The Annual Kirby Lecture in International Law: Claiming Queer Liberty title
Sexual liberty must come out of the international legal closet. While non-discrimination and privacy law have been the basis for some very important queer rights victories, they cannot deliver that which is most central to queer sexuality: the right to have consensual sex outside the confines of the classic marital, procreative model.
Mia says she's been harassed, blackmailed, and followed — but it's 'swept under the rug' title
From Medea to Blackburn Medallist and beyond title
International Women's Day 2024 breakfast title
Join us for a special breakfast event where you can connect with inspiring lawyers from the ACT region.
Learn about the diverse career paths for women in law – from private practice to NGOs, working "at the bar" to being an in-house lawyer, or what it is like to be a Judge. Meet and chat with female-identifying peers, lecturers, and alumni to gain insights and inspiration.
Light refreshments will be served.
Drawing out Justice in Law: Engagements at the intersection of law, art and politics title
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In a world where the injustice of gender violence persists, the law is frequently called on to help address those harms. But can it? Can we address gender harms separately from other harms? Is it enough to appeal to the law – or is the law complicit in the violence and harms that we are protesting against? What other possibilities are there to recognise trauma and address harms, and how might we create a fairer world that we want to live in?
DECRA success for Dr Ogg in landmark movement litigation study title
Interdisciplinary scholar Associate Professor Kate Ogg receives $426,000 for research into movement litigation from an Australian perspective.
Associate Professor Kate Ogg has been awarded Federal Government funding through the Australian Research Council’s (ARC) Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) scheme, which aims to advance the career of promising researchers by providing funds over a three-year period.
In conversation: Senator Hilda Heine title
Join us for a conversation with Senator Hilda Heine about women and leadership in the Pacific and the relation between gender justice and climate justice. This will be facilitated by Emerita Professor Margaret Jolly from the Gender Institute, and accompanied by afternoon tea.
Senator Hilda Heine is visiting for the AAPS conference, To Hell with Drowning (12-14 April) and is a member of the Pacific Elders Voice.
New book by ANU Law scholar investigates gender inequality in Pacific land tenure title
Rights to land and other natural resources are a contested issue across the Pacific region, and often provide a flashpoint for social tensions and political instability.
In conversation: improving the treatment of sexual assault survivors title
Join The Hon Helen Murrell SC, former ACT Chief Justice; Katrina Marson, former ACT Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions Senior Prosecutor (Sexual Offences Unit), researcher and author; Lorana Bartels, Professor of Criminology at the ANU Centre for Social Research and Methods; and Jacinta Moss-Pinch, co-leader of the LRSJ Law Students Against Sexual Harassment project, for this in conversation about the treatment of survivors of sexual assault in the judicial system in the ACT.