2025 Academic Year
All workshop meetings are scheduled for 12.30pm-2pm unless indicated otherwise. To receive notifications about upcoming meetings and copies of the draft papers circulated, please subscribe to the LTW mailing list.
Semester I (3 March - 1 June 2025)
FRI 28 March – Prof Liam Murphy (NYU), ‘Legal Practice and the Responsibility of Individuals’. Commentator: Dr Nathan Van Wees (Melbourne).
FRI 4 April – Prof James Penner (NUS), ‘On the Nature of Legal Reasoning: Rules, Knowledge and Concepts’. Commentator: A/Prof Inbar Levy (Melbourne).
FRI 11 April – Dr Andrea Dolcetti (Macquarie), 'Rethinking State Sovereignty'. Commentator: A/Prof Olivia Barr (Melbourne).
FRI 2 May – Dr Luciana Moró (Deakin), ‘Principles of Statutory Interpretation in the Hands of Lawmakers: Tools to Form Group Intentions’. Commentator: Dr Duncan Wallace (Melbourne).
FRI 16 May – 'Half-Baked Lunch' mini symposium
THU 17-FRI 18 July — ASLP Annual Conference, Melbourne Law School.
Semester II (28 July - 26 October 2025)
FRI 8 August – A/Prof Terry MacDonald (Melbourne, Political Science), 'Normativity'. Commentator: Prof Daniel Halliday (Melbourne, Philosophy).
FRI 22 August – Dr Duncan Wallace (Monash), ‘Four kinds of group agent realism: To which did Gierke and Maitland subscribe?’ Commentator: Dr Dana Goswick (Melbourne, Philosophy).
FRI 5 September – Dr Arie Rosen (Auckland), ‘Liberal Political Authority and Private Right’. Commentator: TBA.
FRI 12 September – A/Prof Krushil Watene (Auckland, Philosophy), topic TBA. Commentator: TBA.
FRI 17 October – Dr Joanna Kyriakakis (Monash), 'The Moral Gravity of Calculated Indifference: Reconceptualising Boundaries to Justice for Systemic Wrongs'. Commentator: Prof Shiri Krebs (Deakin).