Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies Newsletter Number 27/ March 2015 Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies Newsletter Number 27 / March 2015 Welcome to the twenty seventh issue of the Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies Newsletter, a guide to news and events at the centre and a spotlight on issues in constitutional law nationally and globally. Message from the Director The New Year at CCCS has seen the arrival of new colleagues and new PhD students. We welcome Dr Lulu Weis, now in a permanent role after three years as a Post-Doctoral McKenzie Fellow who will be teaching Property, Constitutional Law and continuing as convenor of the Legal Theory Workshop; Dr Kristen Rundle, a legal theorist and administrative law scholar, whose has previously taught at the London School of Economics and the University of New South Wales and Dr Scott Stephenson who has recently completed doctoral work in comparative constitutional law at Yale Law School. They each bring a wealth of experience and contribute new and exciting perspectives to the work of CCCS. In addition, we welcome Carlos Arturo, Anne Carter, Anna Dziedzic, Troy Keily as new PhD students. (Their full profiles and research interests are available later in this newsletter). We are delighted to have two new visitors to the Centre. We welcome Dr Patrick Emerton from Monash Law School who has joined us for a semester and Andrew McLeod from the Oxford-Burma Law Programme. We also bid farewell to Associate Professor Ridwanul Hoque from the University of Dhaka in Bangladesh has been with us for six months as an Endeavour Fellow and look forward to future collaborations with him. During 2015, CCCS will continue its many and varied collaborations with Law Schools throughout the world. In February CCCS members Lulu Weis, Scott Stephenson and Anna Dziedzic met at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem for a joint workshop on ‘The ‘Soft’ and the ‘Fuzzy’ in Public and International Law’. The workshop, convened by Cheryl Saunders and our Melbourne Law School colleague Jurgen Kurtz, is the first in a series of collaborations with colleagues at the Hebrew University. Another collaboration will come to fruition later this year with the third in a series of collaborative workshops with the laws schools of Auckland University and the University of Witwatersrand. On 9 and 10 December this year, scholars from these three schools will meet in Melbourne for a workshop on the theme of Separation of Powers. The CCCS will also be hosting a major public constitutional law conference 23 and 24 July. This conference, which follows highly successful conferences in 2009 and 2012, each of which provided an opportunity for reflection on constitutional questions of enduring significance. The Conference will open at 4pm on 23 July with a public event “A Conversation with Justice Hayne”. The Hon. Justice Hayne will reflect on his years on the High Court in a conversation with Professor Carolyn Evans, Dean of Melbourne Law School.The conference will also feature a panel dedicated to considering “The Contribution of the Hon. Justice Hayne AC to Australian Public Law”. Papers will be delivered by leading practitioners and academics including Professor Cheryl Saunders AO, Professor Jeremy Gans, the Hon. Justice John Basten (Court of Appeal, Supreme Court of New South Wales), Professor Michael Crommelin AO, Professor Simon Evans, Professor Rosalind Dixon (UNSW Law School), Associate Professor Benjamin Berger (Osgoode Hall Law School), the Hon. Justice Nye Perram (Federal Court of Australia), the Hon. Justice Geoffrey Nettle (High Court of Australia), Dr Stephen Donaghue QC, Frances Gordon and Kristen Walker SC. For more information on the Centre and the Conference, please see www.law.unimelb.edu.au/ cccs Finally, we extend our sincere congratulations to at CCCS Advisory Board member Justice Stephen McLeish on his recent appointment to the Court of Appeal of Victoria. Professor Adrienne Stone Director, CCCS www.law.unimelb.edu.au/cccs www.law.unimelb.edu.au/cccs For more information about CCCS: Please visit our website: http://law.unimelb.edu.au/cccs Or follow us on twitter @CCCSMelbourne Or follow our members: Adrienne Stone @stone_adrienne Cheryl Saunders @cherylsaunders1 Scott Stephenson @s_m_stephenson Centre members also blog at: Opinions on High: http://blogs.unimelb.edu.au/opinionsonhigh/ The IACL Blog: http://iacl-aidc-blog.org www.law.unimelb.edu.au/cccs www.law.unimelb.edu.au/cccs Centre Update Anna Dziedzic presented a paper on ‘Fuzzy Regulation of Executive Spending: An Australian Case Study’ at a Joint Research Workshop of the University of Melbourne and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem on ‘The “Soft” and the “Fuzzy” in Public and International Law’, hosted by Hebrew University