2015 Schedule

2015 Academic Year

Semester I (2 March - 31 May 2015) [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.

• FRI 20 March – Prof Jiunn-rong Yeh (Taiwan), 'Judicial Ordered Apology: The Function of Courts in the Construction of Society, Culture and the Law’. Commentator: Prof Adrienne Stone (Melbourne).

* Workshop co-sponsored by the Asian Law Centre. CANCELLED

• FRI 27 March – Dr Hedi Viterbo (SOAS), ‘Child-Adult Separation: Links, Analogies, and Continuities’. Commentator: Dr Coel Kirkby (Melbourne).

* Workshop co-sponsored by the Institute for International Law and the Humanities.

Easter Break/Non-Teaching Period: 3 - 12 April.

• FRI 24 April – Mr Josh Paine (Melbourne - PhD Candidate), 'Interpretive Communities in International Law: Understanding Legal Meaning, Regimes and Interpretive Power'. Commentator: A/Prof J ürgen Kurtz (Melbourne) .

• FRI 8 May – Prof Tony Coady (Melbourne - Philosophy), 'Terrorism: the Hunt for its Distinctive Significance'. Commentator: Dr Anna Hood (Melbourne).

• FRI 22 May – Dr Patrick Emerton (Monash), 'Legislation as Stipulation'. Commentator: Prof Jeremy Gans (Melbourne).

Winter Recess/Non-teaching Period: 1 June - 26 July.

• FRI 5 June – Prof Liam Murphy (NYU), 'Private Law and Social Illusion: The Shackles of Everyday Libertarianism'. Commentator: Prof Matthew Harding (Melbourne).

* Workshop co-sponsored by the Obligations Group.

• THU 23 July – Special Event: Workshop on Constitutional Theory, co-hosted by the Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies and the Australian Society of Legal Philosophy.

Semester II (27 July - 25 October 2015) [go to Semester I]

• • FRI 7 August – Prof Fleur Johns (UNSW), ‘The Temporal Rivalries of Human Rights’. Commenator: Ms Cait Storr (Melbourne).

  • FRI 14 August – Prof Alon Harel (Hebrew University Jerusalem), ‘Against Hierarchy: The Case for Discordant Parity between Constitutional and International Law’. Commentator: Dr Scott Stephenson (Melbourne).

  • FRI 28 August – Dr Daniel Halliday (Melbourne), ‘Freedom of Bequest and the Nature of Private Property’. Commentator: Mr Michael Crawford (Melbourne).

  • FRI 4 September – Dr Rose Parfitt (Melbourne), 'Thinking through the Arco dei Fileni: Fascist Sovereignty Yesterday and Tomorrow'. Commentator: Dr John Morss (Deakin).

  • FRI 9 October – Dr Robert Simpson (Monash), ‘Defining “Speech”: the subtractive approach v. the additive approach’. Commentator: Prof Adrienne Stone (Melbourne).

  • FRI 30 October – Dr Coel Kirkby (Melbourne), ‘Why Doesn’t Legal Positivism Have a History?' Commentator: A/Prof Shaun McVeigh (Melbourne).