Juristdiction

Magazine for University of Sydney Law School graduates 2015 edition JuristDiction

In memoriam: Alumna Cat Thao Constitutions Alumnus-led we remember Nguyen shares her – is there a initiative breaks new Katrina Dawson 4 incredible story 16 gender divide? 30 ground in Uganda 34 From the Dean’s desk This edition — —

02 16 32 World beaters: our students Alumna empowered by law The laws of armed conflict win fourth Jessup moot title studies after life struggle Dr Emily Crawford’s research Five Law School students Cat Thao Nguyen shares her is uncovering issues generated take out top honours at the journey from Vietnam to by the law’s application in the prestigious law moot. Australia and back. 21st century.

04 20 Katrina Watson Dawson Creating new insights into Cate Stewart remembers her health and human rights friend and fellow alumna, Global Health Law guest Katrina Dawson. lecturers tackle the world health issues of today.

06 22 34 Honouring our Giving you a pathway to School initiative breaks new outstanding students Cambridge or Oxford ground in Uganda We celebrate the achievements Sydney Law School provides the A community-based of our prize-winning students. pathway to a dual degree. organisation is breaking the Our alumni come from many diverse and challenging cycle of donor dependency. backgrounds, and are contributing in valuable ways across the globe. We are proud to share their stories with you. 10 26 38 Shaping the future of Old friends come back again Class reunites 40 years on Indigenous law The Four Just Men find their Memories were shared and good A faculty-led legal research way home. times had as the class of ’75 got workshop is fostering young together again. Indigenous talent.

12 28 40 Welcome to our new-look JuristDiction, (himself a member of the very first JuristDiction is a great opportunity Demystifying university life Practising law in the Celebrating our alumni Sydney Law School’s annual alumni Sydney Law School World Champion to share news of our alumni and their A University of Sydney NSW outback achievements magazine, providing an overview of Jessup Team from 1996), deserve the achievements. In this issue, read about program builds Aboriginal Matthew Lyster talks about the A portrait of alumnus Charles activities at the law school over the past highest praise. Cat Thao Nguyen, who has written and Torres Strait Islander challenges of being a lawyer in Waterstreet has won the 2015 12 months. You can access an online copy her memoirs, We Are Here, about her students’ participation in rural NSW. Archibald Prize. and read all the content on our website at We also include a tribute to Katrina experience as a refugee. We also hear higher education. sydney.edu.au/law/juristdiction. We Dawson by her close friend, Cate Stewart, about the inspirational work of Annabelle welcome your feedback, so please do not who manages our Publishing Unit, Chauncy, who is co-founder of the School hesitate to let us know what you think. news of our initiatives in encouraging for Life Foundation and gave an address at 14 30 Indigenous scholarship, some profiles our recent graduation ceremony. Alumni inspire at Constitutions and gender This edition celebrates Sydney Law of our first students to enjoy the Oxford graduation ceremonies How constitutions affect School’s fourth win in the prestigious and Cambridge ‘pathways’ schemes, I hope you enjoy our new-look Three notable alumni give the women’s chances of achieving Philip C Jessup International Law Moot and honour one of our most inspiring JuristDiction. occasional address at the Law equality and agency. – setting a record only equalled by the students, Andrew Thomas. Andrew is a School graduation ceremonies. National University of Singapore. Our recent recipient of the Menzies Harvard stellar team, its coach, Rob Pietriche Scholarship and co-founder of the Professor Joellen Riley and its advisor, Professor Tim Stephens Manjeri School Project in Uganda. Dean, Sydney Law School Produced by Marketing and Communications, Cover: Sydney Law School Library 15/4808 The University of Sydney Printing managed by PublishPartner ©2015 The University of Sydney

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A team of five University of Sydney “This is a tremendous Tim Stephens, the team’s Faculty Advisor, law students has won the 2015 offered his congratulations. Jessup International Law Moot Court result for our talented competition, following up on their students, and is testament “This is an exceptional performance by recent success in winning the Australian to the strength of our team our students, who’ve shown enormous national rounds of the competition in the dedication since November 2014 when High Court in February. of international lawyers at they began work on the moot problem,” the Sydney Law School, Professor Stephens says. The team defeated Pontificia Universidad who have supported the Católica de Chile in the Grand Final moot “The Sydney Law School extends held in Washington DC. Two judges of Jessup since the 1990s.” our sincere thanks to all those who the International Court of Justice were Professor Joellen Riley, supported the team, especially the on the bench: His Excellency Sir Kenneth Dean, Sydney Law School.” practice moot judges from the faculty Keith (presiding) and Her Excellency and from the judiciary and wider legal Joan Donoghue along with distinguished profession in Sydney. We extend very international law academic and former As well as the group taking out the special thanks and acknowledgement State Department advisor Professor Grand Final moot, team member Alice for the financial support provided to Harold Koh. Zhou was named best advocate in the the students from the NSW Bar final, and Sarah Bradbury was named Association, Gilbert + Tobin, and the The team comprised Sarah Bradbury, best advocate in the overall competition Australian and New Zealand Society of Nathan Hauser, Sam Murray, Angus in Washington. Angus Nicholas was International Law.” World beaters: our students win Nicholas and Alice Zhou. named as seventh best oralist in the overall competition. The Sydney Law School held a celebratory Sydney Law School is now the world’s function at the school for the team and its fourth Jessup moot title equal best performing law school in the sponsors on 18 May 2015. Alumnus Rob Pietriche (BEc 2012 LLB Jessup, having won the Jessup Cup on 2014) coached the team and Professor four occasions since the competition was opened to international teams in Sydney Law School students win the world’s most 1968. Sydney previously won in 1996, prestigious student legal advocacy competition. 2007 and 2011. Widely recognised as the world’s most prestigious student legal advocacy competition, the Jessup Moot gives competitors the opportunity to argue a case before the International Court of Justice. Working as a team, they represent fictional states in a hypothetical but topical case of international law. In 2015 there were more than 550 law schools participating in the Jessup from more than 80 countries.

