News and Events
CCCS EVENTS 2009
Speaker: Professor Janet Hiebert, Queen’s University, Canada
Topic: Legislating Like Judges? A Preliminary Assessment of Parliamentary Bills of Rights
Date: Tuesday 10 February 2009
Time: 1.00 pm – 2.00 pm
Venue: Room G14, Ground Floor, Melbourne Law School
Speaker: Justice Jimly Asshiddiqie, Justice of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Indonesia,
Jakarta
CCCS/Asian Law Centre Public Lecture
Topic: Creating a Constitutional Court For a New Democracy
Date: Wednesday 11 March 2009
Time: 6.00 pm – 7.15 pm
Venue: Lecture Theatre G08, Ground Floor, Melbourne Law School
Event: Judicial Roundtable: Transnational Judging - A Judicial Conversation on Foreign and
International Law in Domestic Courts
Speakers: Justice Jimly Asshiddiqie, Foundation Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court of the Republic
of Indonesia, Jakarta, Chief Justice French and Justice Hayne of the High Court of Australia,
Chief Justice Black of the Federal Court, Justice Weinberg of the Court of Appeal of Victoria
and Justice Vickery of the Supreme Court of Victoria.
Date: Friday 13 March 2009
Time: 5.00 pm – 7.00 pm
Venue: Room 920, Level 9, Melbourne Law School
Event: CCCS Book Launch: “Challenging Women” by Dr Madeline Grey (ASP 2009)
Launch: The Minister for Women’s Affairs, Maxine Morand MP
Date: Tuesday 24 March 2009
Time: 5.00 pm – 7.00pm
Venue: Room 920, Level 9, Melbourne Law School
Speaker: Professor Peter Strauss, Columbia Law School, New York
Topic: Politicians’ Influence over Regulatory Decisions Ostensibly Based on Sound Science.
Date: Tuesday 7 April 2009
Time: 1.00 pm – 2.00 pm
Venue: Melbourne Law School
Event: Joint CCCS and Australian Human Rights Commission Public Seminar: The
Constitution and a Human Rights Act
Speakers: Mark Moshinksy SC, Professor Adrienne Stone, Associate Professor Kristen Walker
Chair: The Hon. Catherine Branson QC, President, Australian Human Rights Commission
Date: Tuesday 28 April 2009
Time: 6.00 pm
Venue: Melbourne Law School
Speaker: Professor Bill Buss, Uni of Iowa, USA
Topic: Inglis Clark, Edmund Barton, Marbury v Madison, and the familiar story about the deletion and
re-insertion of section 75(v) of the Commonwealth Constitution. A longer ending.
Date: Thursday 18 June
Time: 1.00 pm – 2.00 pm
Venue: Room G29, Melbourne Law School
Speaker: Associate Professor Michael Dowdle, National University of Singapore
Topic: The Regulatory Constitution
Date: Monday 20 July
Time: 1.00 pm – 2.00 pm
Venue: Room 831, Melbourne Law School
Speaker: Professor Claude Klein, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Topic: Backfire on judicial activism: the case of Israel
Date: Friday 4 September 2009
Time: 1.00 pm – 2.00 pm
Venue: Melbourne Law School
Speaker: Professor Hugh Corder, Dean of Law, University of Cape Town
Topic: Commonwealth administrative law and issues of judicial independence and ethics
Date: 16-22 September 2009
Time: 1.00 pm – 2.00 pm
Venue: Melbourne Law School
Event: 2009 Protecting Human Rights Conference (co-hosted by the CCCS)
Date: Friday 2 October 2009
Time: 9.00 am – 5.00 pm
Venue: Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery Road, The Domain, Sydney DBD
Registration: Please click here for a conference registration brochure.
Speaker: Professor Stephen Gardbaum, Professor of Law, University of California, Los Angeles
Topic: Topic tbc
Date: Monday 5 October 2009
Time: 1.00 pm – 2.00 pm
Venue: Melbourne Law School
Speaker: Ms Kylie Evans, Victorian Department of Justice
Topic: Australian Charters of Rights
Date: 21-27 October 2009
Time: 1.00 pm – 2.00 pm
Venue: Melbourne Law School
Speaker: The Hon Catherine Branson QC, President, Australian Human Rights Commission
Topic: The National Human Rights Consultation: Outcome from the AHRC Perspective
Date: Wednesday 21 October 2009
Time: 6.00 pm
Venue: Theatre G08, Melbourne Law School
Speaker: Dr Alison Young, Faculty of Law, Oxford University
Topic: Practical aspects of the democratic dialogue theory
Date: November 2009
Time: 1.00 pm – 2.00 pm
Venue: Melbourne Law School
Speaker: Professor Larissa Behrendt, University of Technology, Sydney
Topic: Human Rights and Indigenous Peoples
Date: November 2009
Time: 1.00 pm – 2.00 pm
Venue: Melbourne Law School
Event: International and Comparative Perspectives on Constitutional Law: A 21st Anniversary
Celebration for the CCCS
Date: Friday 27 November 2009
Time: 9.00 am – 5.00 pm
Venue: Melbourne Law School
Registration: Please click here for a conference registration brochure.