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2009 Visitors

Professor Graeme Austin

J Byron McCormick Professor of Law, University of Arizona, USA.

08/09/2008 – 28/02/2009

Professor Austin’s principal project is a book-length study, Human Rights and Intellectual Property: Analysis and Sources (co-authored with Prof. Larry Helfer (Vanderbilt); under contract with Cambridge University Press).  The study examines the integration of international human rights norms into the international law of intellectual property - both at the systemic/institutional level, and also through a number of case studies, including: freedom of expression, education rights, the right to an adequate standard of health, and the right to participate in cultural life.

 

Professor Janet Hiebert

Department of Political Studies, Queen’s University, Canada

15/12/2008 – 16/2/2009

Professor Hiebert conducted research on Bills of Rights and developments in Australia.

 

Professor Peter Strauss

Betts Professor of Law, Columbia Law School

5/04/2009 - 12/04/2009  

During his stay, Professor Strauss will be researching the ways various legal systems, including Australia's, have attempted to keep politics and regulatory science apart.

 

Professor Bill Buss

O.K. Patton Professor of Law, University of Iowa

1/06/2009 - 13/07/2009  

Professor Buss' research project is a study of the influence of the American constitution on the Australian constitution. A series of articles will include a detailed analysis of what the Australian framers said at their conventions; how they understood and agreed about the meaning of the American constitution: how their choices of what to adapt for Australia have played out compared to developments in American law. Professor Buss' current focus is on the Judicature; during his time in Australia he expects to be working on interstate commerce and interstate freedom of movement.