Vol5 August 2010



Volume 5 No.4 AUGUST 2010 In this issue: Dates to note Forthcoming events Recent past events Events & information of interest CIPL News & Associates' activities	Welcome Dear CIPL Associates Welcome to this fourth E Bulletin for 2010. With the Public law weekend (Friday afternoon 3rd September and Saturday morning 4th September) now just over 2 weeks away I do encourage you to register if you haven’t already! The final program has come together very well and it will be interesting to see if this move to a September date better suits you all! See the link below in “Dates to Note” For those unable to attend the Friday afternoon and Saturday morning please do consider coming to the Annual Geoffrey Sawer lecture to be presented by Ambassador Jeff Bleich on The US Courts and International Law. It has been a busy period since the last E Bulletin in June! Please do have a look below at the Recent Past Events section. The Annual ANZSIL conference was a great success, including the third Kirby lecture in International law delivered by Gareth Evans. Gareth Evans’ paper was filmed and you can go and view that in your own time if you missed it live! CIPL is also delighted that the second book in its Cambridge University Press series Connecting International law with Public law has now been published. Edited by Thomas Pogge, Matthew Rimmer and Kim Rubenstein, the volume Incentives for Global Public Health: Patent Law and Access to Essential Medicines contains chapters from both ANU CIPL colleagues and other contributors. The third volume in the series is currently in press and the fourth volume will result from the recent workshop Allegiance and Identity in a Globalised World which was held this past July. Looking forward to seeing you at future CIPL events, Kim Rubenstein Professor Kim Rubenstein Director Centre for International and Public Law ANU College of Law Australian National University Canberra ACT 0200 Phone: +61 2 6125 0455 Fax: +61 2 6125 0150 Kim.Rubenstein@anu.edu.au http://law.anu.edu.au/cipl If you wish to be removed from the mailing list, simply e-mail cipl@law.anu.edu.au stating 'un-subscribe' in the subject line. Congratulations to CIPL Colleagues Dr Heather Roberts and her husband Rado who welcomed into the world a baby boy, Julius Frederick Faletic on Saturday 19 June Moeen Cheema who has been selected to participate in the Harvard-Stanford International Junior Faculty Forum to be held on October 8-9. Moeen is one of only 10 participants who have been invited to attend after a fairly rigorous review of abstracts as well as full papers. The workshop is being headed by professors William P. Alford (Harvard) and Lawrence M. Friedman (Stanford) and promises a gruelling investigation of the paper Moeen presented at the first CIPL seminar this year.
Jeffrey Bleich	Dates to Note Friday 3 & Saturday 4 September 15th Annual Public Law Weekend Scarcity, sustainability & Public Law Register here Friday 3 September, 6-7pm Annual Geoffrey Sawer Lecture To be presented by Ambassador J Bleich, Embassy of the United States The US Courts and International Law Wednesday 29 September Book Launch – Federalism, Feminism and Multilevel Governance To be launched by Elizabeth Broderick, Sex Discrimination Commission and Commissioner responsible for Age Discrimination Click here for more information Top of Bulletin
Suresh Nanwani	Other Forthcoming Events The following are additional events beyond those listed above in the 'Dates to Note' section. For more details about each of the forthcoming events see: http://law.anu.edu.au/cipl/Events.asp 20 August Mr Suresh Nanwani, Lawyer, Principal Human Resource Specialist Asian Development Bank Multilateral Development Bank Accountability Mechanisms: Fixing Problem Projects 17 September Camille Goodman, Office of International Law, Attorney General's Department, Canberra New International Fisheries Instruments 1 October Ms Netta Goussac, Attorney General's Department, Canberra More information to follow 15 October Mr Spencer Zifcak, Allan Myers Professor of Law. Director, Institute of Legal Studies, Australian Catholic University United Nations Reform: Heading North or South? More information to follow 5 November Rowan McRae, Office of International Law, Attorney General's Department, Canberra Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in Australia More information to follow 19 November Mr Brendan Lim, Attorney General's Department, Canberra Attributes and Attribution of State Courts - Reviving the Kable Principle More information to follow Top of Bulletin
Annemarie Devereux	Recent Past Events To access recordings of past events, go to: http://law.anu.edu.au/cipl/events.asp CIPL Friday Lunchtime Seminar Series 2 July Mr Sanjiva de Silva, Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency Sanjiva de Silva and the legal team at Climate Change What Copenhagen might mean for the legal architecture of the global response to Climate Change. 16 July Dr Jeremy Farrall, Centre for International Governance and Justice, School of Regulation, Justice & Diplomacy, ANU Governance and Power-sharing in Cyprus: Facilitating Preliminary Peace Talks 6 August Annemarie Devereux, Office of International Law, Attorney General's Department, Canberra Of kings, armies and amnesties: Constitutional Change in the New Nepal Top of Bulletin
