2016 Schedule

2016 Academic Year

Semester I (29 February - 29 May 2016) [go to Semester II]

  • FRI 11 March – Dr Luca Siliquini-Cinelli (Deakin), 'On the Fallen Condition of (Legal) Language, or Why Legal Positivism has Normalised our Form-of-(Non-)Living'. Commentator: Prof Julian Webb (Melbourne).

Easter Break/Non-Teaching Period: 25 March - 3 April.

  • FRI 8 April – A/Prof Tarunabh Khaitan (Oxford), 'Wrongs, Wrongfulness and Blame in Indirect Discrimination Liability' (with Dr Sandy Steel). Commentator: Dr Colin Campbell (Monash).

  • FRI 22 April – Prof Jennifer Nedelsky (Toronto), '(Part)-Time for All: New Norms to Fix the Crisis in Work and Care'. Commentator: Prof Belinda Fehlberg (Melbourne).

  • FRI 29 April – A/Prof Paul B Miller (McGill), 'Dimensions of Fiduciary Loyalty'. Commentator: Prof Matthew Harding (Melbourne).

* Workshop co-sponsored by the Obligations Group.

  • FRI 6 May – A/Prof Iddo Porat (College of Law and Business - Israel), 'Proportionality and the Constitutionality of Ritual Animal Slaughter and Male Circumcision'. Commentator: A/Prof Farrah Ahmed (Melbourne).

* Workshop co-sponsored by the Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies.

  • FRI 13 May – Prof Denise Meyerson (Macquarie), 'The Mismatch Between Theory and Practice in Charles Beitz's and Joseph Raz's Political Accounts of Human Rights'. Commentator: Dr Dan Halliday (Melbourne)

  • FRI 3 June – Dr Colin Campbell (Monash) & Dr Dale Smith (Melbourne), 'Moreau, Deliberative Freedoms and the Asymmetry of Anti-Discrimination Law'. Commentator: Prof Beth Gaze (Melbourne).

Winter Recess/Non-teaching Period: 30 May - 24 July.

Semester II (25 July - 23 October 2016) [go to Semester I]

  • FRI 5 August – Prof Aaron James (UC Irvine), ‘Investor Rights as Nonsense (on Stilts)’. Commentator: Dr Jarrod Hepburn (Melbourne).

  • FRI 26 August – Prof Vicki Jackson (Harvard), 'Proportionality and Equality'. Commentator: Prof Adrienne Stone (Melbourne).

  • FRI 2 September – Dr Tria Gkouvas (Monash), 'Making Law Intentionally: An Anscombian Defence of Legislative Intent'. Commentator: Dr Dale Smith (Melbourne).

  • FRI 16 September – Dr Ron Levy (ANU), 'Shotgun Referendums: Deliberation and Constitutional Settlement in Conflict Societies'. Commentator: Dr William Partlett (Melbourne).

  • FRI 23 September – Prof Fabienne Peter (Warwick), 'Political Legitimacy and the Authority of Reason'. Commentator: Dr Daniel Halliday (Melbourne).

  • FRI 7 October – A/Prof Nicole Roughan (NUS), 'Legitimacy of Whom?' Commentator: Dr Kristen Rundle (Melbourne).

  • FRI 21 October – Dr Cormac MacAmhlaigh (Edinburgh), 'Pluralising Constitutional Pluralism'. Commentator: A/Prof Kirsty Gover (Melbourne).