From left to right: Alice Zhou, Rob Pietriche (Coach), Sarah Bradbury, Nathan Hauser, Angus Nicholas, Sam Murray and Professor Tim Stephens (Advisor)

02 03 In memoriam In memoriam — —

At the same time as achieving impressive fellow summer clerk at Mallesons. They at Mallesons, she coordinated its pro results in her studies, she held a variety married in 2001 and went on to have bono Downing Centre Duty Solicitor’s of paid and unpaid jobs. She also three wonderful children: Chloe, Ollie Scheme, volunteered for Make a Wish at participated in sporting and social events and Sasha. Together they created a joyous the Starlight Children’s Foundation and with equal enthusiasm. She represented family and home, full of love and laughter. was instrumental in establishing the Ted the Women’s College in the inter-college Noffs Foundation’s ASK! free legal service Rosebowl competition (rowing, tennis for youth. Katrina Watson Dawson and basketball). She attended the Australian University Games, trying her As her Ascham School friends – the hand for the first time at the heptathlon friends who knew her longest – said in a (1976–2014) and the hammer throw, finishing just recent obituary: she was the best of us. outside a placing in the latter, after only receiving a quick rundown on technique Whatever she did, she did wholeheartedly BA LLB (Hons I) (Syd) LLM (MHRLP) (UNSW) just before the event! and it is wholeheartedly that we love her, miss her and remember her always. Written by Cate Stewart One of her greatest joys at college was fancy dress, for which she was, both then and after, renowned. It was no doubt with great effort that she stifled the urge to add some dazzle to her wig and gown for appearances in court, but by then she had found other outlets for her creativity, such Above all, our thoughts are with Paul, as children’s birthday parties. the children and the rest of the Dawson The Katrina Dawson family for their immeasurable loss. Foundation After completing a summer clerkship at The Katrina Dawson Foundation is Mallesons from 1998 to 1999, Katrina Katrina was simply overflowing with a inspired by who Katrina was. The returned there to work as a graduate in passion for living life to its fullest and foundation will go beyond simply KATRINA DAWSON’S LIFE WAS and, so I am told by many members of the honours in Law and winning the Michael the dispute litigation group. She started was determined to do her best in all that providing financial support. Through INEXPLICABLY AND TRAGICALLY legal profession, the best of colleagues. Harmer and Associates Award for tackling some of the big questions – such she did. She was constantly caring for, the funding of scholarships to CUT SHORT IN DECEMBER 2014 She was unfailingly generous with her Anti-Discrimination Law (1999). A fluent as whether suffering from handbag and encouraging of, others and she was Women’s College and fellowships for IN THE WAKE OF A MUCH-LOVED affection, time and expertise – not only speaker of French (her Arts major), she envy justified an afternoon of sick the best person I know at keeping in a senior or postgraduate student, RITUAL OF HOT CHOCOLATE AND in law, but in matters including shoe and spent a semester in 1999 studying law in leave. But, beneath the fun, Katrina was touch. Friends received thoughtful and the foundation aims to find, fund TOAST AT THE START OF HER bag shopping, renovation, baking and French at the Sorbonne (the University of an extraordinarily hard worker. She hilarious correspondence of all kinds: a and mentor inspiring young women. WORKING DAY AS A BARRISTER. parenting. In all that she did, there was Paris) – at a time when most of us found became a Senior Associate, and in 2004, favourite among many being the singing It will build a network of Katrina humour and laughter. law difficult enough to understand in our completed a Master of Human Rights birthday call. Visitors to the family home Dawson scholars, fellows and — native English (with all due respect to my Law and Policy at the University of New were spoilt with delicious homemade mentors, who all know and support Katrina was born in 1976 in Perth to law school lecturers and tutors!). South Wales. In 2005, she was called to food, while she played with kids, cooked, each other. Among the countless people mourning parents Jane and Sandy Dawson – the the NSW Bar after winning the Blashki & chatted, danced and sang. her absence from our lives are those who adored younger sister of Sandy and Katrina lived on campus at the Women’s Sons Award for topping the Bar exams. To support the foundation or find studied with, lived with, and taught her Angus. She completed her Higher School College from 1995 to 1998. She was elected Katrina’s kindness extended well beyond out more, visit at the University of Sydney. Beyond the Certificate (HSC) at Ascham School, Senior Student in 1998 by fellow student Katrina proved a talented barrister – on friends and colleagues. She was acutely www.thekatrinadawsonfoundation.org University, many more feel her loss daily Edgecliff in 1994 and equalled first in residents at the college; an indication of the which I can do no greater justice than aware of the advantages she had had in from their personal and professional lives, the state, with a Tertiary Entrance Rank affection and esteem with which she was refer with thanks to the obituary of her life and had a strong social conscience. including colleagues and friends from (TER) of 100. held. At the Women’s College she won the Eight Selborne Chambers colleague Jason During her time at university, she did pro Mallesons and the New South Wales Bar. Grace Frazer Prize (1995), the Leonie Star Potts in the 2015 (Autumn) Bar News. bono work for Redfern Legal Centre and At the University of Sydney, she studied Prize (1995) and the Ellen Bundock Prizes the Tenants Union, as well as volunteer ‘Treen’ or ‘Tree’, as many of her close a combined Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor (1996–98), as well as a Women’s College But the happiest outcome of Katrina’s work for Médecins Sans Frontières. Later, friends know her, was the best of friends of Laws (1995–99), achieving first-class Scholarship (1996). pursuit of the law was meeting Paul – a

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Honouring our Our 2015 prize winners outstanding students

On 23 April 2015, Sydney Law School held its annual Prize Giving Ceremony to celebrate the achievements of its winning students. More than 200 attendees, including The Sydney Law School would like to Jeffrey Robert Cabarrus prize winners and their families, as well warmly congratulate all prize winners: • Law Society of New South Wales Prize as faculty staff, gathered in the Law for Law, Lawyers and Justice School Auditorium for the annual event Catherine Baekgaard • Margaret Dalrymple Hay Prize for Law, held to celebrate and recognise our • The Marjorie O’Brien Prize Lawyers and Justice talented students. Matthew Barry Benjamin Carl Carrozzi • Academic Merit Prize • The Christopher C Hodgekiss Prize in Professor Joellen Riley, Dean, Sydney • John George Dalley Prize No.1A Competition Law Law School, acknowledged the efforts • Allens Linklaters Prize in Sarah Therese Bradbury of our students and expressed the Law Competition Law School’s gratitude for the invaluable • The CA Hardwick Prize in support of the community and the Constitutional Law Gabrielle Chaikin profession. She warmly thanked all • Pitt Cobbett Prize for • Law Press Asia Prize for Chinese Legal prize and scholarship donors for their Constitutional Law Studies No. 1 • Andrew M Clayton Memorial continuing support. Philip Andris Charteris Prize - Clayton Utz • Australian Taxation Office Prize in Professor Greg Tolhurst announced the Lucinda Bradshaw Taxation Law recipients and Robert Pietriche gave the • Julius and Reca Stone Award in Melissa Ann Chen student address at the ceremony. Prize International Law and Jurisprudence • Academic Merit Prize winners then joined their families for a Michael Anthony Butler celebratory cocktail function. Terry Cheng • Victoria Gollan Memorial • University of Sydney Foundation Prize Fund Scholarship for Australian International Taxation

