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2009
General
News
The 2010 ANU-Alabama Joint Summer Program information
evening will be held on Wednesday 5 August 2009.
The National Centre for Indigenous Studies, The ANU College of Law, Reconciliation
Australia & The National Film and Sound Archive present the The
Annual ANU Reconciliation Lecture 2009: How well do we know each
other? Professor Mick Dodson AM, 2009 Australian of the
Year. More
details
Pro Bono Uncut - the National Probono Resource Centre
Short Film competition. Entries
close 11 June 2009.
The Duty to Invent: Intellectual Property and Scientific Research,
a free workshop on 5 June 2009, co-hosted by ANU College of Law and ANU
College of Medicine, Biology & Environment. For enquiries: Matthew
Rimmer, ANU College of Law or Jill
Gready (JCSMR).
For more information
and RSVP details
An information evening for the 2010 Summer/Winter in Geneva Program
will be held on Thursday 28 May. Further
details
11-16th May, ACT Law Week 2009
celebrates 'Law and the Community'. Professor Stephen Bottomley,
Associate Dean & Head of School ANU College of Law, particularly recognises
the contributions of the ANU College of Law clinical programs, which help
provide free legal assistance to over 500 clients a year.
The LSS and Simon Rice, Director of Law
Reform and Social Justice at the College of Law invite you to a Social
Justice Forum, Social Justice in Law: What is it and how can we
achieve it?
Hon Michael Kirby AC CMG launched 2 books at ANU on 10 March 2009 - Prof
Peter Bailey's book, The Human Rights Enterprise in Australia &
Internationally and Prof Mary Jane Mossman's book, The
First Women Lawyers: A comparative study of gender, law and the legal profession
Audio
MP3
The Australian Government, Department of Agriculture, Fisheries
and Forestry is seeking four outstanding individuals for appointment
as part-time Panel Members of the Statutory Fishing Rights Allocation Review
Panel. For further information please see the careers
notice.Staff News
The Minister for Climate Change and Water, Senator Penny Wong, announces
seven new ‘adaptation
research networks’ to foster research into the effects of climate
change. The ANU Centre for Climate Change and Policy was
part of the successful bid led by the University of Melbourne to run the
Social, Economic and Institutional Dimensions Network (October 2008)
Prof Joellen Riley (Law Faculty, University of Sydney) gave a public lecture,
Good Faith Obligations in the Empoyment & Industrial Law Context,
at the ANU College of Law, 25 March 2009. Downloadable audio of the lecture
is available at: Audio
or MP3
Martijn Wilder presented a public lecture at the ANU on 10 December 2008
- Climate Policy, Carbon Markets and Melting Ice Caps in a Time
of Global Economic Turmoil Audio
MP3
The General
Assembly and associated educational program of the International
Association of Law Schools (IALS) to be hosted by the ANU College
of Law in 2009.
Staff
News
The ANU College of Law has joined the Public
Interest Law Clearing House (PILCH) in NSW. In semester two Associate
Professor Simon Rice will be arranging a presentation on PILCH
by Amy Kilpatrick, PILCH Director and an ANU law graduate.
See PILCH membership
brochure
The Attorney-General of the Commonwealth, Mr Robert McClelland, has announced
the appointment to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal
(AAT), on a full-time basis, of Professor Robin Creyke.
Media
release
ANU College of Law staff receive Vice-Chancellor's
Awards
Associate Professor Simon Rice appointed Chair
of new independent Law Reform Advisory Council.
Congratulations to Professor Pene Mathew
for her appointed to the newly-created Freilich
Foundation Chair in the ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences (CASS)
Ms Molly O'Brien and Dr Gregor Urbas
awarded one of the University's Teaching
Enhancement Grants for their project 'Evidence Law in Context'
ARC Successes at the
ANU College of Law for 2009
Visiting
Fellow Sue Tongue takes over the role of legal advisor to the Senate
Standing Committee for the Scrutiny of Bills
The Environment Minister, Peter
Garrett has announced an independent review of the Environment
Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act. The review, to be led
by Dr Allan Hawke, will take place over the next year. Professor
Tim Bonyhady, the Director of the the Australian Centre for Environmental
Law and the Centre for Climate Law and Policy at the ANU is one one of four
members of the expert panel involved in the review.
Student
News
Applications are now open for the Australian Parliamentary Fellowship
2010. Recent PhD students are welcome to apply. For more information
please see: the Australian
Parliamentary Fellow poster.
Roland Miller McCall, ANU College of Law student, had
an OP Ed published in the Canberra Times 21 July 2009.
'Save
the planet - eat less meat'.
Opinion piece by ANU Law student and 2008 Australian
Youth Representative to the United Nations, Melanie Poole:
Gen Y are ready to boil over (Canberra Times and On Line Opinion)
Congratulations to Alice Edwards
Alice Edwards awarded the Audre
Rapoport Prize for Scholarship on the Human Rights of Women for her
paper entitled Violence against Women as Sex Discrimination: Evaluating
the Policy and Practice of the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies. The article
arose from Alice's PhD research at the ANU College of Law.
Alice Edwards also awarded ASIL
International Law Fellowship
Aurora Native Title Internship Program. The Internship
Program introduces students to career opportunities in Native Title,
and at the same time provides assistance to Native Title Representative
Body (NTRB) lawyers.
Applications are invited for the position of Tipstaff to the Chief Justice
of the Supreme Court of NSW, the Honourable JJ Spigelman AC. The
appointment will commence in late Jaunary 2010. See the appointment
notice for further information.
Copenhagen Climate Change Negotiation competition
A team from the ANU College of Law including Sophie Jacobs, Kendra
Fouracre, Alex Rafalowicz and Annan Boag, participated in the Copenhagen
Climate Change Negotiation competition on 7-9 March 2009. For
more details
Alumni
News
Ms Aparna Rao, first class Honours law graduate and ANU
University Medal holder, awarded the Sir
Robert Menzies Memorial Scholarship in Law. Aparna will undertake the
degrees of BCL and MPhil at Oxford University commencing October 2009. Aparna
was one of two candidates selected from 40 applicants for the prestigious
award.
International Court of Justice Scholarship 2009
for ANU law graduates - applications
now open
2008
General
News 2008
Professor
Michael Coper, currently Robert Garran Professor of Law and
Dean of the ANU College of Law, has been re-appointed
as Dean for a further five-year term, from 1 January 2008 to 31 December
2012.
ANU College of Law holds cocktail
reception to celebrate achievements of Alumni (10 October 2008)
University Medallist Honour
Board unveiled at University House.
Lord Hoffmann, House of Lords, delivers public lecture
on Liberty and Terror at ANU, 30 July 2008
- lecture paper (PDF)
- images (PDF)
Senator Evans announces new immigration policy
at the ANU College of Law, 29 July 2008
- audio
file
- media
release
- image (PDF)
ANU College of Law well represented at Australia's
2020 Summit.
New Zealand Governor-General
visits ANU Law School
Three of Australia's top lawyers at
the ANU College of Law
ANU
Alumni sworn in as ACT Supreme Court Judges
Staff
News 2008
Don Anton
- selected as member of the Joint
Task Force on Treaties in US Law
- speaks at a Symposium
on Whaling Law jointly organised by the Boston College Law School and
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sea Grant College (16 October
2008). Don Anton speaks in New York City at the Annual Meeting of the International
Law Association (American Branch) on
Human Rights and Climate Change (18 October 2008)
- gives the Berger
International Lecture at Cornell Law School on 19 September 2008
- has been invited to speak on Climate Justice for Low-lying Island States
at a conference on Climate Law and Developing Countries, hosted
by the IUCN
(World Conservation Union) Academy of Environmental Law at the University
of Ottawa Faculty of Law.
- to give the Berger
Lecture on False Sanctuary: The Australian Antarctic Whale Sanctuary
and Long Term Stability in Antarctica at Cornell University on 19 September
2008
- to speak at major conference
on Environmental Governance and Democracy at Yale Law School on 10-11 May
2008.
- has been appointed as a Professor in the Diploma Course in International
Environmental Law offered by UNITAR
Professor Kim Rubenstein
Prestigious prize for Professor
Stephen Bottomley
Professor Jim Davis' contributions to the legal profession
recognised during parlimentary debates - Extract from Hansard
(October 2008)
Assoc. Prof Tom Faunce recently gave oral evidence to
the Cth Senate Community Affairs Committee on the 'National
Health Amendment (pharmaceutical and other benefits-cost recovery) Bill
2008. He has also been selected by the Scientific
Committee of the Brocher Foundation to receive a residential fellowship
for June 2009 in Geneva to pursue nanotechnology research.
Dr Pene Matthew receives 2008
International Women's Day Award
ANU Law Professor, Professor John McMillan re-appointed
Commonwealth Ombudsman.
Emeritus Professor Denis Pearce AO appointed Chair of
the Defence Honours
and Awards Tribunal.
Dr James Prest gives evidence to Senate Inquiry into Renewable
Energy Feed-in Tariff Bill
Congratulations to Amelia Simpson who has been awarded
a doctorate (JSD) from Columbia University for her thesis, The Concept of
Discrimination in Australian Constitutional Jurisprudence.
Professor Peta Spender appointed
to ACT Civil and Administrative Tribunal
Professor Jane Stapleton has recently been awarded the
degree of Doctor of Civil Law (DCL) by the University of Oxford. The DCL
is one of the the ancient 'senior' doctorates. It is awarded for published
work 'consisting of an original contribution to the advancement of knowledge
of such substance and distinction as to give the candidate authoritative
status in some branch or branches of legal learning'. In addition to her
post in the College, Professor Stapleton is a Statutory Visiting Professor
at Oxford and a member of the Oxford Law Faculty, and Ernest E Smith Professor
in Law at the University of Texas at Austin.
The Victorian Law Institute Journal has published an analysis
of an article by Margaret Thornton (with Jo Bagust), 'The
Gender Trap: Flexible Work in Corporate Legal Practice' in its September
issue: 'Flexibility: Does it Work?' pp.18-21.
Dr Gregor Urbas awarded
ALSI Fellowship
Vale Emeritus Professor Harold Whitmore AM, Dean of the
Law School at the Australian National University (1970-1972). Professor
Whitmore's obituary was in the Canberra Times, 13 November,
2008.
Annual Academic Appointment Round 2008 - now open
- Advertisement
- Further
information
- Teaching
Fellowships
- A brief introduction to the College
for prospective applicants
Events
2008
Launch of the Australian
Centre for Military Law and Justice by special guest, The Hon
Warren Snowden MP on Thursday 8 May 2008.
The Defence
Watchdogs: Administrative Oversight of Military Justice seminar was
hosted by the ANU College of Law's Centre for Military Law &
Justice, the Commonweath Ombudsman and the Inspector General of
the Australian Defence Force on 26 November 2008.
The Centre for International and Public Law (CIPL) holds
another successful Public
Law weekend - Vision courtesy of WIN News (October 2008)
John Fleming Centre holds
successful workshop
(6 August 2008)
Launch of the world’s
first legal research centre devoted to climate change at ANU (6
June 2008).
- Sydney
launch of the ANU Centre for Climate Law and Policy.
Adapting to Change, the first Australian
law and policy conference of its kind was held in Canberra on 19-20 June
2008.
Australian Centre for Dialogue: Celebration
of progess and launch of new DVD (5 June 2008).
The Annual
ANU Reconciliation Lecture was held on 28 May 2008 with guest speaker
Mr Mark Bin Bakar.
- Streaming
audio (requires RealPlayer)
- Downloadable
audio (56 MB)
- Streaming
video (requires RealPlayer)
Student
News 2008
Student's first-hand lesson in
politics: ANU Law student, James Booth, flew to the
US to assist the Obama campaign (Canberra Times, 1 November 2008)
Student wins prize
for international law essay.
Law
student wins Malay public speaking competition
First Phillipa Weeks Scholarship
in Law awarded
International
Court of Justice internship scheme - congratulations to the 2008 nominees.
International
Law Students descend on ANU- Jessup Moot 2008
Results of 2008 Jessup Moot Competition
Alumni
News 2008
Congratulations to Tim Goodwin
ANU College of Law graduate and current student in Legal Workshop, Tim Goodwin
has been selected as one of the 11 participants from the 2020 Youth Summit
held in Canberra on 12 and 13 April to attend the main 2020 Summit this
coming weekend. Tim is now working as the Associate to Justice North at
the Federal Court of Australia in Melbourne.
ANU law graduate to undetake ICJ
Traineeship
2007
Staff
News 2007
Don Anton has been appointed Associated Fellow of the
United Nations Institute
for Training and Research (UNITAR) and will be advising on International
Environmental Law.
Dr A J Brown, Visiting Fellow at the ANU College of Law,
interviewed on ABC Classic FM (May 2007) on his research in the
areas of public
accountability, public policy and public law
Ven. Alex Bruce awarded the ANU
Vice-Chancellor's Award for Community Service
High honour for Professor Peter Cane: British
Academy announces new elections to Fellowships
Dr Daniel Fitzpatrick has won the 2007
Hart Socio-Legal Article Prize from the UK Socio-Legal Studies Association.
The prize was awarded for Evolution and Chaos in Property Rights Systems:
the Third World Tragedy of Contested Access, Yale Law Journal (Vol 115,
pp. 996-1048 March 2006).
Professor Don Rothwell is part of a research team (based
at the University of Tasmania) that has been awarded $17,000 in the ARC
Linkage International Awards. The project is entitled 'The Future of
Oceans Governance in Polar Areas' and will run over 2007 and 2008 involving
workshops in both Hobart and Calgary.
Kim Rubenstein submits to Senate
Legal and Constitutional Legislation Committee in its Review of the
Australian
Citizenship Amendment (Citizenship Testing) Bill 2007
Appointment
to ANU College of Law of world-class legal scholars
Congratulations
to staff on recent achievements
ANU College of Law Annual Academic Appointment Round 2007: advance
notice
Blockbuster appointment
round brings new riches to ANU
Events
2007
His
Holiness the Dalai Lama and representatives of the Christian, Islamic
and Jewish faiths met in a symposium exploring the role of religion in war
and conflict.
On 12 May the ANU College of Law, the Law Students Society
combined with the AIAL and Young Lawyers Committee of the ACT Law Society
to conduct a successful Accountability
Forum. Virginia Hausegger of the ABC was the moderator and several dignitaries
attended.
ANU College of Law holds successful
Climate Law Conference
Student
News 2007
Professor Kent Anderson reports that ‘Team Australia’
has just won the 2007
International Arbitration and Negotiation Mooting Competition, defeating
the top 16 Japanese universities and repeating as champions.
Xian Zhi Soon, a student in the ANU College of Law, has
been named the ACT Young Australian of the Year. Mr Soon was recognised
for his work in creating educational opportunities for young people as an
employee of the NSW Board of Education. He is now a finalist in the Young
Australian of the Year award which will be announced in January.
Congratulations to the first
Australian Migration Law & Practice graduates at ANU
ANU research scholar to undertake internship
with the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in the
Hague
Alumni
News 2007
Congratulations
Two distinguished alumni of the ANU College of Law have been appointed as
judges of the ACT Supreme Court: Hilary Penfold (currently
Secretary of the (Commonwealth) Department of Parliamentary Services, and
Richard Refshauge, currently ACT Director of Public Prosecutions.
ANU College of Law to send second
trainee to International Court of Justice
2006
General
News 2006
Visit
of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor
Death
of Phillipa Weeks
Inaugural Distinguished Visiting Mentor
Professor Stephen Legomsky, Charles F Nagel Professor of International and
Comparative Law at Washington University in St Louis, will be the first
Distinguished Visiting Mentor in the ANU College of Law, under an innovative
scheme introduced by the College in 2006 - detailsANU
Centre for Law & Economics wins
new consultancies
ANU College of Law to offer new postgraduate program in Australian
Migration Law & Practice - details
Staff
News 2006
Kent Anderson has been appointed as Professor of Japanese
Studies in the College of Asia & the Pacific. Kent has been appointed
as head of the Japan Centre. He will continue to teach and research as a
fractional appointment to the Law School.
Don Anton has been elected to serve as a Member on the
International Law Association's (ILA) Committee studying the International
Law on Sustainable Development. Don is currently investigating how the principle
of integration may further operationalise the law of sustainable development
and will take part in the Committee's work at the 73rd Conference of the
ILA in 2006 at Toronto.
ARC Discovery Grants : Congratulations to Dr George
Barker who secured funding for his project (with L Waverman) entitled
'The Impact of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) on Economic
Growth and Productivity, and the Role of Government Policy', and to
Dr Tom Faunce who secured funding for 'Regulating Medical
Nanotechnology in Australia: Developing Practical Improvements in Safety
and Cost-Effectiveness Analysis'.Richard Tooth delivers
lecture on Status Concerns: Economics and Law of Keeping up with Joneses
- audio
file (MP3 format)
Graeme Blank, Legal Workshop lecturer, presented a paper
on "Litigation funding in Australia - application in Hong Kong?"
to the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants in Hong Kong.
The event was attended by around 100 accountants, lawyers and other professionals
(28 September 2006).
Andrew Byrnes, now a Professor of Law at UNSW, has been
appointed as an Adjunct Professor in the ANU College of Law. Andrew will
be involved in research projects and teach in the graduate program (January
2006).
Robin Creyke reappointed to the Administrative
Review Council for a third term
Doug Hassall was elected to the ACT Bar Council (January
2006).
Shae McCrystal’s doctoral thesis has been awarded
a University of Tasmania Dean's Commendation Award for 2005. This is a prestigious
award, made on the recommendation of the Board of Graduate Research, by
reference to the level of excellence attained and the contribution made
by the thesis to the field of research. The thesis was entitled 'Strike
or Strike Out: An Analysis of Australian Compliance with International Standards
on the Right to Strike'.
Matthew Rimmer has been appointed a director of the Australian
Digital Alliance (ADA). The ADA is a non-profit coalition of public and
private sector interests formed to promote balanced copyright law and provide
an effective voice for a public interest perspective in the copyright debate.
ADA members include universities, schools, consumer groups, galleries, museums,
IT companies, scientific and other research organisations, libraries and
individuals.
Appointment of Professor Donald
Rothwell
Kim Rubenstein and Don Anton have been
elected to the Executive Council of the Australian and New Zealand Society
of International Law (ANZSIL). ANZSIL has strong and historic links with
The ANU through CIPL. Like its counterparts around the world, ANZSIL seeks
to develop and promote the discipline of international law and provide a
forum for academics, government lawyers, non-government organisations, students
and practitioners of international law to discuss research and issues of
practice in international law.
Appointment
of Professor Margaret Thornton
Gregor Urbas was appointed as High Tech Crime Research
Analyst at the Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC), working with the
Australian High Tech Crime Centre (AHTCC) located in the Australian Federal
Police (AFP) (January 2006).
Events
2006
The Australian Network for Japanese Law (ANJeL), a collaboration
by ANU College of Law and the Law Faculties at the Universities of Sydney
and NSW and co-directed by Kent Anderson, held its annual conference on
28 February 2006. Article in Nihongo
Press (in Japanese). The conference's keynote address by Chief Justice
James Spigelman of the Supreme Court of New South Wales is available
here.
CIPL to host first International
Tribunals Workshop in Australia
Highly successful sentencing conference - details
Student
News 2006
The Australian Network for Japanese Law (ANJeL)Team wins the Japanese
Intercollegiate Arbitration and Negotiation Competition!
Competing against the top 15 universities in Japan, the ANJeL Team
arbitrated for 5 hours on Saturday and negotiated for 4 hours on Sunday.
The ANJeL Team was composed of students from ANU competing in Japanese and
students from University of Sydney competing in English. The students are:
Pete Lawley (ANU Captain), George Blades (ANU Captain), Leah Ambler (ANU),
Ryu Ogawa (ANU), Joel Ruebin (USyd), Chris Grey (USyd Captain), Adrian Bright
(USyd), Wansang Lung (USyd), Showhey Matsui (USyd), and Melanie Trezise
(USyd).
- Competition homepage
- "Students negotiate
first place in Japan (Canberra Times, December 2006)
Win for ANU
Mooting Team at Law Week Mock Trial Competition
The ANJeL/ANU Moot Arbitration and Negotiation Team's
performance in Japanese at the Tokyo Intercollegiate Arbitration Competition
on 3-4 December 2005 was highlighted recently in a video
produced by sponsor Sumitomo Group (Real Player required, 7.24min). ANJeL
is now
recruiting for student members for the 2006 Moot Team.
A Rhodes scholar plans to battle injustice in the Asian region
- Jennifer
Robinson wins prestigious Rhodes Scholarship
Australian First for International
Court
2005
General
News 2005
Classic
seating enriches law assets
Many reasons to celebrate
- Law
Graduation December 2005
New Appointment to International
Legal Services Advisory Council: Professor
Michael Coper, Dean and Robert Garran Professor of Law at the ANU
and Chair of the Council of Australian Law Deans (CALD) has been appointed
to the International Legal Services Advisory Council (ILSAC) for a term
until 30 June 2007
The Faculty hosted their annual Prize Ceremony
on Wednesday 6 April. Congratulations to all the prize
winners
Staff
News 2005
Professor Hilary Charlesworth from the Research School
of Social Sciences and the Law School awarded a Federation Fellowship details
Student
News 2005
An active approach to studying law: opportunities
for ANU law students
ANU-ANJeL Team
successfully competes at Japanese
Arbitration and Negotiation Competition
Two Local Young 'Entreprenerds' Win Top National Prize details
Alumni News 2005
ANU Law School alumnus wins
ACT Telstra Small Business Award for internet research company - audio
& picture
