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General
news
Professor Tim Bonyhady's latest
book, Good Living Street was launched at the National Museum of Australia on
5 May. Further
details
Environmental
Protection and Human Rights by Donald
Anton (ANU College of Law) and Dinah
Shelton (George Washington University) -
available from May 2011.
ANU College of Law alumna awarded 2011
Francis Deak Prize
Professor Hilary Charlesworth honoured
with International
Court of Justice appointment
International
Review Team visits ANU College of Law
Announcement of new link between the ANU
College of Law Internship Program and Silk Chambers
in Canberra. Please see the media
release. For more information: Law
Internship Program.
Daniel Fitzpatrick appointed as Professor
in the Hauser Global Law Program, New York University
School of Law
ANU Receives Top Research Rating for Law and
Legal Studies in ERA
report
Professors Peter Cane and Jane
Stapleton elected to prestigious Arthur
Goodhart Visiting Professorship of Legal Science at the University of Cambridge
Congratulations to ANU College of
Law ARC
Future Fellowship recipients:
Special congratulations to ANU
College of Law Emeritus Professor Dennis Pearce who has been named the Best Lawyers’ 2011 Canberra
Government Lawyer of the Year. Congratulations
also to ANU College of Law migration law teachers,
Nigel Dobbie, David Prince, Joanne Kinslor, Michael
Jones, Rania Skaros and Sudrishti Reich who were listed
in The Australian Financial Review's table
of Best Lawyers, 4 March 2011.
2011 recipient of the International
Court of Justice Traineeship announced by ANU
College of Law
Don Anton has appeared as Counsel in the Federal
Court of Appeals in New York in order to seek
leave to file an amici curiae brief on questions of
international law.
ANU's 2011 International
Environmental Law Student
Symposium a great success.
The 2012
Alabama-ANU Exchange Information Evening will
be held on 3 August 2011.
A decision was handed down in the US Supreme Court
in the case in the matter Ruben Flores-Villar in which Professor Kim Rubenstein was one
of five academics named as amicus in a Brief amici
curiae of Scholars
on Statelessness.
Don Anton and Don Rothwell are covered
widely in the media on possible international
arbitral action by Philip Morris against Australia
over cigarette labeling.
Tom Faunce, Mick Dodson and Simon Rice contributed in The
World Justice Project - Rule
of Law Index 2011
The appellate amici brief organised by Don
Anton in Chevron
v. Donziger is receiving international coverage
by Yahoo!
News and the PR
Newswire
Michael Eburn and Don Anton participated in the 2011
ANU Great Green Debate on opposing sides of the
proposition: The Environment will never be prioritised
over material desires
The 2012
Geneva Program information evening
will be held 25 May 2011. For more
details
The
ANU College of Law Book Celebration 2011 will be
held on 31 March 2011 with guest speaker, The
Hon Annabelle Bennett AO Justice of the Federal
Court of Australia. More
information
Don Anton is acknowledged in the Advisory
Opinion of the
Seabed Disputes Chamber of International Tribunal for
the Law of the Sea
Dr Tony Connolly's new book Cultural
Difference on Trial: The Nature and Limits of Judicial
Understanding will be the subject of a symposium
at this year's Annual Conference of the Australian Society
of Legal Philosophy at the University of Queensland
in July.
Dr Matthew Rimmer for his project,
Intellectual property and climate change: inventing
clean technologies and to Professor Desmond
Manderson for his project titled The sight
of justice: images and the rule of law.
Professor Kim Rubenstein, Director,
Centre
for International and Public Law receives ANU
2010 Top Supervisors Award
The ANU College of Law celebrates
its fiftieth anniversary with an alumni
dinner at The Boat House on the Lake.
The ANU College of Law has inaugurated an International
Law email
list for scholars and researchers around the world.
Adjunct Professor Peter Bailey honoured
with ANU Vice-Chancellor's Award. Further
details
Margaret Thornton's edited collection,
Sex
Discrimination in Uncertain Times, is now available
from the ANU ePress.
Professor Mick Dodson AM is giving the lecture Constitutional Recognition of Indigenous Australians as part of the Australian Senate Occasional Lecture Series on Friday 5 August at Parliament House.
ANU College of Law congratulates Dean Michael
Coper on two
recent appointments
Alumni
news
The Australian Institute of International Affairs
and the Australian Branch of the International Law
Association are proud to announce that the 2010
Peter Nygh Hague Conference Internship has been
awarded to ANU College of Law graduate, Kim
Pham. Press
Release
Student
news
New Graduate Programs in Law
Law,
Governance and Development
The specialisation has a focus on the Asia-Pacific
region. Its courses cover the South Pacific, Southeast
Asia and East Asia. It includes highly topical issues
such as climate change and displacement, law, order
and State-building, transnational business and anti-corruption.
