Wednesday 5^th July

Time:
8:30am – 5:00pm	Registration Desk open
9:30am – 11:00am	Justice Hon Marcia Neave, Court of Appeal, Supreme Court of Victoria   Opening Plenary Session: Legal Knowledge Chair: Professor Paul Moyle, Foundation Professor in Law and Justice, Edith Cowan University, Chairperson, ALTA Keynote Speaker: Dean Bryant Garth, Dean of the School of Law at South Western University in California and formerly Executive Director of the American Bar Foundation Professor Michael Coper, Chair, Council of Australian Law Deans, Dean, Faculty of Law, Australian National University How is legal knowledge learnt and communicated?  Who gains legal knowledge and is it important to participation in society?  To what extent is legal knowledge local and to what extent international or global?  What are the implications for law teaching and research?
11:00am – 11:30am	Morning Tea - hosted by Oxford University Press
11:30am – 1:00pm	Interest Groups Sessions Criminal Law: Ian Dobinson (Convener) ·    Ian Dobinson (UTS): Sports Courts: The National Rugby League (NRL) Judiciary  ·    Brenda Midson (Waikato): Actions and Consequences: Teaching Causation in Criminal Law Jurisprudence and Legal Philosophy: Michelle Sanson  (Convener) ·     Alan Cameron (VUW): The Private Law-Public law Distinction as a Pluralist Conceptual Basis for teaching law: Toward a Reformational Theory of Contract Law ·    Gary Wickham (Murdoch): Reassessment Legal History: Elise Histed (Convener) ·    Stefan Petrow (Tas): Law and Order: Alex Castles and the legal history of Van Diemen's Land 1803 – 1855 ·    David Barker (UTS): The American Case Method and its Influence on Modern Legal Education  ·    Chris Brien (VU) R v Bonjon (1841) and R v Bolden (1841): Understanding His Honour Mr Justice Willis, The First Resident Judge of Port Phillip   South Pacific Legal Studies: Jennifer Corrin (Convener) ·    Tony Angelo (VUW): Tokelau… a failed experiment ·    Jennifer Corrin  & Phillip Tagini (UQ): Raking through the Ashes: an Analysis of Recent Events in Soloman Islands  Indigenous People and the Law: Phil Falk (Convener) ·    Linda Te Aho (Waikato): Enabling more effective participation in Resource Management Processes for indigenous ·    Maree Sainsbury (Canb): What's Law got to do with it? Teaching Law and Ethics to IT Students Legal Research & Communication - Law Librarians: Natalie Cuffe (Convener) Vote on Interest Group Name ·    Kylie Burns (Griffith): The impact of judicial use of social facts on legal research and legal reasoning ·    Natalie Cuffe (QUT): Designing legal research criterion referenced assessment to enhance student learning ·    Terry Hutchinson (QUT): Educating the Transnational Lawyer: Globalisation and the Effects on Legal Research Skills Training   Panel - Barbara Hocking (QUT) Dispute Resolution: Marilyn Scott (Convener) ·    Kathy Douglas (RMIT): Inspirational Role-plays in the Teaching of Alternative Dispute Resolution: Utilizing Improvisation to Enhance   ·    Geoff Fisher (QUT): Anti-Suit Injunctions To Restrain Foreign Proceedings In Breach Of An Arbitration Agreement ·    Marilyn Scott (UTS): Collaborative Practice: Learning, Communicating and Doing - Multi-disciplinary competencies for legal education ·    John Zelenikow and Andrew Vincent (VU): Decision Support and Plea Bargaining Intellectual Property: Natalie Stoianoff (Convener) ·    Chris Arup (VU): TRIPs as competitive and co-operative Interpretation ·    Bill Childs (UTS): Preparing Engineers & Scientists for the 21st Century: A Case for imbedding an Inherent Awareness of Intellectual Property in Undergraduate Engineering & Science Curricula  ·    Ian Iredale (UWS): Copyright in a Spectacle; Unfinished Business ·    Susan Corbett (VUW): New Zealand's Copyright Law post-TRIPs   ·    Mary Wyburn (Syd): Conflicts of ownership and commercialisation in research: VUT v Wilson Law and Social Justice: (Alternate Convener) Lee Ann Basser  ·    Ken Mackinnon (VUW): Redefining the facts: the marginalisation of claimants in tribunal fact-finding  ·    Darryl Saunders (Massey): Public Ownership of Private Legal Knowledge       ·    Rachel Spencer (Flinders): Atticus Finch to Dennis Denuto: Using the Popular Media to Teach Legal Skills & Ethics  Discrimination and Equal Opportunity: Simon Rice (Convener) Vote on Interest Group Name Legal Education: Samantha Hardy (Convener) ·    Simon Rice, Alex Reilly & Nicole Graham  (Macq): Legal Scholarship Research   ·    Alison Bone (Brighton, UK): Plagiarism can be prevented – a starter pack ·    Des Butler (QUT): The Merlin Affair: Teaching and Learning Law in a Multimedia Environment  ·    Jennifer Butler (CQU): Teaching Taxation Law: Rethinking Aids for Delivery    ·    Penelope Watson (Macq): Teaching for Effective Learning: Teaching Torts to Visual Learners
1:00pm – 2:30pm	Lunch - hosted by CCH Publishers
1:00pm – 2:30pm	ALTA Executive Meeting
