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Council of Australian Law Deans Meeting 2007#3 University of Western Australia, Perth 22 & 23 September 2007 DRAFT MINUTES CALD Draft Minutes, Meeting 2007#3 – University of Western Australia, Perth – 22 & 23 September 2007 ATTENDANCE Present (22) Deans (14) Professor Michael Coper Australian National University Assoc Professor Mark Stoney Edith Cowan University Professor Paula Baron Griffith University Professor Gabriel Moens Murdoch University Professor The Hon Michael Lavarch Queensland University of Technology Professor Bee Chen Goh Southern Cross University Assoc Professor Rosemary Owens University of Adelaide (Acting) Professor Murray Raff University of Canberra Professor Michael Crommelin University of Melbourne Assoc Professor Jürgen Bröhmer University of New England Professor Michael Gillooly University of Notre Dame, Australia Professor Bill Ford University of Western Australia Professor Michael Adams University of Western Sydney Professor Luke McNamara University of Wollongong Deputising (4) Professor Patrick Keyzer Bond University Assoc Professor Matthew Storey Charles Darwin University Ms Mandy Shircore James Cook University Professor Vicki Waye University of South Australia In attendance (5) Mr Christopher Roper (by phone) Consultant Dr Susanne Owen Owen Educational Consulting Ms Jennifer Braid CALD Secretary Ms Karen Heuer PA to Dean Coper Ms Barbara Williamson PA to Dean Ford Apologies (16) Professor Duncan Bentley* Bond University* Mr Dennis Clark* Charles Darwin University* Professor Anne Rees Deakin University Assoc Professor David Bamford Flinders University (Acting) Professor Paul Havemann* James Cook University* Professor Gordon Walker La Trobe University Professor Tyrone Carlin Macquarie University Professor Arie Freiberg Monash University Professor David Dixon University of New South Wales Professor Ted Wright University of Newcastle Professor Charles Rickett University of Queensland Professor Paul Fairall* University of South Australia* Professor Ron McCallum University of Sydney Professor Don Chalmers University of Tasmania Professor Jill McKeough University of Technology, Sydney Assoc Professor Bruno Zeller Victoria University (Acting) *Represented by Deputy 2 CALD Draft Minutes, Meeting 2007#3 – University of Western Australia, Perth – 22 & 23 September 2007 1. PRELIMINARY MATTERS 1.1. *Welcome and attendance The meeting began at 2.00 pm on Saturday 22 September 2007. The Chair expressed the appreciation of CALD to Dean Ford for the organisation of the CALD meeting at his university. The Chair particularly welcomed to their first CALD meeting Deans Baron (Griffith), Brohmer (UNE) and Gillooly (Notre Dame), and also those deputising for their law schools, including Professor Patrick Keyzer (Bond), A/Professor Matthew Storey (CDU), Ms Mandy Shircore (JCU), and Professor Vicki Waye (UniSA). He also welcomed Dr Susanne Owen, CALD's consultant on the Carrick DBI Project (see item 4.4) and Ms Barbara Williamson (PA to Dean Ford). [Post-meeting note about decanal movements: As previously noted, new Deans Gillian Triggs (Sydney) and James Hathaway (Melbourne) will represent their law schools on CALD from 2008, following the decanal retirements of Ron McCallum (Sydney) and Michael Crommelin (Melbourne). In addition to this, and previously unannounced, Andrew Clarke has been appointed at VU, replacing Bruno Zeller, who was acting; Stephen Graw has been (re)appointed at JCU, replacing Paul Havemann; Martin Chanock has been appointed at La Trobe, replacing Gordon Walker, but only until February 2008, when he retires and Jianfu Chen takes over; Charles Rickett has stepped down as Dean at UQ and Ross Grantham is acting; and David Bamford continues to act at Flinders while Gary Davis is on leave to take charge of the Carrick project. Geraldine Mackenzie (formerly of QUT) is the new Head of Law at USQ, and has been invited to attend CALD as an observer, pending application by USQ for CALD membership. Michael Coper (ANU), though stepping down as Chair of CALD, has been re-appointed as Dean at ANU for a further five-year term.] 1.2. Apologies The apologies were noted as per the above list. [Deans Carlin (Macquarie) and Chalmers (UTas), contrary to the anticipation of the agenda, were late scratchings.] 1.3. *Starring of items The Chair noted the double-starred (priority) items: 3.4 Research Quality Framework (RQF); 5.4 Accreditation issues and external monitoring of standards; and 6.2 Law Admissions Consultative Committee (LACC). 