Past events
- Mark Grentell, Director
- Anne Robinson, Producer
- Francis Kamara, Actor
Join the International Organization for Migration, the United Nations Information Center, the United Nations Association of Australia and the Centre for International & Public Law for the screening of The Merger.
The ANU Law School has a long tradition of excellence in administrative law scholarship and of engagement with government and the private profession in public law.
- The Hon Margaret Stone FAAL, Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security
Over the centuries, governments, whether royal sovereigns or sovereign states, have relied on spies to reinforce their power and security.
- Professor Donald R Rothwell
The status of islands and their peoples has raised a series of issues for international law over time. From the 1921 Aaland Islands case to the current Chagos Archipelago Advisory Opinion, islands and their peoples have occupied governments, the League of Nations, the United Nations, and international courts and tribunals.
- Dr Sarah Holcombe, Senior Fellow, University of Queensland, and Visiting Fellow at ANU
The criminalisation of gender violence, though enormously important in validating women’s rights as human rights, has had particular and unintended effects in Aboriginal communities.
- Frances Adamson, Secretary, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Frances Adamson, Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, will discuss the need to extend the rules-based international order to Space.
- Justice Melissa Perry, Federal Court of Australia
Water is key to the existence of life. From the nourishment of our physical selves, to sanitation, health, agriculture, and energy production our existence and way of life depends upon access to adequate and reliable supplies of fresh-water.
- Dr Annemarie Devereux
Ensuring accountability for human rights violations is a central tenet of the international human rights framework.
- Catherine Kessedjian, Professor Emerita, University Panthéon-Assas Paris II
The UNCITRAL has launched negotiations for the reform of investor-state dispute resolution to address states' concerns over a process that they feel has gotten out of hand. Professor Kessedjian will reflect on some of the criticism and discuss what solutions could be crafted to address them.
- Dr Craig Reynolds, Honorary Professor, School of Culture, History & Language, ANU College of Asia & the Pacific
- Professor Anthony Connolly, ANU College of Law and ANU Academic Board
- Sarah Bishop, PhD candidate, ANU College of Law
The criminal trial of a senior Thai academic along with four others that commenced this July 2018 has thrown a sharp spotlight on conditions in Thailand’s universities since the military seized government there in 2014.
