of the negotiating myself, as is the way. My colleagues and I were answerable to a council of employer associations around the country, which set the policy for all discussions, sometimes after considerable discussion. Again much was agreed on COIL, although the most public aspects of the debates were disagreements. My work also involved developing and participating in public campaigns directed against specific legislative proposals or trade union claims, or answering campaigns.

In September 2001 I was appointed a Deputy President of the Australian Industrial Relations Commission, which became Fair Work Australia. Our functions relate to award changes, dispute settlement, enterprise agreements, enterprise bargaining, industrial action, unfair dismissal claims, union entry into workplaces, and other matters. The tradition is often to first conciliate, and this usually leads to a settlement. The essential features of the work are independence and application of the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth.) on the basis of fact and law. Arbitration and determination occurs through

The Hon Reg Hamilton and Justice Robyn Layton at Launch of ‘Colony’

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Catching up with Alumni - continued

The Hon Reginald Hamilton

Nikola returned to her hometown Canberra after completing a combined Arts/Law degree at Griffith University followed by a three year contract at a boutique Intellectual Property firm in Japan.

She wanted to satisfy the requirements for admission as a solicitor to the ACT Supreme Court so she decided to enrol in the Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice at the ANU College of Law. As it was an easy progression to make, Nikola eventually decided to transfer to the Masters Program in Legal Practice.

(The program enables students who have completed their Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice at the ANU or Charles Darwin University to consolidate that vocational study with additional postgraduate study to form a masters degree with a Legal Practice focus.)

She said, ‘all of my studies were done online, and the support from ANU staff was incredible. I was initially sceptical of this format given that I prefer in-class learning with other students, but the ANU staff made it easy to interact with other students and were always available by phone or email to answer any questions. They were also very accommodating given I was working full-time, therefore this format really suited my lifestyle’.

Since completing her three-year contract in Japan in March 2010, Nicola has been travelling the world with a Japanese NGO related to advocacy for peace and justice. In July she took a position in the development team at a Cambodian NGO called PEPY, which focuses on access to quality education in rural areas.

Nicola will commence work as an intern later in 2011 at the Extraordinary Chambers of the Courts of Cambodia. This court was set up in 2001 by the Cambodian National Assembly to try serious crimes committed during the Khmer Rouge regime 1975–79. Nicola will be working with the Office of the Co-prosecutor, doing legal research and preparing evidence.

Nikola Errington

hearings conducted on a judicial basis. However, the conciliation and settlement function is possibly unique to industrial tribunals, and is private and informal. Decisions can be found at www.fwa.gov.au.

I have also written two books. Colony: Strange Origins of One of the Earliest Modern Democracies discusses the early democracy of South Australia, the first significant British colony to give all men the vote, in 1856, and the place of the first election on the Australian continent, the October 1840 election of the corporation of Adelaide. My second book, Waltzing Matilda and the Sunshine Harvester Factory, discusses the origins of the Arbitration Court in 1904, and the development of the Australian minimum wage, which began with the Harvester decision of 1907.

Without the discipline of my law studies I doubt that much of this could have been done. My arts degree also helped considerably by giving me a broad knowledge of English literature and to some extent history and philosophy. All of it has been used from time to time.

Phillipa Weeks Scholarship in Law

The ANU College of Law has created a scholarship in memory of the late Professor Phillipa Weeks. Phillipa was a significant contributor to the Canberra legal community and a member of the academic staff of ANU from 1979 until her untimely passing in 2006.

This scholarship supports students from regional and rural Australia who demonstrate academic achievement, leadership and community involvement. The award is intended to be held by the successful applicant for the duration of their law program. We have decided to endow this fund, so as to award the scholarship in perpetuity. Our goal is $500,000 as an endowment of this size will allow us to award a scholarship every year.

For more information on giving towards this scholarship, please visit: The ANU College of Law Phillipa Weeks Scholarship webpage.

Also for details about workplace giving see the website.

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Catching up with Alumni - continued

Joshua Prentice

Joshua graduated in July 2010 with first class honours in both his Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Arts degrees from the Australian National University.

He explains how his studies at ANU led to his current job in Stockholm, which focuses on financing for renewable energy projects in Sweden and Germany, ‘I grew up in Bendigo, Victoria and was keen to study both law and German when I completed year 12. The ANU came highly recommended to me from my then careers advisor – as the law and German programs were considered the best and most diverse in the country. I was particularly impressed with the university's outstanding reputation both in Australia and abroad and there was a real willingness from the ANU to allow students to take on double degrees in an eclectic range of subject areas. (German and law are not the most common of subject combinations!)

My interest in renewable energy law was developed over a period of time – studying both at the ANU and on

exchange at two German universities (thanks to the ANU's international education program). Germany is particularly progressive in the area of renewable energy and studying there made me particularly interested in environmental and renewable energy law in Australia and abroad.

