Vol6 May 2011


Volume 6 No. 2: May 2011 In this issue: Dates to note Forthcoming events Recent past events Events & information of interest CIPL News & Associates' activities	Welcome Dear CIPL Friends Welcome to the 2nd E Bulletin for 2011! In this bulletin you will find a range of forthcoming and past events, so you can plan ahead and also go back and listen to past events you may have missed that are available to listen or watch online. Can I also highlight our two major events with their respective named lectures? • The ANZSIL conference is fast approaching and the early bird registration rate closes on 27 May. Click here for information about the Program and how to register. CIPL's public event, the Annual Kirby Lecture in International law will be delivered on the first night of ANZSIL and you all are welcome. We are looking forward to hearing Louise Arbour’s presentation. • The program for the Public law weekend on Friday 9th and Saturday 10th September is now out and we encourage you to look at the wonderful range of titles on the Program, together with this year’s Annual Geoffrey Sawer lecture to be delivered by Her Honour, the Chief Justice of the Canadian Supreme Court, Beverley McLachlin. Please be sure to put these dates in your diaries now so that you can attend! I am also looking forward to our fifth CIPL workshop linking public and international lawyers. This year’s theme is around Security Institutions in Public and International law and complements well the earlier workshops that are all either now books in the CIPL, CUP Series, or in press for the series. You will see in other events below, the students in the 2011 Course on International Environmental Law at ANU have organised a symposium: Towards Rio+ 20: Contemporary Issues in International Environmental Law. CIPL is also supporting this event. It is on Saturday 28 May, 8.30-5.30pm in the Law Link Theatre, ANU College of Law. Click here for more information. Finally, you’ll see a snippet of work being done by some of the members of CIPL – the full list appears each year in our Newsletter! Looking forward to seeing or hearing from you! Kim Rubenstein Professor Kim Rubenstein Director Centre for International and Public Law ANU College of Law Convenor ANU Gender Institute 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 http://genderinstitute.anu.edu.au 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.
	2011 Dates to Note Friday 20 May (today) Mr Roger Wilkins AO, Secretary, Attorney General's Department and member of the Administrative Review Council Judicial Review in Australia: the Administrative Review Council’s Inquiry Tuesday 24 May ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION Human Rights Protections - What does Australia Need? Panel Members: Navanethem (Navi) Pillay, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Dr Helen Watchirs, ACT Human Rights & Discrimination Commissioner Professor Tom Campbell, Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, ANU Thursday 23 June Finkel Theatre, John Curtin School of Medical Research, ANU Annual Kirby Lecture on International Law To be presented by Hon Louise Arbour CC, GOQ, President and CEO International Crisis Group, Brussels, Belgium Thursday 23 June-Saturday 25 June 19th Annual ANZSIL Conference The Promise and Limits of International Law University House, The Australian National University, Canberra Monday 27 June-Wednesday 29 June Workshop -Connecting International and Public Law Security, Institutions and International and Publice Law ANU Centre for European Studies Friday 9-Saturday 10 September 16th Annual Public Law Weekend 10 years on from September 11 2001: the Impact on Public Law Draft Program 9 September Finkel Theatre, John Curtin School of Medical Research, ANU Fourteenth Annual Geoffrey Sawer Lecture Anti-Terrorism, the Judiciary and the Rule of Law To be presented by The Right Hon Madam Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin, PC, Canadian Chief Justice More information about these exciting events will be made available soon on http://law.anu.edu.au/cipl/Events.asp Top of Bulletin


	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 CIPL FRIDAY LUNCHTIME SEMINAR SERIES, 1-2pm Staff Library, ANU College of Law 5 August Ms Catherine Ordway, Sport & Anti-Doping Consultant Prosecuting Drug Cheats in the Court of Arbitration for Sport: Insight into the International anti-doping framework 19 August Simon Matthews, General Counsel and Nick Westerink, Assistant Commissioner Legal Service, Australian Taxation Office Running a Large Commonwealth Legal Services Team - the Challenges and the Pitfalls 2 September Nicholas Duff, The Australian National University Reconciling the international law on self-determination with the constructed nature of "peoples" 16 September Glen Patmore, Senior Lecturer in Law, The University of Melbourne Constitutional Change and Australian Republicanism 7 October Fiona David, Visiting Fellow, ANU College of Law An Australian's Experience in Vienna: Drafting the UNODC Model Law on Smuggling of Migrants Top of Bulletin


