Vol5 October 2010



Volume 5 No.5 OCTOBER 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 fifth and final E Bulletin for 2010. As we begin to prepare the annual newsletter for CIPL, this E Bulletin will concentrate on forthcoming events and share some pieces of news. A fuller account of our colleagues’ activities will be presented in that annual newsletter due out late November, early December, which we will also send out as a link via email. Since our last E Bulletin we have had many seminars and events and in particular I’d like to report how delighted we were with both the Annual Geoff Sawer lecture by the US Ambassador to Australia, Jeff Bleich, and the Public law weekend. Ambassador Bleich’s paper and also a video of the presentation are both available in the Past Events section at http://law.anu.edu.au/cipl/events.asp. The papers, presentations and audio recordings from the recent Public Law Weekend are also now available online. Can I also draw to your attention two events for 2011? First, our fifth CIPL workshop will be held in the first week of July 2011. Next year’s workshop will look at Security Institutions and International and Public law following the same format as the first 4 workshops of individuals submitting abstracts for consideration, and a small group of no more than 30 participating in a 2–3 day workshop examining each others papers, resulting in a book in the CIPL Cambridge University Press series. Please visit http://law.anu.edu.au/cipl/2011_Workshop/Call_for_Papers.pdf for further details about the call for papers. We have also determined that the 16th Annual Public law weekend will be held on Friday 9 September and Saturday 10 September 2011. The theme for the Friday session will be “10 years on from September 11 – lessons for public law”. Please visit this web-site for further information about it and please do pencil the dates in your diary now! Best wishes, Kim 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. October Dates to Note 15 October, 1–2 CIPL FRIDAY LUNCHTIME SEMINAR SERIES Mr Spencer Zifcak Allan Myers Professor of Law Director, Institute of Legal Studies, Australian Catholic University United Nations Reform: Heading North or South? Tuesday, 26 October, 6-7pm PUBLIC LECTURE The Role of the Law in the International Response to HIV and AIDS Presented by Mr David Patterson, Director of the Health Law Program with the International Development Law Organization More Information Top of Bulletin 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 CIPL FRIDAY LUNCHTIME SEMINAR SERIES, 1-2pm 5 November Rowan McRae Office of International Law, Attorney General's Department, Canberra Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in Australia 19 November Mr Brendan Lim, Attorney General's Department, Canberra Attributes and Attribution of State Courts - Reviving the Kable Principle More information to follow CALL FOR PAPERS: First week of July 2011 Fifth CIPL workshop linking international and public law: Security Institutions and International and Public Law Call for Papers/Abstracts – Abstracts due by March 4, 2011 9-10 September 2011 16th Annual Public Law Weekend - 10 years on from September 11: the impact on Public Law Call for Papers Top of Bulletin Recent Past Events To access recordings of past events, go to: http://law.anu.edu.au/cipl/events.asp CIPL FRIDAY LUNCHTIME SEMINAR SERIES 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 New war crimes in the Rome Statute: matters for consideration in a future trial Top of Bulletin Other Past CIPL Events To access proceedings of past events, go to: http://law.anu.edu.au/cipl/events.asp 3 September Annual Geoffrey Sawer Lecture To be presented by Ambassador J Bleich, Embassy of the United States The US Courts and International Law 3–4 September 15th Annual Public Law Weekend Scarcity, sustainability & Public Law 29 September Book Launch – Federalism, Feminism and Multilevel Governance To be launched by Elizabeth Broderick, Sex Discrimination Commission and Commissioner responsible for Age Discrimination Top of Bulletin Events & Information of Interest Thursday 21 October, 5.30 for 6pm ACT Legislative Assembly WILPF and UNIFEM invite you to join in celebrating the tenth anniversary of the landmark UN Resolution 1325 which affirmed for the first time the importance of women's role in peace and security: their right to protection in armed conflict and to equal participation in every aspect of the peace process: peace keeping, peace building and post-conflict reconciliation. Saturday 6 November, 6-8pm 24th Lionel Murphy Memorial Lecture A 21st Century Approach to Mental Health Finkel Theatre, John Curtin School of Medical Research, ANU To be presented by Professor Patrick McGorry AO 9 & 10 December SYMPOSIUM - 2007 Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People - Indigenous Survival: where to from here? University of South Australia Adelaide Top of Bulletin CIPL News & Associates' Activities More news from the past 2 months from our colleagues will appear in our November/December Annual Newsletter but for a taste of some of the things that have happened over the last 2 months: Tom Faunce and Dominique Dalla-Pozza's opinion piece, Move legislative constraints on senator numbers (Canberra Times, 15 September 2010) CIPL member and ANU College of Law Dean Michael Coper's opinion piece, The role of the governor-general in times of political crisis (Canberra Times, 25 August 2010) Professor Kim Rubenstein is one of five academics named as amicus in a Brief amici curiae of "Scholars on Statelessness" filed on June 24 2010 in the US Supreme Court in the matter Ruben Flores-Villar, Petitioner v. United States. The issue in the case is whether the US Supreme Court’s decision in Nguyen v. Immigration and Naturalization Service (2001) permits gender discrimination (regarding the passing on of citizenship to children) that has no biological basis? All public documents about the case are available at this link. The case will be argued in the US Supreme Court on the morning of November 10, 2010 Top of Bulletin 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.

