Program

ALTA Conference

Legal Knowledge:
Learning, Communicating and Doing

4-7 July 2006

Australasian Law Teachers Association

Final Program

Speakers

Sponsors

The Conference will be held at the Victoria University Law School campus in Queen St, Melbourne. The Law School of Victoria University is in a heritage building in the heart of the legal precinct of Melbourne's CBD, at 295 Queen St. The School is within walking distance of all levels of state and federal courts, barristers’ chambers, law firms, major corporate headquarters and government departments and agencies. Visit our map.

How to get to there: Direct train, bus and tram services operate to the CBD from all areas of Melbourne

Draft Program

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Tuesday 4 July 2006
6.00pm to 7.30pm	Welcome Reception All conference registrants, interest group convenors Hosted by Thomson Legal & Regulatory
Wednesday 5 July 2006
8.00am	Registration
9.30am	Conference Opening Justice Marcia Neave Court of Appeal Supreme Court of Victoria Opening Plenary Session: Legal Knowledge Keynote Speaker Dean Bryant Garth Former Executive Director, American Bar Foundation and Dean Southwestern University Law School Respondent: Professor Michael Coper Chair, Council of Australian Law Deans (CALD) Dean, Faculty of Law, Australian National University How is legal knowledge learnt and communicated? Who gains legal knowledge and is it important to power in society and participation? To what extent is legal knowledge local and to what extent international or global? What are the implications for law teaching and research?
11.00am	Morning Tea hosted by Oxford University Press
11.30am	Interest Group Sessions
11.30am	Criminal Law - Ian Dobinson Ian Dobinson Sports Courts: The National Rugby League (NRL) Judiciary University of Technology Sydney Brenda Midson Actions and Consequences: Teaching Causation in Criminal Law University of Waikato Jurisprudence & Legal Philosophy - Michelle Sanson Alan Cameron The Private Law-Public law Distinction as a Pluralist Conceptual Basis for teaching law: Toward a Reformational Theory of Contract Law Victoria University of Wellington Gary Wickham Foucault, Law, and Power: A Reassessment Murdoch University
11.30am	Legal History - Elise Histed Stefan Petrow Law and Order: Alex Castles and the legal history of Van Diemen's Land 1803 – 1855. University of Tasmania David Barker The American Case Method and its Influence on Modern Legal Education University of Technology Sydney Chris Brien R v Bonjon (1841) and R v Bolden (1841): Understanding His Honour Mr Justice Willis, The First Resident Judge of Port Phillip Victoria University Rosalind Croucher A study in law reform: the Family Provision Act 1982 - The Law Reform Commission, New South Wales v. Parliamentary Counsel Macquarie University
11.30am	South Pacific Legal Studies - Jennifer Corrin Care Tony Angelo Tokelau… a failed experiment Victoria University of Wellington Jennifer Corrin Care & Phillip Tagini Raking through the Ashes: an Analysis of Recent Events in Soloman Islands University of Queensland Indigenous People and the Law - Phil Falk Linda Te Aho Enabling more effective participation in Resource Management Processes for indigenous University of Waikato Maree Sainsbury Preserving the integrity of Indigenous art - the role of moral rights University of Canberra
11.30am	Legal Research & Communication – Law Librarians - Natalie Cuffe Kylie Burns The impact of judicial use of social facts on legal research and legal reasoning Griffith University Natalie Cuffe Designing legal research criterion referenced assessment to enhance student learning Queensland University of Technology Terry Hutchinson Educating the Transnational Lawyer: Globalisation and the Effects on Legal Research Skills Training Queensland University of Technology Panel - Barbara Hocking Vote on Interest Group Name
11.30am	Dispute Resolution - Marilyn Scott Kathy Douglas Inspirational Role-plays in the Teaching of Alternative Dispute Resolution: Utilizing Improvisation to Enhance RMIT University Geoff Fisher Anti-Suit Injunctions To Restrain Foreign Proceedings In Breach Of An Arbitration Agreement Queensland University of Technology Marilyn Scott Collaborative Practice: Learning, Communicating and Doing - Multi-disciplinary competencies for legal education University of Technology Sydney John Zelenikow and Andrew Vincent Decision Support and Plea Bargaining Victoria University
