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PROGRAMME AT A GLANCE
Thursday 8 July 2004
4.30– 5.30
Registration - Ground Floor, Supreme Court Building Foyer, State
Square, Mitchell Street (next to Parliament House)
5.30 – 6.00
Transfers from Supreme Court Building to Mindil Beach Markets
6.00 – 9.00 Sunset and
drinks at Mindil Beach Markets
Friday 9 July 2004
8.30 – 5.00
Registration
9.30 - 11.00 Larrakia welcome : Richard Fejo
Conference
opening: Professor Helen Garnett; Vice Chancellor of Charles
Darwin University
PLENARY
SESSION ONE: (Court One)
“Islamic
Militants, terrorism and border protection – contemporary
challenges” -
Mr Karpal
Singh, lawyer, human rights advocate and parliamentarian
from Malaysia
"Islamic Radicalism, Iraq, Afghanistan
and the War on Terror".
Professor Amin
Saikal, Director of Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies,
Australian National University.
11.00 – 11.30
Morning Tea
11.30 – 1.00 INTEREST GROUPS: Round One
11.30 – 1.00
Meeting of Law Research Deans
11.30 – 1.00
Legal Research Communications Interest Group: Austlii Legal Research
Presentation
1.00 – 2.30
Lunch
2.30 – 4.00 INTEREST GROUPS: Round Two
2.30 – 4.00 Legal
Research Communications Interest Group: Austlii Legal Research
Presentation (continued)
2.30 – 4.00 Screening of Dhakiyarr and the King (Film
Australia)
4.00 – 5.00 “The Territory and the Constitution”-
Jennifer
Clarke, lecturer in law at the Australian National
University; a presentation by the Australian Association of
Constitutional Law (AACL) NT Chapter, also starring Steve
Southwood QC and Tom Pauling QC.
5.00 – 6.00 ALTA
AGM
6.00 – 6:30
Transfers from city hotels to drinks/dinner venue
6.30 – 7.30
Drinks at sunset with the Australasian Association of Constitutional
Law: Cornucopia Museum Cafe
7:30 - 10.30
Publishers Dinner: sponsored by Cavendish Publishing and Lexis Nexis:
Cornucopia Museum Cafe
Saturday 10 July 2004
8.30 – 5.00
Registration
9.00 – 10.30
PLENARY SESSION TWO: (Deckchair Cinema)
Aboriginal
Customary Law Forums: “Teaching the Teachers” separate men’s
session and women’s sessions
Men's session
moderated by Assoc Professor Isaac Brown; women's session
moderated by Rose Kunoth-Monks
Indigenous law
men to meet with male delegates and Indigenous law women to
meet with female delegates for discussion of customary law.
Each session will have a moderator and note taker. Each
session will decide which information stays within the group
and which information can be shared at the plenary session.
These sessions provide a unique opportunity for law teachers
to meet with Aboriginal Law men and women to learn about
Aboriginal Customary Law and to discuss ideas for legal
co-existence. It is envisaged that 20 –25 ceremony men and
women will attend from across the Northern Territory.
Whilst time
slots have been allocated, the sessions are likely to be
open–ended, so as to allow for flexibility and to facilitate
discussion.
IMPORTANT
NOTICE: Delegates to the customary law sessions may find
that Aboriginal Presenters request aspects of material
presented be kept confidential. Delegates are asked to be
mindful of any such request and to respect it.
10.30 – 11.00
Morning Tea
11.00 – 12.30
PLENARY SESSION TWO (Continued) Aboriginal Customary Law Forum:
“Teaching the teachers” Joint plenary session moderated by
Associate Professor Isaac Brown
12.30 – 1.30
Lunch (Deckchair Cinema)
1.30 – 3.00
INTEREST GROUPS: Round Three (Supreme Court)
3.00 – 3.30
Afternoon Tea
3.30 – 5.00
INTEREST GROUPS: Round Four (Supreme Court)
3.30 – 5.00
Repeat Screening of Dhakiyarr and the King (Film Australia)
6.00 – 6.30
Transfers from city hotels to dinner venue
6.30 – 11.00
Drinks and Dinner at Fannie Bay Gaol, with delegates’ play reading
of "the Trial of Tuckiar" by Rex Wild QC
Sunday 11 July 2004
9.30am – 10.30am
PLENARY SESSION THREE: (Court One)
Legal Education
Panel-featuring winners of the Australian University
Teaching Award :
Professor Michael A Adams, Professor of Corporate
Law, University of Technology Syney;
Assoc
Professor Sally Kift, Assistant Dean Teaching and
Learning, QUT Faculty of Law;
Frances
Gibson, Senior Lecturer La Trobe Uni; with
Professor David Weisbrot, honorary Professor for
Molecular Bioscience and the Law School at USQ and division
of Law, Macquarie University;and
Professor Paul Chartrand of the College of Law at
the University of Saaskatchewan, Canada
10.30am – 11.00am
Morning Tea
11.00am – 12.30pm
Legal Education Panel (continued)
12:30pm approx
Conference concludes |