2021 Schedule

2021 Academic Year

All workshop meetings are held from 12pm-1.30pm unless specified otherwise. To receive notifications about upcoming meetings and copies of the draft papers circulated, please subscribe to the LTW mailing list.

Semester I (1 March - 28 May 2021) [go to Semester II]

  • FRI 26 March – Dr David Frydrych (Monash), ‘Realism, Positivism, and “Real” Rules’. Commentator: Dr Robert Mullins (Queensland).

Easter Break/Non-Teaching Period: 2 - 11 April.

  • FRI 16 April – A/Prof Patrick Emerton (Monash) & Dr David Tan (Deakin), ‘The Bindingness of Election Results’. Commentator: Dr Clayton Chin (Melbourne).

  • FRI 30 April * – Prof Adrienne Stone (Melbourne), ‘The Derived Freedom of Expression’. Commentator: Dr Adam Shinar (IDC Herzliya).

* This meeting will be held from 1pm-2.30pm.

  • FRI 14 May – A/Prof Cora Chan (HKU), 'Judicial Deference: Choice of Device'. Commentator: Dr Scott Stephenson (Melbourne).

  • FRI 28 May ** – Prof Larissa Katz (Toronto), 'Things'. Commentator: Dr Michael Crawford (UNSW).

** This meeting will be held from 11am-12.30pm.

Semester II (24 July - 24 October 2021) [go to Semester I]

  • FRI 6 August – Dr Matthew Lister (Deakin), ‘Internal displacement and climate change’. Commentator: Prof Michelle Foster (Melbourne)

  • FRI 27 August – A/Prof Dale Smith (Melbourne), ‘When Statutory Interpretation Goes Awry'. Commentator: Dr Arie Rosen (Auckland).

  • FRI 10 September – A/Prof Kate Seear (LaTrobe), 'Against elimination? Legal veridiction and the elusive struggle for a post hepatitis C world'. Commentator: A/Prof Paula O'Brien (Melbourne).

Non-Teaching Period: 20-26 September

  • FRI 1 October – A/Prof Arif A Jamal (NUS), ‘Law and the Sacred’. Commentator: Adil Hasan Khan (Melbourne).

  • FRI 15 October – Dr Inbar Levy (Melbourne), ‘Examining the Foundations of the Law of Judicial Bias’ (with co-author Andrew Higgins). Commentator: Dr Anna Dziedzic (HKU).