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Law’s #MeToo moment: Effecting change in the legal profession
Kieran Pender writes in Australian Book Review
Coronavirus restrictions could mean more risk-taking on our roads, but ACT police warn 'someone's luck will run out'
quoted in ABC News
Planning for a post-COVID-19 financial sector that works for everyone
Lee-Anne Sim writes in Medium
Economic matters: Fund the new tax cuts by cancelling cuts for well off
Elizabeth Curran writes in The Age
First ever Australian study finds yoga can help prisoners in Australia
Anthony Hopkins speaks to SBS Hindi
University shakes up public perception of lawyers
Elizabeth Curran speaks to Lawyers Weekly
The Brief: Australia's Banking Royal Commission
interviewed by APPS Policy Forum
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Past events
Challenging Words
- Professor Zenon Bankowski
- Professor Desmond Manderson
This workshop aims to challenge the preponderance of words in legal education and address the growing need of thinking of law in its current setting that is highly influences by changing imageries, visual media and technological progress utilising different means of perception.
Doing the research I do has left scars: Challenges of researching in the transitional justice field
- Dr Olivera Simić, Griffith University
Transitional justice research involves critical examination of difficult topics that can raise ethical and methodological issues for participants and for researchers.
GDLP panel event - for all law students
Join us at this event to hear about how our GDLP can give you the edge in the increasingly competitive marketplace.
Brave new worlds: Challenges for evidence in the 21st century
- The Honourable Justice Stephen Gageler, High Court of Australia
In partnership with the ANU College of Law, the National Judicial College of Australia will present the biennial Conference on 4 and 5 March 2017.
When and why do legal professions seek to influence law
- Professor Leslie Levin, University of Connecticut
In this presentation Professor Levin looks at the circumstances under which legal professions throughout the world, through mandatory and voluntary lawyer associations, attempt to influence the law by either advocating for legal change or opposing it.
One day Ethics Roundtable: Reimagining lawyer regulation in light of the realities of practice?
- Professor Leslie Levin, University of Connecticut School of Law
40th Anniversary of the Federal Court of Australia
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.
Wellbeing in the Law Week - Mon 8 to Fri 12 May
The ANU College of Law is committed to health and wellbeing in the law, for all our students and academic and professional staff. This is the inaugural Wellbeing in the Law Week, presented by the ANU College of Law Wellbeing Initiative and the ANU Law Students' Society.
Special Staff Meeting - Wellness in the Law Community
A ‘special’ Staff Meeting will be held on Thursday 11 May 12-1 (Moot Court) during Wellness in the Law week. This staff-only event will focus on issues of wellbeing in the Law Community
ALRC inquiry into the incarceration rates of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
- Judge Matthew Myers AM, ALRC Commissioner
Judge Myers will speak about his work as ALRC Commissioner on the inquiry into the incarceration rates of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
Trauma, testimony and comics
- Dr Golnar Nabizadeh, University of Dundee
This seminar examines the intersections between the law, trauma, and testimony, arguing that the law has increasingly come to recognise the breadth of experience, and range of narrative iterations, that may constitute trauma.
Mid-year Careers Fair - UWA Blackstone Society
The ANU Legal Workshop will be in attendance to help you understand your options for your Practical Legal Training (PLT) so you can make choices on the next step in your career that are right for you.
Pindan, peripheries and power: First Nations peoples, civil law and justice in the Kimberley
- 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.
Jessup Moot information session
The Jessup Moot is a prestigious international mooting tournament, which takes place over the Australian summer. It is the biggest student mooting competition in the world, with over 500 law schools and over 80 countries participating.
30th Annual Lionel Murphy Memorial Lecture - The Secret History of the Dismissal of the Whitlam Government: The Palace Connection
- 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.
Indigenous Cultural Content in Australian Law Schools
- A/Prof Asmi Wood
- Dr Ron Levy
- Dr Anthony Hopkins
- A/Prof Molly Townes O'Brien
Several of our colleagues recently attended the Indigenous Cultural Competency for Legal Academics Program in Melbourne. They will be presenting a Teaching and Learning forum about the ideas discussed at the Program.
Dean's Graduation Reception
- Professor Stephen Bottomley, ANU College of Law
GRADUATING STUDENTS - you and your families are warmly invited to the Dean's graduation reception prior to your graduation ceremony.
Can the legislature effectively supersede judicial interpretations with which it disagrees?
- Professor Deborah Widiss
Legislative supremacy depends on the assumption that if the legislative branch disagrees with a judicial interpretation of a law, it may “override” that interpretation by passing a new statute or amending an existing statute. This seminar will present my research looking at the efficacy of overrides in the United States, and it will explore possibilities for similar tensions to arise under the Australian system.
Mental Health Seminar: Survival guide for legal practice managers
- Maria Falas
In the lead up to Mental Health Week, the ACT Law Society is providing a free seminar presented by Maria Falas, Head of Mental Health and Wellbeing from OnePath Life Limited (legalsuper’s group insurer).
Doing lawyering differently and in a non-adversarial way to better respond to community
- Dr Liz Curran, ANU College of Law
This Seminar & Conversation will explore recent public inquiries in Australia and Dr Liz Curran’s research over the past six years suggesting a less adversarial approach may be necessary.
Meet a Judge
- The Honourable Justice Robert Osborn
- Professor Mark Nolan SFHEA
LRSJ Lunch with the Judge - Justice Robert Osborn
- The Hon Robert Osborn QC
- Associate Professor Matthew Zagor
Join Associate Professor Matthew Zagor and ANU Law’s Judge in Residence Justice Robert Osborn to discuss law reform in Victoria, and using your law degree to effect change in law and legal practice.
Tertiary to Work
Tertiary to Work (TTW) is Canberra's only Graduate Careers Fair for students of all disciplines.
The Children Act- Film Screening and Panel discussion
- Professor Tom Faunce
- Justice John Faulks, former family Court Judge and ALRC commissioner,
- Justice Mary Finn, former family Court Judge, former member of the ANU Council
The ANU College of Law, Law Reform and Social Justice Program proudly presents The Children Act.
The Legal Forecast ACT Chapter Launch
The Legal Forecast is a national organisation run by early-career lawyers and law students, who are passionate about disruptive thinking in the legal space and access to justice.
Shortlisted: Women, Diversity, the Supreme Court & Beyond
- Renee Newman Knake, Professor of Law and the Doherty Chair in Legal Ethics at the University of Houston Law Center
Bullying and Sexual Harassment in the Legal Profession
- Professor Sally Wheeler OBE
- Kieran Pender
The International Bar Association, together with The Australian National University, the Law Council of Australia, the ACT Law Society, the ACT Bar Association the Australian Academy of Law, will host a panel event to discuss findings from the IBA’s report Us Too? Bullying and Sexual Harassment in the Legal Profession.
