2005
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
The Thirteenth
Annual Conference
International
Institutions in a Uni-Polar World (program)
16 - 18 June 2005
University House
The Australian National University, Canberra
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as they were received. No process of editing or correction has been undertaken.
Copyright in all papers resides with the respective authors.
PANEL
1 – PLENARY
THE UNITED NATIONS REFORM AGENDA
PANEL 2A: INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC INSTITUTIONS
Mr Ravi Kewalram, Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Uni, Bi or Multi-Polarity?
An analysis of the relationship between economic power and outcomes in selected
WTO disputes
PANEL 2B: HUMAN RIGHTS AT THE UNITED NATIONS
PANEL 3A: THE BOUNDARIES OF MULTILATERAL INSTITUTIONS
PANEL 3B: REGIONAL INSTITUTIONS
PANEL 4A: TERRORISM AND INTERNATIONAL CRIMES
Dr Ben Saul, University of New South Wales
Beyond Definition of Terrorism:
Justifying, Excusing and Defending Terrorist Crimes
Ms Claire Macken, Deakin University
Terrorism as a State
of Emergency in International Law
PANEL 4B: PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW
Mr James Stellios, The Australian National University
The Constitutionalisation
of Intra-national Choice of Law
Citation: "Choice
of Law and the Australian Constitution: Locating the Debate"
(2005) 33 Federal Law Review, 7
Emeritus Professor Jim Davis, The Australian National University
The Exclusion of Foreign
Public Laws
PANEL 5A: INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW
Dr Mark Thompson, Australian Strategic
Policy Institute
Policy Challenges for Australia
in the Use of Contractors in Support of Military Operations
PANEL 5B: THE INTERNATIONAL AND DOMESTIC LAW INTERFACE
Ms Camille Goodman, Attorney-General’s Department
Acta
Sunt Servanda? A Regime for Unilateral Acts of States at International Law
PANEL 6A: LAW OF THE SEA
Mr Andrew Serdy, Australian Department of Foreign Affairs
and Trade
Australia’s November 2004 Submission
to the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf
Citation: "Towards
Certainty of Seabed Jurisdiction: Australia's Submission to the Commission on
the Limits of the Continental Shelf", (2005) 36 Ocean Development and
International Law, 201-217
PANEL 6B: ARMS CONTROL/DISARMAMENT
Mr Christopher Hubbard, Curtin University of Technology
The Advisory Opinion
of the ICJ on the Legality of the Threat of Use of Nuclear Weapons
PANEL 7: THE YEAR OF INTERNATIONAL LAW IN REVIEW
PANEL 8A: INTERNATIONAL ADJUDICATION
Ms Alice Edwards, The Australian National University
Aydin
v Turkey, Akayesu and Abu Ghraib: Re-conceptualising torture in international
law
PANEL 8B: DISPLACED PERSONS AND REFUGEES
Ms Gabrielle Simm
Globalisation,
Migration and Refugee Law: Towards a progressive critique of human rights
Dr Jane McAdam, University of Sydney
‘Complementary
Protection’ or 'Subsidiary Protection’? The Convergence of International
Refugee and Human Rights Law
The Hon Justice Anthony North, Federal Court of Australia
Towards Convergence in
the Interpretation of the Refugees Convention – A proposal for the establishment
of an International Refugee Court
PANEL 9: “THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK”