2010 Constitutional Law Conference and Dinner
2010 Constitutional Law Conference and Dinner
A major conference on constitutional law, the ninth in a series, will be held at the Art Gallery of New South Wales on Friday 19 February 2010. The event is organised by the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law with the support of the Australian Association of Constitutional Law.
The conference will focus on developments in the High Court and other Australian courts in 2009 and beyond. It will be addressed by leading practitioners, government lawyers, judges and academics. The conference will be followed by dinner at NSW Parliament House, hosted by NSW Attorney-General, the Hon John Hatzistergos, MLC. Speakers at the conference will review the key themes and statistics of the Court's work in 2009 as well as recent major decisions. Confirmed speakers include:
Registration for this event is now closed. |
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2010 Constitutional Law Conference and Dinner | |||||||||||||
Date | Friday, 19 February 2010 | ||||||||||||
Venue | Domain Theatre, Art Gallery of New South Wales | ||||||||||||
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Papers
Below is the listing of Speakers and their downloadable papers. Click on the title name of the paper to download it.
Other Conference Documents
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Dinner Speaker - The Hon Chief Justice Robert French, High Court of Australia |
- Chris Horan, Victorian Bar
Wurridjal v The Commonwealth - The Intervention and the Acquisition - Dr Dan Meagher, Deakin University
The Marriage Power and Same-Sex Unions - Associate Professor Andrew Lynch and Professor George Williams, University of New South Wales ** This paper is forthcoming in the (2010) 2 University of Nenw South Wales Law Journal
The High Court on Constitutional Law: The 2009 Statistics - Dr Melissa Perry QC, New South Wales Bar
The High Court on Constitutional Law: The 2009 Term - Professor Gerard Carney, Bond University
The Federal and State Courts on Constitutional Law: The 2009 Term - Robert Meadows QC, Solicitor-General of Western Australia
Clarke v Commissioner of Taxation - Politicians` Superannuation and the Constitutional Capacities of State Government - Nick Gouliaditis, Australian Government Solicitor
Privative Clauses - Epic Fail - Bryan Pape, University of New England
A Litigant`s View