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Mitchell James Cleaver Hayley Gordon Arunima Lal Obelia Jane Modjeska Fabian Patrick Römer Kim Minh Tu Tran • Academic Merit Prize • Margaret Ethel Peden Prize in • Keith Steele Memorial Prize • JH McClemens Memorial Prize No. 3 in • AMPLA Prize in Energy and Climate Law • The Christopher C Hodgekiss Prize in Real Property Diploma in Criminology Competition Law Xavier Collins Bronte Lambourne Harry Rogers • Allens Linklaters Prize in • John Warwick McCluskey Allen Antoun Habib • Margaret Ethel Peden Prize in Luca Moretti • Caroline Munro Gibbs Prize for Torts Memorial Prize • University of Sydney Foundation Prize Real Property • George and Matilda Harris Scholarship • LexisNexis Book Prize No. 1 for Most Competition Law • Mr Justice Stanley Vere Toose for Australian International Taxation • ED Roper Memorial Prize No. 1 for No. IIB for Third Year of Combined Law Proficient in Combined Law I Trevor Ka Chew Tsui Memorial Prize for Family Law Equity and Corporations Law • LexisNexis Book Prize No. 3 for Most • Pitt Cobbett Prize for Alison Margaret Hammond Jonathon Savery • Edward John Culey Prize for Proficiency Proficient in Combined Law III Administrative Law Nicholas Condylis • Nancy Gordon Smith Prize for Honours • Sir Peter Heydon Prize for Best in Real Property and Equity • New South Wales Justices’ Association • Academic Merit Prize at Graduation Alan Kai Yeung Ngo Undergraduate Contribution in • Sir Dudley Williams Prize • Margaret Ethel Peden Prize in Constitutional, Administrative or Prize in Administrative Law Natalie Czapski Talara Lee • Tuh Fuh and Ruby Lee Memorial Prize • Rose Scott Prize for Proficiency at • The Marjorie O’Brien Prize Real Property International Law Eric Lim Vuu Graduation by a Woman Candidate • Monahan Prize for Evidence in Criminology Winnie Liu Eva O’Dea Zoe Scanlon • JH McClemens Memorial Prize No.1 David Hertzberg • LexisNexis Book Prize No.5 for Most • Law Press Asia Prize for Chinese • Nancy Gordon Smith Postgraduate Prize Zhongyi Wang in Criminology • Sir Dudley Williams Prize Proficient in Juris Doctor in Year I Legal Studies No. 2 for LLM by Coursework • Edward and Emily McWhinney Prize in • Nancy Gordon Smith Prize for Honours • EM Mitchell Prize for Contracts International Law Elvis Dangol Michael Oliver Sarah Schwartz at Graduation • Pitt Cobbett Prize for International Law • Herbert Smith Freehills Prize Manh Cuong Luong • The Alan Ayling Prize in • John Geddes Prize for Equity in Contracts • The Tomonari Akaha Memorial Prize Environmental Law Ebony Hill Cui Shi Jackson Wright Smith • Victoria Gollan Memorial Fund • Ashurst Prize in Advanced Taxation Law Annabel Jane Deans Kerrie Yan Ma Jin Ooi • Wigram Allen Scholarship Scholarship • ED Roper Memorial Prize No.2 for • Law Press Asia Prize for Chinese Legal • Judge Samuel Redshaw Prize for - International David Wong Equity and Corporations Law Studies No. 2 Administrative Law • Roy Frederick Turner AM Scholarship Joshua Himbury Prajesh Shrestha • ANJeL Akira Kawamura Prize in Lovelle Dominica D’Souza James Joseph Mackay Naomi Biying Pan • Peter Paterson Prize Connie Yan • Academic Merit Prize Japanese Law • King & Wood Mallesons Prize in Banking • Ashurst Prize in Australian Income Tax • Walter Ernest Savage Prize for Freya Smith and Financial Instruments Foundations of Law Daniel Farinha Heather Huddleston Gabriel Perrottet • The Judge Perdiau Prize No. 1 • Minter Ellison Prize • Peter Cameron Sydney-Oxford • Julius Stone Prize in Sociological • LexisNexis Book Prize No. 1 for Most Marc Marinozzi Jonathon Spencer Scholarship • LexisNexis Book Prize No. 4 for Most Jurisprudence Proficient in Combined Law I Daniel Fletcher • Jeff Sharp Prize in Tax Research • Justice Peter Hely Scholarship Spencer Hulme Proficient in Combined Law IV • Ashurst Prize in Environmental Law Alice Ye • Law Press Asia Prize for Chinese • George and Matilda Harris Scholarship Michael James Starkey • King & Wood Mallesons Prize in Banking Adam Bruce Fovent Joel David Phillips • Harmers Workplace Lawyers Prize Legal Studies No.2 No. 1 for Second Year • Caroline Munro Gibbs Prize for Torts and Financial Instruments • Sir John Peden Memorial Prize • Academic Merit Prize for Labour Law for Proficiency in Foundations of Phillip Joson Robert James Pietriche • Harmers Workplace Lawyers Prize for Law, Federal Constitutional Law, • Sybil Morrison Prize for William Alexander Mason • Nancy Gordon Smith Prize for Anti-Discrimination Law International Law and Real Property Jurisprudence Part 2 • Margaret Ethel Peden Prize in Honours at Graduation • Sir Alexander Beattie Prize in Real Property • LexisNexis Book Prize No.6 for Most Amelia Catherine Joyner • Ian Joye Prize in Law Industrial Law Proficient in Juris Doctor Year II • The Marjorie O’Brien Prize • Playfair Prize in Migration Law Brendan Joseph May Lucian Tan • George and Matilda Harris Scholarship • Gustav and Emma Bondy Crista Jing Li Khong Sarah Nadine Pitney • Mr Justice Stanley Vere Toose Memorial No. IIA for Second Year of Juris Doctor • Nancy Gordon Smith Prize for Postgraduate Prize • Academic Merit Prize Prize for Family Law Honours at Graduation Sanae Furuhashi Kathryn McCullum Ekaterina Podzorova Isobel Taylor • GW Hyman Memorial Prize in • Rose Scott Prize for Proficiency at • Academic Merit Prize • Academic Merit Prize • Academic Merit Prize Labour Law Graduation by a Woman Candidate Graeme Michael McIntyre • The Judge Perdiau Prize No.2 Dr Philip Andrew Quadrio Elizabeth Toriola Jacqueline Krynda • Academic Merit Prize • JH McClemens Memorial Prize No. 2 • Wigram Allen Scholarship – Merit Stephanie Michelle Glass • Aaron Levine Prize for Criminal Law • Nancy Gordon Smith Prize for Honours in Criminology • Thomas P Flattery Prize for Roman Law • LexisNexis Book Prize No.2 for Most at Graduation Proficient in Combined Law II James Rallings • Academic Merit Prize

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Shaping the future of Associate Professor Arlie Loughnan addresses the workshop Indigenous law

Generously sponsored by Gilbert + Tobin, Six highly regarded academics – and/or most appropriate journals. Dr Earlier this year Sydney Law School held the the idea for the workshop grew out of an Professors Chris Cunneen, Kathleen Daly, Arlie Loughnan, Associate Professor and inaugural Indigenous Legal Research Workshop, unusual set of circumstances. Heather Douglas, Elena Marchetti and ARC Postdoctoral Fellow at Sydney Law Senior Lecturers Dr Asmi Wood and Dr School facilitated this session, sharing her designed to foster young Indigenous researchers Gilbert + Tobin previously made a Thalia Anthony – donated their time to be experience as an accomplished scholar donation to Sydney Law School in order academic mentors. and editor of the Sydney Law Review and and scholarship in the field of Indigenous to employ a Chair in Indigenous Law. tapping into the wealth of experience of people and the law. Unfortunately, due to the small number of As the participants presented their work, the academic mentors. candidates in law who meet the criteria of it became clear that there is an exciting Written by Tanya Mitchell being both Indigenous and at chair level, diversity and strength in the projects Without exception the participants the Law School was unable to recruit being undertaken, which heralds a and academic mentors expressed their anyone to the position. bright future for scholarship relating to delight at being provided the opportunity Indigenous people and the law. to meet and appreciated the supportive Law School Dean Professor Joellen atmosphere and ethos of the workshop. Riley reflected upon the role of the In addition to the presentation and This was the first forum of its kind in University of Sydney as a Group of feedback sessions, there were two this field and everyone was keen to Eight institution, in contributing to the mentoring sessions. The first was stay connected. development of Indigenous researchers conducted by Lynette Riley of the and scholarship on issues relating to Wiradjuri/Gamilaroi nations, a Senior With this in mind, Professor Riley is Indigenous people. It was this inquiry that Lecturer and the Academic Leader working with her Wingara Mura – Bunga led to the establishment of a workshop (curriculum) from the National Centre Barrabugu and IT teams at Sydney Law to help foster aspiring academics and the for Cultural Competence, Office of the School to set up a website where the development of a community of scholars Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Indigenous participants and future emerging scholars in this diverse field. Strategy and Services) at the University can be in contact, share their work and of Sydney. Lynette ran a session on post materials of interest. We will also Nineteen PhD candidates and early career the sensitive ethical and political be investigating ways to continue the researchers from places as far afield as issues surrounding research with mentoring process. Kalgoorlie, the Torres Strait and New Indigenous people. Zealand travelled to Sydney, with the Sydney Law School would like to thank assistance of the Gilbert + Tobin funding, The second mentoring session was on Danny Gilbert of Gilbert + Tobin for his to participate in two days of mentoring a topic of great concern to all aspiring inspiration, ongoing generosity in relation workshops, relationship-building and academics: how to write articles that to Indigenous issues and for making this sharing of work, ideas and experience. are attractive to the most prestigious exciting event possible.

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We also ran a short program for students in years 9 and 10 in Higgins, Melissa Chen, Kate Bombell, Lucy Zhang, Michael collaboration with the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and Peng, Mark Smith and Patrick Hall. the Faculty of Education and Social Work. We also acknowledge the support of the Chief Magistrate and The Wingara Mura program focuses on promoting social Deputy Chief Magistrates of the NSW Local Court, and Joanne inclusion and tertiary study and demystifying universities. Selfe of the Judicial Commission. Additionally, we thank Irene Students nominated three faculty-based ‘streams of enquiry’ Baghoomians, who provided valuable information from her that are designed to be practical, informative and incorporate experience in coordinating the 2014 Summer Program; and the both university pathway and careers components. Compass team for their hard work regarding central content and program administration. Our sessions included information on studying and degree Demystifying university life structures, an observation hunt around the University, museum Our faculty’s contribution continued with the Bunga Barrabugu visit and hands-on activity, and a mock trial facilitated by our Winter Program in July. This was an invitation-only, week-long law students. academic intensive workshop to prepare Aboriginal and Torres The Wingara Mura – Bunga Barrabugu Summer Program Strait Islander Year 12 students for their end-of-school exams. It was a privilege to share these experiences with the students, It provided the opportunity to experience university life and gives Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander high school who provided excellent feedback on both programs. We understand enrolment opportunities. acknowledge and appreciate the contributions of staff members students first-hand insights into the university experience. Louise Boon-Kuo and Garner Clancey, law librarian Patrick If you are interested in being involved in future programs please O’Mara, and students Carolyn McKay, Oscar Monaghan, James contact me at [email protected] Written by Louisa Di Bartolomeo

IN JANUARY 2015, SYDNEY LAW SCHOOL The principal focus of the Bunga Barrabugu program is building COLLABORATED WITH THE FACULTY OF ARTS AND motivation and confidence for participation in higher education, SOCIAL SCIENCES TO CREATE AND FACILITATE in conjunction with making links between professional careers A FIVE-DAY INTENSIVE ON-CAMPUS PROGRAM and higher education. It also builds knowledge and awareness of FOR ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER access and pathways, and introduces students to the University STUDENTS IN YEARS 11 AND 12 WHO ARE community and experience. INTERESTED IN STUDYING ARTS AND LAW. Our law program sessions included information on degrees and — studying at university, an academic panel presentation, tutorial sessions, skills-based workshops and site visits.

Workshops included a research session in the library and an interactive mock trial facilitated by current law students. Students visited the Downing Centre Local Court, where they met with Deputy Chief Magistrates Chris O’Brien and Jane Mottley, and with Joanne Selfe, Project Officer of the Judicial Commission of New South Wales’ Ngara Yura Program.

Louisa Di Bartolomeo (fourth from right) leads the learning session

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Alumni inspire at graduation ceremonies From left to right: Kevin McCann, AM, Bill Koeck and the Dean, Professor Joellen Riley

This year’s Law School Annabelle Chauncy OAM The Hon. Justice Ruth McColl AO Bill Koeck (BA 2007, LLB 2010) (BA 1972, LLB 1975) (LLB 1975, LLM 1979) graduation ceremony took A country girl who grew up on a After a stint in the NSW Crown Solicitors Bill is a Partner in the corporate group sheep and cattle farm in Canyonleigh Office, Her Honour Justice Ruth of international law firm, Ashurst, based place on Thursday 30 April in the Southern Highlands of NSW, McColl gained admission to the Bar in Sydney. He is a leading practitioner and featured three notable Annabelle Chauncy, with friend David and later acquired the appointment of in corporate and fund mergers and Everett, made the decision to invest Senior Counsel (SC). The first female acquisitions, equity capital markets, alumni who gave the occasional her legal knowledge in the non-profit President of the New South Wales Bar private equity, restructuring and sector and, specifically, the School for Association, Justice McColl also served workouts, company and securities address at each of the three Life Foundation. as the President of the Australian Bar law, and corporate governance across respective ceremonies; Association, NSW Women Lawyers all industries including mining, energy The foundation’s mission is to provide and Vice-President of Australian and resources. Annabelle Chauncy OAM, the quality education in emerging countries Women Lawyers. to create sustainable, productive and Bill is consistently acknowledged as a Hon. Justice Ruth McColl AO profitable communities. Established Appointed as a Judge of Appeal in the leading lawyer for Corporate/M&A and and Bill Koeck. in Katuuso, Uganda, the foundation Supreme Court of New South Wales Capital Markets in Chambers Global, Asia focuses on children and adults who have in 2003, Justice McColl is the current Pacific Legal 500, PLC Cross-border, been denied an education. Annabelle President of the Judicial Conference Euromoney’s Guide to the World’s has raised more than $3 million in the of Australia. Leading Capital Markets Lawyers, and last five years and oversees the strategy Euromoney’s Guide to the World’s and management of the company. She Leading M&A Lawyers. He has taught has been a finalist in the NSW Telstra in Sydney Law School’s postgraduate Business Women’s Awards – in the program for the past 20 years and is part Young Leader and Business Innovation of its Law and Business Adjunct Faculty. categories – and was recognised by her Rotary club as a Paul Harris Fellow. This year, aged 28, she received a Medal of the Order of Australia and was awarded the NSW Young Woman of the Year.

