2014 Schedule

2014 Academic Year

Semester I (3 March - 1 June 2013) [go to Semester II]

All workshop meetings are held from 12.30pm-2.30pm unless specified otherwise. To receive notifications about upcoming meetings and copies of the draft papers circulated, please subscribe to the LTW mailing list.

  • TUE 11 March 2014 – Prof Frederick Schauer (Virginia), 'How General Must Jurisprudence Be?' Commentator: Dr. Dale Smith (Melbourne).

  • FRI 21 March 2014 – Prof David Sloss (Santa Clara), ‘Polymorphous Public Law Litigation: The Forgotten History of Nineteenth Century Public Law Litigation’. Commentator: A/Prof Michelle Foster (Melbourne).

  • FRI 28 March 2014 – Prof Richard Revesz (NYU), 'Rethinking Health-Based Environmental Standards' (with M Livermore). Commentator: A/Prof Lee Godden (Melbourne).

  • WED 9 April 2014 – Dr Kristen Rundle (UNSW), ‘Legal subjects and juridical persons: Developing “bottom-up” jurisprudence through Fuller and Arendt’. Commentator: Dr Patrick Emerton (Monash).

Easter Break/Non-Teaching Period: 18 - 27 April 2014.

  • FRI 16 May 2014 – Prof Kal Raustiala (UCLA), 'How Can Brands Flourish in the Knockoff Kingdom? What China Tells Us About the Bad – And Good – Effects of Luxury Goods Counterfeiting'. Commentator: Prof Sarah Biddulph (Melbourne).

  • FRI 23 May 2014, 12pm-2pm – Dr Arie Rosen (Auckland), 'Statutory interpretation and political theory'. Commentator: Prof Jeff Goldsworthy (Monash).

  • THU 29 May 2014 – Prof Adrienne Stone (Melbourne) & Prof Rosalind Dixon (UNSW), 'Philosophical Foundations of Constitutional Amendment'. Commentator: Ms Anna Dziedzic (Melbourne).

Winter Recess/Non-teaching Period: 2 June - 27 July

Semester II (28 July - 26 October 2012) [go to Semester I]

  • FRI 1 August 2014 – Prof Jeff McMahan (Rutgers), 'Proportionality in Defence'. Commentator: Group Captain Ian Henderson AM (Asia Pacific Centre for Military Law).

  • FRI 8 August 2014 – Prof Nathaniel Persily (Stanford), 'Stronger Parties as a Solution to Polarization'. Commentators: Prof Donald Critchlow (Arizona State), A/Prof Timothy Lynch (Melbourne - Political Science).

  • FRI 22 August 2014 – Prof Jeremy Gans (Melbourne), 'Current experiments in Australian constitutional criminal law.' Commentator: A/Prof Arlie Loughnan (Sydney).

** 31 August: abstracts due for Melbourne Doctoral Forum on Legal Theory (RHD students) **

  • FRI 26 September 2014 – Prof Julian Savulescu (Oxford), 'Ethics and Law of Voluntary Palliated Starvation'. Commentator: Dr Daniel Halliday (Melbourne - Philosophy).

  • FRI 10 October 2014 – Dr Zim Nwokora (Melbourne), 'Dynamic Designs in Constitutional Engineering'. Commentator: Prof Cheryl Saunders (Melbourne).

  • FRI 24 October 2014 – Mr Julian Sempill (Melbourne), 'The Limited Government Tradition and its Law'. Commentator: A/Prof Matthew Harding (Melbourne).

** 1-2 December: Melbourne Doctoral Forum on Legal Theory **