11.30am	Intellectual Property - Natalie Stoianoff Chris Arup TRIPs as competitive and co-operative Interpretation Victoria University Bill Childs Preparing Engineers & Scientists for the 21st Century: A Case for imbedding an Inherent Awareness of Intellectual Property in Undergraduate Engineering & Science Curricula University of Technology Sydney Ian Iredale Copyright in a Spectacle; Unfinished Business University of Western Sydney Susan Corbett New Zealand's Copyright Law post-TRIPs Victoria University of Wellington Mary Wyburn Conflicts of ownership and commercialisation in research: VUT v Wilson University of Sydney
11.30am	Law & Social Justice - Lee Ann Basser Ken MacKinnon Redefining the facts: the marginalisation of claimants in tribunal fact-finding University of Waikato Darryl Saunders Public Ownership of Private Legal Knowledge Massey University Rachel Spencer Atticus Finch to Dennis Denuto: Using the Popular Media to Teach Legal Skills & Ethics Flinders University Discrimination and Equal Opportunity - Simon Rice Vote on Interest group Name
11.30am	Legal Education - Samantha Hardy Simon Rice, Alex Reilly & Nicole Graham Legal Scholarship Research Macquarie University Alison Bone Plagiarism can be prevented – a starter pack University of Brighton Des Butler The Merlin Affair: Teaching and Learning Law in a Multimedia Environment Queensland University of Technology Jennifer Butler Teaching Taxation Law: Rethinking Aids for Delivery Central Queensland University Penelope Watson Teaching for Effective Learning: Teaching Torts to Visual Learners Macquarie University
1.00pm	Lunch hosted by CCH Publishers ALTA Executive Meeting
2.30pm	Interest Group Sessions
2.30pm	Ethics for the Legal Profession = Duncan Webb Duncan Webb The Lawyers and Conveyancers Act in New Zealand: Catching up with Consumerism University of Canterbury Julio Altamirano The Discovery of a worldwide Loophole: The Need for Professional Standards on Legal Technique - a code on Judicial Reasoning. Advocating The Legal Technique Reforms 2010(Cth) Monash University Maxine Evers Professional Misconduct - how is it emerging in the 21st century? University of Technology Sydney Linda Haller The Battle to Extend the Protective Nature of Professional Discipline University of Melbourne Vote on Interest Group Name
2.30pm	Family Law - Geoff Monahan Frank Bates More Bias in Family Court University of Newcastle Jill Cowley Schiavo, Eames and the Consequences of Marriage in Australia Southern Cross University Geoff Monahan Future Needs Strikes Back? Assessing the Consequences of Contributions to a De Facto Relationship University of Technology Sydney John Zelenikow & Deborah MacFarlane Family Mediation in Common Law and Civil Law Domains University of Technology Sydney Gender Issues and the Law – Women and the Law - Pauline Collins What about women in the welfare to work & work choices Legislative changes University of Southern Queensland Vote on Interest group Name
2.30pm	Criminal Law - Ian Dobinson Alex Steel A general fraud offence? Obtaining financial advantage by deception University of New South Wales Peter Black Phishing Tales: Honestly, the problem is "this big" Queensland University of Technology Frances Gibson Words are not enough; Threats and the risk of harm La Trobe University
2.30pm	Indigenous People and the Law - Phil Falk Craig Coxhead Assisting Indigenous students to succeed - Let's start by giving them a safe learning environment University of Waikato Matiu Dickson Teaching Indigenous Law in a Law School University of Waikato Phil Falk "Indigenising" the Law: Bringing Indigenous Australia Perspectives to Law School Griffith University Margaret Stephenson Reforms to Indigenous Title in Australia: Lessons from other Jurisdictions University of Queensland
2.30pm	Environmental Law - Catherine Iorns Trevor Daya-Winterbottom Legislating for Sustainability: is it justiciable? University of Waikato Francine Rochford Sustainable Development and the Essential Services Commission in Victoria Balancing pricing and welfare objectives in rural water delivery La Trobe University Philippa England Regulatory and Policy Tools for Urban Containment: Comparisons Across Three Australian Jurisdictions Griffith University Ken Palmer Resource Management in New Zealand - Decision Making for sustainability University of Auckland Mark Tranter Two Towers: A comparison of the regulatory regimes which affect new electricity transmission lines and windfarms in Queensland University of Southern Queensland Graeme Wiffen Heritage legislation: Current best practise Macquarie University
