• NATIONAL JUDICIAL COLLEGE OF AUSTRALIA
• ANU COLLEGE OF LAW
• AUSTRALIAN ACADEMY OF FORENSIC SCIENCE
Australian
Academy
of
Forensic
Science
Academy
of
Forensic
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| JUDICIAL REASONING: ART OR SCIENCE? |
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2009
l FINKEL THEATRE
l THE AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL
UNIVERSITY l CANBERRA Jointly hosted by the National Judicial College of Australia, the ANU College of Law & the Australian Academy of Forensic Science |
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PAPERS (Some of the above papers will be published in a forthcoming issue of the Australian Journal of Forensic Sciences) |
Opening Address - Chief Justice Robert French, High Court of Australia Blinking on the Bench: How Judges Decide Cases - The Hon. Andrew J. Wistrich, United States District Court, Central District of California USA Legal
Existentialism: Reasoning beyond Reason in the Law - Professor James
Raymond, President of The International Institute for Legal Writing and
Reasoning Judicial Reflections on the Art and Performance of Judging - Associate Professor Greta Bird & Dr Nicole Rogers, School of Law and Justice, Southern Cross University NSW Disparities in Sentencing Decisions: Evidence of unconscious influences - Professor Jane Goodman-Delahunty, Australian Graduate School of Policing & School of Social Science and Liberal Studies, Charles Sturt University; & Professor Siegfried L. Sporer University of Giessen, Germany Judicial Decision-making and Neurobiology - Dr Hayley Bennett, Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute, NSW and Professor Tony Broe, Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute, NSW Prejudice, the Judicial Virus - Justice John Dowsett, Federal Court of Australia A Judge’s Perspective on Using Sentencing Databases - Justice Brian Preston, Chief Judge, Land and Environment Court NSW An Explicit Representation of Judicial Reasoning - Mr Andrew Stranieri, Centre for Informatics and Applied Optimisation, University of Ballarat VIC Judicial Reasoning and the 'Just World Delusion' - Dr Julia Davis, Associate Professor in Law, University of South Australia Reasoning by Analogy in the Law - Professor John Farrar, Bond University QLD Scientific Evidence: A Need for Caution in Decision Making - Mr Jonathan Beach QC, Victorian Bar Social Context Education for the Judiciary - Mr George Thomson, National Judicial Institute, Canada [being transcribed] Values and Assumptions in Judicial Decisions - The Hon. Richard Chisholm, formerly a Judge of the Family Court of Australia, Visiting Fellow at ANU College of Law INQUIRIES |
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Conference hosted by the: • NATIONAL JUDICIAL COLLEGE OF AUSTRALIA • ANU COLLEGE OF LAW • AUSTRALIAN ACADEMY OF FORENSIC SCIENCE |
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Australian Academy of Forensic Science |
http://njca.anu.edu.au/Professional%20Development/programs%20by%20year/2009/Judic%20reason%20public.htm