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Alumna empowered by law studies after life struggle

From her birth in a Thai refugee camp to practising law back in her parents homeland, Cat Thao Nguyen’s story of growing up as a migrant in Australia is unique yet familiar.

Written by Emily Jones

Cat Thao Nguyen

Before Cat Thao Nguyen was born, her Though afforded safety and opportunities After completing her law studies and father and pregnant mother dodged beyond her parents’ dreams, Cat Thao being admitted in 2007, Cat Thao bullets and Khmer Rouge soldiers as said she found her childhood difficult worked on several boards, including they fled post-war Vietnam in search of a to navigate. Her migrant background on the national advisory board to the better life for their young family. presented a sense of displacement that Special Broadcasting Service (SBS), the she found hard to shake. Ethnic Communities’ Council of New Nearly 30 years later, the combined law South Wales, the Australian Chamber of alumna has given voice to her parents’ “Growing up as a refugee child, I felt Commerce in Vietnam and the Loreto brave plight in her first book, We Are Here that there wasn’t a place for me in Vietnam Australia Program. (Allen and Unwin), published last month. Australia,” says Cat Thao. “There was a lot of struggle growing up being validated But Cat Thao’s career journey was Cat Thao’s memoir charts her family’s because I never saw [people like] ultimately cyclical, returning her to harrowing settlement story, escaping myself on TV, people represented in a the family’s ancestral home in Ho Chi Vietnam in 1979 through the killing fields decision-making capacity.” Minh City, Vietnam for a role with Ernst of Cambodia, into the notoriously brutal & Young. Thai refugee camp where she was born, Yet the determined alumna excelled and finally into the relative safety of during her studies in Commerce/Law. She “It was a new beginning but something western Sydney’s migrant community. was selected to represent the nation as that was also strangely familiar,” says Cat the Australian youth representative to the Thao of her return to Vietnam in 2007. Touching on themes such as the United Nations General Assembly in New “My parents were very worried about me. generational trauma of the Vietnam York and was the first student from the They never said ‘don’t go’, even though I War, the book also chronicles Cat Thao’s University of Sydney to do so. think my father wanted to say that. They coming of age in a migrant household, were worried because the Vietnam they where she faced challenges including knew was the Vietnam of war; it was the translating for her parents from a Vietnam of persecution.” young age.

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Creating new insights into health and human rights

Written by Professor Roger Magnusson

Dr Belinda Reeve (Sydney Law School), The Honourable Michael Prompted by questions from the systems in the poorest countries of the Kirby AC CMG, Professor Lawrence Gostin (Linda and Timothy O’Neill Professor of Global Health Law, Georgetown University, audience, the panel discussed a range of world. Globalisation remains a potent Washington DC), Ms Alexandra Phelan (SJD candidate, Georgetown issues, including the relative importance economic force, and progress is likely to University Law School), Professor Glenn Cohen (Harvard Law School and Faculty Director, Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, of a human rights approach to disease be incremental. Biotechnology and Bioethics). prevention, the opportunities for civil society and the critical importance Nevertheless, the panel ended with of institutions. optimism, with Mr Kirby suggesting that THE HON. MICHAEL KIRBY AC CMG, Reflecting on several decades of Mr Kirby also highlighted the importance love is the shared value that underpins all FORMER JUSTICE OF THE HIGH experience as a global health advocate, of Jonathan Mann’s central insight: that Professor Gostin called for an integrated human rights, and calling for an inclusive, COURT OF AUSTRALIA, WAS JOINED Michael Kirby reviewed the contribution in circumstances where medicine has approach to addressing the Ebola collective response to infectious disease BY VISITING PROFESSOR GLENN COHEN of the late Dr Jonathan Mann and little to offer and where health systems epidemic, drawing upon national control that recognises our shared FROM HARVARD LAW SCHOOL AND the response of the World Health are weak, effective prevention relies healthcare systems, regional action, humanity and mutual responsibility to PROFESSOR LAWRENCE GOSTIN FROM Organisation and other UN organisations heavily on a collaborative approach, and global institutions and frameworks. promote health for all. GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY TO SPEAK AT to the HIV epidemic of the 1980s based on respect for the human rights of Professor Cohen pointed to the lack of A PUBLIC FORUM HOSTED BY THE LAW and 1990s. those most at risk of infection, and those alignment between global health needs SCHOOL ENTITLED ‘MAKING THE WORLD most likely to transmit it. and the incentives for pharmaceutical A BETTER PLACE: HEALTH, HUMAN Contrasting this with responses to manufacturers to invest in ‘face creams RIGHTS, AND GLOBAL JUSTICE’. the 2014-2015 Ebola epidemic in West Mr Kirby emphasised the need for and Viagra’. Africa, Mr Kirby discussed the need a realignment of health rights and — for both personal and institutional intellectual property rights – a central Although Ebola virus created dread in leadership at the highest levels, and issue in the report of the Global many communities, in Professor Cohen’s the challenge of achieving a voice for Commission on HIV and the Law, of view, this will not provide sufficient affected communities. which he was a member. impetus to reconstruct broken health

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Giving you a pathway to Cambridge or Oxford

Sydney Law School is making it possible for students to receive dual degrees from the United Kingdom’s most prestigious law schools.

