Public Law Events Roundup July 2022
Welcome to the July edition of the AUSPUBLAW Australian Public Law Events Roundup. We would firstly like to draw your attention to the following opportunity:
Workshop - Inspiring Legal Research: New Scholarly Horizons and Career Pathways
University of Sydney Law School
Abstract submission closes: 10 July 2022, 5:00pm (AEST)
Workshop dates: 12-13 August 2022
Workshop location: University of Sydney Law SchoolOn 12-13 August 2022 the Sydney Law School will host a workshop showcasing research by undergraduate, Juris Doctor and Masters students studying at law schools around Australia and New Zealand.
If you are currently doing or have recently completed an honours thesis, an independent research project or substantial research paper as part of your degree, we invite you to present your research and meet other students, scholars, and practitioners.
The workshop convenor is Yane Svetiev, Associate Dean for Research Education at the Sydney Law School. Invited speakers include Saskia Hufnagel (Queen Mary) and Colin King (University of London). The speakers will discuss reasons for doing an advanced research degree in law, such as a PhD, and the career pathways it can open up.
The research presentations will be organised around topic areas with a prize awarded to the best paper and presentation. We invite research projects in all areas of law and regulation, including private law, regulatory law, public and constitutional law, international and comparative law.
Expressions of interest to participate in the workshop based on the submission of an abstract will close on 10 July 2022 at 5pm.
Discretionary travel grants are available, up to $500, for those students who can demonstrate financial need.
For more information, and to submit an abstract, click here.
Remember, if you have an AUSPUBLAW opportunity, conference or significant public lecture that you would like included in this roundup, please contact us at auspublaw@unsw.edu.au. The roundup is published once a month on the first business day of the month, so please let us know in time for that deadline. We are grateful to Kelly Yoon for compiling this roundup.
29th Annual ANZSIL Conference: International Law and Global Interconnectedness
Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law
Date: 30 June - 2 July 2022
Location: Online or In-person at JG Crawford Building, Australian National University, CanberraThe events of 2020 and 2021 continue to emphasise that human inter-connectedness is both granular and uneven. The COVID-19 pandemic has reminded us of the reality of our physical inter-connectedness as well as the importance of groups such as ‘essential workers’ for the continuing functioning of societies, domestic and international. The escalating climate crisis underscores our inter-connectedness with the environment; a connection that has profoundly shifted and is signalled with the recognition of the Age of the Anthropocene. Simultaneously, forms of inter-connectedness previously taken for granted, such as the global and regional mobility of individuals, goods and services, are facing unprecedented challenges.
These contexts pose significant questions for international law, international lawyers and international legal institutions. At the same time, they offer unique opportunities for re-making the international legal order. At the 29th ANZSIL Conference we encourage participants to reflect on whether and how international law shapes, undermines and re-makes inter-connectedness on a global scale.
There is a fee for this conference.
For more information, and to register, click here.
ICON·S Annual Conference 2022
ICON·S | The International Society of Public Law
Date: 4-6 July 2022
Location: Online or In-person at University of Wrocław, PolandICON·S | The International Society of Public Law is pleased to announce that its 2022 Annual Conference on Global Problems and Prospects in Public Law will be held in hybrid format at the University of Wrocław in Poland on 4-6 July 2022.
The machinery of public law has been called on to help manage the COVID-19 public health crisis, and in some cases it has succeeded and in others it has not operated as hoped. The same is true of the global crisis of mass migration, the risks and opportunities in law and technology, and the current state of democracy in many corners of the world. The weight of these challenges can feel daunting. History tells us, however, that crises are also opportunities for re-thinking, and for renewal. And whether our purpose is to understand or to protest, or to unmake and re-build, public law will inevitably frame our response.
We take up four key themes in our plenary and featured panels this year: democracy, migration, public health, and technology. Questions of trust and distrust feed into broader debates about democratic backsliding and the rule of law which have become a central concern in Eastern Europe and other parts of the world. In this context, technology creates both new risks and new opportunities: the revolutions in data storage and information dissemination are manifestly double-edged swords. Trust and distrust are central, too, to how societies accommodate migrants, and to how they handle issues of public health, as the current pandemic has made all too obvious. In each of these four areas, the challenges are clear and present. But they are not just dangers. Each is a demand, and an opportunity, to rethink and rebuild key aspects of our societies in light of shared democratic ideals.
