Alumni Newsletter Autumn 2011
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ANU COLLEGE OF LAW Alumni Newsletter Autumn 2011 ANU College of Law Book Celebration In the spirit of the College’s traditional biennial book launch, the Hon Annabelle Bennett AO celebrated a collection of books published by ANU College of Law academic staff between the last such event in 2007 and the end of 2010. The publications showcase the College’s diverse research interests, which range across fields as varied as environmental law, family law, intellectual property, law and religion, administrative law, international law, human rights, equity and trusts, governance, sex discrimination and The ANU CoL Book Celebration, Public Hall of the High Court of Australia global health law. The event was chaired by the ANU College of Law Dean Professor Michael Coper in the Public Hall of the High Court of Australia on 31 March. The Hon Annabelle Bennett has been Pro-Chancellor of The Australian National University since 1998. She is a Justice of the Federal Court of Australia. Justice Bennett is also a member of Chief Executive Women, an advisory committee member of the Australian Law Reform Commission, the Centennial Park & Moore Park Trust, the Medico-Legal Professor Michael Coper The Hon Annabelle Bennett AO Society of New South Wales, and various Australian and International legal associations. Combined with this, Justice Bennett is a council member of the Australian Academy of Forensic Science and a director of the Sydney Children’s Hospital Foundation (formerly the Prince of Wales Children’s Hospital Foundation). Transcript of the Hon Annabelle ANU College of Law book display Bennett’s address http://law.anu.edu.au 1 International Review Team Visits ANU College of Law A distinguished panel of international law deans and legal scholars, all experts in legal education, spent the week beginning 28 March 2011 at the ANU College of Law, reviewing the College's operations, assisting the College with its strategic planning, and working with the College to develop cutting- edge ideas about how the College could most effectively make a positive contribution to enhancing the discipline of law in Australia and beyond. The panel had members from the UK, New Zealand, the US, Singapore and Canada: Roger Burridge Roger Burridge is former Head of the University of Warwick Law School and former Director of the UK Centre for Legal Education, and has extensive international experience, including as a foundation member of the Governing Board of the International Association of Law Schools. His areas of particular interest include legal education, legal practice, criminal law, administrative law, and socio-legal issues around housing. Kim Economides is Director of the Legal Issues Centre at the University of Kim Economides Otago Faculty of Law, having previously been Professor of Legal Ethics and Head of the University of Exeter Law School. He has published widely on legal education, legal practice, access to justice, legal ethics and values, and was founding editor of the international journal Legal Ethics. Elizabeth Parker was appointed as Dean of the University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law in 2002, following a distinguished career outside academia. She began her career as a civil rights litigator, and subsequently served for over a decade in various US federal government positions, including Elizabeth Parker as general counsel for the CIA. She is an expert in national security law and terrorism, as well as in international trade law. Tan Cheng Han was appointed in 2010 to an unprecedented fourth term as Dean of Law at the National University of Singapore, having been Dean there since 2001. He is a corporate and commercial lawyer, was previously a litigation partner at Drew & Napier, was appointed as Senior Counsel in 2004 and as a Specialist Judge in 2006. He is also a member of the Governing Board of the IALS. Tan Cheng Han Jeremy Webber holds the Canada Research Chair in Law and Society at the University of Victoria and was recently awarded a prestigious Trudeau Fellowship. He was previously at McGill University and at the University of Sydney, where he was Dean of Law from 1998 to 2002. His particular interests include legal and political theory, constitutional law, Indigenous rights, law and culture, labour law and legal history. The panel undertook a comprehensive program of meetings, focus groups and one on one discussions and will report to the Dean of the ANU College of Law Jeremy Webber Professor Michael Coper. http://law.anu.edu.au 2 Professor Hilary Charlesworth Honoured with ICJ Appointment Ninian Stephen (to whom Hilary This appointment as judge ad hoc is was Associate when Sir Ninian was a great honour and reflects the high on the High Court of Australia) in esteem with which