Vol6 No 4 October 2011


Volume 6 No. 4: October 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 4th CIPL E Bulletin for 2011! It is hard to believe today is the last day of October and we are into the last few months of 2011! CIPL has had a very busy time since the last E Bulletin in August, including our successful Annual Public law weekend in September, and the excellent presentation by The Right Hon Madam Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin, PC, Canadian Chief Justice, of the Annual Sawer lecture. Links to some of the PLW presentations are set out below and a video of the Sawer lecture is also available. I do hope you can benefit from them if you weren’t able to attend in person. Our Friday CIPL lunchtime seminar series for the year is now complete and I thank all presenters for their great contributions. Most of the presentations are now available for access on our website as audio files. Our additional public seminars continue with one each in November and December as set out below, and I hope to see you at them. In the meantime we are preparing our annual newsletter to send out electronically before the close of the year. Below you will see a snippet of some of the great work our colleagues are doing, that will be included in full in our newsletter. Best wishes, 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 Wednesday 2 November United Nations Day Fundraising Dinner ‘Australia’s unique perspective at the United Nations’ 6.30pm for 7pm Start, Kurrajong Hotel, Barton Top of Bulletin
Professor Wladyslaw Czaplinksi	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 Thursday, 10 November Public Seminar 5.30-6.30pm Sparke Helmore Theatre 1, ANU College of Law Professor Wladyslaw Czaplinski, Institute of Legal Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences The UN Security Council, NATO, the European Union, the ICC and Libya Tuesday, 13 December Public Seminar 5.30-6.30pm Phillipa Weeks Staff Library, ANU College of Law Emeritus Professor Vera Gowlland-Debass, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID), Geneva The Role of the ICJ in the Formulation and Development of Fundamental Norms of International Law Top of Bulletin

Professor Ken Oliphant	Events & Information of Interest Tuesday 8 November Public Lecture 6.00-7.30pm Sparke Helmore Theatre 1, ANU College of Law The Global Unity of the Common Law of Torts? Professor Ken Oliphant, Director, Institute of European Tort Law, Austrian Academy of Sciences Thursday 1 December Conference Water Law and Policy 2011: Optimising the Future of the Murray-Darling Basin 9.00am-5.15pm, Weston Theatre, Crawford School of Economics, The Australian National University Program and Registration Top of Bulletin Recent Past Events To access recordings of past events, go to: http://law.anu.edu.au/cipl/events.asp 9 - 10 September 16th Annual Public Law Weekend 10 years on from September 11 2001: the Impact on Public Law Program & Proceedings 9 September Fourteenth Annual Geoffrey Sawer Lecture Anti-Terrorism, the Judiciary and the Rule of Law Finkel Theatre, John Curtin School of Medical Research Presented by The Right Hon Madam Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin, PC, Canadian Chief Justice 31 August Public Seminar State Control over Private Military & Security Companies in Armed Conflict Dr Hannah Tonkin, Lawyer, United Nations 23 August Public Seminar Reflections on the ECCC Event co-hosted with Red Cross Australia, Malleson Stephen Jacques Top of Bulletin
Fiona David	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 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, 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 21 October Huong Nguyen, Maurer School of Law, Indiana University Pursuing Constitutional Dialogue within Socialist Vietnam: The 2010 Debate 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 Conference presentation Making or Breaking the International Law of Transit Passage? Meeting Environmental and Safety Challenges in the Torres Strait with Compulsory Pilotage, presentation at the Symposium on: ‘Safety, Security and Environmental Protection in Straits Used in International Navigation: Is International Law Meeting the Challenge?’ Istanbul, Turkey, 9–11 September, 2011. Sponsored by Center for Marine Law and Research, Istanbul Bilgi University, Law of the Sea Institute, School of Law, University of California Berkeley, Ocean Policy Research Foundation & Korea Ocean Research and Development Institute Publicatons Making or Breaking the International Law of Transit Passage? Meeting Environmental and Safety Challenges in the Torres Strait with Compulsory Pilotage, SSRN Working Paper Series (15 September 2011) Problems in Climate Change and Human Rights (with Dinah Shelton), ANU College of Law Research Paper No. 11–16 (6 October 2011) Problems in Climate Change and Human Rights (with Dinah Shelton), ANU College of Law Research Paper No. 11–16 (6 October 2011) Problems in Human Rights and Large Dams (with Dinah Shelton), ANU College of Law Research Paper No. 11–18 (6 October 2011) Problems in Human Rights and Transboundary Pollution (with Dinah Shelton), ANU College of Law Research Paper No. 11–19 (6 October 2011) Training Provided instruction in International Law and International Environmental Law in the ANU Asia Pacific College of Diplomacy Study Program for African Diplomats (10 Oct–26 Nov 2011) Invited Articles McGill International Journal of Sustainable Development Law & Policy, DK Anton, The Principle of Residual Liability in the Seabed Disputes Chamber of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (forthcoming) Santa Clara Journal of International Law, DK Anton, The Thirty Percent Solution in the Art and Craft of International Environmental Law (forthcoming) LOUISE PARROTT Publication An Express Freedom from Unfair Discrimination: Adapting Canadian Approaches to Equality in the Context of Constitutional Recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples (ANU College of Law Research Paper No 11–29, Australian National University, 2011) KIM RUBENSTEIN Presentations to two ANU Vice Chancellors Courses (Leadership Course and Complexity Course). Presented paper to the Australian Political Studies Association Annual Conference on Gender and COAG Hosted small round table workshop on Gender and COAG through Gender Institute and CIPL with UNSW Participated in the 2011 UNHCR Annual Consultation and Roundtable Participated in a DIAC meeting with experts on Statelessness Met with Japanese Scholars researching Language and Citizenship Issues. Continued pilot oral history project on Trailblazing Women Lawyers – see http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/4852444 JAMES STELLIOS Presented a seminar at the Melbourne Law School on the High Court's decision in Wainohu v NSW on 26 August Delivered a paper on the High Court's decision in Momcilovic v The Queen at the Public Law Weekend, ANU on 10 September Presented a paper on the High Court's decision in Momcilovic v The Queen at the Monash Law School on 10 October ERNST WILLHEIM 27 April, SBS interview re rule of law, international criminal law and state sovereignty 21 October, Agence Prese interview re Australian constitutional principles relating to secession to Australian head of state if UK succession laws changed Top of Bulletin


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