For more information, and to register, click here.
School of Law Research Seminar Series: ‘Voice, Treaty, Truth: A Stocktake of the Movement for Indigenous Constitutional Reform’
Western Sydney University School of Law
Date: 6 July 2022
Time: 12:00-1:00pm (AEST)
Location: Online or In-person at Western Sydney University Parramatta South Campus, Building EO, Ground Floor, Room 44, Landerer Moot CourtPlease join us for a School of Law Research Seminar presented by Dr Harry Hobbs titled: 'Voice, Treaty, Truth: A Stocktake of the Movement for Indigenous Constitutional Reform'.
For more information, and to register, click here.
Book Launch: Dynamic and Principled - The Influence of Sir Anthony Mason
University of Sydney Law School
Date: 6 July 2022
Time: 5:30-7:00pm (AEST)
Location: Banco Court, Supreme Court of NSW, Queens Square, 184 Phillip Street, SydneyThe University of Sydney Law School and The Federation Press are delighted to invite you to the launch of Dynamic and Principled: The Influence of Sir Anthony Mason. This collection of essays from eminent judges, prominent practitioners and leading scholars analyses the work of one of the most important lawyers in Australian history, Sir Anthony Mason, Justice of the High Court of Australia from 1972 to 1987 and Chief Justice of Australia from 1987 to 1995.
The book will be launched by The Honourable Justice Stephen Gageler AC, in the presence of Sir Anthony Mason and Professor William Gummow. The launch will be followed by a cocktail reception.
The book is primarily concerned with the law that Sir Anthony, with his fellow judges, declared and developed over his career in Australia on the High Court and subsequently in Hong Kong as one of the first Non-Permanent Judges on the Court of Final Appeal.
The range of topics in this book reflects the extraordinarily wide and lasting influence he had on Australian law and beyond, and on law-makers, judges, academics, students and lawyers over decades in Australia.
For more information, and to register, click here.
The Appointment of State, Territory and Federal Judges - Part 1
Australian Academy of Law
Date: 7 July 2022
Time: 5:30-7:00pm (AEST)
Location: Online or In-person at Banco Court, Supreme Court of NSW, Queens Square, SydneyPart 1 will address the question: What is the work of judges, and what do the judges of the court in question do? What are the necessary qualities of a prospective appointee?
Much has been written on this topic, both by judges and academics, but it is of continuing importance, and the discussion needs to be kept up-to-date.
Criteria for the appointment of judges have been put forward in the past, for example by the Australasian Institute of Judicial Administration. Are all of these criteria still relevant? Are they too abstract?
Speakers:
- The Hon. Tom Bathurst AC QC, former Chief Justice of NSW
- The Hon. Walter Sofronoff QC, former President of The Court of Appeal, Supreme Court of Queensland
- The Hon. Justice Jenny Blokland, Supreme Court of the Northern Territory and President of the Australasian Institute of Judicial Administration
For more information, and to register, click here.
Australasian Law Academics Association (ALAA) Conference 2022
Australasian Law Academics Association; Monash Law
Date: 7-9 July 2022
Location: Online or In-person at Monash Law Chambers, 555 Lonsdale Street, MelbourneEvolution or Revolution? Challenging Legal Education and Scholarship
The Australian university sector is undergoing a period of significant change, providing both challenges and opportunities. Remote teaching and flexible learning have become entrenched, and we have had to grapple with new ways of working and engaging. In some places, these changes have been rapid and revolutionary, while in others they have been a slower evolution of changes and trajectories that were already taking their course.
The 2022 ALAA Conference asks us to consider whether legal education and scholarship is in a state of evolution or revolution? How is legal education and scholarship being challenged by external forces, and how are we internally challenging legal education and scholarship? What are the defining features of a 2022 law school, law teacher and law student? How can we better reflect the diverse experiences of our student cohort by recognising and redressing disadvantage, especially where this has been exacerbated in recent years? How can we better support both academics and students? How have recent challenges and opportunities presented in different legal disciplines? Which changes should we hold onto, and which should we disregard? And where is further change required, in order to maximise our potential as places of excellent learning, teaching and scholarship?
There is a fee for this event.
For more information, and to purchase tickets, click here.