I completed the environmental law elective at the ANU and won the Lexmark Prize for the course at the College of Law Academic Awards and began to think about the possibility of writing about Australian and German renewable energy law. I did not really think it would be possible but to my great delight, the ANU College of Law, in particular my supervisor Dr. James Prest, did not only make this possible but they actively encouraged me to combine my academic passions of German and renewable energy law. My thesis focused on the Commonwealth’s Renewable Energy (Electricity) Act (2000) and its outcomes compared with German and Swedish renewable energy law. An edited version of my thesis has just recently been published in the international journal, A Journal of Renewable Energy Law and Policy.’

Joshua is enjoying living in Sweden. He said ‘Stockholm is a truly international city with so many people from across the globe here for either work or study. My only complaint thus far: the long winter!

I particularly enjoy my job because I have the opportunity to use my knowledge of German and renewable energy law every day with co-workers and clients. The only tricky bit is switching between German, English and Swedish depending on the client or colleague!

Renewable energy policy and infrastructure is far more developed in Germany than in Australia. In Germany, 17% of the country’s energy supply comes from renewable

sources. Germany’s largest renewable energy resources are wind and solar energy, hydropower, and bioenergy (principally biomass). It is a frequent question from German clients why Germany’s wind and solar energy sectors are so much larger than Australia’s considering Australia’s reputation as the sunny country and its enormous coastline.’

Joshua has long term ambitions of completing a Masters of Environmental Law with a focus on renewable energy law and of returning to Australia and being involved in politics, in particular with environmental and renewable energy policy. He said, ‘I would love to share my international experiences to help further develop Australian environmental policy as the country has such rich renewable, natural resources.’

Joshua expressed his gratitude to the College of Law for a ‘fantastic educational experience and for the expertise, guidance and support provided by Dr Prest’ through his Honours year.

Joshua’s graduation, ANU

Joshua Prentice in Stockholm

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Expert Evidence Conference Hosted at ANUThe ANU College of Law and the National Judicial College of Australia jointly hosted the Expert Evidence Conference at the ANU on 12–13 February 2011.

Guests were welcomed on the first day of proceedings by Chief Justice Wayne Martin, Chair of the Council of the National Judicial College of Australia and Professor Michael Coper, Dean, ANU College of Law. The keynote speech was given by Mr Jack Rush QC (Vic).

Guest speakers and their topics are listed below:• Issues in Gathering, Interpreting and Delivering DNA Evidence

Judge Andrew Haesler, District Court NSW paper ppt

• DNA Evidence: Current issues and future challenges

Ms Wendy Abraham QC, Barrister, Wentworth Chambers paper

• Recognition and Presentation of Issues with DNA Evidence

Professor Angela van Daal, Bond University ppt

• Forensic Pathology and the CSI Effect: A forensic pathologist’s experience A/Professor David Ranson, Assistant Director, Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine & Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor Monash University ppt

• The CSI Effect Dr James Robertson AM, Professor of Forensics, University of Canberra ppt

• Hollywood Profiling: The impact of the CSI effect on the use of forensic science in NSW Dr Jenny Wise, Criminologist, University of New England paper ppt

• The Reliability of CCTV as Forensic Evidence Mr Glenn Porter, Senior Lecturer in Forensic Science, University of Western Sydney paper

• The New Paradigm in Forensic Science Dr Geoffrey Stewart Morrison, Director, Forensic Voice Comparison Laboratory, School of Electrical Engineering & Telecommunications, UNSW

• Scales of Justice and Cell Phone Evidence Professor Reg Coutts, Coutts Communications, Emeritus Professor of Telecommunications, Adelaide University ppt

• Transcripts and Linguistic Forensics Dr Helen Fraser, Consultant, Cognitive Phonetics ppt

• The Cool Crucible: Incriminating expert opinion evidence and the criminal trial Professor Gary Edmond, Director, Program on Expertise, Evidence & Law, Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies of Law, UNSW paper ppt

Chief Justice Wayne Martin

Mr Jack Rush QC

Professor Michael Coper

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Past EventsApril 2011

1 April ANU Centre for European Studies &Centre for International and Public Law SeminarNew Constitutional Review in France: How does the French Constitution finally speak to its people – or does it?Speaker: Dr Marie-Luce Paris-DobozyChair: Dr Matthew ZagorFurther details

7 AprilANU College of Law SeminarConceptualising the Interaction Between Tort and CrimeDr Matthew Dyson, University of CambridgeAbstract

15 AprilCIPL Public LectureUniversal Jurisdiction and the Suppression of Modern-day PiracyHis Excellency Kriangsak Kittichaisaree LLB LLM PhD, Thai Ambassador to AustraliaFurther details

March 2011

11 MarchCIPL Lunchtime SeminarITLOS CASE NO. 17: InternationalEnvironment Law in the Seabed Disputes Chamber Assoc Professor Don AntonFurther details

