2018 Schedule

2018 Academic Year

Semester I (26 February - 27 May 2018) [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 9 March – Prof Jeffrey Goldsworthy (Monash/Adelaide), 'A Partial Defence of the Standard Picture, including the Communication Theory, Against Mark Greenberg'. Commentator: Dr Kevin Walton (Sydney).

  • FRI 23 March – Prof Helen Irving (Sydney), 'Constitutional Identity and Gender: The Missing Referent'. Commentator: Prof Adrienne Stone (Melbourne).

* Workshop co-sponsored by the Laureate Program in Comparative Constitutional Law.

Easter Break/Non-Teaching Period: 30 March - 8 April.

  • FRI 13 April – Prof Karen Yeung (Birmingham), ‘Why should we worry about decision-making by machine?’ Commentator: A/Prof Jianlin Chen (Melbourne).

  • FRI 4 May – Dr Robert Mullins (Queensland), 'How the Law Can Tell You to Do the Wrong Thing'. Commentator: A/Prof Farrah Ahmed (Melbourne).

  • FRI 25 May – Prof Christine Sypnowich (Queens University), 'What's Wrong with Equality of Opportunity'. Commentator: Dr Karen Jones (Melbourne).

Winter Recess/Non-teaching Period: 28 May - 22 July.

Semester II (23 July - 21 October 2018) [go to Semester I]

  • WED 8 August – Prof Gregory S Alexander (Cornell), 'Property, Dignity, and Flourishing'. Commentator: Dr Daniel Halliday (Melbourne).

  • FRI 24 August – A/Prof Jeff Redding (Melbourne), ‘Counting Khwaja Siras: Colonial Continuities and Confusions in a Postcolonial Pakistan’. Commentator: Prof Dianne Otto (Melbourne).

* Workshop co-sponsored by the Asian Law Centre.

  • FRI 7 September – Dr Mark Bennett (Victoria University, Wellington) ‘What are the Normative Foundations of Trust Law?’ Commentator: Prof Matthew Harding (Melbourne).

* Workshop co-sponsored by the Obligations Group.

  • FRI 21 September – A/Prof Peter Burdon (Adelaide), 'On the Jewish Question: A Contemporary Reading'. Commentator: A/Prof Patrick Emerton (Monash).

Spring Break/Non-Teaching Period: 24 - 30 September.

  • FRI 12 October – Dr Jane Norton (Auckland), 'Religion, Deference, and the Courts'. Commentator: A/Prof Tarunabh Khaitan (Melbourne).