Hilary is held in 1995 for the case against Portugal the international law community. regarding Timor. Sir Percy Spender, who was President of the ICJ in the For more details about Hilary’s 1960s, is the only Australian to have appointment please read the joint been elected as a permanent judge. media release from the Attorney- General, the Hon Robert McClelland Hilary holds the title of Professor of MP and Minister for Foreign Affairs, International Law and Human Rights the Hon Kevin Rudd MP. Professor Hilary Charlesworth has in the ANU College of Law and an been appointed as a judge ad hoc appointment as Professor and Director For biographical details of the International Court of Justice of the Centre for International (ICJ). Hilary, who is the first Australian Governance and Justice in the academic lawyer to have this honour, Regulatory Institutions Networks will be a judge ad hoc in the case (RegNet) in the College of Asia and of Australia v. Japan in relation to the Pacific. As an Australian Research whaling. Council Federation Fellow, Hilary is also currently Chief Investigator in Only two Australians have had a new three year Linkage Project, this honour previously, Sir Garfield Strengthening the rule of law through Barwick in 1974 (for the nuclear the United Nations Security Council. test case against France) and Sir New Appointment to Hauser Global Law Program The ANU College of Law UN’s land rights adviser in post- congratulates Dr Daniel Fitzpatrick conflict East Timor (2000) and post- for his appointment in 2011 as a tsunami Aceh (2005-6). In 2002 he Global Visiting Professor in the published Land Claims in East Timor Hauser Global Law School Program (230 pp., Asia Pacific Press). In 2007 (HGLSP) at New York University he won the Hart Article Prize from (NYU). Dr Fitzpatrick is one of around the UK Socio-Legal Association for 20 leading law professors and judges Evolution and Chaos in Property from around the world who were Rights Systems: The third world invited by HGLSP to teach at NYU tragedy of contested access, Yale School of Law. Law Journal (Vol. 115, pp. 996-1048 Program. He has been a Visiting March 2006). Professor at the National University Dr Fitzpatrick is the current Director of Singapore (2006-09) and at the of the Masters program and Convenor Dr Fitzpatrick is the primary author University of Muenster (2002), of the new Law, Governance and of the UN’s Land and Disasters: and a Distinguished Visitor at the Development program at the ANU Guidance for practitioners (2010). University of Toronto (2007). College of Law. He has undertaken professional consultancies on law and Earlier in his career, Dr Fitzpatrick development with the World Bank, was a legal practitioner and judge’s AusAID, the Asian Development associate of the Federal Court. He Bank, Oxfam International, the has written widely on land law and OECD, UNDP and UN-Habitat. His policy in the Third World, with a work with AusAID includes co- particular focus on recovery from authoring the 2008 Making Land disaster or conflict. He was the Work report for its Pacific Land http://law.anu.edu.au 3 ANU College of Law Honours 2010 Prize Winners Associate Professor Simon Rice OAM The ANU College of Law Annual Prize Ceremony was held on 9 March 2011 on the College lawns. Dean Professor Michael Coper welcomed the prize-winning law graduates and their families and friends, and College staff to the ceremony. Special remarks were made by Associate Professor Simon Rice OAM, who is the Director of the Law Reform and Social Justice Program at the College. For a full list of the 2010 prize recipients and some College highlights from 2010 please see: The prize booklet Dean Professor Michael Coper ANU School of Music Brass Ensemble greeting the prize winners with the Multiple prize winner, Pauline Thai traditional fanfare http://law.anu.edu.au 4 New Silk Chambers Internship discuss my paper. I am also able to MEDIA RELEASE - 11 March 2011 study the briefs that come to the barristers at Silk Chambers and follow New Link Between ANU them around as they meet with Law School and Barristers clients and appear in the courts and to Assist Law Students tribunals. A new link between The Australian I was lucky to be placed in a Barristers National University’s College of chambers as I have considered this as Law and barristers’ chambers Jessica Brent a career option for sometime down in Canberra would help keep the track. The great thing about law students in touch with the Jessica Brent is the first student to being placed with a Barrister is that practical side of the Law, barrister benefit through an internship under they cover such a wide gamut of law Richard Thomas said today. a newly established link between Silk that I was able to choose from just Chambers, Civic and the ANU College about any area of law I wanted.