1.4. *Confirmation of minutes of meeting 2007#2 The draft minutes of meeting 2007#2 held on 15 & 16 July 2007 at the Southern Cross University, Byron Bay Campus, had initially been circulated by email. The version in the meeting papers, that is, the version posted on the password-protected part of the CALD website, incorporated suggested amendments by Deans Fairall (item 6.2) and Goh (item 4.5). The Chair enquired of the meeting whether there were any ideas for improving the format for future minutes. The cumulative list of resolutions, for example, was not strictly necessary, but Deans had indicated that they found it useful 3 CALD Draft Minutes, Meeting 2007#3 – University of Western Australia, Perth – 22 & 23 September 2007 (now that the password-protected website was functioning well for the distribution of papers, however, the list could simply be posted on there). The 'post-meeting notes' were also found to be a useful innovation (though, ironically, their utility was inversely correlated with the timeliness of the distribution of the minutes). Deans to let the Chair or the Secretary know if they have any further suggestions. Resolution 2007/43: That the minutes of meeting 2007#2 be approved. 1.5. *Matters arising from the minutes The Chair noted that there was nothing arising under the previous minutes that was not covered in today's agenda, other than that he should inform the meeting that, under 'Action Item 3.4 RQF: continue search for possible end users for nomination to Panel 11’, the following membership of the Panel had been announced by DEST: Panel Eleven: Law, Education and Professional Practices Name Title/Position Organisation Chair Hilary Professor Australian National Charlesworth University Fazal Rizvi Professor in Global Studies in Education University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Peter Goodyear Professor of Education The University of Sydney Janet Chan Professor The University of New South Wales Barbara Fawcett Professor and Associate Dean (Research) The University of Sydney Margaret Davies Professor Flinders University John A C Hattie Professor and Project Director of Assessment University of Auckland, Tools for Teaching and Learning New Zealand Anthony Duggan Professor and Iacobucci Chair University of Toronto, Canada Christopher Peter Professor and Head of Journalism Liverpool John Moores Frost University, UK David Harris Dr Self Employed Solomon Dahle Suggett Dr and Deputy Secretary Victoria Department of Education and Early Childhood Evelyn Woodberry Ms and University Librarian University of New England 1.6. *Meeting papers CALD has adopted the practice of making the meeting papers available on the password-protected section of the CALD website. The papers for meeting 2007#3 were as follows: 4 CALD Draft Minutes, Meeting 2007#3 – University of Western Australia, Perth – 22 & 23 September 2007 1.0_CALD_Agenda_2007_No.3__Perth.pdf 1.4_CALD_draft_minutes_2007_2_ByronBay.pdf 2.3_Treasurer_Report_Sept_07.pdf 2.4_Secretariat_report_September_2007.pdf 3.1_1.AAL_launch_July_07_GovQld_speech.htm 3.1_2.AAL_launch_July_07_ChiefJustice_speech.pdf 3.1_3.AAL_launch_July_07_ALRCPresident_speech1.pdf 3.1_4.AAL_launch_July_07_ALRCPresident_speech2.pdf 3.1_5.AAL_launch_July_07_Chairs_speech.pdf 3.3.2_ALPN_report_1.pdf 3.3.2_ALPN_report_2.pdf 3.4_RQF_background_paper_on_outlet_ranking.pdf 3.4_RQF_CALD_WP_Recomm_Ranking.pdf 3.4_RQF_REPP_Rankings_process.pdf 4.1_ALSA_report_Sept_07.pdf 4.2_ALTA_report.pdf 4.4_1.Carrick_Report_Adelaide_DBI_meeting.pdf 4.4_2.CarrickDBI_PrelimTsks_Owen.pdf 4.4_2a.Carrick_reimaging_law_curricul_Owen.pdf 4.4_3.Research_proposal_BrainMindInstitute.pdf 5.4_Standards_report_Roper_draft_11_Sept_07.pdf 6.1.0A_Agenda_CALD_SC_Practice_10Sept07.pdf 6.1_NJCA_report_Sep_07.pdf 6.3_1.NPBRC_student_probono_paper.pdf 6.3_2.CALD_student_probono_policy.pdf 6.5.1_1.LegalEducationCommitte_Mins_Sept07.pdf 6.5.1_2.DEST_Masters_guidelines_submission.pdf 6.5.1_3.DEST_draft_guidelines_Masters_Studincomesupport.pdf 7.1.0_ILSAC_Secretariat_briefing_CALD_Perth.pdf 7.1.2_ILSACletter_CALD_options_central_assess_overseas_qual_lawyers_admiss_pr actise_Australia.pdf 7.1.2_ILSACpaper_admissionpracticeAustraliaOverseasQuaifLawyers_Dec05.pdf 7.1.2_ILSACTwo_options_for_central_assess_overseas_quals.pdf 7.1.4_ILSAC_SLIA_2007_distribution_list.pdf 7.1A_AGmediarelease_ACICA_publicat_managing_disputes.pdf 2. COUNCIL MATTERS 2.1. *Membership/Constitution As noted in the meeting agenda, the University of Southern Queensland (USQ) Faculty of Business has accredited LLB and JD law programs. RMIT’s School of Accountancy and Law has an accredited JD program. Like programs have been foreshadowed at Curtin University of Technology (WA) and the University of the Sunshine Coast (Qld). The meeting noted briefly that, where there was no identifiable law school as such, these new programs could raise issues for both the CALD project on Standards for Australian Law Schools (item 5.4) and for membership of CALD itself, according to the CALD Constitution. It was suggested that this matter was