Centre for International
and Public Law
2003
Seminars & Lectures
The
ACT Human Rights Bill
Current Issues Seminar
17 December 2003
Improving
Parliamentary Scrutiny of Legislation for Human Rights:
Parliamentary and Democratic Implications
Bryan Horrigan, University of Canberra
Public Law Seminar
19 November 2003
The
Relevance Of Rights: Refugees, International Humanitarian
Law and and Human Rights in Today's World
William Maley, Chair, Australian Red Cross ACT Division
Michel Gabaudan, regional representative, UNHCR
21 October 2003
International Law Seminar
Negotiating
the Free Trade Agreement: a US Perspective
Michael Delaney, US Embassy
21 October 2003
International Law Seminar
Slide
presentation
Birth
and Death in an age of Global Norms: Health aspects of a
Human Rights Act in the ACT
Thomas Faunce, Faculty of Law, ANU
15 October 2003
International Law/Public Law Seminar
Responsible
Government and the Australian Constitution - Conventions
transformed into Law?
Geoffrey Lindell
9 October 2003
Public Law Seminar
The
Australian Constitution and the deployment of military forces
in the Iraq War-on whose legal authority?
Geoffrey Lindell
7 October 2003
Public Lecture with National Institute of Social Sciences
& Law
New
Developments in
International Protection Outside the Scope of the Refugees
Convention
Ryszard Piotrowicz, University of Wales at Aberystwyth
22 September 2003
Background
material
The
Regulatory Failure of Human Rights
Michael Dowdle, Fellow, Regnet, RSSS, ANU
9 September 2003
The
challenge of sexuality discrimination -
how the UN and Australia are responding at a
global level
Rodney Croome AM
18 August 2003
Current
Challenges in the International Refugee Protection System
Michel Gabaudan, Regional Representative, UNHCR
12 August 2003
Australia's
Racial Vilification Laws Found Wanting?: The 'Nigger Brown'
Saga
Ernst Willheim, Visitor, Law Program, RSSS, ANU
5 August 2003
Treaty
Body Reform
Jane Connors, OHCHR, Geneva
30 July 2003
Bioprospecting
in Antarctica
Don Rothwell, University of Sydney and
Alan Hemmings, Senior Fellow, Gateway Antarctica Centre
for Antarctic Studies and Research, University of Canterbury
22 July 2003
'The
language of practical reality': Al-Masri and mandatory detention
in Australia
Matthew Zagor, Faculty of Law, ANU
8 July 2003
An
ACT Human Rights Act: Prospects
for Implementation
Hilary Charlesworth, Chair of the ACT Bill of Rights Consultative
Committee
Andrew Byrnes, CIPL, ANU
Daniel Stubbs, Director, ACT Council of Social Service (ACTCOSS)
Current Issues Forum
10 June 2003
Picking
Up the Pieces: The Iraq War and International Humanitarian
Law
Dr Helen Durham, Legal Adviser to the International Committee
of the Red Cross
Associate Professor Don Rothwell, Visiting Fellow, Law Program
RSSS, ANU
Professor Andrew Byrnes, CIPL, Faculty of Law, ANU
Professor Hilary Charlesworth, CIPL, Faculty of Law, ANU
Chair: Mr Michael Carrel, Chair, International Humanitarian
Law Committee of the Australian Red Cross (ACT Branch)
Current Issues Forum
28 May 2003
'The
United Nations Role in Promoting Human Rights'
Mr Jan Kavan, President of the UN General Assembly
Special Lecture
6 March 2003
Text
of the lecture
Judicial
Review, Privative Clauses and the High Court
Dr David Bennett AO QC paper
The Hon Duncan Kerr MP
Special seminar
13 March 2003