It will be of interest to graduates working in all
aspects of law, governance and development both in
the Asia-Pacific, and in a context of international
institutions.
Exciting new scholarship for ANU law students - DLA
Phillips Fox Asia Outreach Scholarship in Law - Further
details
All interested students are encouraged to
apply for positions on the Australian teams
to compete in the 2011
Intercollegiate Negotiation & Arbitration Competition in Tokyo.
Applications are invited from ANU penultimate students
and recent graduates to apply for a scholarship
trainee position with top-tier Australian
law firm Mallesons Stephen Jaques in Beijing. Applications
close 15 July.
Congratulations to ANU College of Law students who
were successful in gaining winter 2011 internships
through the Aurora
Native Title Internship Program including:
Ashoor Khan (AIATSIS internship); Nicholas Bowen (ALS);
Nirmalan Amirthanesan (NTSCORP);
John Birrell (IPDRU);
David Rowe (RA);
Michael Brown (ILC)
and Sam Dalgarno (FVPLS).
Congratulations to the following ANU graduates:
Andrew Lu who has had his SJD
degree passed.
Thesis: Developments in the Private International
Doctrine of Renvoi Since the 1990s - Prof Kent Anderson
(supervisor) and Prof Jim Davis (adviser) .
Saskia Hufnagel has had her PhD thesis
passed.
Thesis: EU and Australia Police Cooperation: Socio-Legal
Perspectives.
Panel: Prof Simon Bronitt (supervisor, and adjunct whilst
now at CEPS at Griffith Uni), Jorg Monar (College of Europe),
Dr Mark Nolan and Miriam Gani.
Lawyers Weekly is excited to announce
the launch of the 2011 Lawyers Weekly Awards. They will again be awarding a category which recognises
the academic, community and legal achievements of undergraduates.
Nominees must be current law students or a student who
graduated in 2011. For
more information
All Australian undergradute students enrolled in a
law degree or related field and law graduates in the
first five years post admission are invited to enter
the 2011
Commonwealth Law Ministers Meeting (CLMM)
essay competition
Jessup
Moot 2012 applications open untill 5pm 5 May. An
information session for interested students will be
held on 28 April at 1pm at the Phillipa Weeks Staff
Library.
Congratulations to the ANU Copenhagan Competition
Team including Carmel Hancock, Kate Phillips,
Danielle Scoins and Lisa Sherman for being selected
as one of the eight finalists to travel to Copenghagen
in October to negotiate a mock Protocol on Access to
Medicine.
In conjunction with the launch of World Purple
Day on 9 March 2011 at the Legislative Assembly, ANU College of Law student, Caitlin Baillie launches paper written on placement with Epilepsy
ACT . Please see the invitation.
Aurora
Native Title Internship Program winter 2011 Applications
open from Monday 7th March to Friday 1st April 2011
Applications are invited from graduates in law (or
students about to graduate), with an interest in family
law, for the position of Legal
Research Associate to Justice Mary Finn.
Late
arrival graduates with flying colours By Stephanie
Anderson
10 December 2010, Canberra Times
Become a CHAT Student Mentor in 2011.
Applications open for the Prime
Minister's Australia Asia Awards. Establish your
international career in Asia with an international
study or research opportunity as well as an internship.
Congratulations to
Hafiz Aziz-ur-Rehman who has recently completed
a PhD at the ANU College of Law with the help of his Australia
Award.
Associate Professor Don Anton announces ANU Copenhagen
Competition Team for 2011. Congratulations
to the four team members: Bindu Adiraju, Aman Gaur,
Nick Topfer and Anna Verney.
Stephanie Schweiger, ANU College of Law student, has won the 2011 17th Annual Lions Oratory Competition. Stephanie impressed the judges with an 8 minute oration entitled "What is Possible? Truth and Righteousness in a Prison". Her talk was based on her experiences working with women prisoners in the ACT as part of the College's Law Reform and Social Justice Program. Congratulations Stef!
Applications are invited for the Australian College of Community Association Lawyers 2012 Scholarship. The scholarship is open to graduates in any discipline who are permanent residents of Australia or NZ and who wish to pursue advanced postgraduate study in the law relating to Strata Law or a related field at an approved university anywhere in the world.
