The Australian National University (ANU) College of Law is proud to announce the appointment of Associate Professor Anthony Hopkins as an Acting Judge of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Supreme Court. 

This event is about legality and resistance; global culture and local knowledge; film-making as ways of doing and undoing law. It features two presentations and a panel discussion presenting exciting new work about representations of law in contemporary cinema from Latin America.

Since the United States’ Global Magnitsky Act came into force in 2016, multiple countries, including Australia, have expanded their sanctions regimes to include individuals accused of corruption. Now, a landmark study led by Dr Anton Moiseienko evaluates the regime’s impact with novel results.

Professor Tim McCormack is an expert on international criminal law and Special Adviser on War Crimes to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in The Hague.   In this in conversation Tim will be joined by Sue Robertson, international legal advisor to the Australian Government and current head of the APS Integrity Taskforce to discuss his career with the International Criminal Court, looking at challenges of complex prosecutions such as that of Vladimir Putin.

The challenges facing evidence-based law have never been so substantial. Courts are grappling with an exponentially growing body of scientific research that is of uneven quality and transparency. Perhaps not surprisingly then, invalid or misleading forensic science evidence has contributed to many wrongful convictions in Australia and abroad. At the heart of the problem is the interdisciplinary challenge of communicating uncertainty about science to laypeople.

Honorary Associate Professor Gregor Urbas has been named among four new Special Magistrates by Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Attorney-General Shane Rattenbury.