Previous Conferences

-2001 University of the South Pacific
-2002 Murdoch University
-2003 Griffith University
-2004 Charles Darwin University
-2005 The University of Waikato
-2006 Victoria University
-2007 University of Western Australia
-2008 James Cook University, Cairns
 

 


Sunday 1st July

Monday 2nd July

Tuesday 3rd July

Interest Groups:
- Commercial Law and Consumer Protection
- Discrimination and Equal Opportunity
- Dispute Resolution
- Government Law
- Indigenous People and the Law
- Intellectual Property
- International Law
- Labour Law
- Law and Economics
- Law and Medicine
- Law in Non-Law Schools
- Legal Education
- Legal History
- Legal Research and Communication
- Property Law
- South Pacific Legal Studies
- Women and Law

Wednesday 4th July


 
 
 

 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 

 
2001 ALTA Conference

Tuesday 3rd July

Time:

 

8:00am

ALTA AGM

8:45am – 9:30am

Plenary Session Two

Chief Justice of New Zealand
The Rt. Hon Dame Sian Elias
 

9:30am - 10:00am

Morning Tea

10:00am - 12:00pm

Interest Group Sessions:
 

Indigenous People and the Law: Garth Nettheim (Convener)

·    Julie Cassidy:
The Legacy of Colonialism

·    Heather Douglas:
Australian law schools and the participation of Indigenous students

·    Andrea Tunks:
He Wero kit e Rau o te Ture: Maori Legal Research Methodology

·    Prue Vines:
Aborigines and inheritance in Australia – a plea for will-making as customary law preservation

·    David Williams:
A clash of oral and written evidence: Were Native School pupils in New Zealand caned and strapped for speaking Maori language at school?

Law and Economics, Law and Medicine, Law in Non-Law Schools and Legal History: (joint session)

·    Philip Bates:
What Sort Of Human Right, If Any, Is ‘Health’?

·    John Blackwood:
Advanced Directives

·    Fiona Burns:
Chancery in the 19th Century

·    Anita Jowitt:
OSH Regulation in the Pacific Islands: economic theory and empirical evidence

·    Judie Lancaster:
Teaching Ethics to Business Students

·    Robert Langton:
Experiments in teaching first year business law at Adelaide University

·    Anita Stuhmcke and Julie Zetler:
 

·    Cordelia Thomas:
The tyranny of the possible

Legal Research and Communication: Terry Hutchinson (Convener)

·    Clare Cappa:
The WebLaw Gateway Project

·    John Gilchrist:
An evaluation of the testing of Boolean search skills on AustLII and SCALEplus

Women and Law: Barbara Hamilton (Convener)

·    Terry Hutchinson:
Mentoring: Report of a Mentoring Project for Women Academics at QUT

·    Joanne Stagg-Taylor:
The State and the Speculum: Issues Arising from the National Cervical Screening Program

·    Lindy Willmott:
Access to Justice for De Facto Spouses
12:00pm

PACLII Launch

 
12:15pm - 1:30pm

Lunch
1:30pm - 3:30pm

Interest Group Sessions:
 

Intellectual Property and Property Law: Ian Iredale (Convener)

·    Doris Bozin:
Beware – eTrespassers will be prosecuted

·    Samantha Hepburn:
Native Title and Tenure

·    Arthur Hoyle:
Copyright: Does it mean what it used to in the electronic age, and is time up for the concept of a limited monopoly as it clashes with consumer protection?


Legal Education: Paul Moyle (Convener)

·    Sally Kift:
It’s a Matter of Affecting Attitude: Influencing Law Students to Embrace Higher-Order Lawyering Values

·    Anne Matthew:
Effective Teaching and Learning: How Powerful is Powerpoint?
 

International Law and Government Law: Sam Blay (Conveners)

·    Sam Blay:
International and Self Determination in Wheat Papua: The New Dimensions Of An Old Problem

·    Alberto Costi:
Can International Law Prove the Experts Wrong? Looking for Solutions to Global Warming and to the Survival of Small Island States
 

Labour Law and Discrimination and Equal Opportunity Law: Phillip Tahmindjis (Convener)

·    Greta Bird:
Jocks, Goths and Gays: Discrimination in the Law Classroom

·    Kath McEvoy:
Racial Vilification, Holocaust Denial and the Toben Case

·    Phillip Tahmindjis:
 

Dispute Resolution: Frank Astill (Convener)

·    Claire Baylis and Robyn Carroll:
A Review of Statutory Mechanisms to Address Power Imbalance in Mediation

·    Ted Hill:
The use of mediation by the Ombudsman of Vanuatu
 

South Pacific Legal Studies and Commercial Law and Consumer Protection: Jennifer Corrin  (Convener)

·    Mohammed Ahmadu:
UNCITRAL Model Law on Procurement of Goods, Construction and Services: The Perspective of Some Island Nations in the South Pacific

·    John Mugambwa:
Uncertainty in the Operation of the Principle of Indefeasibility of Title in PNG: Is Deferred Indefeasibility the Soution?

·    Julia-Anne Tarr:
Fulfilling Reasonable Expectations: Expanding judicial discretion in construing the terms of standard form insurance contracts

 
3:00pm - 3:30pm

Afternoon Tea
3:30pm - 4:45pm

Interest Group Sessions:

Intellectual Property and Property Law: Ian Iredale (Convener)

·    Jill Jones:
Copyright: Lessons for Judges, Legislators and Legal Educators

·    Daniel Stewart:
The Innovation Patent

·    Sue Tappenden:
Examining the principle of immediate indefeasibility of title in New Zealand Land Law, as it has developed since the decision in Frazer v Walker


Legal Education: Paul Moyle (Convener)

·    Leighton Morris:
Computerized Legal Simulations: Using Interactive Multimedia To Improve Experiential Learning

·    Paul Moyle:
UCAS – Radical Reform or More of the Same?: New Approaches to Promoting Justice in Our Adversarial System

International Law and Government Law: Sam Blay (Conveners)

·    Elizabeth Handsley:
IWhat judges do and the way that they do it: theorizing judicial role and the concept of Independence

·    Michael Head:
Fiji and the legal doctrines of necessity and revolution: a critical examination of Prasad’s case
 

Dispute Resolution: Frank Astill (Convener)

·    Marilyn Scott:
Teaching problem solving for the future lawyer - workshop

·    Bobette Wolski:
Mediator Settlement Strategies: Winning Friends and Influencing People


South Pacific Legal Studies and Commercial Law and Consumer Protection: Jennifer Corrin  (Convener)

·    Sally Varnham:
Guarantees for degrees? The impact of the Consumer Guarantees Act 1933 on the provisions of tertiary education in New Zealand

·    Coin Ying:
The effect of fraud and dishonest on insurance contracts in Australia

 
7:00pm - 11:00pm

Publishers Dinner