As we begin to prepare the annual newsletter for CIPL, this E Bulletin will concentrate on forthcoming events and share some pieces of news. A fuller account of our colleagues’ activities will be presented in that annual newsletter due out late November, early December, which we will also send out as a link via email.

Since our last E Bulletin we have had many seminars and events and in particular I’d like to report how delighted we were with both the Annual Geoff Sawer lecture by the US Ambassador to Australia, Jeff Bleich, and the Public law weekend. Ambassador Bleich’s paper and also a video of the presentation are both available in the Past Events section at http://law.anu.edu.au/cipl/events.asp. The papers, presentations and audio recordings from the recent Public Law Weekend are also now available online.

First, our fifth CIPL workshop will be held in the first week of July 2011. Next year’s workshop will look at Security Institutions and International and Public law following the same format as the first 4 workshops of individuals submitting abstracts for consideration, and a small group of no more than 30 participating in a 2–3 day workshop examining each others papers, resulting in a book in the CIPL Cambridge University Press series. Please visit http://law.anu.edu.au/cipl/2011_Workshop/Call_for_Papers.pdf for further details about the call for papers.

We have also determined that the 16th Annual Public law weekend will be held on Friday 9 September and Saturday 10 September 2011. The theme for the Friday session will be “10 years on from September 11 – lessons for public law”. Please visit this web-site for further information about it and please do pencil the dates in your diary now!

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.

October Dates to Note

15 October, 1–2
CIPL FRIDAY LUNCHTIME SEMINAR SERIES
Mr Spencer Zifcak
Allan Myers Professor of Law
Director, Institute of Legal Studies, Australian Catholic University
United Nations Reform: Heading North or South?

Tuesday, 26 October, 6-7pm
PUBLIC LECTURE
The Role of the Law in the International Response to HIV and AIDS
Presented by Mr David Patterson, Director of the Health Law Program with the International Development Law Organization
More Information

Top of Bulletin

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

19 November
Mr Brendan Lim, Attorney General's Department, Canberra
Attributes and Attribution of State Courts - Reviving the Kable Principle
More information to follow

CALL FOR PAPERS:
First week of July 2011
Fifth CIPL workshop linking international and public law: Security Institutions and International and Public Law
Call for Papers/Abstracts – Abstracts due by March 4, 2011

9-10 September 2011
16th Annual Public Law Weekend - 10 years on from September 11: the impact on Public Law
Call for Papers

3 September
Annual Geoffrey Sawer Lecture
To be presented by Ambassador J Bleich, Embassy of the United States
The US Courts and International Law

29 September
Book Launch – Federalism, Feminism and Multilevel Governance
To be launched by Elizabeth Broderick, Sex Discrimination Commission and Commissioner responsible for Age Discrimination

Thursday 21 October, 5.30 for 6pm
ACT Legislative Assembly
WILPF and UNIFEM invite you to join in celebrating the tenth anniversary of the landmark UN Resolution 1325 which affirmed for the first time the importance of women's role in peace and security: their right to protection in armed conflict and to equal participation in every aspect of the peace process: peace keeping, peace building and post-conflict reconciliation.

Saturday 6 November, 6-8pm
24th Lionel Murphy Memorial Lecture
A 21st Century Approach to Mental Health
Finkel Theatre, John Curtin School of Medical Research, ANU
To be presented by Professor Patrick McGorry AO

More news from the past 2 months from our colleagues will appear in our November/December Annual Newsletter but for a taste of some of the things that have happened over the last 2 months:

Professor Kim Rubenstein is one of five academics named as amicus in a Brief amici curiae of "Scholars on Statelessness" filed on June 24 2010 in the US Supreme Court in the matter Ruben Flores-Villar, Petitioner v. United States. The issue in the case is whether the US Supreme Court’s decision in Nguyen v. Immigration and Naturalization Service (2001) permits gender discrimination (regarding the passing on of citizenship to children) that has no biological basis?
All public documents about the case are available at this link.
The case will be argued in the US Supreme Court on the morning of November 10, 2010

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.