ANU COLLEGE OF LAW

Centre for International and Public Law

The Centre for International and Public Law (CIPL) is part of the ANU College of Law at The Australian National University. It was established in 1990 with an objective to focus and develop its areas of expertise on the relationship between governments, and between governments and their citizens, from both a domestic and international perspective.

The Director of the Centre is Professor Kim Rubenstein, following a distinguished record of eminent past Directors. The Centre's Advisory Board comprises members of the judiciary, the university and senior government officials.

Activities

CIPL's activities include convening two major conferences each year - the Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law Annual Conference and the Public Law Weekend as well as other specialised conferences, seminars and workshops.

It also convenes an annual lecture in honour of Geoffrey Sawer whose academic interests spanned the work of the Centre and who was the first full-time Professor of Law at the ANU. CIPL organises intensive teaching programs for both government and non-government organisations in human rights law and other areas of international and public law.

Publications

CIPL has published a number of books in the past, which are available for sale. Currently, it publishes the Australian Year Book of International Law and the Law and Policy Papers series through Federation Press.

Cambridge University Press will publish in 2009 the first book in a 5 Volume CIPL Series Connecting International Law with Public Law edited by Professor Kim Rubenstein and Professor Thomas Pogge. The first volume is edited by Kim Rubenstein and Jeremy Farrall: Sanctions Accountability and Governance in a Globalised World. The second volume, currently in press is on Access to Medicines and will be edited by Thomas Pogge,Matthew Rimmer and Kim Rubenstein. The third volume will evolve through the third workshop on Environmental Discourses to be help later this year.

Members

CIPL offers a base for Visiting Fellows, postgraduate students and all public and international law teachers in the College. Academic members undertake research projects, teach in the ANU College of Law and play active roles on government committees, in community organisations, and in the media.

Are you a law student? Interested in student internship opportunities with CIPL? More details

November 2009 Newsletter now available
CIPL E-Bulletin October 2009 now available

DATES TO NOTE:

25 November 2009 - CIPL Public Seminar
FROM THE UNITED NATIONS UNIVERSAL PERIODIC REVIEW TO AN ASIA PACIFIC HUMAN RIGHTS INSTITUTION
Presented by Mr David Matas, Faculty of Law, University of Manitoba, Canada
Details

2010 CIPL Workshop Connecting International Law with Public Law - Allegiance and Identity in a Globalised World

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

This fourth workshop focuses on the impact of the movement of people on the concepts of allegiance and identity within a globalised world and its impact on law and policy at the domestic and international levels. The intention of the workshop is to explore how law, philosophy, psychology and other disciplines engage with the concepts of allegiance and identity so that the engagement can enrich public and internationa law's frameworks for categorising membership, in the context of the large-scale movement of people throught the globe.
Proposed dates for Workshop: Monday 19th July through Wednesday 21 July 2010
Click here for futher details about the Call for Abstracts and Submission deadlines

NEWS:

CIPL Director, Professor Kim Rubenstein's submission to the Inquiry into the Australian Citizenship Amendment (Citizenship Test Review and Other Measures) Bill 2009 of the Senate Legal and Constitutional Committee has been cited in its final report.

June 2009: The Attorney-General of the Commonwealth Mr Robert McClelland announced the appointment to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT), on a full-time basis, of our esteemed colleague Professor Robin Creyke.

Hitoshi Nasu and Professor Donald Rothwell were recent special guest columnists with Jurist Legal News & Research, University of Pittsburg, School of law, providing commentary at a recent Forum on Law at Sea: Challenges Facing Japan's Anti-piracy Mission

RECENT EVENTS

Public Law Week-end
Thursday, 12 & Friday, 13 November
Program

Annual Geoffrey Sawer Lecture
12 November
Professor Hugh Corder, University of Cape Town
DRAFT PAPER

The Socratic Forum Consilium per disputatio
'That Australia should have an entrenched Bill of Rights?'
Friday 13 November
Details

CIPL Seminar Series
Friday 30 October 2009
The Last Scramble: The 2009 Explosion of Continental Shelf Claims
Professor Stuart Kaye, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne
Audio Link MP3

CIPL Public Seminar
Thursday 22 October 2009
The Grammar of Customary Law
Professor Jeremy Webber, University of Victoria, Canada
Audio Link MP3

Public Seminar
Friday 16 October 2009
The Regulation of Dangerous People Under International & Domestic Law
Speakers: Fergus Hanson, Research Fellow, Lowy Institute & Deputy Editor, The Interpreter and
Christopher Michaelson, Research Fellow, Gilbert & Tobin Centre of Public Law, UNSW
Audio Link MP3