The NSW Law Reform Commission invites law students to apply for legal internships during the summer university vacation, 2011/12. More details
Congratulations to ANU College of Law students, Duncan Ragg and Nick Hadland for winning second prize in the Oxford University Press' 2011 Connecting with Law Short Film Competition.
ANU students invited to enter InnovationACT: ANU's $100,000 Entrepreneurship Program & Competition
Applications invited for temporary
legal vacancy in the Canberra office of the Administrative
Appeals Tribunal
Applications open soon for the 2011/12 summer
Aurora Native Title Internship Program. For
more information:
- Anthropology/Social
Science Internships
- Legal
Internships
2010
General
news
Professor Marilyn Pittard, Faculty
of Law, Monash University delivered the Annual
Phillipa Weeks Lecture in Labour Law on 12 October
at the ANU College of Law.
Kath Hall and students from the ANU
Law School Reform Project took part in Tristan
Jepson Memorial Foundation Lecture on 2 September
along with Professor Patrick McGorry - Australian of
the Year. (in photo from left to right - Annan Boag,
Stefanie Schweiger, Chris Patz, and Lucinda Shannon)
CIPL hosts the fifteenth Annual
Public Law Weekend on 3–4 September 2010.
Protecting
Civilians During Violent Conflict Conference was
jointly presented by The Australian Centre for
Military Law & Justice (ANU), The School
of Humanities & Social Sciences (UNSW) and CAPPE
on 25–26 August 2010.
ANU Centre for Climate Law & Policy
(CCLP) welcomed participants to a one-day conference,
After
Copenhagen – Finding Direction in Climate Law
& Policy at the ANU College of Law on 9
August 2010.
The Centre for Commercial Law hosts the 2010
Hartnell Colloquium
The
2010 National Graduate Law Conference, The Other
Side of the Law: Beyond Legal Research, hosted
by the ANU College of Law on 8-9 July.
Dr Jeremy Farrall delivers CIPL public
seminar on Governance
and Power-Sharing in Cyprus: Facilitating preliminary
peace talks
The Centre for International
and Public Law celebrated its twentieth anniversary
at a special evening hosted by the ANU College of Law
on 18 May 2010. More
details
ANU Law students win world final of Jessup
Moot. Please see the ANU
Media Release.
The 2010
Sentencing Conference was jointly hosted by the
National Judicial College of Australia
and the ANU College of Law on 6&7
February.
Professor Mick Dodson appointed
to Harvard Chair, March 2010
ANU, again the highest
ranked university in Australia (The Times Higher
Education Supplement, October 2009)
Congratulations to Ven. Alex Bruce,
who has been awarded the Vice-Chancellor's Award
for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning,
which was conferred at the ANU Graduation Ceremony in
July 2010.
Peter Garrett AM, MP gives presentation
at the ANU Centre for International & Public
Law:
Australia's
ambition for the worldwide conservation of whales
- also see Australia
Network "Whaling Push"
On 17-18 December the University
of New South Wales will host a conference
entitled 'Torts
in Commercial Law'.
For more details and online registration: http://www.torts.unsw.edu.au/
torts@unsw.edu.au
Professor John McMillan has been appointed
as the Commonwealth's first Information Commissioner
on 26 February 2010. For more information please visit
the media
release from Senator the Hon Joe Ludwig, 1 March
2010
Posthumous
ANU LLB awarded to Odette Upstill at
ANU graduation ceremony
Congratulations to Professor Jane Stapleton
for her election as an Honorary Bencher of Gray’s
Inn. For
more details
The first volume of the Peacebuilding Compared
project is available: Anomie
and Violence: Non-Truth and Reconciliation in Indonesian
Peacebuilding by John Braithwaite, Valerie
Braithwaite, Michael Cookson and Leah Dunn.
Congratulations to seven Legal Workshop immigration
law teachers, named best immigration lawyers of the
year by Best
Lawyers, as published
in the Australian Financial Review,
12 March 2010: David John Prince, Joanne
Kinslor, Kerry Murphy, John Gibson, Michael Jones, Nigel
Dobbie and Rania Skaros.
Professor Kim Rubenstein is one of
four academics who was 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.
Congratulations to Professor Margaret Thornton,
who was honoured as an Outstanding Woman in ANU
at an International Women's Day Event held on 10 March
2010.
Alumni
News
Graduation Story: Law
in the hood, The donation of a Masters hood to a
graduating student marked the beginning of a new tradition
in the ANU College of Law.(On Campus, July 2010)
Attorney-General, Robert McClelland, announces the
appointment of ANU Law alumnus, Mr George Witynski
as a Commonwealth
Senior Counsel
Congratulations to Alice Edwards whose
PhD was passed recently. Alice's thesis is entitled
'Violence Against Women, Feminist Theory, and the United
Nations Human Rights Treaty Bodies'. Alice was supervised
by Hilary Charlesworth and supervised and advised by
Peter Bailey and Pene Mathew.
