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2009 Research Workshop Series

 
The Research Workshop Series is held each Monday of the teaching semester from 1:00pm - 2:00pm on level 9 either in room 920 or the common room. 
Lunch will be provided from 12:45pm.  

An abstract of the presentation will be posted on this page approximately one week in advance of each seminar. 

If you have any questions relating to the program, please contact Matthew Harding (ext 41080).
 

We would like to thank Cambridge University Press for supporting the 2009 series.

 
 

Semester 2, 2009 - Program

Week   Date Presenter(s) and Topic Location
1 27 July 2009


Bernard Lyons, Robin Gardiner and Natalie Wieland
(Melbourne Law School, Law Library)

'AustLII and the Free Legal Web - Tips, Traps and New Features'

Chair: Associated Professor Carolyn Evans

Room
920
2 3 August 2009


Associate Professor Peter Rush
(Melbourne Law School)

'HIV Transmission and the Jurisdiction of Criminal Law'

Full workshop paper also available

Chair: Associate Professor Sean McVeigh

Room
920
3 10 August 2009


Lisa Sarmas (Melbourne Law School)

'Cummins and its Progeny: ‘Equality’ and its Discontents'

 Room
920
4 17 August 2009


Professor Belinda Fehlberg, Christine Millward and Monica Campo
(Melbourne Law School)

‘Post-separation Parenting, Financial Settlements and Children's Best Interests’

Workshop presentation slideshow

Room
920
5 24 August 2009


Stacey Steele
(Melbourne Law School)

'Legal Education Reform in Japan: Lessons for Melbourne?'

Workshop presentation slideshow

 Room
920
6 31 August 2009


Associate Professor Elise Bant
(Melbourne Law School)

'Trusts, Powers and Liens: An Exercise in Ground-Clearing'

 Room
920
7 7 September 2009


Associate Professor Carolyn Evans (Melbourne Law School)

'A Hitchhikers Guide to the Grants System'

 Room
920
8 5 October 2009


Professor David Studdert
(Melbourne Law School and Department of Population Health)

'Using Mortality Data to Understand the Effect of Laws and Legal Processes'

Room
920
9 12 October 2009


Dr Joo-Cheong Tham (Melbourne Law School)

'Reclaiming the Political Protection of Rights: A Defence of Australian Party Politics'

Full workshop paper also available

Chair: Mr John Waugh

 Room
920
10 19 October 2009


Associate Professor Miranda Stewart (Melbourne Law School)

'A Capabilities Approach to Gender Equity in Tax'

Full workshop paper also available

Chair: Mike Kobetsky

Room
920
11 2 November 2009


Professor Michael Bryan
and Professor Megan Richardson
(Melbourne Law School)

‘Breach of Confidence: A Social History of an Equitable Doctrine’

Room
920

(4.00pm-5.00pm)

 

 

Semester 1, 2009 - Program

Week   Date Presenter(s) and Topic Location
1 2 March 2009


Dr Margaret Young
(Melbourne Law School)

'Fragmentation and Regime Interaction in International Law: Lessons from Trade, Environment and Fisheries Regimes'

Room
920
2 9 March 2009


Associate Professor Carolyn Evans
(Melbourne Law School)

'Constitutional Narrative: Australia and Malaysia Compared'

Room
920
3 16 March 2009


Matthew Bell (Melbourne Law School)

'Defective Work Damages after Tabcorp v Bowen Investments: A Construction Law cul de sac or Contract Law Broadway?'

Slides from Matthew's workshop are now available for reviewing.

 Room
920
4 23 March 2009


Dr Shaunnagh Dorsett 
(Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)

'"To Barter Sovereignty for a Blanket": Judicial Perspectives on Sovereignty and the Treaty of Waitangi in the Early New Zealand Crown Colony Period'

 Level 9
Common Room
5 30 March 2009


Dr Kirsty Gover
 (Melbourne Law School)

'Comparative Tribal Constitutionalism: States, Tribes and Membership Governance In the Western Settler States'

Full workshop paper is also available.

 Room
920
6 6 April 2009



Meredith Lewis (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) and Associate Professor Andrew Mitchell  (Melbourne Law School)

'Food Miles -- Protecting the Environment or International Trade Protectionism?'
 

 Room
920
7 20 April 2009

 

Professor Michael Crommelin AO
 (Melbourne Law School)

'Oil and Gas Management and Revenues in Federations, Australia'

Full workshop paper is also available

 Room
920
8 27 April 2009

Professor Lee Godden (Melbourne Law School)

'Interdisciplinary Research: A Case Study of ‘Water Theme’ Research and the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute’

Background reading article is also available

Room
920 
9 4 May 2009


Father Peter Norden AO (Vice Chancellor's Fellow, Melbourne Law School)

‘Just Ways: Australian Social Advocacy Stories’

Workshop presentation slideshow

Level 9
Common Room
10 11 May 2009


Professor Jenny Morgan (Melbourne Law School)

'Sexual Harassment: The Early Development of a Legal Claim'

 Room
920
11 18 May 2009


Associate Professor David Brennan (Melbourne Law School)

'Lord Hoffmann and the Dane particle: Gene Patent Scope'

Room
920
12 25 May 2009


Andrew Godwin
(Melbourne Law School)

'Plain Language Risk Disclosure: The Lehman Minibonds Crisis in Asia'

Draft paper is also available

 Room
920

 

 

 
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