ANU COLLEGE OF LAW - JFCALR Events

The John Fleming Centre for Advancement of Legal Research

PAST EVENTS 2008
7-8 February 2008	Research Workshop for Early to Mid Career Australian Criminal Law Scholars	Attendance by invitation only. This workshop, which is planned to be an annual event, provides an informal and supportive environment in which younger scholars can present their work and interact with other younger scholars. Senior scholars are invited to take part as mentors. The mentors at the 2008 workshop will be Professor Simon Bronitt (ANU), Professor Ngaire Naffine (Adelaide) and Professor Andrew Simester (Cambridge and Singapore). The 2009 workshop will focus on family law. Program

13 March 2008

Professor Jay Krishnan
William Mitchell College of Law
St Paul, Minnesota

The Alternative Dispute Quandary in India: A Legal Ethnography

3 June 2008	Professor David Partlett Dean, Emory Law School, Atlanta	The Globalization of Defamation
16 June 2008	Mr Ken Feinberg Washington DC Attorney Sydney	Public Lecture THE 9/11 VICTIM COMPENSATION FUND Private Pain and Public Compensation
20 June 2008	Mr Ken Feinberg Washington DC Attorney Canberra	Senate Occasional Lecture COMPENSATING VICTIMS OF DISASTERS The United States’ experience using administrative alternatives to litigation

4 July 2008

Professor Joachim Bonell, International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT)
Commentator: The Hon Justice Paul Finn, Federal Court of Australia

The UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts

30 July 2008

Lord Hoffmann
UK House of Lords

Public Lecture
Liberty and Terror paper

31 July 2008

Professor Hanoch Dagan
University of Tel Aviv

Political Money paper

6 August 2008	Professor Herbert Kritzer William Mitchell College of Law & Professor Deborah Hensler, Stanford	Workshop: Lawyer Fee Regimes in Multiple Worlds of Litigation For more info contact Yee-Fui Ng: ngy@law.anu.edu.au
12 August 2008	Professor Jack Greenberg Columbia University	Public Lecture: Tackling Discrimination: The Roma of Eastern Europe
20 August 2008	Judge Mary Schroeder 9th Circuit US Court of Appeals	Public Lecture: Perilous Shoals: Race, Religion & Natural Resources: Lessons from the American Struggle to Maintain Judicial Independence Audio link MP3 link
11 December 2008	Public Lecture: Modernising Reproduction by Baroness Ruth Deech AUDIO	This year sees the 30th anniversary of the birth of the world's first IVF baby, Louise Brown. The techniques of IVF have grown to emcompass fertility in old age, saviour siblings, elimination of inherited disease and now saving lives through stem cell therapy. Ruth Deech will look at the ethical concerns, recent developments in the science and how the law has regulated and kept up with them
17-19 December 2008	Colloquium: The Hart-Fuller Debate 50 Years On (Invitation Only Event)	This international conference will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the publication of the famous debate between Herbert Hart and Lon Fuller in the Harvard Law Review in 1958. Details will be made available later in the year.

PAST EVENTS 2007

Tuesday, 3 April

Professor Julia Black,
Department of Law, LSE

Professor Julia Black was in Australia as a Visiting Professor at the Discipline of Business Law, Faculty of Economics and Business, The University of Sydney.

She gave a seminar at the ANU College of Law, cobadged with JFCALR and the ANU College of Law.

Contesting Accountability and Legitimacy in Non-State Regulatory Regimes

Wednesday, 11 April

Launch of JFCALR - On Campus, May 2007

The Centre was launched by the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Ian Chubb, on Wednesday 11 April 2007 in the Staff Library of the ANU College of Law in the presence of about 50 people. The event was reported in the 4 May 2007 edition of On Campus (see above).

* Monday, 16 July

Professor Chris Kutz

jointly sponsored by Social and Political Theory, RSSS

Epistemethics: Goodness and Rightness

Wednesday, 1 August

Professor Michael Jones

co-badged with ANU College of Law

The Illegality Defence in Tort

Monday, 20 August

Professor Brian Leiter (Texas)

jointly sponsored by JFCALR and Social and Political Theory, RSSS

Explaining Theoretical Disagreement: Positivism and the Grounds of Law