Sydney Law School offers a unique Open to final-year students, admission Sydney LLB or JD and a master’s degree collaboration with the Faculties of Law at to the program is competitive and is from either Oxford or Cambridge. Under the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. assessed by the law school where students these agreements, the time taken to The Pathway Program enables high- choose to apply. Instead of completing the complete both awards is reduced by one achieving students to receive a University final semester of their degree in Sydney, semester. On the pages following we of Sydney Bachelor of Law (LLB) or a Juris students commence their studies in the share the experiences of a Juris Doctor Doctor (JD) as well as an Oxford Bachelor UK in late September, after successful student, Ray Aye, currently undertaking of Civil Law (BCL) or Master of Law and completion of their second-last semester study in Oxford and combined law Finance (MLF), or a Cambridge Master in Sydney. student, Mitchell Cleaver, who will of Laws (LLM) or Masters in Corporate embark on study at Cambridge in the Law (MCL). At the completion of their UK studies, latter half of 2015. students receive both a University of

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“I have truly been a beneficiary Ray Aye Mitchell Cleaver the opportunity to study alongside of history that is crucial to a proper Juris Doctor Combined Law students from around the world under understanding of the law.” of Sydney Law School’s superb the supervision of some of the world’s An international student from Singapore, Upon finishing high school, Mitchell finest academics. Mitchell says his study at Sydney Law reputation and global network, Ray completed a Bachelor of Arts at the Cleaver had difficulty choosing his next School gave him the opportunity to and have greatly appreciated the University of California and aspires to be step at a tertiary level. “The Cambridge LLM provides a solid examine complex legal materials, draw a lawyer in the field of energy, resources foundation for a future career in the fine conceptual distinctions and debate opportunities my studies have and infrastructure in the emerging Drawn towards a double-degree program, law, whether in practice or academia. ambiguities in the law. markets of Asia. he considered combined law a “smart I am particularly looking forward to presented me.” choice” as “it provides direction and studying Commercial Equity and Law of “The skills you acquire here are “My JD study has already taken me focus, while equipping you with skills Restitution,” says Mitchell. invaluable, irrespective of where your to a career in corporate law, having which are transferable to any career. career will take you. interned with an international law firm, “Outside of class, I would love to get both locally and overseas. Now I have a “Studying combined law at Sydney has involved in some of the dramatic societies “A beautiful campus, an engaged student further opportunity at the University of been a life changing experience, both at Cambridge. I have been accepted body, a distinguished history, and Oxford, studying the Master of Law and academically and personally. into Jesus College, so I also hope to get knowledgeable and approachable staff Finance, which is jointly offered by its involved in intercollegiate sport.” make studying at Sydney one of the best law faculty and the University of Sydney “Sydney Law School has world-class decisions I have ever made.” Business School. research centres, a strong international Mitchell says he often considered reputation and attracts a diverse the possibility of postgraduate study Following his Cambridge LLM, Mitchell “I hope to positively impact developing range of students. The faculty attracts overseas, but never thought he would will take up a position as a tipstaff in the countries through my involvement professionals who are leaders in their have the opportunity – particularly NSW Court of Appeal before joining the in project finance work in energy, fields and who are dedicated to teaching at Cambridge. graduate program at Allens Linklaters. resources, transportation and the next generation.” infrastructure projects.” “It was only after encouragement from Now in his final year, Mitchell gained two members of the law faculty that I Ray also travelled to Yangon, Myanmar, admission to the Cambridge pathway began to look into the Pathways Program. undertaking an internship with a local program, where he will pursue a Master The Cambridge LLM will enable me law firm. of Laws (LLM). to explore some of the areas which have most engaged me throughout my “This was really important to me He says he was drawn to Cambridge undergraduate course. Courses like personally as I wanted to gain by the breadth of subjects available, History of English Civil and Criminal exposure to the legal landscape of an its international reputation, and Law will also provide an appreciation emerging country.

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Adjunct Professor Nicholas Cowdery, AM QC, at the new location for the Four Just Men

The sculptures date back to the former Wigram Chambers site The Four Just Men returned to grace the Phillip Street entrance in Phillip Street, which the Law School once occupied. to the Law School St James Campus when it opened in 1969. Old friends come back again As the late Judy Mackinolty recounted in A Century Downtown: Following the site’s recent sale and closure, they continue their Sydney University Law School’s First Hundred Years, the journey as part of Sydney Law School’s history. sculptures were discovered after the renovation and cleaning of Some familiar faces have returned to the Law School recently University Chambers, which contained the Phillip Street half of Former NSW Director of Public Prosecutions and alumnus, one of the Law School’s former sites. Adjunct Professor Nicholas Cowdery, AM QC (BA 1968 LLB 1971) in the shape of the Four Just Men, stone sculptures whose new remarked, upon viewing the sculptures recently, that he had the home is now the Level 1 foyer of the New Law Building. “The cleaning revealed a row of four learned gentlemen’s heads rare experience of studying at a number of separate downtown in stone set in the façade, hitherto obscured by dirt,” she wrote. locations while a law student at the University in the 1960s.

“Amid speculation, no-one has yet discovered the identity of “This included the current site of the Bank of New South Wales, the Four Just Men so dramatically revealed. which at the time on the Phillip Street side was the site of the Macquarie Broadcasting Service auditorium, used while the St “The theory that these are the fossilised heads of the first four James Campus underwent construction,” he said. law students to fail (back in the pre-pedenian pittcobbetozoic era) has been definitely discarded.” “During the day we would attend lectures and in the evening the site would broadcast Macquarie’s scheduled radio programs live before an audience.”

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Practising law in the NSW outback

FOR MATTHEW LYSTER, WORKING Being taught by experts has undoubtedly Written by Matthew Lyster (BEcSocSc 2010, JD 2013) AS A COMMUNITY LAWYER IN enhanced my learning experience. As Solicitor, Far West Community Legal Centre, Broken Hill THE NSW OUTBACK HAS BEEN HIS a postgraduate student, I found it easy GREATEST CHALLENGE. BUT THE to engage with course materials in the EDUCATION HE RECEIVED FROM structure of open lectures and discussion THE JURIS DOCTOR AT SYDNEY groups, where learning was very much a LAW SCHOOL HAS GIVEN HIM THE two-way conversation between students RESILIENCE HE NEEDS. and lecturers.

— The diversity of subject material, the high quality of work that is expected and the The opportunity to study law was a excellent foundational legal skills I gained lifelong ambition for me. Growing up in from my Juris Doctor have equipped me post-apartheid South Africa, as a young to pursue a career in social justice. child I was acutely aware of social justice issues and the double-edged sword of the Working as a community lawyer in law – used as both a great tool to liberate, the NSW outback is a challenging but also to oppress. undertaking. From work in the local court, the Federal Court or dealing with It was this early exposure to the power vulnerable clients hundreds of kilometres of the law which ignited my passion. My from legal support, I have had to learn on decision to undertake a Juris Doctor was my feet, be adaptive and resilient. guided by my interest in human rights and social justice.

Many of the career paths in this field (especially internationally) required a postgraduate qualification to be eligible “My ability to practise for employment. I feel privileged to have in the extremes of the had the opportunity to complete my Juris Doctor at the University of Sydney. outback comes directly from the quality legal education The prestige of Sydney Law School is I received through my well established and for good reason. The facilities, courses, support and, Juris Doctor.” most importantly, the lecturing staff are in my opinion unrivalled by any other domestic faculty.

