Join Professor Alison Young (Sir David Williams Professor of Public Law (Cambridge) and Emeritus Fellow of Hertford College (Oxford)) in a discussion about her experiences as a postgraduate student at Oxford and later Professor, first at Oxford and now at Cambridge.

The discussion will be moderated by Dr Jelena Gligorijevic who took undertook doctoral study at the University of Cambridge prior to her appointment to the ANU College of Law. Many ANU College of Law graduates have gone on to postgraduate studies around the world, and a large number have chosen to study at Cambridge or Oxford. This conversation is an ideal chance to receive some insider information about the experiences and opportunities on offer at two renowned and popular destinations for Australian law students, and there will be plenty of time to ask questions of your own.

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About the speakers

Professor Alison Young is the 2023 Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the ANU Law School. She is currently Sir David Williams Professor of Public Law at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Robinson College. Additionally, she is the legal advisor to the House of Lords Select Committee on the Constitution and an academic associate at 39 Essex Chambers. She sits on the Editorial Boards of European Public Law and of Public Law, and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, a trustee of The Constitution Society, a member of the UK Constitution Monitoring Group, and is affiliated with the Oxford Human Rights Hub and with the Programme for the Foundations of Law and Constitutional Government, both at the University of Oxford where she is also an Emeritus Fellow of Hertford College. In 2015 she received a Leverhulme Research Fellowship. Professor Young’s research traverses all aspects of public law, both of the UK and the EU, and is often illuminated by reference to comparisons drawn from other commonwealth countries and France. Her main interest is in constitutional theory, particularly dialogue theory. She has published widely in all of these areas, and is the author of Parliamentary Sovereignty and the Human Rights Act (Hart Publishing, 2009) and, Democratic Dialogue and the Constitution (OUP, 2017), which was a runner up for the main Inner Temple Book Prize, 2018.

Dr Jelena Gligorijevic is a Senior Lecturer and Deputy Associate Dean (Higher Degree Research) at the ANU College of Law. She specialises in media law and constitutional law, and the intersection between the two. She completed her LLM and PhD at the University of Cambridge, and her doctoral work has been cited in the Cambridge Law Journal. During her time at Cambridge, Dr Gligorijevic published in the Journal of Media Law, Public Law, and the Human Rights Law Review. During her PhD, her work on parliamentary privilege and the rule of law was cited by the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales in his speech to the Commonwealth Law Conference. Also during her time at Cambridge, she received several research grants which enabled her to travel and present her work at international conferences, including in Montreal, Dublin, Melbourne, Genova, Leuven and Münster. Since her appointment at the ANU, Dr Gligorijevic has continued to publish her research in apex law journals, and her work on privacy has been cited in the High Court of Australia. She has also been an expert consultant for and made submissions to federal law reform inquiries, and her recommendations have been adopted in Attorney-General reports to reform Australian privacy laws and defamation laws. Dr Gligorijevic is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and at the ANU she teaches Australian Public Law, and Media Law.

Please note that this event will now be streamed on Zoom as well as delivered in-person. Register on Zoom here.