Alumni events
Upcoming events
- Professor Brian P. Schmidt AC
Join the University for the 2017 Singapore ANU Alumni and Friends Reception hosted by the Vice-Chancellor Professor Brian P Schmidt AC.
- Professor Shirley Leitch
Join the University for the 2017 Malaysia ANU Alumni and Friends Reception hosted by Professor Shirley Leitch, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Global Engagement).
- Genevieve Jacobs, host of Mornings on ABC Radio canberra
- Professor Stephen Bottomley, Dean, ANU College of Law
This list of books and films is an expression of our Law School’s values and a reminder that a well-rounded education does not come solely from prescribed texts and journals. Reading for pleasure, and broadening one's world view, can be a wonderful supplement to the benefits that an education and a career in the law provides.
- Hon Justice Stephen Gageler AC
- Professor Jenny Hocking FASSA, Monash University
The dismissal of the Whitlam government by the Governor-General Sir John Kerr in 1975 remains one of the most contentious episodes in Australian politics. The history of the dismissal is no less contentious and has never been settled.
- Professor Margaret Thornton
- Anne Macduff
- Professor Desmond Manderson
- Justine Poon
- Dr Dorota Gozdecka
Questions of migration and citizenship have become so prominent that not a week passes without a new heated legal controversy surrounding the regulation of the lives of migrants.
- A/Prof Therese MacDermott
There has been in place mechanisms for pursuing the principle of non-discrimination at work on the basis of age for some time within the Australian legislative framework.
Past events
- A/Prof Susan Harris-Rimmer, Griffith University
Feminist international law scholarship has always insisted on showing the human faces of the state, why constructions of gender matter to the state, and which humans are excluded or silenced by gendered constructions of the state.
- Julian Burnside
- Professor Simon Rice OAM
- Professor Stephen Bottomley
ANU/THE CANBERRA TIMES MEET THE AUTHOR
In Watching Out, a successor volume to his best-selling Watching Brief, noted barrister and human-rights advocate Julian Burnside explains the origins of our legal system, looks at the way it operates in practice, and points out ways in which does and doesn't run true to its ultimate purposes. Rich with fascinating case studies, and eloquent in its defence of civil society, Watching Out is a beacon of legal liberalism in an intemperate age.
The ANU Centre for Commercial Law and Centre for International and Public Law are proud to announce a conference to mark the 40th anniversary of the establishment of the Federal Court of Australia.
Imagine condensing hours, days and even years of complex research into a short presentation while being judged by an expert panel and lecture theatre full of your peers and strangers. An 80,000 word thesis would take 9 hours to read, they have 3 minutes.
- Vice-Chancellor Professor Brian P. Schmidt AC
Join the University for the 2017 San Francisco ANU Alumni and Friends Reception hosted by the Vice-Chancellor Professor Brian P Schmidt AC. Professor Stephen Bottomley, Dean ANU College of Law, will be in attendance to meet ANU Law alumni.
- Vice-Chancellor Professor Brian P. Schmidt AC
Join the University for the 2017 New York ANU Alumni and Friends Reception hosted by the Vice-Chancellor Professor Brian P Schmidt AC. Professor Stephen Bottomley, Dean ANU College of Law, will be in attendance to meet ANU Law alumni.
Join the University for the 2017 Washington DC ANU Alumni and Friends Reception. Professor Stephen Bottomley, Dean ANU College of Law, will be in attendance to meet ANU Law alumni.
- Fiona McLeod, President of the Law Council of Australia
- Noor Blumer, ACT woman lawyer of the year (2016)
The LSS and Clayton Utz proudly presents the annual Women in Law Breakfast.
- Sarouche Razi, Kimberley Community Legal Service
- Professor Brian P. Schmidt AC, ANU Vice Chancellor
- Senator Patrick Dodson
This launch marks a new partnership between Kimberley Community Legal Services and the ANU through which KCLS aims to substantially innovate and extend civil law legal help for Aboriginal people in the Kimberley. The hope is that this will enable and position KCLS to manifest breakthrough legal service models based on long-term relationships with clients, working from client vantage points, in furtherance of client goals.
- Professor Joshua Getzler, University of Oxford
Joshua will reflect on the role of "leading cases" in forming the common law tradition, and re-examine the mode of historical analysis of cases pioneered by AWB Simpson.