‘Not Parliamentary’? Australian Semi-parliamentarism and the Role of the Australian Senate
Australian Senate, Procedure and Research Section
Date: 8 July 2022
Time: 12:15-1:15pm (AEST)
Location: Main Committee Room, Parliament House, CanberraScholars and parliamentarians have struggled to accurately describe Australia's system of executive-legislative relations. Descriptive labels run the gamut from the ‘Washminster’ system to simply ‘not parliamentary’. But does it really matter what we call our parliamentary system? In short, yes. For many decades, conflict between the executive government and the legislature has often turned on the role and exercise of the Senate’s powers. Members of the House are by turns incredulous or frustrated by the Senate’s assertion of its powers, and the Senate has only grown more confident in doing so overtime.
While much reference is made to Australia’s Westminster parliamentary system, it’s clear that different actors mean different things by these terms. The concept of semi-parliamentarianism offers a parsimonious description of the way Australian politics is actually practised. It can provide parliamentary actors, scholars, journalists and the public with a way of coming to grips with the institutional logics underpinning our parliamentary intuitional design. This talk explores the implications of how our politics is actually practised and where it could continue to normatively develop.
Presenter: Dr Marija Taflaga, Lecturer, Australian National University
For more information, and to register, click here.
Panel Discussion: Emergency Powers & Human Rights - Civil Liberties Issues of the Pandemic Response
Queensland Council for Civil Liberties
Date: 14 July 2022
Time: 6:30-8:30pm (AEST)
Location: Online or In-person at All Saints Church, Convention Centre, 300 Ann Street, BrisbaneJoin us and our panelists for a discussion about the interaction between the recent pandemic emergency powers and their relationship with ongoing matters of civil liberties and human rights.
Our diverse panel will offer a variety of perspectives as we examine how emergency powers developed through the course of the COVID-19 pandemic response, and explore how as the public health risks posed by the pandemic decrease a new balance can be struck between individual liberties and the collective interest in community health.
Panelists:
- Neroli Holmes, Deputy Queensland Human Rights Commissioner
- Phil Green, Queensland Privacy Commissioner (2015-2021)
- Scott Emmerson, Journalist & former Minister for Transport and Member for Indooroopilly
For more information, and to register, click here.
Australasian Society of Legal Philosophy Annual Conference 2022
Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence, University of Sydney Law School
Date: 14-15 July 2022
Location: University of SydneyRegistration is now open for the annual conference of the Australasian Society of Legal Philosophy, which will be hosted by the Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence at The University of Sydney Law School. Keynote lectures will be delivered by Professor Kirsty Gover (University of Melbourne) and Professor Claudio Michelon (University of Edinburgh). The subject of the annual book symposium will be Constituent Power and the Law by Professor Joel Colón-Ríos (Victoria University of Wellington). Commentaries will be provided by Professor Rosalind Dixon and Ayesha Wijayalath (University of New South Wales), Dr Yarran Hominh (Dartmouth College), and Associate Professor Ron Levy (Australian National University).
The aim of the ASLP Conference is to provide a forum for the discussion and debate of a range of issues in legal theory, broadly defined. It is by no means restricted to analytic legal philosophy, and the involvement of participants from other disciplines is strongly encouraged.
There is a fee for this conference.
For more information, and to enquire, click here.
CCCS Global Public Law Seminar Series and Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law Global Book Series
Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies, University of Melbourne
Date: 18 July 2022
Time: 5:30-7:00pm (AEST)
Location: OnlineIn more than 30 jurisdictions around the world, foreign judges sit on domestic courts and decide cases of constitutional, legal and social importance. The use of foreign judges raises issues of practical and theoretical importance for modern judiciaries, including judicial independence and accountability to domestic and international communities, the diversity and representativeness of judiciaries, the migration of legal ideas across national borders, and the transnational relationships between judicial actors and institutions.
As part of the Global Public Law Seminar Series, the CCCS will host a panel discussion on the phenomenon of foreign judging. Panellists from a variety of jurisdictions will discuss forces behind the transnational movement of judges; its effect in the jurisdictions that use foreign judges and those that provide them; and the implications of the use of foreign judges for constitutional adjudication, judicial independence and the role that courts play in their domestic and international contexts.
The Seminar will also mark the launch of Foreign Judges in the Pacific, a new book by Anna Dziedzic, which presents an in-depth study of these issues in nine Pacific island states of Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu.
