Past events
- The Hon Albie Sachs
For over 50 years Albie Sachs has been one of South Africa’s leading human rights lawyers and campaigners. As a young barrister he defended people charged under racist statutes and repressive security laws, many facing the death sentence. He himself...
- Dr Kota Fukui
- Hilary Charlesworth
Hilary Charlesworth is known internationally for her research, writing and commentary on human rights, women’s issues, feminism, international law and legal education.
Hilary is an Australian Research...
- Kim Rubenstein, Susan Harris-Rimmer, Simon Rice and Meghan Cooper
Join host Kim Rubenstein (ANU College of Law) and panellists Susan Harris Rimmer (ANU Centre for International Governance Justice), Simon Rice (ANU Law Reform and Social Justice Program) and Meghan Cooper (Australian National Committee for UN Women) to...
- Margaret Thornton, Peter Bailey, Wayne Morgan and Simon Rice
In July 2010, the LR&SJ Program convened a roundtable of discrimination law experts to respond to a Commonwealth Government proposal to amalgamate the four federal anti-discrimination statutes. Many of Australia’s leading discrimination law...
- Phil Lynch
Phil Lynch has been Executive Director and Principal Solicitor of the Human Rights Law Resource Centre since 2006. Phil was previously the founding Coordinator of the PILCH Homeless Persons’ Legal Clinic which, in 2005, was conferred with the...
- Julian Burnside AO QC
Julian Burnside AO QC is a Melbourne barrister and author. In a diverse commercial litigation practice he has acted for the Ok Tedi people against BHP and for the Maritime Union of Australia in the 1998 waterfront dispute against Patrick Stevedores,...
- Professor David Weisbrot
David Weisbrot is Professor of Law and Governance at Macquarie University and Professor of Legal Policy at the United States Studies Centre. He is also an Emeritus Professor of Law and an Honorary Professorial Fellow in Medicine at the University of...
- Jack Goldring, District Court Judge NSW
- Sir Laurence Street, commercial mediator
- J.E. Isaac, University of Melbourne
In 2004 the ANU Faculty of Law held a highly successful conference on the subject of Australian lawyers and social change, focussing particularly on action outcomes.