Matthew Lyster

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Constitutions and gender

Professor Helen Irving has long been “These women became “However poorly informed the debate interested in how constitutions are made happens to be, and whatever the – in the ideas that inspire their design aliens in their own country. motivation of governments, current and in their framers’ expectations about When it is claimed, today, citizenship-stripping proposals offer how they will work in practice. that citizenship-stripping was an opportunity for a very valuable examination of the nature of citizenship She has written extensively on the rare in the past, it is obvious as a legal status and for an understanding making of the Australian Constitution that people do not know that of the consequences of citizenship loss.” and has a long-standing primary millions of women around the research interest in the use of history in Professor Irving says that while Sydney constitutional interpretation. world, including in Australia, Law School must lay the foundations lost their citizenship for for its students’ entry into the legal “Most recently, I have been looking at something as inoffensive profession, it should also see its the ways in which women are included, primary research role as deepening and or excluded, from constitutional as marriage.” expanding intellectual and scholarly “My interest in constitution-making citizenship,” says Professor Irving. knowledge and inquiry. Professor Irving will attend the European has focused on gender – specifically, “This has involved multi-country University Institute in Florence, through “Sydney Law School, as Australia’s on how the conceptualisation, design research on past laws that stripped a visiting Fernand Braudel Senior oldest law school, in one of Australia’s citizenship from married women.” Fellowship, to work on a project on most esteemed universities, must have and operation of constitutions theories of constitutional citizenship. the development and expansion of This focus illustrates itself in her books, deep-seated legal research as its core affect women’s chances of achieving Gender and the Constitution and the She believes that the current debate purpose,” she says. equality and agency.” forthcoming Citizenship, Alienage about whether citizenship should be and the Modern Constitutional State: stripped from individuals on the grounds “Internationally, we should be engaging A Gendered History (both Cambridge of ’public good’ or character (specifically with law schools in other countries University Press). regarding terrorist proclivities or acts) as well as with international agencies; has been particularly concerning. sharing knowledge, bringing our “I am also in the process of editing a particular cosmopolitan perspective research handbook for the publisher “While it challenges our thinking about and helping find original answers to Edward Elgar, on constitutions and citizenship, and about the legitimate common problems.” gender and I recently took part in bounds of governmental power and the a UN Women Expert Group in New law, it also reveals widespread ignorance York, advising on the content of their about the history of citizenship stripping Professor Helen Irving new online database on gender and – about the fact that women, until constitutional design. relatively recently, were stripped of their citizenship for no other reason than marrying a foreign man.

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The laws of armed conflict

The three-year long project is due to According to Dr Crawford, Sydney Law be published as a book with Oxford School has an immensely important University Press. role to play in shaping legal research and discourse, both domestically “For the law of armed and internationally.

conflict, my major concern is “Through our research, we engage with how governments have been the pressing issues that confront our stretching the boundaries of society, and disseminate that research to those who deal with these issues on DR EMILY CRAWFORD’S RESEARCH “For example, in the law of armed the law to cover situations a daily basis – such as governments, ON THE LAWS OF ARMED conflict, the codified law goes back that it was never intended to non-government organisations, and CONFLICT IS UNCOVERING nearly 150 years. The last major treaty international organisations like the UN. ISSUES GENERATED BY ITS on participants in armed conflicts was cover, encroaching on areas APPLICATION TO WARFARE IN A adopted in the 1970s. better regulated by domestic “We also disseminate that research Dr Emily Crawford 21ST CENTURY CONTEXT. criminal law and international to those people who will be industry “Decades-old laws must contend with human rights law.” leaders in the future – our students. Our — technological developments like cyber domestic and international research warfare and autonomous weapons networks also allow us to engage in Dr Crawford’s primary area of research systems. It can create enormous problems “This is most obviously seen in the context of international governmental developing and expanding our research to interest is in international humanitarian if the law isn’t adaptive enough to meet reach a broad audience. law, also known as the laws of these new challenges.” responses to terrorism in the last 15 years, armed conflict. which seem to be asserting the right to wage war against individuals, anywhere “The research focus of the Sydney Law Dr Crawford recently completed School, and the outstanding research- “In my area, as with law generally, one of a University-funded postdoctoral they happen to be located, and often on spurious or unsubstantiated grounds. supportive community we have here, the major concerns is how law can keep research project, looking at how allows us to make a real difference to up with rapid advances and changes in civilian participation in armed society by way of our students, our technology,” she says. conflicts in the 21st century is creating “The practice of targeted killings through unmanned aerial vehicles is particularly community engagement, and our impact considerable problems for the traditional on the world at large.” conceptualisation of participants and worrisome in this regard.” non-participants in armed conflicts.

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School initiative breaks new ground in Uganda

The Manjeri School Project creates lasting change in a small community.

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“We believe that education is one of the critical enablers to breaking the poverty cycle. Many of our students, all between the age of five and 15, would not otherwise have access to formal schooling.” Andrew in Uganda

A community-based organisation is creating “We believe that education is one of the critical enablers to In 2015, after nearly a year of planning, the organisation “We still have a long way to go, but we are absolutely breaking the poverty cycle. Many of our students, all between launched its largest social enterprise yet – the Manjeri Mixed committed to achieving this goal. We realised early on that real change in a small Ugandan town, while the age of five and 15, would not otherwise have access to Farm. The 15-acre farm will contain maize, cassava, vegetables real change could only be achieved by breaking the culture of breaking the cycle of donor dependency. formal schooling,” says Andrew. and goats, and is on track to become the primary source of donor dependency. We wanted to help develop solutions that revenue for the school. could be owned entirely by the community.” The small, bustling town of Lugazi, Uganda is far from the It did not take the team long to realise there was an classrooms of the University of Sydney. Yet it is here that opportunity to do something much bigger than individual The journey has not been without its setbacks. The Ugandan Unlike many charities, the Manjeri School Project has a very several young graduates have planted the seeds of social projects. When they first arrived, the school was bankrupt and bureaucracy frequently changes regulations, and a general clear exit strategy. The organisation aims to ensure the enterprise. Located a few minutes from Lugazi is the home of a lacked a steady source of income; classes were taught under lack of government funding has restricted the type of projects school is completely financially self-sustainable by 2018. The youth-led development organisation called the Manjeri School the shade of trees. Yet the community’s desire and resolve to that can be undertaken. The harsh climate and widespread long-term vision is to take the model and replicate it in other Project. The organisation has built and manages a primary give their children the best education possible was infectious. presence of diseases such as malaria also creates constant schools in nearby communities. With half the school’s current school for 300 students, as well as having established multiple They simply required capital and help to develop a roadmap challenges to growth. budget generated through existing enterprises, there is a long social enterprises to generate sustainable sources of revenue for sustainability. That’s exactly what the Manjeri School way to go, and the clock is ticking. for the community. Project set out to achieve. Since 2008, the organisation has raised more than $450,000 for the development of the school and social enterprises. To find out more about the organisation, or to get involved, The project was founded in 2011 by alumnus Andrew Thomas The first phase of development focused on basic It now employs 15 full-time teachers and administrators contact Andrew Thomas at [email protected] (BEc 2011, LLB 2013) and long-time friend Nick Harrington. infrastructure. The organisation funded and oversaw the on the ground, all from the local community. In Australia, During their early days at university, they travelled to the construction of classrooms, toilet blocks, water tanks and the organisation has grown to a core team of young school to complete various projects. Andrew built a new fencing. Qualified teachers were hired and meals were professionals, all of whom dedicate countless hours to the classroom and office block with classmate Jesse Buckingham provided to every child. organisation voluntarily. (BEc 2010, LLB 2013), and Nick constructed a 2500-bird chicken farm. With these foundations in place, the organisation began “We have our eyes fixed upon 2018 as the year the school to rapidly expand and turn its eye to social enterprise. A becomes completely self-sustainable,” says Andrew. honeybee collective and ‘mutatu’ taxi business were founded.