Please join our discussion with Justice Vergil Narokobi, Dr Eselealofa Apinelu, Professor Hugh Corder, Professor Rosalind Dixon and Dr Anna Dziedzic. Professor Cheryl Saunders will chair the event and formally launch the book.
This webinar will be recorded.
For more information, and to register, click here.
Political Parties and the Courts
Electoral Regulation Research Network
Date: 20 July 2022
Time: 5:00-6:00pm (AEST)
Location: OnlineWhen should the rules, that parties make for themselves, be enforceable in the courts? High-profile litigation involving the NSW Liberal Party and the Victorian ALP in 2021-2022 has thrown this question into some confusion, with two key State Courts of Appeal setting a new and very narrow test for party rules to be adjudicated upon.
To some, this question goes to the very idea of parties as rule-governed, member-driven participatory bodies, who ultimately govern our electoral politics. To others, it implicates the freedom of association of parties as private organisations. This webinar will explore the history, law and significance of this question, and the potential consequences of recent cases such as Camenzuli v Morrison and Asmar v Albanese.
Presenters:
- Professor Anika Gauja, Professor, University of Sydney, School of Social and Political Sciences
- Professor Graeme Orr, Professor, University of Queensland, School of Law
For more information, and to register, click here.
2022 AIAL National Administrative Law Conference: ‘Administrative Law in Unprecedented Times’
Australian Institute of Administrative Law
Date: 21-22 July 2022
Location: Hotel Realm, 18 National Circuit, Barton, ACTThe Conference invites discussion and debate on a number of themes and contemporary challenges in administrative law in these unprecedented times. It seeks to examine associated issues including response to the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change and the environment, determining and legislating the national interest, and major and ongoing challenges faced by Tribunals in addressing increased numbers and complexity of certain types of applications and associated timing pressures, particularly in the migration context. Ensuring the integrity of public institutions and public office-holders (including the proposal for a Commonwealth Integrity Commission) and recent developments in defence and national security will also be examined.
The Conference will be relevant to government decision-makers; those affected by decisions, and their advisers; members of review bodies, tribunals and courts; policy developers; public lawyers; academics; and others with an interest in Australian administrative law.
There is a fee for this conference.
For more information, and to register, click here.
Castan Centre Human Rights Law Conference 2022
Castan Centre for Human Rights Law
Date: 22 July 2022
Time: 9:00am-5:00pm (AEST)
Location: OnlineThe annual Castan Centre conference is the leading human rights conference in Australia, providing a vital health check on the state of human rights in Australia and overseas.
This year the conference covers the topics including:
- Bills of rights
- Current issues and challenges in human rights law
- Human rights in mental health law and services.
- Intersection of international human rights and international criminal law
- Feminist perspectives on the law
- Developments in discrimination law in Australia
- New developments in the case law of international human rights bodies relating to human rights law
Speakers:
- The Hon Mark Dreyfus QC MP, Attorney-General of the Commonwealth of Australia
- Professor Yuval Shany, Former Chair of the United Nations Human Rights Committee
- The Hon. Pamela Tate SC, Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Law, Monash University; Former Justice of the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court of Victoria
- Emeritus Professor Bernadette McSherry, Melbourne Law School and Commissioner of the Victorian Law Reform Commission
- Vrinda Edan, Consumer Academic, Centre for Mental Health Nursing, University of Melbourne
- Mary O’Hagan, Executive Director, Lived Experience in the Mental Health and Wellbeing Division, Victorian Department of Health
- Dr Monique Cormier, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, Monash University
- Associate Professor Becky Batagol, Faculty of Law, Monash University
- Professor Beth Gaze, Melbourne Law School
For more information, and to register, click here.
In Conversation with Apryl Day
Indigenous Law and Justice Hub, University of Melbourne
Date: 25 July 2022
Time: 5:30pm (AEST)
Location: Online or In-person at Melbourne Law School, Law G08, Law Building (106)Join the Indigenous Law and Justice Hub for a night of black excellence as we hear from Apryl Day, as part of the White Noise of settler law justice talks. In this White Noise Apryl will share her reflections on the coronial inquest process and associated community law reform needs, drawing on her personal experiences as a family member and her advocacy through the Dhadjowa Foundation.
For more information, and to register, click here.
