2019 Schedule

2019 Academic Year

Semester I (4 March - 2 June 2019) [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 22 March – Dr Suzanne Killmister (Monash), 'Human Dignity and Human Rights'. Commentator: Dr Julian Sempill (Melbourne).

  • FRI 29 March – Dr Jesse Wall (Otago), 'Consent and Other Minds'. Commentator: A/Prof Dale Smith (Melbourne).

Easter Break/Non-Teaching Period: 19 April - 28 April.

  • FRI 12 April – Dr Caitlin Goss (Queensland), 'History and the constitution'. Commentator: A/Prof William Partlett (Melbourne).

  • FRI 3 May – Dr Rayner Thwaites (Sydney), 'Identifying the Foreigner: Proof of Foreign Nationality and the Status of Citizenship' (co-authored with Helen Irving). Commentator: Dr Anne Carter (Deakin).

  • FRI 24 May – Dr Arie Rosen (Auckland), 'Economic Liberty and the Fragmentation of Contract Law'. Commentator: Prof Andrew Robertson (Melbourne).

* Workshop co-sponsored by the Obligations Group.

Winter Recess/Non-teaching Period: 3 June - 21 July.

Australasian Society of Legal Philosophy Annual Conference: 18-19 July (University of Sydney).

Semester II (29 July - 27 October 2019) [go to Semester I]

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 August – Dr Matt Watson (Queensland), 'Balancing Equality and Religious Freedom'. Commentator: A/Prof Luke Beck (Monash).

  • FRI 23 August – Prof Kimberley Brownlee (Warwick), 'A Hope Standard for Punishment'. Commentator: Dr Holly Lawford-Smith (Melbourne).

  • FRI 6 September – A/Prof Jaclyn Neo (NUS), 'State Legal Pluralism: More than Weak Legal Pluralism'. Commentator: A/Prof Jeff Redding (Melbourne).

  • FRI 20 September – Prof David Owen (Southampton), 'The Right to Leave and the Dominion of States: Contemporary arguments in historical perspective'. Commentator: Ms Timnah Baker (Melbourne).

Spring Break/Non-Teaching Period: 30 September - 6 October.

  • FRI 18 October – Dr Susan Bartie (Tasmania), 'Functionalism, Legal Process and the Transformation of Australian Law Schools'. Commentator: Prof Julian Webb (Melbourne).