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UPCOMING EVENTS 2012

Friday 4 May

CIPL Friday Seminar Series

Japanese Whaling and the Law of the Sea

Professor Don Rothwell, ANU College of Law

6-8 August, 2012

CIPL Workshop: Connecting International law with Public Law

En/gendering governance: from the local to the global

Thursday 20 September

Annual Kirby Lecture on Internationl Law
to be presented by Judge Christopher Weeramantry

More information to follow

Friday 21 September

15th Geoffrey Sawer Lecture
to be presented by Professor Adrienne Stone, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne

More information to follow

Thursday 20 September - Saturday 22 September

Public Law Weekend
Law's Challenge to Democracy - Democracy's Challenge to Law

More information to follow

 

2012 PAST EVENTS

Friday Lunchtime Seminar
20 April
The UN Human Rights Committee and the Right to Enter One's Own Country
Ms Jennifer Cavenagh
Senior Legal Officer, Office of International Law, Attorney-General's Department

Friday Lunchtime Seminar
13 April
Revisiting the Principal of Non-Intervention: A Structural Principle of International Law or a Political Obstacle to Regional Security in Asia?
Dr Hitoshi Nasu
ANU College of Law

Friday Lunchtime Seminar
16 March
Privileges and Immunities: An On-going American Controversy and a Debatable Australian Offshoot
Professor William Buss
The University of Iowa

Friday Lunchtime Seminar
2 March
Unexpected Defeat:The Unsuccessful War Crimes Prosecutions of Lt Gen Yamawaki Masataka and others at Manus Island, 1950
Dr Narelle Morris
Asia Pacific Centre for Military Law, The University of Melbourne

2011 PAST EVENTS

Public Seminar
13 December
The Role of the ICJ in the Formulation and Development of
Fundamental Norms of International Law

Emiritus Professor Vera Gowlland-Debass,
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID), Geneva

Public Seminar
12 December
Current issues at the desk of the Danish Legal Advisor

Ambassador Thomas Winkler, Head of the Legal Service,
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Copenhagen

Public Seminar
7 December
Dr Marsha Freeman, University of Minnesota Human Rights Centre
Convention on the elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW):
A new commentary - Why Now and for What Purpos
e

Public Seminar
29 November
Plaintiff M61/2010E v Commonwealth and Momcilovic v The Queen
Daniel Stewart & James Stellios

Public Seminar
10 November
The UN Security Council, NATO, the European Union, the ICC and Libya
Professor Wladyslaw Czaplinski,
Institute of Legal Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences
AUDIO

Friday Lunchtime Seminar
Pursuing Constitutional Dialogue within Socialist Vietnam: The 2010 Debate
Huong Nguyen - Maurer School of Law, Indiana University

Friday Lunchtime Seminar
7 October
An Australian Experience in Vienna:Drafting the
UNODC model law on smuggling of migrants

Fiona David, ANU College of Law

Friday Lunchtime Seminar
16 September
Constitutional Chamge and Australian Republicanism
Glenn Patmore, University of Melbournehe Right Hon

AUDIO


Fourteenth Geoffrey Sawer Lecture
9 September

Anti-Terrorism, the Judiciary and the Rule of Law
The Right Hon Madam Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin, PC, Canadian Chief Justice

VIDEO   AUDIO

16th ANNUAL PUBLIC LAW WEEKEND
9&10 September
"10 years on from September 11: the Impact on Public Law"
Program & Proceedings


CIPL Friday Lunchtime Seminar
2 September
Do we need an International Law on the Self-determination of Peoples?
Mr Nicholas Duff, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies

AUDIO

Public Seminar
31 August

State Control over Private Military & Security Companies in Armed Conflict
Dr Hannah Tonkin, Lawyer, United Nations

AUDIO

Public Seminar
23 August

Relections on the ECCC
Presented by the Australian Red Cross, CIPL & Mallesons Stephen Jaques
Panelists: Professor Gerry Simpson, Ms Margaret Adamson
AUDIO

Friday Lunchtime Seminar
19 August
Running a Large Commonwealth Legal Services Team: the Callenges and the pitfalls
Mr Simon Matthews,
ATO General Counsel Law & Practice
and Mr Nick Westerink, Assistant Commissioner Legal Service, ATO

AUDIO
Power Point Presentation


Friday Lunchtime Seminar
5 August
Prosecuting Drug Cheats in the Court of Arbitration for Sport: Insight into the International anti-
doping framework

Ms Catherine Ordway, Sport & Anti-Doping Consultant
PRESENTATION 
AUDIO



Public Event
26 July

Arms Trade Treaty
Hosted by the ANU Centre for European Studies, CIPL and
the ACT Red Cross International Humantarian Law Committee
AUDIO

Public Seminar
28 June
Law Enforcement issues in Maritime Security
Presented by Assistant Professor Chie Kojima & Commander Ian Campbell
AUDIO

WORKSHOP
27-29 June
Connecting International and Public Law
Security Institutions and International and Public Law

19th Annual ANZSIL Conference
23-25 June

The Promise and Limits of International Law
PROGRAM

Annual Kirby Lecture on International Law
23 June
THE LAWS OF WAR: Under Siege or Gaining Ground?
presented by the Hon Louise Arbour CC, GOQ
President & CEO International Crisis Group, Brussels, Belgium
VIDEO  PAPER

Public Lecture
15 June
Bringing Nazi Criminals to Justice: The Domestic and International Law Parameters
Efraim Zuroff, Director of the Simon Wisenthal Centre Office
AUDIO

Rountable Discussion
24 May
Human Rights Protections - What does Australia Need
Panellists:
Navanethem (Navi) Pillay, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
Dr Helen Watchirs, ACT Human Rights & Discrimination Commissioner
Professor Tom Campbell, Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, ANU
AUDIO  VIDEO  PAPER

Friday Lunchtime Seminar
20 May
Judicial Review in Australia: the Administrative Review Council’s Inquiry
Roger Wilkins AO, Secretary, Attorney General's Department
and member of the Administrative Review Counci
l
AUDIO

Friday Lunchtime Seminar
6 May

The Battle over Interpretive Power: States and Tribunals in the Investment Treaty System
Ms Anthea Roberts, Lecutrer in Law, London School of Economics,
Visiting Fellow, ANU College of Law
AUDIO

Public Lecture
14 April

Universal Jurisdiction and the Suppression of Modern-day Piracy
His Excellency Kriangsak Kittichaisaree LLB LLM PhD
Thai Ambassador to Australia

Presentation

Friday Lunchtime Seminar
1 April

New Constitutional Review in France: How Does the French Constitution Finally Soeak to its People - or Does it?
Dr Marie-Luce Paris-Dobozy

Public Lecture
29 March

Aspects of the Work of the International Law Commission
Sir Michael Wood, Member of UN International Law Commission

FCO Legal Advisor (1999-2006)
AUDIO

Friday Lunchtime Seminar
18 March

The First Four Months of the FOI Reforms

James Popple, Freedom of Information Commissioner,
Office of the Australian Information Commissioner

Friday Lunchtime Seminar
11 March
ITLOS CASE NO.17:International Environment Law in the Seabed Disputes Chamber
 Don Anton, ANU College of Law
Podcast

Public Lecture
24 January

U.S. Policy and Accountability for Mass Atrocities, Past and Present
Mr Stephen J Rapp
U.S. Ambassador-at-Large, War Crime Issues
AUDIO

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