Stephen John Gageler SC, ANU College
of Law alumnus appointed
as the next Solicitor-General of Australia.
Student
News
Congratulations to:
Marc Smith whose PhD thesis, 'Universal
Law and Genetics: The Future Development of DNA Evidence
in the Australian Criminal Justice System' was passed.
It was supervised by Gregor Urbas with advisors Molly
O'Brien and Jeremy Gans (University of Melbourne) and
Virginia Newell whose MPhil thesis,
'Administrative Law Values, Publicisation and Outsourcing'
has been passed. This thesis was supervised by Daniel
Stewart, with advisors Peter Cane and Peter Bailey.
The NSW Law Reform Commission invites
legal students entering their final year in 2011 to
apply
for legal internships to work along side Commission
members and legal staff during December 2010 and January
2011. Applications close 30 September 2010.
The Environmental
Defender's Office and Maddocks Law Firm
invite tertiary students to submit an article for publication
in the EDO national legal journal IMPACT! For more information
and suggested essay topics go to the student
prize link. Deadline for all entries is Monday,
15 November 2010.
The Federal Law Review is
looking to employ an enthusiastic law student as Co-Business
Manager. Applications close Monday 18 October at
5pm.
The Federal Law Review is
inviting applications from law students to join the
Student
Editorial Board. Applications close Monday 18 October
at 5pm.
The 2010 ANU Copenhagen
Competition team announced by Don
Anton, ANU Senior Law Lecturer. Congratulations to the
successful applicants, David Bomball, Carmel
Hancock, Kate Phillips and Danielle Scoins.
Congratulations to Julien
Tempone, winner of the Phillipa Weeks Scholarship
2010
Success for ANU
Jessup Moot Team
Congratulations to Law Scholarship
Award Winners 2010
Congratulations to the ANU College of Law students,
Anita Stuhmcke, Trevor Ryan and Bruce
Lindsay who graduated with a PhD and Angeline
Lewis, who graduated with a SJD at the ANU
Graduations Ceremony on 16 July on 16 July 2010.
Anita Stuhmcke's thesis is titled
An Empirical Study on the Systemic Investigations
Function of the Commonwealth Ombudsman From 1977-2005.
Anita was supervised by Prof Robin
Creyke and panel members Profs John McMillan and Dennis
Pearce.
Trevor Ryan's thesis is entitled "Demographic
Transition and Transformation of Regulation and Law
in Japan" and was supervised by Prof Kent
Anderson with assistance from ANU panel members Prof
Peter Grabosky and Dr Tomoko Akami.
Bruce Lindsay's thesis is entitled
"Student Discipline: A Legal and Empirical
Study of University Decision-Making" and was
supervised by Prof Margaret Thornton with assistance
from panel member Daniel Stewart.
Angeline Lewis thesis is titled "Judicial
Reconstruction and the Rule of Law: Reassessing Foreign
Military Intervention" and was supervised
by Don Rothwell and advised by Hitoshi Nasu, Matthew
Zagor and Sarah Heathcote.
Congratulations to Christine Ratnasingham
whose SJD thesis "Australian Quasi-Refugees and
International Refugee Law: Abetment or Abdication?"
was recently passed. Congratulations also to supervisor
J-P Fonteyne and advisers Matthew Zagor and Kevin Boreham.
Congratulations to ANU
College of Law students, Henry Makeham
and Patrick Mayoh, for being
recipients of the inaugural Prime
Minister's Australia Asia Endeavour Awards for 2010
for the 'best and brightest' university students from
Australia and Asia.
2009
General
News
Success for Law in ANU
Vice Chancellor's Staff Awards
Nick Tebbey, lecturer in Migration
Law & Practice receives ACT
Law Society's Young Lawyer Award 2009.
