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Congratulations to Donald Anton, who has been nominated for UN Human Rights Council Independent Expert on human rights and the environment.

Kath Hall has been offered a non-residential Fellowship at the Edmund J Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University.

Congratulations to Don Rothwell on his appointment as an inaugural ANU Public Policy Fellow.

The 2012 Australasian Law Reform Agencies Conference will be held at ANU 12-14 September

The latest edition of the ANU College of Law Alumni Newsletter is now available.

ANU Vice-Chancellor Professor Ian Young appoints Professor Fiona Wheeler, Associate Dean, ANU College of Law as Chair of Academic Board

Congratulations to Associate Professor Tony Foley, ANU Legal Workshop who has been appointed a part-time senior member of the ACT Civil and Administrative Tribunal. He joins Professor Peta Spender who is a Presidential Member on the tribunal. More details

ANU College of Law honours award winning students at 2012 Annual Prize Ceremony

ANU College of Law Professor wins prestigious 2011 Zines Prize for Excellence in Legal Research

NEW BOOK - Matthew Rimmer and Alison McLennan (ed.), Intellectual Property and Emerging Technologies: The New Biology, 2012

The 2012 recipient of the Phillipa Weeks Scholarship in Law announced by the ANU College of Law

The ANU College of Law congratulates alumni recognised in Australia Day Honours 2012.

Don Anton attended an Experts' Group Meeting in Geneva on 25-26 January to discuss the establishment of Special Procedures on Human Rights, the Environment, and Climate Change under the auspices of the U.N. Human Rights Council.

Sydney Morning Herald  names Tim Bonyhady's 'Good Living Street' as one of the books of the year.

Dr Daniel Fitzpatrick receives ARC 2011 Future Fellowship. More details

Congratulations to Marianne Dickie for being one of the finalists in the ACT Australian of the Year Awards 2012 in the 'ACT Local Hero' category.

The ANU College of Law congratulates four academic staff members for receiving Australian Research Council (ARC) grants

Michael Eburn has been elected chair of the Emergency Media and Public Affairs Inc (EMPA), Resarch and Development Committee for the next 12 months.  EMPA is the peak body for emergency service media communicators. More details

US Court of Appeals rules in favour of Indigenous Ecuadorians supported by Don Anton's Amici Brief

The ANU College of Law announces the establishment of the Yuill Scholarship to support the International Court of Justice Traineeship Program

ALUMNI NEWS

The Australian-American Fulbright Commission has announced that ANU College of Law graduate, Celia Winnett is a 2012 Fulbright Postgraduate Scholar.

Congratulations to Justice Robert Beech-Jones, ANU College of Law alumnus, who has been appointed to the Supreme Court of NSW.

STUDENT NEWS

ANU College of Law students compete in the 16th Annual Stetson International Environmental Moot Court Competition.

ANU International Law Society (ILS)
established to provide students with new and exciting ways of engaging with international law.
More details

Applications are invited from law graduates for the 4th Gaire Blunt Scholarship 2012
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Applications open 31 January - 31 May 2012

ANU College of Law students, talk about their experience with the Law Reform and Social Justice Program:
John Croker
Jessica Lee
Margaret Long
Christopher Patz

 

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STAFF IN THE MEDIA

May 2012

Margaret Thornton Large firms lacking balance.
Lawyers Weekly
18 May 2012

Matthew Rimmer
Why are gene patents so controversial?
Crikey, 16 May 2012

Don Anton
Wikileaks' lawyer Jennifer Robinson in conversation with Don AntonANU Youtube Channel, 8 May, 2012

Why it makes no sense for Australia to be a spoiler in Rio
Canberra Times
7 May 2012

April 2012

Matthew Rimmer
Big Tobacco's box fetish: plain packaging at the high court 
The Conversation
20 April 2012

Matthew Rimmer
Wozniak not alone in fearing patent wars
The Australian Financial Review
17 April 2012

Matthew Rimmer
Copyright in the digital age: Australia, ACTA and the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement
Stephanie McDonald, Computerworld: Techworld
13 April 2012

Don Rothwell
Asylum seekers have right to sail on - expert

ANU Media Release
10 April 2012

Margaret Thornton
Movements in the modernisation of marriage
Canberra Times Opinion Piece
9 April 2012

Matthew Rimmer on CSIRO Wi-Fi patent settlement
Brisbane Times
2 April 2012

March 2012

Margaret Thornton, Corporate hue colours issues of accountability
The Australian

March 2012

Matthew Rimmer: Secret treaty needs investigation
9 NEWS
ACTA treaty mauled in hearings 
itnews
23 March 2012

February 2012

Tom Faunce as co-author in MJA - Challenges to Australia’s national health policy from trade and investment agreements
29 February 2012

Alison McLennan
and Matthew Rimmer, 'Inventing Life: Patent Law and Synthetic Biology'
The Conversation
27 February 2012

Dominique Dalla-Pozza and Don Rothwell
People may yet have final say
The Canberra Times
25 February 2012

Tom Faunce
Evergreening patents: playing monopoly with solar fuels and medicine innovations
The Conversation
22 February, 2012

Don Anton's
continuing pro bono work on behalf of indigenous and farmer communities in Ecuador is reported on a leading indigenous peoples' news website.
13 February, 2012

Michael Eburn and Ruth Townsend

Resignation now could help O'Shane preserve a proud legacy
Majority of O'Shane decisions overturned in Supreme Court appeals
The Sydney Morning Herald
8 February, 2012

George Barker
A New Look at an Old Survey Finds P2P Hurts Music Purchases
Billboard.biz
2 February, 2012

January 2012

George Barker
Oil and the World Economy
China TV (CCTV)
23 January 2012

Moeen Cheema
Pakistan's clash of institutional authority
Op-Ed
22 January, 2012

Don Rothwell
Should the captain go down with his ship?
ABC News
18 January, 2012

Don Anton
Opinion piece on Rio+20 Conference, Consilience - The Journal for Sustainable Development, Columbia University
Jan 2012

Moeen Cheema
Cricket and Politics in Pakistan
Aljazeera
18 Jan 2012

Don Rothwell
Our government fiddles as Japan makes a mockery of the whale sanctuary
The Age
13 January, 2012

Australia limits its whaling response
Opinion, The Sydney Morning Herald
3 January, 2012


 

 

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