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
 

 

 
Programme

Tuesday 5th July

Wednesday 6th July
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Interest Groups:

- Clinical Legal Education
- Commercial Law and Consumer Protection
- Company Law
- Constitutional Law
- Contract and Tort
- Criminal Law
- Dispute Resolution
- Environmental Law
- Equity and Trusts
- Indigenous Peoples and the Law
- International Law
- Jurisprudence and Legal Philosophy
- Labour Law
- Law and Medicine
- Law and Social Justice
- Law in Non Law Schools
- Legal Education

Thursday 7th July

Friday 8th July

Conference Re-cap

 
 

 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
2005 ALTA Conference

 
 


Wednesday 6th July

Time:

 

 

Morning Venue:
WEL Energy Trust Academy of Performing Arts

8:00am – 4:00pm

Registration Desk open

 

9:00am – 11:00am

Plenary Session One:
 ‘One Law for All?’

Speakers:

Chief Justice Dame Sian Elias, Chief Justice of New Zealand,
 "Equality, Diversity and Law"

The Hon. John von Doussa QC, President, Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, Australia

The Hon. Justice Eddie Durie, Law Commission of New Zealand’

 

11:00am –
11:30am

Morning Tea

11:30am – 1:00pm

Meeting of Law Research Network

 

11:30am – 1:00pm

Interest Groups: Round One

Legal Education: Paul Moyle (Convener)

·      Des Butler:
The Merlin Affair: Teaching and Learning Law in Multimedia Environment

·      Alison Stone:
The Impact of Formative Assessment on Student Learning: a law-based study

·      Kelley Burton:
CRAFT: Criterion Referenced Assessment for Teachers

International Law: Dan Svantesson  (Convener)

·      Neil Boister:
Harmonising Criminal Justice in the South Pacific

·      Daud Hassan:
Rise of Territorial State and the Treaty of West Westphelia

·      Anthony Gray:
Choice of Law in International Tore Cases

Contract and Tort: Des Butler (Convener)

·      Penelope Watson:
Civil Liability for Sexual Exploitation and Abuse: A Comparative Perspective

·      Norman Katter:
Contract, Tort and Purely Economic Loss after "Woodcock"

·      Julia Werren & Amanda Williamson:
Advocates' Immunity: What Makes Lawyers So Special?

Indigenous Peoples and the Law: Phil Falk (Convener)

·      Julia Cassidy:
Unresolved Legal Issues Pertaining to Native Residential Schools

·      Harata Paterson:
Postcolonial or Post solo-mother: Are there any parallels

·      Mietta Olsen:
One Heritage to Fit Them All? – Examining the new national heritage legislation in Australia

Law in Non-Law Schools: Susan Corbett (Convener)

·      Patty Kamvounias:
W(h)ither Law in Non-Law Schools

·      Susan Corbett:
What's Law got to do with it? Teaching Law and Ethics to IT Students

·      Michael Nancarrow:
Learning Opportunities in legal education for international MBA students

·      Sally Varnham & Patty Kamvounias:
In-house or In Court? Legal Challenges to Academic Decisions

 

1:00pm – 2:15pm

Lunch

1:00pm – 2:25pm

ALTA Executive Meeting

 

 

Afternoon Venue:
Waikato Management School

2:30pm – 4:00pm

Interest Groups: Round Two

Legal Education: Paul Moyle (Convener)

·    Julia Davis:
On the Job with Plato, Nat Young and Thorpey: Teaching Legal Method to Students Who Know No Law

·    John Orr:
"One Law for All" Australian Universities: Statutory objects  and the doctrine of ultra vires

·    Jill Jones & John Horsley:
What Business  students need to learn about law

International Law: Dan Svantesson (Convener)

·    Wake Mansell:
One Law for All (except in the USA): American Exceptionalism in Theory and Practice

·    Pauline Collins:
The emergence of the new autonomous corporate warrior class and its  implications for humanity

·    Craig Forrest:
Military necessity and cultural heritage in Iraq

Contract and Tort: Des Butler (Convener)

·    Ken Mackinnon:
Eggshell Skulls, Brittle Bones and Sensitive Souls - hou the ACC scheme deals with them

·    Darryl Saunders & Debbie Wilson:
Legal Act Economic Duress and the PHOs: An unhealthy aspect of NZ's  wealth

Indigenous Peoples and the Law: Phil Falk (Convener)

·    Craig Coxhead:
One Law for All? The Foreshore and Seabed Act! Need I say more?