The Appointment of State, Territory and Federal Judges - Part 2
Australian Academy of Law
Date: 28 July 2022
Time: 5:00-6:30pm (AEST)
Location: Online or In-person at Court 1, Federal Court of Australia, Law Courts Building, Queens Square, SydneyPart 1, held on 7 July 2022, addressed the issues: What is the work of judges, and what do the judges of the court in question do? What are the necessary qualities of a prospective appointee?
Part 2, to be held on 28 July 2022, will address the question: What are the systems for finding such people, and how could those systems be improved? What are the best parts of those systems?
Speakers:
- Mr Ian Govey AM, former Deputy Secretary, federal Attorney-General’s Department
- Professor Andrew Lynch, Dean, UNSW Faculty of Law & Justice
- Mr Michael Tidball, Secretary of the NSW Department of Communities and Justice
For more information, and to register, click here.
The High Court and the Constitution: Where to from here?
Australian Association of Constitutional Law (Queensland Chapter), in partnership with the Bar Association of Queensland
Date: 28 July 2022
Time: 5:15pm (AEST)
Location: Gibbs Room, Bar Association of Queenslands, Inns of Court, 107 North Quay, Brisbane (and online)This seminar will explore emerging trends in the recent constitutional decisions of the High Court, particularly since 2020. The speakers will consider whether there are any observable changes or trends in the High Court’s jurisprudence, including because of the change in composition of the Court.
The event will be chaired by the Hon Justice Walter Sofronoff, recently retired President of the Queensland Court of Appeal.
Speakers:
- Erin Longbottom QC: Erin was called to the bar in 2003 and took silk in 2019. She appears in the High Court, Federal Court and Supreme Court in a wide range of administrative, native title, commercial and constitutional law matters. Erin recently appeared for the Queensland Attorney-General in Mineralogy Pty Ltd v Western Australia; Palmer v Western Australia [2021] HCA 30; (2021) 95 ALJR 832.
- Sarah Spottiswood: Sarah was called to the bar in 2021 and practices in a broad range of commercial and public law matters. Prior to coming to the bar, Sarah worked as a solicitor at the UK Government Legal Department and Australian Government Solicitor. Sarah was an Associate to the Hon Justice Geoffrey Nettle AC at the High Court of Australia, and holds an LLM (Class 1) from the University of Cambridge.
For more information, and to register, click here.
2022 Mason Conversation
Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law; University of New South Wales Faculty of Law & Justice
Date: 3 August 2022
Time: 5:30-7:00pm (AEST)
Location: OnlineJoin us for the 2022 Mason Conversation featuring the Honourable Murray Gleeson AC in conversation with Professor Rosalind Dixon, Director, Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law, UNSW Sydney.
The Mason Conversation is a series named in honour of Sir Anthony Mason AC KBE GBM marking his outstanding generosity and contribution over decades to the University of New South Wales. As well as a distinguished career in the law, including as Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia (1987-95), Sir Anthony was the fifth Chancellor of the University of New South Wales between 1994 and 1999 and the inaugural Chair of the Advisory Committee to the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law.
This will be an online event, the streaming link will be sent to those registered before the event.
For more information, and to register, click here.
There’s Never Been a Better Time: Enhancing the Protection of Human Rights in Australia
Castan Centre for Human Rights Law
Date: 4 August 2022
Time: 5:45-7:00pm (AEST)
Location: Monash University Law Chambers, 555 Lonsdale Street, MelbourneJoin Professor Paula Gerber and Professor Michael Mintrom in a conversation with ABC Radio presenter, Paul Barclay about human rights in Australia.
Australia has had a change of government, but will this mean a change in the way human rights are debated and protected in this country? Will the Albanese Government adopt a different approach to the pressing human rights issues we are facing, including, the treatment of asylum seekers, the rights of vulnerable minorities including Indigenous Australians and LGBTIQA+ people and the need for a national Charter of Human Rights? What would adopting a human rights based approach mean for law reform and the implementation of Labor's policies?
Paul Barclay, host of ABC Radio National’s Big Ideas program will facilitate a conversation with Paula Gerber, Professor of Human Rights Law at Monash University and Michael Mintrom, Professor of Public Policy at Monash University, where they will discuss these issues and the opportunity for Australia to become a more rights respecting society.
For more information, and to register, click here.