ANU College of Law colleagues, Molly O'Brien
and Kath Hall, receive Vice Chancellor's
Teaching Enhancement Grants 2009, for their project
Law
Student Well-being and the Law Curriculum: Exploring
the Links
Tom Faunce and Gregor Urbas
(together with Ms L Skillen)
receive ARC
Discovery Grant for their project,
Detecting Fraud and Anti-Competitive Behaviour in
the Australian Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Industries
The American Bar Association Section of International
Law has invited the ANU College of Law to be
a 'Cooperating Entity' for Cross-Border Collaboration,
Convergence and Conflict: The Internationalization of
Domestic Law and Its Consequences, a one-day conference
to be held on 9 February 2010 in Sydney. Conference
details and registration
Discount
rates and invitation to law student volunteers
Dr Matthew Rimmer took part in a panel
discussion on Chevolution at the
Canberra
International Film Festival on 30 October 2009
Death of distinguished former ANU College of
Law member, Judge
John Goldring (1943-2009)
Congratulations to ANU College of Law staff, Andrew
Bartlett, Research Fellow in the Legal Workshop,
and John Hourigan, immigration law
lecturer, for receiving 2009 Migration Institute
of Australia awards
Congratulations to Tom Faunce for
securing one of the ARC Future Fellowships
for his project, 'Fostering
Safe Nanotechnology Research Focused on Critical Public
Health Problems'
Miriam Gani makes a submission to
the NSW Attorney-General on the Consultation
Draft of the Crimes Amendment (Fraud and Forgery) Bill
2009 (NSW)
Professor Robin Creyke reappointed
to the Administrative
Review Council
CIPL's Director, Professor Kim Rubenstein
has made a submission to the Inquiry into the Australian
Citizenship Amendment (Citizenship Test Review and Other
Measures) Bill 2009 of the Senate
Legal and Constitutional Committee.
Congratulations to Professor Peta Spender
for her appointment to the National Legal Profession
Reform Consultative Group, the role of which
is to advise a specialist Taskforce on recommendations
for national regulation of the legal profession. Please
see the media
release by the Attorney-General, Hon Robert McClelland
MP.
The Shariah Faculty Law Deans of Indonesia'a
six State Islamic Universities (UIN) visit
the ANU College of Law to consult on curriculum reform.
See
details
Andrew Bartlett makes a submission
to the Senate Legal & Constitutional Affairs
Legislation Committee Inquiry into the Migration
Amendment (Complementary Protection) Bill 2009.
He also gave evidence to the Senate Education, Employment
and Workplace Relations References Committee: Proof
Committee Hansard (Reference:Welfare
of international students pp 9-20).
Mark Nolan and Miriam Gani
make a submission to the Commonwealth Attorney
General's Department on proposed amendments
to the National
Security Legislation
ANU College of Law lecturers, Andrew Bartlett,
Dr Hitoshi Nasu and Matthew
Zagor and students, Annabelle Craft
and Nicholas Dahlstrom make a submission
to the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Migration's
Inquiry into the treatment of disability under the Migration
Act
The Annual 2009 Postgraduate Law Research Conference:
Law & Change held at ANU College of Law
For
details
Postgraduate
law students report
Photographs
The ANU College of Law Visiting Fellow, Professor
George Williams, wins Laureate
Fellowship.
Senior
national and international judicial figures gathered
at University House on 4 June 2009 for a lunch hosted
by the ANU College of Law.
ANU
News report
The ANU College of Law hosted the
Annual
Conference of the International Association of Law Schools
(IALS) from 25 to 27 May 2009, at University House.
ANU
News report
ANU College of Law congratulates Professor
Mick Dodson on becoming the Australian of the
Year 2009. See the ANU
media release.
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
Congratulations to Alex Bruce for
his edited book, 'One
World: Many Paths to Peace', which the Dalai Lama
is launching in Melbourne on 10 December.
ANU College of Law staff receive Excellence
in Education Awards 2009
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
Danielle Noble, ANU
Law graduate, plays a key role in Bangladeshi
twins story.
Applications are invited from Law students
for the annual Lawyers
Weekly Icon Awards. The awards are run by Lawyers
Weekly and are free to enter. The deadline for entries
is Tuesday 15 June 2010.
Are You Looking for a Graduate Job? Why
not come along to 'TERTIARY TO WORK'
and meet with 70 employers, many of whom are interested
in recruiting law graduates, at Canberra's annual graduate
jobs fair.
Friday 26 March 1-5pm at the
National Convention Centre, Constitution Ave.
Free buses depart from Union Court (North Road) every
half hour from 12.30 - 4pm.
For more information on exhibitors go to
http://www.canberra.edu.au/tertiary-to-work/info-students.html
2009 Phillipa Weeks Scholarship in Law
awarded to ANU College of Law first-year student, Lachlan
Smith.
ANU Law Student, Pauline Thai, wins
Young Lawyers’
McCallum Medal Presentation
Dollars for Scholars - Elinor
Jean, recipient of Vice-Chancellor's Scholarship
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