18 MarchFriday Lunchtime SeminarThe First Four Months of the FOI ReformsDr James Popple, Freedom of Information CommissionFurther details

29 MarchCIPL Public LectureAspects of the Work of the International Law CommissionSir Michael Wood, Member of UN International Law CommissionFCO Legal Advisor (1999–2006)AudioFurther details

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May 2011

Thomas Faunce, Gregor Urbas and Lesley SkillenImplementing US-style anti-fraud laws in the Australian pharmaceutical and health care industriesMJA 2 May 2011

April 2011

Donald Rothwell & Hitoshi NasuUN Security Council resolutions on Libya and the significance of ‘R2P’East Asia Forum8 April 2011

Matthew RimmerAustralia hoping to replace logos on cigarette packs with grisly images of cancer Associated Press, The Washington Post7 April 2011

March 2011

Kevin Boreham Libya and R2P: The limits of responsibilityEast Asian Forum31 March, 2011

Kevin BorehamUN Security Council’s Libya resolution is a fragile precedentThe Conversation 24 March 2011

Don RothwellLibya is not Iraq The Australian22 Mar 2011

February 2011

Matthew ZagorIs Australia serious about eradicating cluster munitions? The Canberra Times28 Feb 2011

Staff in the Media

Matthew RimmerAFACT v iiNet: Government called to action Computerworld24 Feb 2011

Andrew MacintoshMitigation measures undersold: study ANU News, Media Releases17 Feb 2011

Peter Cane and Jane StapletonA Goodhart, or two, for ANU ANU News, On CampusFeb 2011

Kevin BorehamEgypt, the US and Israel - US must do better On Line Opinion14 Feb 2011

Don AntonAnton’s Weekly Digest of International Law Scholarship 3 Feb 2011

Kevin BorehamThe United States has been too slow on Egypt On Line Opinion2 Feb 2011

Hilary CharlesworthFrom legal studies to crickets Julie Hare, Andrew Trounson, The Australian1 Feb 2011

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June

23 June Annual Kirby Lecture on International LawTo be presented by the Hon. Louise Arbour CC, GOQPresident & CEO International Crisis Group, Brussels, Belgium Venue: Finkel Theatre, The John Curtin School of Medical Research, ANUFurther details

23–25 June19th Annual ANZSIL ConferenceThe Promise and Limits of International LawUniversity House, The Australian National UniversityFurther details

27–29 JuneWorkshop: Connecting International and Public LawSecurity Institutions and International and Public Law

August

5 AugustCIPL Friday Lunch-time Seminar Ms Catherine Ordway, Consultant: Sport and Anti-dopingPhillipa Weeks Staff LibraryANU College of Law (Bldg 5) Fellows RoadThis event is free and open to the public.RSVP: rsvp@law.anu.edu.au by 3 AugustFurther details

14-19 AugustConference: Towards Global Artificial Photosynthesis: Energy, nanochemistry & governanceVenue: Lord Howe Island9:00am–5:00pmFurther details

To attend any of the College events, please contact rsvp@law.anu.edu.auT:6125 1096

Upcoming Events 2011

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Graduate coursework programs include an exciting range of study options for non-law and law graduates.

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ANU COLLEGE OF LAW

International Law This stream offers a wide variety of specialised courses, enabling students to concentrate, if they so wish, on particular aspects of public international law, such as for example human rights issues, use of force and international security, international trade or international protection of the environment.

Further enquiries:Generalpgadmin.law@anu.edu.au T: +61 2 6125 0510 http://law.anu.edu.au/Postgraduate/

JD ProgramJDadmin@law.anu.edu.au

Migration Law certmigration@law.anu.edu.au

Legal Workshoplwsa@law.anu.edu.au

The ANU College of Law offers Masters, Graduate Diploma, and Graduate Certificate programs with innovative and flexible teaching, based on world-class research. We have well-recognised expertise in most areas of law with special strengths in:

• Law, governance and development • Government and commercial law • Environmental law • International law • Legal practice • Migration law

Non-lawyers may also choose a more general program in Legal Studies or for lawyers a general LLM where a variety of courses can be selected.

ANU College of Law graduate programs are open to lawyers and non-lawyers (except Legal Practice), and may be studied on a full-time or part-time basis.

Law, Governance and DevelopmentThis new program is for development practitioners working in all aspects of law, governance and development in the Asia-Pacific as well as those working in a context of international institutions.

Government and Commercial LawIs a program that offers a wide range of courses in areas as diverse as Occupa-tional Health and Safety Law, Dispute Management, Comparative Constitu-tional Law, Law of Corporate Govern-ance, Media and Communications Law and Government Contracts.

Environmental LawIs offering new courses in Common-wealth Environmental Law, Australian Disaster Law and Environmental Pro-tection and Human Rights alongside established courses such as Interna-tional Climate Law and Marine and Coastal Law.

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