2.30pm	Equity & Trusts - Tina Cockburn Julie Cassidy Life (or more so death) after Barns v Barns Deakin University Andrew Tuch Securities Underwriters in Public Capital Markets: the existence, parameters and consequences of the fiduciary obligation to avoid conflicts University of Sydney Sue Tappenden The emerging doctrine of unjust enrichment in New Zealand University of Waikato Tracey Carver & Tina Cockburn Making Equity and Trusts More Accessible: Developing Interactive Learning Programmes Queensland University of Technology Panel Discussion Equity and Trusts: Current Issues and Contemporary Applications
2.30pm	Labour Law - Joseph (Bob) Cleworth Joseph Cleworth Australian Work Choices and the Harvester Case Revisited: - Some Parallels From the Past Macquarie University Ian Henry Engineering a Corporate Takeover Victoria University Trish Keeper The treatment of employee emoluments in the advent of employer insolvency: A comparative consideration of the New Zealand position in the light of international models Victoria University of Wellington Pam Nuttall Protecting vulnerable workers? Maintaining existing conditions in a business restructure AUT University Carolyn Penfold Beyond Labour Law; Localisation and Globalisation in IT Offshoring University of New South Wales
2.30pm	Legal Education - Samantha Hardy Naomi Cukier Nine Lessons for Teaching Negotiations Skills Lander and Rogers Lawyers Kalmen Datt Reflections on Teaching a First Year Law Course Delivered in Distance Mode from an Assessment Perspective University of New South Wales Julia Davis More Than Words: a Film about Communication Skills and Oral Legal Argument University of Tasmania Thomas Fisher, Judy Gutman & Erika Martens Teaching ADR in law school: why, how & what for? La Trobe University Rosalind Croucher Crunching the Criteria: the dissectionist's guide to promotion Macquarie University
4.00pm	ALTA Legal Academic Job NetworkChair: Professor Paul Moyle, ALTA Chairperson
5.00pm	Special Interest Group Constitutional Law - Patrick Keyzer Justice Tony North of the Federal Court of Australia, the President of the International Association of Refugee Law Judges, to launch Future Seekers II: Refugees and Irregular Migration in Australia, by Mary Crock, Ben Saul and Azadeh Dastyari. Everyone attending the Conference is warmly welcomed to attend this event., Come along and have a free glass of champagne
5.30pm	Close of Day
7.00pm	Dinner - hosted by Cavendish Law Publishers Old Melbourne Gaol *Ned Kelly: Jerilderie letter*
Thursday 6 July 2006
8.00am	Registration
9.30am	Plenary Session: Researching Law Keynote Speaker: Professor Hilary Charlesworth Research School of Social Sciences Australian National University and ARC College of Experts Professor John Farrar University of Waikato, NZ Mr Chris Holt Publisher, Federation Press Professor Richard Johnstone Associate Dean (Research), Griffith University What do changing definitions and rankings of research mean for law schools and legal academics, individually and in collaboration? How do we make the most of the changes to further law and justice research? How do they fit with the needs of law students, law publishers, law reformers and legal practitioners?
11.00am	Morning Tea
11.30am	Interest Group Sessions
11.30am	Government Law and Constitutional Law - Imtiaz Omar Bede Harris Parliamentary Scrutiny of the Executive - a proposal for Constitutional Reform University of Canberra Imtiaz Omar Legislative Intention, Judicial Power and Issues of Individual Liberties: Persisting Interpretive Problems University of New England Michael Stokes Legitimate Expectations: a Limitation Rather than an Extension of the Scope of Procedural Fairness University of Tasmania Michael Stokes Characterisation: A New Look at Barger's Case University of Tasmania
11.30am	Law for Non-Law students - Susan Corbett Ian Henry Milking the "Cash Cow" on a Sustainable Basis Victoria University Judie Lancaster & David Meltz Is the Tail Wagging the Dog?: A Critical Evaluation of the New-Look Subject Feedback Process University of Technology Sydney Fred Rollo Teaching Tax Law in the Accounting Stream: Emerging Issues Central Queensland University Angelo Veljanovski Cross-sectoral transitional support for Corporate Law Students Victoria University