CIPL Seminar Series
Friday 18 September 2009
"Iran's Nuclear Ambitions and International Law"
Dr Michael Smith AM, Henry Parkes Chambers
Audio Link

CIPL Public Lecture
Thursday 17 September 2009
Counter-Piracy Off Somalia: The Emerging Legal Framework
Dr Douglas Guilfoyle, Faculty of Law, University College of London

CIPL Public Lecture
Monday 7 September 2009
Cambodia and Human Rights: Memories of a Former Special Representative
Mr Micheal Kirby, Former Justice of the High Court of Australia, Distinguished Visiting Fellow ANU College of Law
Audio Link MP3

Symposium
Friday 21 August 2009
"Global Health: Beyond the Millennium Development Goals"
Professor Lawrence Gostin, Georgetown University
Professor Thomas Pogge, Centre for Applied Philosophy & Public Ethics, The Australian National University
Dr Matthew Rimmer, ANU College of Law
Associate Professor Thomas Faunce, ANU College of Law
Audio Link MP3

CIPL Seminar Series
Friday 21 August 2009
"Justice for Timor-Leste: the 10th Anniversary of the Independence Ballot"
Dr Susan Harris-Rimmer, ANU RegNet & Janelle Saffin MP, Federal Member for Page
Seminar Paper, RDI Chart, TL Chart Audio Link MP3

2009 CIPL-ACEL Workshop: Connecting International and Public Law: Environmental discourses in international and public law
Workshop for Paper presenters 13-15 August 2009

CIPL Public Lecture
Sustainable Development and the Promise of Integration
Assistant Professor Jaye Ellis
11 August 2009
Audio Link MP3 Link

CIPL Seminar Series
The Responsibility to Protect
Mr Kevin Boreham
7 August 2009
Presentation

CIPL Seminar Series
Joint Development of Arctic Ocean Oil and Gas Resources and the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
John Abrahamson
31 July 2009
Presentation Audio Link MP3 Link

2009 ANZSIL Conference
Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
2-4 July 2009
Details

CIPL Public Lecture
The Role and Activity of the Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation in the UK
Lord Alex Carlile of Berriew QC
16 June 2009
Audio Link MP3 Link

Public Seminar
Genocide & the World Court
Professor Karine Bannelier
29 May 2009
Audio Link MP3 Link

Public Lecture
International Law & Citizenship
Professor Peter Spiro
19 May 2009
Audio Link MP3

Public Seminar
The Security Council and the Rule of Law:
Breaches of Constitutional Law as a Threat to the Peace under Article 39 of the UN Charter?
Professor Theodore Christakis
15 May 2009
Audio Link MP3 Link

Public Forum
The SIEV 36 Incident: The Legal Issues and Policy Responses
Mr Kerry Murphy, Mr Beat Schuler, Dr Gregor Urbas, Dr Robin Warner
7 May 2009

Public Lecture
Inglis Clark and the First Sentences of Chaper III of the Australian Constitution and Article III of the American Constitution
Professor William Buss
6 May 2009
Audio Link

Public Seminar
Operationalising the ‘Responsibility to Protect’ and Conflict Prevention:
Dilemmas of Civilian Protection in Armed Conflict
Hitoshi Nasu
1 May 2009
Audio Link MP3 Link

Public Seminar
State Responsibility & Financial Crises
Dr Sarah Heathcote
17 April 2009

Public Seminar
Ocean Acidification: An Acid Test for International Law
Dr Tim Stephens
3 April 2009
Audio Link MP3 Link

Annual Kirby Lecture on International Law: 19 March 09
Swimming to Cambodia: Justice & ritural in human rights after conflict by Prof Hilary Charlesworth Audio Link MP3 Link

Public Presentation
60th Anniversary of the Genocide Convention
Dr John Docker and Mr Robert Handby
24 November 2008
Audio Link MP3 Link

Public Seminar
Making People Illegal What Globalization Means for Migration and Law
Dr Catherine Dauvergne (University of British Columbia)
21 November 2008 Audio Link MP3 Link

Dr Catherine Dauvergne & Professor Kim Rubenstein

Public Lecture
Why habeas corpus should be a jus cogens norm in international law
Professor Larry May (Washington University)
13 November 2008 Audio Link MP3 Link

Professors Larry May & Kim Rubenstein

Public Seminar
Disintegration Through Law? On the Decomposition of Citizenship in Europe
Prof Alexander Graser (Hertie School of Governance, Germany)
7 November 2008 Audio Link MP3 Link Presentation

Past Events for 2008
Past Events for 2007