Jerusalem, 17-18 February 2015. In addition, together with Professor Adrienne Stone and Alexandra Harrison-Ichlov, prepared a submission on freedom of speech to the Australian Law Reform Commission’s Inquiry into Traditional Rights and Freedoms. Also, Anna together with Professor Cheryl Saunders, provided coding information on Australia for Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem), a global project which measures democracy across the world, based in University of Gothenburg. During this period, Anna published the following: • an update to Title 19.3 of The Laws of Australia on the Executive • a review of The New Commonwealth Model of Constitutionalism: Theory and Practice by Stephen Gardbaum (2015) 26 Public Law Review 61 Coel Kirkby has spent most of 2014 since joining as a McKenzie Fellow, preparing his monograph and submitted a book proposal, provisionally entitled ‘The Birth of the Native in the Late British Empire, c. 1830-1900’. Coel has also co-founded the interdisciplinary Indian Ocean Research and Action Network at the University of Melbourne to foster engagements between innovative projects focusing on societies along the Indian Ocean rim, highlighting connections and rethinking the role of Australia in the region. During this period, Coel published: • Christina Murray (editor) and Coel Kirkby (co-editor), International Encyclopaedia of Laws, Constitutional Law: South Africa (Hague: Kluwer, 2014) • Contributing author to: Citizens Constitutional Forum, Fiji in Transition: Towards a Sustainable Constitutional Democracy (2014) • Coel Kirkby, ‘First Steps Towards Democracy in Fiji’, Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative Newsletter (2014), 21.3 In addition, Coel presented the following: • ‘The Invention of the “Native” and Reconstitution of the Late British Empire’, Faculty Research Seminar Series, Melbourne Law School, 22 September 2014 • ‘Why Consult Communities? Reflections on Recognition in Australia,’ IILAH/CCCS Roundtable on ‘Making Sense of Maloney vs R (2013)’, Melbourne Law School, 31 October 2014 • ‘Fiji’s New Constitution’, Fiji: Return to Democracy Workshop, Australian National University, 5 November 2014. Kristen Rundle published the following during this period: • Kristen Rundle, ‘Legal Subjects and Juridical Persons: Developing Public Legal Theory through Fuller and Arendt’, (2014) 43(3) Netherlands Journal of Legal Philosophy 212-239 • Kristen Rundle, ‘Reply’ (to four commentaries on ‘Legal Subjects and Juridical Persons: Developing Public Legal Theory through Fuller and Arendt’), (2014) 43(3) Netherlands Journal of Legal Philosophy 288-308 Commentaries: 1. Michael A Wilkinson, ‘Political Jurisprudence or Institutional Normativism? Maintaining the Difference Between Arendt and Fuller’, 240-259 2. Pauline Westerman, ‘Lawyers Doing Philosophy’, 260-266 3. Wouter Veraat, ‘The Experience of Legal Injustice’, 267-278 4. Thomas Mertens, ‘Fuller and Arendt: A Happy Marriage? Comment on Rundle’, 279-287. • Kristen Rundle, ‘Reply to Patrick Emerton’ (special symposium on Martin Krygier, Philip Selznick: Ideals in the World and Kristen Rundle, Forms Liberate: Reclaiming the Jurisprudence of Lon L Fuller), (2014) 39 Australian Journal of Legal Philosophy 170-179. www.law.unimelb.edu.au/cccs 1 Cheryl Saunders presented on on ‘The Why, When, Who (and How) of Interim Constitutions’ to the Workshop on Interim Constitutions in Post-Conflict Settings in Edinburgh between 4-5 December hosted by International IDEA and the Edinburgh Centre of Constitutional Law. Cheryl also delivered the Sir David Williams lecture at Cambridge Law Faculty on 20 March, video available via https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=Mp5s2oOTHPk. In addition, Cheryl co- published with Anna Dziedzic, ‘Constitution –making in Myanmar: Insights from World Experience’ in M. Crouch and Tim Lindsey, Law, Society and Transition in Myanmar, Hart Publishing, 2014. During this time, Cheryl was appointed as: • Senior Technical Advisor for the Constitution Building Program at International IDEA • Member of theAdvisory Board of the Yeoh Tiong Lay Centre for Politics, Philosophy and Law, King’s College, London Cheryl’s teaching during this time including Comparative Constitutional Law in the Melbourne Law Masters from 25-31 March and commencing supervision of 5 new PhD students on subjects broadly relevant to the interests of the CCCS. Dale Smith published, Dale Smith, “Agreement and Disagreement in Law” (2015) 28 (1) Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence 183. Scott Stephenson presented a paper, ‘The Rise and Recognition of “Soft” Constitutional Law’, at the Joint Research Workshop between Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Melbourne Law School on ‘The ‘Soft’ and The ‘Fuzzy’ in Public and International Law’ in Jerusalem on 17 February 2015. Adrienne