11.30am	Company Law - Anil Hargovan Roman Tomasic The Challenges of Corporate Law Enforcement and the Future of Australian Law Corporations Victoria University James Mayanja Promoting Enhanced Enforcement of Directors' Fiduciary Obligations: The Role of Public Law Sanctions University of Southern Queensland Vicki Comino ASIC and its enforcement record since the introduction of the civil penalty regime in 1993 University of Queensland Neil Andrews Walking on the dark side: the implications of stock exchange regulation for corporate governance Victoria University Judith Marychurch & Natalie Stoinoff Blurring the Lines of Environmental Responsibility: How Corporate and Public Governance was Circumvented in the Ok Tedi Mining Limited Disaster University of Wollongong
11.30am	Tort & Contract - Penelope Watson Penelope Watson Legal and Ethical Issues in Wrongful Life Actions Macquarie University Des Butler Cyber bullying: new technology, new challenges to law Queensland University of Technology Rosalind Croucher Excluding the Self-Excluded - 'Reasonable Force' and the Problem Gambler in Australia Macquarie University Tina Cockburn The re-emergence of intentional torts in the wake of the Civil Liberty Acts Queensland University of Technology
11.30am	Law & Computers - Alexandra Sims Peter Black To Blog or Not to Blog: The role of blogs in legal academia Queensland University of Technology Gehan Gunasekara The "Final" Privacy Frontier? Regulating Transborder Data Flows University of Auckland Bill Willesee Your Responsibility for what your child did on the internet using your computer Curtin University of Technology John Zelenikow The Use of Information Technology to help in Dispute Resolution Victoria University
11.30am	Comparative & Asian Law - Vivienne Bath Mary Ip & Mr Bill Butcher What does WTO entry mean to Chinese consumers? University of New South Wales Hong Lay A Balanced Scorecard Approach to Survey Corporate Governance Practices of Singapore’s Listed Companies: STI Companies and Temasek-Linked Companies Nanyang Technological University Sheikh Solaiman Investor Protection and Criminal Liabilities for Defective Prospectuses: Bangladeshi Laws Compared with Their Equivalents in India and Malaysia University of Wollongong Margaret Wang Does Imprisonment deter Fraudulent Executives: An Examination of Corporate Fraud in Taiwan's High-Technology Sector Victoria University Patricia Blazey & Alexander Low Harmonisation and The Rule of Law in China Can East meet West* Macquarie University
11.30am	Legal Education - Samantha Hardy Philippa England A Five-Year Review of Flexible Delivery in a Core Undergraduate Course: A High Speed Journey to Somewhere… Griffith University Elise Histed The Tools of the Trade Monash University Sally Kift The Learning, Teaching and Assessment of Ethical Values in Law: What are the Possibilities? Queensland University of Technology Sandra Nichols, Hope Ashiabor, Patricia Blazey, Penelope Janu & Alex Low Stakeholder expectations for generic skills in accounting graduates, curriculum mapping and implications for change Macquarie University
11.30am	South Pacific Legal Studies - Jennifer Corrin Care Jennifer Corrin Care A Vertical or Horizontal Effect for Human Rights in the South Pacific? University of Queensland Rebekah Plachecki Legislating for counter-terrorism: Some pacific examples Victoria University of Wellington Guy Powles Testing Tradition in Tonga: Fresh Approaches to Constitutional Change Monash University
1.00pm	Lunch hosted by CCH Publishers ALTA AGM
2.30pm	Interest Group Sessions
2.30pm	Revenue Law - Robin Woellner Robin Woeller and Stephen Graw Self-Assessment: are we there yet? James Cook University Geoffrey Hart The Impact of Whitfords Beach in urban land Development University of Sydney Julie Cassidy ATO Practice Statement Law Administration on the Application of General Anti-Avoidance Rules PS LA 2005/24: A Selective Assessment of Part IVA Jurisprudence? Lyndal Taylor Income Splitting - some can and some can't! University of Technology Sydney
2.30pm	Commercial & Consumer Protection - Susan Watson Patty Kamvounias & Bronwynnes Bailey, Mary Wyburn Flogging a Dead Horse? The ACCC, Penalties and Insolvent Respondents University of Sydney Aviva Freilich A Radical Solution to Problems with the Statutory Definition of Consumer: All Transactions are Consumer Transactions University of Western Australia Yvonne Van Roy Should be the approach to predatory pricing recently proposed by the European Commission be adopted within the competition Law of Australia and New Zealand? Victoria University of Wellington Michael Josling Arrangements with creditors and the requirement for class voting University of Auckland
