Centre for International and Public Law
News - 2008
Jan
•
Feb
• Conquering
Cluster Munitions: Towards a New International Treaty, Lou Maresca,
International Committee of the Red Cross and Rae McGrath, Handicap International,
Seminar: 13 February 2008 Program
March
•Rights
and Responsibilities of Citizenship Professor
Kim Rubenstein was invited to be a consultant to the British Institute of International
and Comparative Law research project on the Rights and Responsibilities
of Citizenship. This independent study was to form part of a wider
review of Governance in Britain currently being conducted by the United Kingdom's
Ministry of Justice. For news and report see link.
• The United Nations in 2008, The Hon.
Robert Hill, Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations,
New York, Seminar: 19 March 2008 Program
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Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea? Administrative Law in an Age of Rights,
Dr
Thomas Poole, London School of Economics, Seminar: 25 March 2008
Program
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Conceptualizing Security Council “Sanctions” Under International
Law, Devika
Hovell, University of New South Wales, Seminar: 26 March 2008 Program
•
Australian Year Book of International Law, Volume 26, Edited
by Penelope Mathew and Kim Rubenstein, Guest Speaker: Professor James Hathaway,
Dean and William Hearn Chair of Law, Melbourne Law School, The University of
Melbourne, Book Launch: 28 March Program
•
US Military Commissions: An update one year on …., Professor
Donald R. Rothwell and the Jessup International Moot Team ANU College of Law,
Public
Lecture: 31 March 2008 Program
April
•
Steps to the 2020 Summit - Governance
issues, Professor Kim Rubenstein,
The ANU and Mr Charlie Deutscher, The ANU, Seminar: 15 April 2008 Program
•
The
Defence White Paper and Australian and International Law, Dr Michael
Smith AM, Barrister and International Lawyer & Ms Nicole Abadee, Member
of the Sydney Bar and Lecturer in International Law and Use of Armed Force,
University of Sydney and ANU College of Law Seminar: 17 April 2008 Program
•
Australia's
recognition of Kosovo: A Legal or Political Act?
Associate Professor Peter Radan, Macquarie University
& Dr Heather Rae, The ANU Seminar: 24 April 2008 Program
•
2020
Summit Debrief, Seminar:
5 May 2008 Program
May
• 2008
CIPL Workshop -
Connecting the Public
with the International: Law’s potential, 2008 Topic:
Incentives for Global Health: Patent Law and Access to Essential Medicines,
26-28 May 2008 (Open to paper presenters only)
June
• 16th Annual ANZSIL Conference - Security, Scarcity, Struggle:
The Dilemmas of International Law , 26-28 June 2008, National
Museum of Australia, Canberra ANZSIL
Program & Registration Advance
Notice
July
•
SENATOR EVANS ANNOUNCES NEW IMMIGRATION
POLICY, at the ANU College of Law, 29 July,
New Directions in Detention: Restoring Integrity to Australia's Immigration
System Audio
link MP3
link Media
Release
August
•
Solferino Seminar,
Private Military Companies: Mercenary Boom or Legitimate Outsourcing?
Mary Picard (University of Geneva), 18 August 2008 Audio
link
mp3 link
•
Minister for Immigration and Citizenship announces receipt of the report of
the Australian Citizenship Test Review Committee Moving
Forward...Improving
Pathways to Citizenship, of which Professor Kim Rubenstein
was a member. The Minister has also issued the government's response to the
report. See: http://www.citizenshiptestreview.gov.au/
October
• 2008
Public Law Weekend: Public Law: Public Leadership, 31 October &
1 November 2008, Program
Papers
•
2008 Geoffrey Sawer Lecture, Chief Justice Gleeson and the High Court,
Professor Leslie Zines, 31 October 2008 Audio
Link MP3
Link
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Seminar on book by Ann Curthoys, Ann Genovese and Alexander Reilly, Rights
& Redemption: History, Law and Indigenous People, Friday 17 October
2008 Audio
Link
November
• 60th
Anniversary of the Genocide Convention Dr John Docker and Mr Robert
Handby, Monday, 24 November 2008, 6.30 - 7.30pm
• Making People Illegal What Globalization Means for Migration
and Law, Dr Catherine Dauvergne (University of British Columbia), Friday,
21 November 2008, Audio
Link MP3
Link
• Why habeas corpus should be a jus cogens norm
in international law, Professor Larry May (Washington University),
13 November 2008, 1pm, Audio
Link MP3
Link
• Disintegration
Through Law? On the Decomposition of Citizenship in Europe,
Prof Alexander Graser (Hertie School of Governance,Germany), 7
November 2008 Audio
Link MP3
Link Presentation
December
News of 2007 can be accessed from our archives