Micronations and the Search for Sovereignty
Centre for International and Public Law, Australian National University
Date: 12 August 2022
Time: 12:00-1:00pm (AEST)
Location: OnlineThe Politics of International Law Seminar Series
Political disagreement is a fact of life. It can prompt people to stand for public office and agitate for political change. Others take a different route; they start their own nation. Micronations and the Search for Sovereignty is the first comprehensive examination of the phenomenon of people purporting to secede and create their own country. It analyses why micronations are not states for the purposes of international law, considers the factors that motivate individuals to separate and found their own nation, examines the legal justifications that they offer and explores the responses of recognised sovereign states. In doing so, this talk that draws from book develops a rich body of material through which to reflect on conventional understandings of statehood, sovereignty and legitimate authority.
Speaker: Dr Harry Hobs, University of Technology Sydney Faculty of Law
Commentator: Dr Imogen Saunders, Australian National University College of Law
For more information, and to register, click here.
Judicial Independence
Australian Academy of Law
Date: 22 August 2022
Time: 5:00-6:30pm (AEST)
Location: Online or In-person at Court 1, Federal Court of Australia, Law Courts Building, Queens Square, SydneyThe Australian Academy of Law is very pleased to host this event on Judicial Independence, a topic which is fundamental to the rule of law, internationally and in Australia. The two distinguished speakers are:
- Judge José Matos, the current president of the International Association of Judges. Judge Matos is visiting Australia and will be speaking on challenges to judicial independence, including the current situations in Poland, Turkey, and Afghanistan. Judge Matos has been a judge since 1990 and was appointed to the Court of Appeal of Porto, Portugal in 2012. Since 2021 he has been President of the Court of Appeal Court of Porto (Tribunal da Relação do Porto). He is also a Member of the Advisory Board of the Judicial Integrity Network of the United Nations.
- Justice Jacqueline Gleeson, High Court of Australia. Justice Gleeson will consider what Australian judges might learn from challenges to judicial independence in foreign jurisdictions. Justice Gleeson was appointed to the High Court of Australia in March 2021, having been a judge of the Federal Court of Australia since 2014.
For more information, and to register, click here.
Reforming Global Governance to Manage the Pandemics of the Future
Melbourne Law School
Date: 1 September 2022
Time: 6:00-7:00pm (AEST)
Location: Melbourne Law School, Law Building (106)Miegunyah Distinguished Visiting Fellowship Lecture
The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed flaws in the legal and institutional frameworks for preventing and responding to the spread of diseases. COVID-19 has tested many fields of international law and policy from health, human rights and trade, to transport and financial stability. The COVID-19 disruption has generated discussions about the need for stronger legal tools for pandemic prevention and containment, including through the World Health Organization (WHO). It has led us to rethink how life-saving medical interventions including vaccines are developed, manufactured and allocated. The pandemic’s impact has demonstrated the need to develop global mechanisms to guarantee financing for critical public health and medical interventions.
This lecture provides a unique opportunity to hear from one of the world’s leading global health law experts on the crucial issues that must be addressed at the international level.Presenter:
- Gian Luca Burci, Adjunct Professor of International Law, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva
For more information, and to register, click here.
Religious Freedom, Religious Discrimination and the Role of Law
Bar Association of Queensland; University of Queensland; Supreme Court Library
Date: 13 October 2022
Time: 5:15-6:45pm (AEST)
Location: Banco Court, Level 3, Queen Elizabeth II Courts of Law, 415 George Street, BrisbaneReligious freedom and freedom from discrimination on the basis of religion are well-established rights in international law and many jurisdictions have a substantial case-law that examine both of these rights, including the tensions between them. While some limited forms of these rights are protected in the constitution, to date there has been relatively limited case law in Australia. With the development of statutory bills of rights and increased social tensions between secular and religious Australians, however, the law is increasingly being asked to step into conflicts that involve religion. What can we learn from the Australian case law to date and from other similar jurisdictions that can help Australian courts and legal policymakers with the complex issues that arise in this realm?
Chair: The Hon. Justice Sarah Derrington, Federal Court of Australia, President, Australian Law Reform Commission
Presenter: Professor Carolyn Evans, Vice-Chancellor and President, Griffith University
Commentator: Professor Patrick Parkinson AM, University of Queensland
For more information, and to register, click here.