2.30pm	Clinical Legal Education - Pamela Morgan Anne MacDuff New challenges in educating lawyers: changing perceptions of study workload from 'doing time' to 'satisfying work'! The Australian National University Geoff Monahan Planning for the future: Clinical legal education for contemporary law students University of Wollongong Frances Gibson When a stranger calls: Standards for providing legal advice by phone or email La Trobe University
2.30pm	Evidence & Procedure - Kay Lauchland Judith Marychurch Cross-disciplinary Assessment: Bringing Law Students and Expert Witnesses Together University of Wollongong Elisabeth McDonald Judicial assessment of the reliability of hearsay evidence: a gendered process? Victoria University of Wellington Eileen Webb Propensity Evidence - Two Recent Developments University of Western Australia
2.30pm	Environmental Law - Catherine Iorns-Magallanes Angela Dwyer Precaution and threatened species listing: the potential of 'data deficient' University of Technology Sydney Catherine Iorns-Magallanes The Precautionary Principle in the New Zealand Fisheries Act: Recent Challenges in the New Zealand Court of Appeal Victoria University of Wellington Laura Horn Corporate Environmental Accountability and Responsibility University of Western Sydney Sharon Mascher Building a Wooden Bridge to the Future: The Role of Carbon Sinks in a National Emissions Trading Scheme University of Western Australia Terry Quilty A Comparison of liability issues and resultant efficacy of an internal and an external economic instrument: The Permanent Forest Sink Initiative and the Clean Development Mechanism Manukau Institute of Technology Shawkat Alam The Proposed Indian River-linking Project: An Appraisal of its Ecological and Socio Economic Implications for Lower Riparian Countries Macquarie University
2.30pm	International Law - Dan Svantesson Daud Hassan Positivism and Development of International Law University of Technology Sydney Emma Henderson Rights of Passage; Recent Developments in Asylum Protection Regimes in Australia and New Zealand - Does a Human Rights Framework Make a Difference? La Trobe University Comparative and Asian Law - Vivienne Bath Simon Marsden Common Law and Civil Law Approaches to Interpretation under Article 158 of Hong Kong's Basic Law: A European Conflict Laws Analogy? University of South Australia Colin Hawes Critical & cultural analysis of recent corporate governance reforms to Chinese banks University of Technology Sydney
2.30pm	Legal Education - Samantha Hardy Francine Rochford The university student in a take-away world La Trobe University Wayne Rumbles Podlaw: Can you podcast the study of Law? University of Waikato Michelle Sanson Graduate Attributes means more than just Skills University of Technology Sydney Joanne Stagg-Taylor Thinking like a Lawyer: deeper legal learning through practical skills education Griffith University Lyndal Taylor & Helen Kiel Case Management and Students: Lessons from Teaching and Practise University of Technology Sydney
2.30pm	Law & Medicine - Leanne Houston Tina Cockburn and Bill Madden Duty to Disclose medical error in Australia Queensland University of Technology, University of Western Sydney Leanne Houston The legal implications of Imaging Technology University of Technology Sydney Debbie Wilson Cloning and the media Massey University Julie Zetler Electronic Patient Records and Privacy: should we be concerned? Macquarie University
4.00pm	Law Publishers Advice Session: ‘Future Direction and Challenges of Legal Publishing' Chair: ALTA Executive Member
5.00pm	Close of Day
7.00pm	Conference Dinner hosted by Lexis Nexis Law Publishers
Friday 7 July 2006
8.00am	Registration
9.30am	Interest Group Sessions
9.30am	Property Law - Eileen Webb Lynden Griggs The Content and Timing of Vendor Disclosure in the Sale of Residential Real Estate - why both must be considered University of Tasmania Alan Toy Knowing Receipt in the Torrens Context University of Otago Eileen Webb Almost a decade on - A (Reid) Report Card on Retail Leasing University of Western Australia
9.30am	Clinical Legal Education - Pamela Morgan Scott Beattie Building Communities of Practise Through Work Integrated Learning Victoria University Colin James Anger and Compassion: Using Emotional Intelligence in the Difficult Interview University of Newcastle
