Judges In Conversation Melbourne Law School Public Event Federal Judicial Appointments and Federal Judicial Power: A US-Australia Comparison Judge Alison Nathan of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York Justice David O'Callaghan of the Federal Court of Australia The second of our 'Judges in Conversation' series the law firm of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and for 2019 will see Justice David O'Callaghan of the Dorr (now WilmerHale). In the beginning of her Federal Court of Australia in conversation with legal career, she served as a law clerk for Justice Judge Alison Nathan of the United States District John Paul Stevens of the United States Supreme Court for the Southern District of New York on the Court and Judge Betty Binns Fletcher of the subject of federal judicial appointments and United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth federal jurisdiction. The two judges will discuss Circuit. Judge Nathan graduated magna cum processes adopted in the United States for laude from Cornell Law School in 2000. confirmation of Federal Judges, including Judge Event Details Nathan’s own experience of those processes when About Justice O’Callaghan appointed by then President Obama, alongside Justice O’Callaghan was educated at the University of Melbourne and Yale University. Date: other issues relevant to federal jurisdiction in the Thursday 29 August 2019 United States and Australia. Between 1982 and 1983, he was Associate to the About Judge Alison Nathan Hon. Justice Keely of the Federal Court of Time: Judge Alison J. Nathan was nominated to the Australia, before moving to the United States to 6.00pm United States District Court for the Southern practise in New York (1985) and in Connecticut District of New York by President Barack Obama (1998-2000). Venue: and confirmed by the United States Senate in Courtroom 6A, Level 6 October 2011. He signed the Roll of the Victorian Bar in 1986 and was appointed Senior Counsel in 2003. While at 305 William St Immediately prior to taking the bench, Judge the Bar, he practised widely in federal and state Melbourne 3000 Nathan served in the New York State Attorney jurisdictions, appearing in trial and appellate General’s Office as Special Counsel to the Solicitor matters involving corporations law, trade Enquiries: General. Before that, in 2009 and 2010, she served practices law, revenue law, franchising law, 03 9035 1111 as Special Assistant to President Obama, and equity, mining, energy and resources law and Associate White House Counsel. constitutional law. He was Senior Vice-President Bookings: of the Victorian Bar Council, Chair of the Victorian Bookings are essential for this Before entering public service, Judge Nathan was Bar Education & Professional Development free public lecture. Register at a Fritz Alexander Fellow at the New York Committee, Member & Chair of the Readers’ www.unimelb.edu.au University School of Law and a visiting professor Course Sub-Committee and a director of of law at Fordham University School of Law, Barristers’ Chambers Limited. where she taught civil procedure and the law of habeas corpus. Between 1996 and 1998 he was also a Senior Research Affiliate and Visiting Lecturer at Yale Law Prior to entering academia, Judge Nathan was in School. He is currently a Senior Fellow at private litigation practice from 2002 until 2006 at Melbourne Law School CRICOS PROVIDER CODE: 00116K .