Copyright Conference Mr Gary Lewis	Other Past CIPL Events To access recordings of past events, go to: http://law.anu.edu.au/cipl/events.asp 21-21 June Copyright 2010 Conference Copyright 2010: A decade of Moral Rights and the Digital Agenda Program 24-26 June 18th Annual ANZSIL Conference International Law in the Second Decade of the 21st Century: Back to the Future or Business As Usual? Program 24 June Annual Kirby Lecture on International Law International Law at the Coalface: Three Decades of Learning by Doing presented by Professor the Hon Gareth Evans AO QC 17 August Roundtable discussion to be presented by Mr Gary Lewis, Regional Representative for East Asia & the Pacific, United Nations Office on Drugs & Crime Responding to Human Security Threats in East Asia and the Pacific Top of Bulletin
Hilary Charlesworth Michael Schmitt	Events & Information of Interest 18 August Law Reform & Social Justice Program – In Conversation with….Hilary Charlesworth 5-6pm, Law Theatre, ANU College of Law 25-26 August CONFERENCE Protecting Civilians During Violent Conflict Finkel Theatre, ANU 25 August PUBLIC LECTURE The Principle of Military Necessity in International Humanitarian Law Presented by Professor Michael Schmitt, University of Durham 6-7pm, Law Theatre, ANU College of Law 27 August ROUNDTABLE Round Table on Constitutional Patriotism and Identity ANU Centre for European Studies, 10am – 5.30pm 10-11 September SYMPOSIUM International Trade Law Symposium Old Parliament House Click here for more information 1-2 October CONFERENCE The Fifth National Indigenous Legal Legal Education: A Way Forward Top of Bulletin
Don Anton Michael Coper Fiona Wheeler	CIPL News & Associates' Activities The following is a snippet of recent news and work of some of our CIPL Associates: CIPL associates Kevin Boreham, Rebecca Monson, Anne MacDuff, Mark Nolan, Don Rothwell, Kim Rubenstein, Fanny Thornton, Jo-Ann Weisman, Asmi Wood and Matthew Zagor all presented papers at the CIPL workshop Allegiance and Identity in a Globalised World Don Anton Publications Donald K Anton (with Dinah Shelton), Environmental Protection and Human Rights (Cambridge Univ. Press, in press), pp 1-930. Donald K. Anton, Protecting Whales by Hue and Cry: Is There a Role for Non-State Actors in the Enforcement of International Law? (accepted for publication by the Journal of International Wildlife Law & Policy) Donald K. Anton, Dispute Concerning Japan's JARPA II Program of Scientific Whaling (Australia v Japan): A Backgrounder, Donald K. Anton, (Book Review) International Courts and Environmental Protection, (accepted for publication by the Australian Yearbook of International Law) Teaching United Nations Institute for Training and Environment, Diploma Course in International Environmental Law (June 2010) - ANU Copenhagen Competition Team as been selected as one of the eight finalists to travel to Copenhagen in October to engage in the negotiation of a mock Protocol on Access to Medicines Pro Bono Contributed to the preparation of a Statement of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, Commission on Environmental Law, Oceans Specialist Group in International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea Case No. 17: Responsibilities and Obligations of States Sponsoring Persons and Entities with Respect to Activities in the International Seabed Area, following a Request for Advisory Opinion Submitted to the Seabed Disputes Chamber by the Council of the International Seabed Authority Legal Opinion Contributions American Society of International Law Insight, Dispute Concerning Japan's JARPA II Program of Scientific Whaling (Australia v Japan) Lowy Institute Interpreter, Whaling in "Australian Territory" Lowy Institute Interpreter, Whaling: Prospects for ICJ Success Conferences Invited to present paper on Proceedings brought by Australia against Japan in the International Court of Justice, Monterey Institute of International Studies, October 2010 Michael Coper and Fiona Wheeler Presented a paper at the International Oral History Association biennial conference in Prague in July on their High Court oral history project. Matthew Rimmer Media Mig Caldwell, 'Digital Copyright', The Fourth Estate, Radio 2SR, 25 June 2010, Christian Barry and Matt Peterson, 'Matthew Rimmer on Intellectual Property and Clean Technologies', Public Ethics Radio, 23 June 2010, Damien Carrick, 'Moral Rights and Digital Rights for Creative Artists', The Law Report, ABC Radio National, 22 June 2010, '10 Years of Moral Rights and the Digital Agenda', 2CC, 21 June 2010. Louise Maher and Dan Craig, 'Digi-Laws', ABC 666, 21 June 2010. Kim Rubenstein Presented a paper at the Harvard - UNSW International Conference Citizenship in a Globalised World - Perspectives from the Immigrant Democracies in July on comparative constitutional citizenship. Presented a paper on the Trailblazing Women Lawyers oral history project she is developing with Dr Heather Roberts and the National Library of Australia, to the third Australian Women Lawyers conference in Brisbane in August. Top of Bulletin
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