9.30am	Company Law - Anil Hargovan David Parker The undercapitalisation of a company: can this be the basis for piercing the corporate veil? Victoria University Jason Harris & Anil Hargovan Assessing the Use of Agency Principles to Lift the Corporate Veil University of New South Wales Larelle Chapple & Catherine McCormack Takeovers: Acceptance, Withdrawal and Overcoming Shareholder Inertia University of QLD John Lessing The Lion Nathan bid for Coopers: a useful and unusual case study for teaching corporations law Bond University Josephine Coffey A Civil Liability Action for Insider Trading: Fyffes plc v DDC plc & Ors [2006] IEHC 32 University of Sydney
9.30am	International Law - Dan Svantesson Michael Morison The politics of a Human Right to Democratic Governance University of Southern Queensland Reid Mortensen Renvoi's Renewal Regretted University of Queensland Dan Svantesson The not so 'borderless' Internet - Does it still give rise to private international law issues Bond University Natalie Klein Threats of Terrorism and Threats to International Legal Structures: A Law of the Sea Perspective Macquarie University
9.30am	Law & Economics - Anthony Gray Anthony Gray Economics and Constitutionality of IR Reform University of Southern Queensland John Orr The contemporary funding of Australian universities - is this a path to insolvency Southern Cross University Rhett Martin Consequences of law: The consequences of constitutional provisions and the relationship between law and economics Monash University
9.30am	Comparative and Asian Law - Vivienne Bath Neil Andrews Change and Continuity in an emerging market economy: the boards of directors in China's top 100 listed companies Victoria University Vivienne Bath Comments on the Administrative Licensing Law of the PRC and its Regulatory Implementation University of Sydney Andrew Clarke Mittal Steel and Corporate Governance: The New Art of Empire Building University of New England Jane Fu Convergence and Divergence of Piercing the Corporate Veil in China and Australia Deakin University Judy Gibson Judical Defamation Actions: a comparative view of actions for defamation brought by judges in China with actions brought in common law jurisdictions District Court of New South Wales
9.30am	Legal Education - Samantha Hardy Joel Butler Thinking Like a Law Student, Thinking Like a Lawyer? Some preliminary thoughts in relation to the Academy Bond University Lynn Du Moulin "Learning and doing" - educating lawyers for practise The Australian National University Matthew Ball Legal Education and the 'Idealistic Student': The need for a Governmental Analysis Queensland University of Technology Samantha Hardy "Improving Law Students' Written Skills: Teaching Legal Writing in Australian Law Schools" University of Tasmania Judy Gutman, Thomas Fisher & Erika Martens Law Students' perceptions on dispute resolution and lawyering La Trobe University
9.30am	Tort and Contract- Penelope Watson Debra Ronan When is a Windfall not a Windfall? - When it's in the guise of damages. Why the High Court of Australia should continue to resist restitution as a remedy for breach of contract Macquarie University Kylie Burns Overworked and Stressed? Why negligence doesn't help and it's all your own fault! Griffith University Pip Wells Quotes and Building Services: reflections on an experience of empirical legal research Auckland University of Technology Bruno Zeller Internationalization and the Teaching of Contract Law Victoria University John Horsley The Marketplace and Legal Doctrine - Tensions in Contract and Corporate Law Manukau Institute of Technology
11.00am	Morning Tea
11.30am	Plenary Session: Educating Lawyers Keynote Speaker: Professor Kathy Laster Executive Director, Victoria Law Foundation Dr Peter Cashman Consultant, Maurice Blackburn Cashman, Lawyers, product liability and public interest lawyer Mr Neville Carter Managing Director, College of Law (practical legal training) Are the demands of practice increasing? Do cross-cultural sensibilities and social responsibilities provide an advantage, both in the community and commercial sectors? Do lawyers continue to have public duties? What would a contemporary curriculum include and what changes would be needed to the current education and training requirements?
1.00pm	Lunch
2.30pm	ALTA Issues Session
	Conference Close