·    Sky Mykyta:
White Judge, Black Law: the Interpretation of Indigenous Law in Native Title Litigation

·   Marie Were:
Tikanga Maori (Maori Law) and the NZ Judicial Approach to Interpretation

Commercial Law and Consumer Protection: Susan Watson (Convener)

·    Orkin Akseli:
Uniform Law & Facilitaiton of Credit

·    Rhett Martin:
Uniform Rules for the Collection of Commercial Paper

·    Noel Cox:
The Response of Businesses to Paradigmatic Changes in Legal Systems

·    Phillipa Wells:
The Legal Framework for the provision of 'quotes', a preliminary exploration of law and practice in NZ

Company Law: Anil Hargovan (Convener)

·    Lang Thai:
Hanel v O'Neill: Director's Personal Liability of Debts under s 197 of the Corporations Act

·    Chris Noonan & Susan Watson:
A Director by any Other Name…

·    Keith Fletcher:
27/47: a partnership property problem

Constitutional Law: John Hopkins (for Patrick Keyzer)

·    Simon Marsden:
Back to the Basics: Statutory
Interpretation and Judicial Independence in HKSAR

·    James Mayanja:
The Protection of Individual Rights and Freedom in Australia: Of Bills of  rights and the Separation of Judicial Power

·    Brian Thompson:
Codifying MP' Conduct: Principle, Privilege and Pragmatism

·    Imtiaz Omar:
Use of the defence power under the Australian Constitution: A Critical Review

Law and Medicine: Judith Lancaster (Convener)

·    Patsi Davies:
A Challenge to the Jurisdictional Crown Jewel or A Coming of Age?

·    Michael Eburn:
"There's more to being a father than sex!"

·    Robin Mackenzie:
Assisted suicide, autonomy, capacity and choice in dying

Clinical Legal Education: Paul Moyle (Convener)

·    Colin James:
Teaching Survival: Strategies for Improving Lawyers' Workplace Satisfaction

·    Terry Hutchinson:
Exploring Legal Research Methodologies

·    AH Mohammed Abdullah:
Preparing Students for the Challenges of the Legal Profession

·    Pamela Morgan:
Teaching Conveyancing online: Pitfalls and practical lessons

Equity and Trusts: Sue Tappenden (Convener)

·    Alan Toy:
Discretionary Distribution?

·    Sue Tappenden:
Equitable Remedies in New Zealand

Law and Social Justice: Rick Sarre and Paul Moyle (Conveners)

·    James Macdonald:
Special Cultural Laws for Indigenous Peoples or "One Law for All?"

·    Rick Sarre:
Good Practice in remand in custody

·    Claire Breen:
The Child's Right to Identity and Assisted Human Reproduction

Environmental Law: Karen Bubna-Litic (Convener)

·    Trevor Daya-Winterbottom:
RMA Review: An Exercise in Legislative Indeterminacy

·    Shawkat Alam:
Trade-Environmental linkage in multilateral environmental agreements: Implications

·    Tony Foley:
Environmental Dispute Resolution – producing outcomes that are environmentally fair

Labour Law: Joseph Cleworth & Marilyn Pittard (Conveners)

·    Jason Harris:
Assessing the Implications of Electrolux

·    Ashgar Ali Mohammed:
Retrenchment: The law and Practice in Malaysia

·    Joseph Cleworth:
Liberal Labor Laws in Australia

Criminal Law: Ian Dobinson (Convener)

·    Michael Eburn:
Outlawry in England and Colonial Australia

·    Stanley Yeo:
Consenting to Bodily Harm

·    Kelley Burton:
A Voyage through the proposed and existing voyeurism offences in NZ, UK

Dispute Resolution: Marilyn Scott (Convener)

·    Nadja Alexander:
International Trends in ADR for Teaching and Research

·    Marilyn Scott:
One Law for All: problems for ADR practice in a multicultural society

·    Myles Stilwell:
More Laws than we Need? 

Jurisprudence and Legal Philosophy:

·    Duncan Webb:
Conflicts of Interest a Status Based Approach

·    Julia Davis:
Forbidding Dwarf Tossing: Defending Dignity or Discrimination Based on Size?

·    Neil Wells:
The Dance of Legislation: the Animal Welfare Act 1999
 

4:00pm – 4:30pm

Afternoon Tea

4:30pm – 5:30pm

ALTA AGM

 

6:30pm – 7:30pm

Transfers to dinner venue

7:30pm – 10:30pm

Publishers Dinner