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Class of ’75 reunites 40 years on The 2016 Dennis Leslie Mahoney Prize THE 1975 BACHELOR OF LAWS the years since graduation; their life by the evening, it was agreed that the GRADUATING CLASS HELD ITS highlights, their interests, their current next reunion would be held on the 45th 40TH ANNIVERSARY REUNION circumstances and their plans for the anniversary instead of waiting until the in Legal Theory ON FRIDAY 20 MARCH 2015. THE future. They were also asked to provide 50th. Indeed, there was enthusiastic REUNION WAS HELD AS CLOSE AS ‘then’ and ‘now’ photographs. These were support for a reunion every five years. POSSIBLE TO THE ACTUAL DATE OF compiled into a PowerPoint presentation GRADUATION ON 22 MARCH 1975. and played throughout the night. A copy of the PowerPoint presentation was circulated not only to those who had — With the emphasis on informality, a attended, but to all graduates for whom jukebox was organised, programmed the alumni office had contact details. Throughout his life and especially in his approach to jurisprudence pioneered This was the third reunion of the class only to play hits from the graduating year. Everyone was encouraged to ‘save the seminal work of 1946, The Province and by Julius Stone. The winner of the prize of 1975, having first reunited on our This was cause for nostalgia and gathered date’ in 2020 and keep the alumni office Function of Law, the late Julius Stone, may also be invited to participate in the 20th anniversary in 1995 and again many people around the jukebox. advised of their contact details. rather than taking a purely historical activities of the Julius Stone Institute for on our 30th anniversary in 2005. This or conceptual approach to law, sought up to one semester and to deliver the year a dinner was held at the Union, While no formal speeches were planned, The reunion committee consisted of to understand it according to the prestigious Julius Stone Address. University and Schools Club, a splendid that did not stop this legal crowd. David Fairlie, Annabella Fletcher, Justice operation, and moreover, the needs of venue allowing for informality, but Towards the end of the evening, one Ian Harrison, Bill Koeck, and Justice Ruth particular societies. The prize is funded by a generous gift also providing a gracious and elegant graduate seized the microphone and McColl AO. The committee is indebted from the Hon. Dennis Mahoney QC AO, environment in which to gather and kicked off a series of reminiscences to the to Jessica Sullivan for her enormous A prize of $50,000 will be awarded to former president of the New South Wales table-hop throughout the night. delight of all attendees, creating a great assistance in organising the reunion. the author or authors of the entry that, Court of Appeal. Entries close on 30 June atmosphere of communality. With so since 30 June 2011, has best advanced 2016. The winner will be announced in Our 1975 graduating class was fortunate much goodwill and enjoyment generated the sociological and justice-oriented December 2016. to have then Prime Minister, the Honourable Gough Whitlam QC, BA, LLB, as a speaker at its graduation ceremony. The reunion organising committee procured a copy of the Prime Minister’s graduation address from the More information Dr Kevin Walton archives of the Whitlam Institute. The Director, Julius Stone Institute Prime Minister had launched us on our [email protected] new professional lives by outlining the sydney.edu.au/law/jurisprudence legislation his government had passed, which he was confident would give us the “chance to participate in a great process of social change and reform”. We all mused as to how that prediction had come to bear in our career paths.

As part of the preparation for the reunion, graduates were asked to provide an outline of what they had done over From left to right: Jill Matthews, Ruth McColl, Terry Salmon, Anne Quirk and Tim Stack

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Celebrating our alumni achievements

Order of Australia Bohdan Bilinsky The winning portrait of Charles Waterstreet

Congratulations to our Australia Day and Queen’s Birthday Alumnus subject of 2015 alumni and friends on their Honours 2015 Archibald Prize Winner recent awards. Officer of the Order of Mr Bohdan Bilinsky (LLB Medal of the Order of Medal of the Order of A portrait of alumnus Charles Waterstreet (BA 1971, Australia (AO) 1963 BA 1966 LLM 1969 MTH Australia (OAM) Australia (OAM) LLB 1974) has won the 2015 Archibald Prize. The Hon. Andrew John Rogers 1969 MA 1972 Hon Fellow Miss Annabelle Katharine Mrs Marina Ritossa, OAM Artist Nigel Milsom described his subject as a great (LLB 1956) for distinguished 2009) for significant service Chauncy (BA 2007, LLB (LLB 1990 LLM 1994) for man, but otherworldly. service to the judiciary to medicine, particularly 2010) for service to the service to the Royal Flying and to the law, particularly neurology, as a clinician, international community Doctor Service of Australia Waterstreet, said to be the inspiration for the ABC reforms to commercial author and administrator, through the School for Life through fundraising TV show Rake, previously represented Milsom after dispute resolution and and to professional medical Foundation, Uganda. endeavours, and to the the artist received a conviction for armed robbery. case management, through legal organisations. international community. contributions to international Mr Richard John Niven (LLB “I think as a maturing artist it will be the world to him commercial arbitration, and Professor Rosalind Frances 1961) for service to local His Honour Judge Stephen because it’s recognition by peers and by the public to the community. Croucher (BA 1977 LLB 1980) government, and to the Scarlett, OAM (BA 1967 that his gift is remarkable and that’s what he should for significant service to the community of Orange. LLB 1971) for service to be doing in life, nothing else,” Waterstreet said. Member of the Order of law as an academic, to legal youth through the scouting Australia (AM) reform and education, to Australian Police Medal (APM) movement in Victoria. Milsom said he wanted to draw attention to the Professor Roy Gary Beran professional development, Detective Superintendent subject’s hands as it was symbolic of his past (MHL 2001) for significant and to the arts. Greig Newbery Member of the Order of assistance to him. service to medicine, (GradDipCrim1997) Australia (AM) particularly neurology, as The Hon Brian Thomas Sully Queen’s Birthday Honours Mr John Cauchi, AM (MCrim “He’s a complex person so I’ve had to try and a clinician, author and (LLB 1959) for significant 1995) for significant service to exaggerate a lot of his physical features to capture administrator, and to service to the law as an the law, and to international his largeness,” Milsom said. professional medical academic, to legal reform and relations, through leading legal organisations. education, to professional public administration and Judges described the painting as a clear stand-out development, and to the arts. legal roles in the South Pacific. and according to reports it took three years to complete.

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40 41 I will find what is unjust and bring it to justice.

Michael Kirby High Court judge and human rights advocate BA ’59 LLB ’62 BEc ’66 LLM ’67

Leadership for good starts here.

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