Speakers

Professor Hilary Charlesworth

Hilary Charlesworth is Professor in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University and member of the Australian Research Council College of Experts. Her research areas include international law, feminist theory, human rights and the United Nations. Her books include The Boundaries of International Law: A Feminist Analysis and Writing in Rights: Australia and the Protection of Human Rights. She is Director of the Centre for International Governance and Justice and is currently researching law in post-conflict states. Professor Charlesworth was chair of the ACT government’s inquiry, which led to the adoption of the ACT Human Rights Act 2004.

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Professor Bryant Garth

Professor Bryant Garth, Dean of the School of Law at South Western University in California and formerly Executive Director of the American Bar Foundation.

Professor Garth holds a Ph.D. from the European University Institute, in Florence, his J.D. from Stanford Law School and his B.A. from Yale. His current research focuses on the legal profession, including dispute processing, the internationalization of legal practice, and corruption. His research interests include Internationalization of Legal Practice, International Legal Order in Latin American and International Legal Order in India.

Among Dr. Garth's ongoing research projects is "Legal Professionalism and the Transformation of the Field of Legal/Business Advice." The project, undertaken in collaboration with colleagues Yves Dezalay and Nancy Reichman, seeks to gain an understanding of how internationalization and competition in the field of business advice is affecting the major providers of business and legal advice, including accounting firms, law firms, investment banks, and consulting firms.

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Professor Kathy Laster

Professor Kathy Laster is Executive Director of the Victoria Law Foundation. The Foundation is a statutory body promoting legal education and sponsoring legal research in Victoria. Her research areas include the legal profession and legal education, criminal justice and judicial administration, and multiculturalism and the law. She is author of Law as Culture and the Drama of the Courtroom. The topic of her PhD was Cultured Lawyers. Professor Laster organised the program for the Commonwealth Attorney-General’s First National Pro Bono Conference and she is a long-time supporter of pro bono programs in the legal profession.

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Sponsors

Lexis Nexis: Butterworths
Thomson Legal & Regulatory
Routledge-Cavendish
CCH
Oxford University Press
Federation Press
Cambridge University Press
Lexis Nexis New Zealand

	Lexis Nexis
	Thomson Legal & Regulatory
	Routledge-Cavendish
	CCH
	Oxford University Press
	Federation Press
	Cambridge University Press
	Lexis Nexis New Zealand

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