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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. The ordering deadline for the book is 27 November from ANU eView.

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

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

Congratulations to Professor Jane Stapleton for her election as an Honorary Bencher of Gray’s Inn. For more details

Success for Law in ANU Vice Chancellor's Staff Awards

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

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

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

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, again the highest ranked university in Australia (The Times Higher Education Supplement, October 2008)

ANU College of Law congratulates Professor Mick Dodson on becoming the Australian of the Year 2009. See the ANU media release.

ALUMNI NEWS

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

The ANU College of Law Jessup team for the 2010 competition has now been selected. Congratulations to:
Ellen Chapple
Rohan Kapur
Sarah Lynch
Sneha Rangnath
Samuel Thorpe

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

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STAFF IN THE MEDIA

November 2009

Matthew Rimmer
IP Policy Void in the 'Grand Climate Bargain'
Australian R & D Review, (November 2009, pp 24-25)

October 2009

Matthew Rimmer
Reform the Patent System
Australian R & D Review (October 2009, pp. 10-11)

September 2009

Kerry Murphy
Getting fair, not tough, on immigration
Eureka Street

Margaret Thornton
Government bows to religious right
The Age
Australian state to allow religious to discriminate against minority groups

Irishtimes.com

Marianne Dickie and Sue Tongue
Regulating the Migration Advice Industry -- Continuing the Debate
Immigration Review

Andrew Bartlett
Ministerial Discretion in the Migration Act: Policy, legislation and politics
Immigration Review

Kerry Murphy
Liberal Senator's immigration heroism
Eureka Street.com.au

Jeremy Boland
Love a start to curbing crime
3 September 2009, Canberra Times

August 2009

Andrew Bartlett
Submission to the Inquiry into the Welfare of International Students
Senate Education, Employment and Workplace Relations Committee

Don Rothwell
Courts martial the answer to defence dilemma
ANU News

Matthew Rimmer
Senate Community Affairs inquiry into gene patents
Proof Committee Hansard

Simon Bronitt and Mark Nolan
Our sights must be set on justice
The Age

Wayne Morgan
Equal before the law
The ANU Reporter

Don Rothwell and Owen Cordes-Holland
Better to delay emissions Bill till after Copenhagen
The Canberra Times

Owen Cordes-Holland and Don Rothwell
Time to negotiate
ABC Online 'Unleashed'

Gregor Urbas and Molly O'Brien
DNA Evidence and Post-Conviction Exonerations
Radio Atticus (2SER)

Margaret Thornton
Our attitude to human rights seems to befit colonial times
The Age

July 2009

Kevin Boreham
The Waiting Game
The Age

Margaret Thornton
Church and state clash over equality laws
The Age

 

 

 

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