	Events & Information of Interest Symposium: Towards Rio+ 20: Contemporary Issues in International Environmental Law 28 May, 8.30-5.30pm Law Link Theatre, ANU College of Law This symposium is organised by Students in the 2011 Course on International Environmental Law Conference: Towards Global Artificial Photosynthese - Energy, Nanochemistry & Governance 14-18 August Lord Howe Island The conference will showcase the research of some of the world's leading experts in artificial photosynthesis, nanotechnology and global governance Public Consultation about Indigenous Australians in our nation's Constitution 25 May 2011 12noon – 2pm Hawk Theatre Narrabundah College Jerrabomberra Avenue, Narrabundah The Australian Government, as part of its commitment to pursuing constitutional recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, appointed an Expert Panel, Co-Chaired by Professor Patrick Dodson and Mr Mark Leibler AC. The Expert Panel is tasked with leading a broad national consultation program to seek views from across the Australian community and are also seeking to meet with prominent Australians and organisations across Australia. The Panel is hoping to hear people’s thoughts on the consultation approach and how you might use your networks to encourage people to join this important national conversation. Mr Mark Leibler and other Panel members will be in Canberra on 25 May 2011 and would like to invite you to a public consultation at RSVP by COB 23 May as a guide for catering purposes, on ph (02) 6219 7745 or by email rebecca.thomas@fahcsia.gov.au Top of Bulletin Recent Past Events To access recordings of past events, go to: http://law.anu.edu.au/cipl/events.asp PUBLIC LECTURE 29 March Aspects of the Work of the International Law Commission Sir Michael Wood, Member of UN International Law Commission FCO Legal Advisor (1999-2006) PUBLIC LECTURE 14 April Law Theatre, ANU College of Law His Excellency Kriangsak Kittichaisaree Thai Ambassador to Australia Universal Jurisdiction and the Suppression of Modern-day Piracy Top of Bulletin
	Other Past CIPL Events To access recordings of past events, go to: http://law.anu.edu.au/cipl/events.asp CIPL FRIDAY LUNCHTIME SEMINAR SERIES, 1-2pm Staff Library, ANU College of Law 11March ITLOS CASE NO.17:International Environment Law in the Seabed Disputes Chamber Presented by Assoc Prof Don Anton, ANU College of Law 18 March The First Four Months of the FOI Reforms James Popple, Freedom of Information Commissioner, Office of the Australian Information Commissioner 1 April New Constitutional Review in France: How Does the French Constitution Finally Soeak to its People - or Does it? Dr Marie-Luce Paris-Dobozy 6 May The Battle over Interpretive Power: States and Tribunals in the Investment Treaty System Ms Anthea Roberts, Lecturer in Law, London School of Economics, Visiting Fellow, ANU College of Law Top of Bulletin




	CIPL News & Associates' Activities The following is a snippet of recent news and work of some of our CIPL Associates: DON ANTON Has been elected to a three year term as the Co-Chair of the International Environmental Law Interest Group of the American Society of International Law Publication Case Concerning Pulp Mills on the River Uruguay (Argentina v. Uruguay) (Judgment) [2010] ICJ Rep (20 April 2010), 17 Australian International Law Journal 213 (2011) MICHAEL COPER Elected Vice President of the International Association of Law Schools (IALS) at a meeting of the IALS in Buenos Aires in April. Reappointed by the Attorney-General as a member of the International Legal Services Advisory Council (ILSAC) SARAH HEATHCOTE Publications “Article 42: Validity and Continuation in Force of Treaties”, O. Corten & P. Klein (eds.), The Vienna Conventions on the Law of Treaties: A Commentary, 2nd ed., Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2011, p. 1015-1030, (second author; Marcelo G. Kohen, principal author) “Article 45: Loss of a Right to Invoke a Ground for Invalidity, Terminating or Withdrawing from or Suspending the Operation of a Treaty”, O. Corten & P. Klein (eds.), The Vienna Conventions on the Law of Treaties: A Commentary, 2nd ed., Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2011, p. 1064-1089, (second author; Marcelo G. Kohen, principal author) Seminar “Legal Curiosities in the Central and Southwest Pacific”, Centre de droit international, Université libre de Bruxelles (Belgium), 7 April 2011. KIM RUBENSTEIN Presented a paper on ‘Citizenship and Constitutions’ to the Centre for Constitutional Democracy at the University of Indiana on 3 March 2011 and a paper on ‘Feminism and Australian Constitutional law’ at a conference on Constitutionalism and Difference for the first Pan Asian Seminar, a joint initiative of the ANU and Indiana University, on 4-5 March 2011 at the University of Indiana in Bloomington Indiana Chaired the Launch of the ANU Gender Institute on 10 March 2011 Presented a paper with Louise Chappell and Deborah Brennan on “Australian Intergovernmental Relations: A Gender And Change Perspective” in a workshop on Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations 24-25 March at the Gilbert and Tobin Centre, UNSW Keynote speaker at the YWCA World Breakfast at Old Parliament House, Friday 29th April 2011 Speaker at ANU Holocaust Remembrance Service, Tuesday 3rd May 2011 Panellist at Forum “Tackling Intolerance”, Tuesday 17th May 2011, Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture, Barton MATTHEW ZAGOR Seminar 'The Cluster Munitions Convention and the Principle of Humanity: interpreting the interoperability clause' (4 May 2011, Cluster Bombs, Human Rights and the Australian Legislation, at ANU Centre for European Studies) Media 'Is Australia Serious about Eradicating Cluster Munitions?' (28 Feb 2011, The Canberra Times) Quoted in Dan Oakes, 'Rudd Condemned: Cluster Bombs', Sydney Morning Herald, 4 May 2011 Top of Bulletin






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