4 events Coming up
28 Mar 2012
Melbourne Asian Law Conference - Recent reforms in the administration of justice in China
This conference invites some of China's leading experts on China's justice system to discuss recent issues and reforms in criminal and administrative justice. The forthcoming reforms to China's Criminal Procedure Law in early March will mark the ...
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Conference31 Oct 2012
2012 Nathan and Pamala Jacobson Lecture "The Australian justice system – the need for reform"
The Adversarial Model of Justice assumes that disputes will be decided according to their merits. In fact the model does no such thing. Not only does the model fail to achieve just outcomes, it has become so burdensome and costly that it can be ac...
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Free Public Lecture21 Nov 2012
2012 Allen Hope Southey Memorial Lecture "Common Law Divergences"
When Sir Owen Dixon commented in 1942 that no good could come of divergences’ between the common law administered in English and Australian courts, the then orthodoxy was that the common law of England was the common law to be applied in Australia...
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Free Public Lecture19 Mar 2013
Australia and the International Court of Justice
The International Court of Justice is the principal judicial organ of the United Nations. Over the past 25 years it has been increasingly active in dealing with interstate disputes, as well as some controversial advisory opinions concerning such m...