Past events
- Cary Scott-Kemmis, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
In 2016 United Nations treaty negotiations for an agreement on ‘marine biodiversity beyond national jurisdiction’ will commence. Negotiations for this prospective agreement – which would build on existing international legal architecture under the Law...
- Bernard Collaery, Collaery Lawyers
Hear Bernard Collaery explain the law or lack thereof behind the raid on his Canberra office over alleged espionage revelations . . . and how the ICJ has ordered Attorney-General Brandis to cease espionage against East Timor, seal documents that ASIO...
- Professor John McMillan AO, Australian Information Commissioner
- Dr Genevieve Ebbeck, Australian Government Solicitor
- Cain Sibley, Clayton Utz
- Professor Kim Rubenstein, ANU College of Law
- Joanne Kinslor, Kinslor Prince Lawyers
The Human Rights Committee of the United Nations recently found that Australia breached its human rights obligations under article 17(1) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) by unlawful interference in the family life of...
- Stephen Rapp, Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues, Office of Global Criminal Justice, U.S. Department of State
At a time when mass atrocities are being committed with apparent impunity in Syria, Iraq, South Sudan, and elsewhere, many see international criminal justice as having failed its promise. Ambassador Rapp recounts the progress that has been achieved,...
- Felicity Hammond
- John Atwood
Australia’s landmark Tobacco Plain Packaging (TPP) law entered into force in 2012, having survived a challenge in the Australian High Court. However, the TPP law is currently being challenged in an investor-State dispute settlement arbitration under...
- Justice Rachel Pepper, Judge of the Land and Environment Court of NSW
We are extremely fortunate to have Justice Rachel Pepper of the NSW Land and Environment Court at the ANU College of Law.
During her visit, Justice Pepper will be holding a short talk, followed by a Q and A for female law students. On the...
- Launched by Mr Colin Neave AM, Commonwealth Ombudsman
Law and Democracy: Contemporary Questions, edited by Glenn Patmore and Kim Rubenstein, provides a fresh understanding of law’s regulation of Australian democracy. The book, which evolved from a Centre for International and Public Law's annual...
- Pnina Sharvit Baruch, Institute for National Security Studies
- Camille Goodman and Dr Greg French
As a nation with one of the largest maritime domains, Australia has fundamental and abiding interests in promoting international norms for the protection and preservation of the marine environment and for the conservation and sustainable use of marine...