2:30pm – 4:00pm	Interest Groups Sessions Ethics for the Legal Profession: Duncan Webb (Convener) Vote on Interest Group Name ·     Duncan Webb (Canterbury): The Lawyers and Conveyancers Act in New Zealand: Catching up with Consumerism ·    Julio Altamirano (Monash): The Discovery of a worldwide Loophole: The Need for Professional Standards on Legal Technique - a code on Judicial Reasoning. Advocating The Legal Technique Reforms 2010(Cth) ·    Maxine Evers (UTS): Professional Misconduct - how is it emerging in the 21st century? ·    Linda Haller (Melb): The Battle to Extend the Protective Nature of Professional Discipline International Law: Dan Svantesson (Convener) ·    Frank Bates (Newcastle) More Bias in Family Court ·    Jill Cowley (SCU) Schiavo, Eames and the Consequences of Marriage in Australia  ·    Geoff Monahan (UTS): Future Needs Strikes Back? Assessing the Consequences of Contributions to a De Facto Relationship  ·    John Zelenikow & Deborah MacFarlane (UTS) Family Mediation in Common Law and Civil Law Domains Gender Issues and the Law - Women and Law: Vote on Interest Group Name ·    Pauline Collins (USQ) What about women in the welfare to work & work choices Legislative changes Criminal Law: Ian Dobinson (Convener) ·    Alex Steel (UNSW): A general fraud offence? Obtaining financial advantage by deception ·    Peter Black (QUT): Phishing Tales: Honestly, the problem is "this big" ·    Frances Gibson (La Trobe): Words are not enough; Threats and the risk of harm Indigenous Peoples and the Law: Phil Falk (Convener) ·    Craig Coxhead (Waikato): Assisting Indigenous students to succeed - Let's start by giving them a safe learning environment  ·    Matio Dickson (Waikato): Teaching Indigenous Law in a Law School  ·   Phil Falk (Griffith): "Indigenising" the Law: Bringing Indigenous Australia Perspectives to Law School  ·    Margaret Stephenson (UQ): Reforms to Indigenous Title in Australia: Lessons from other Jurisdictions Environmental Law: Catherine Iorns-Magallanes (Convener) ·    Trevor Daya-Winterbottom (Waikato): Legislating for Sustainability: is it justiciable?  ·   Francine Rochford (La Trobe): Sustainable Development and the Essential Services Commission in Victoria Balancing pricing and welfare objectives in rural water delivery  ·    Phillipa England (Griffith): Regulatory and Policy Tools for Urban Containment: Comparisons Across Three Australian Jurisdictions  ·    Ken Palmer (Auck): Resource Management in New Zealand - Decision Making for sustainability ·    Mark Tranter (UQ): Two Towers: A comparison of the regulatory regimes which affect new electricity transmission lines and windfarms in Queensland ·    Graeme Wiffen (Macq): Heritage legislation: Current best practice  Equity and Trusts: Tina Cockburn (Convener) ·    Julie Cassidy (Deakin): Life (or more so death) after Barns v Barns       ·    Andrew Tuch (Syd): Securities Underwriters in Public Capital Markets: the existence, parameters and consequences of the fiduciary obligation to avoid conflicts ·    Sue Tappenden (Waikato): The emerging doctrine of unjust enrichment in New Zealand ·    Tracey Carver & Tina Cockburn (QUT): Making Equity and Trusts More Accessible: Developing Interactive Learning Programmes Panel - Current Issues and Contemporary Applications Labour Law: Joseph Cleworth (Convener) ·    Joseph Cleworth (Macq): Australian Work Choices and the Harvester Case Revisited: - Some Parallels From the Past ·    Ian Henry (VU): Engineering a Corporate Takeover     ·    Trish Keeper (VUW): The treatment of employee emoluments in the advent of employer insolvency: A comparative consideration of the New Zealand position in the light of international models ·    Pam Nuttall (AUT): Protecting vulnerable workers? Maintaining existing conditions in a business restructure  ·    Carolyn Penfold (UNSW): Beyond Labour Law; Localisation and Globalisation in IT Offshoring Legal Education: Samantha Hardy (Convener) ·    Naomi Cukier (Lander and Rogers Lawyers): Nine Lessons for Teaching Negotiations Skills ·    Kalmen Datt (UNSW): Reflections on Teaching a First Year Law Course Delivered in Distance Mode from an Assessment Perspective    ·    Julia Davis (Tas): More Than Words: a Film about Communication Skills and Oral Legal Argument  ·    Thomas Fisher, Judy Gutman & Erika Martins (La Trobe): Teaching ADR in law school: why, how & what for? ·    Rosalind Croucher (Macq): Crunching the Criteria: the dissectionist's guide to promotion
4:00pm – 5:30pm	ALTA Legal Academic Job Network Chair: Professor Paul Moyle, ALTA Chairperson Guest Speakers: Professor Michael Coper, Dean, Australian National University, ANU College of Law; Professor Rosalind Croucher, Dean, Macquarie Univeresity, Faculty of Law; Ms Judie Lancaster, Senior Lecturer, University of Technology, Sydney, Faculty of Law The purpose of this session is to explore issues relating to a legal academic career and to provide a forum for early career academics to see presentations from academics of different levels and experience on developing a successful legal academic career. Issues that may be relevant for more senior academics will also be touched upon. Whilst the content of each presentation is flexible and from personal experience, we hope to explore issues such as: Work life balance (increased workloads and pressures; timing and choices); The role of a legal academic in a law faculty (is this the career for me? – accident or design); My responsibilities – the professional academic/academic in a professional discipline; My style –  teacher/writer/ administrator; My future/my place – sink/swim/torpedoing in the legal academe); and  What to expect from a career in legal academia (career progression issues; publishing & research).
5:00pm - 5:30pm	Special Interest Group Session Constitutional Law: Patrick Keyzer (Convener) Guests: Justice Tony North of the Federal Court of Australia, the President of the International Association of Refugee Law Judges, to launch Future Seekers II: Refugees and Irregular Migration in Australia, by Mary Crock, Ben Saul and Azadeh Dastyari. Everyone attending the Conference is warmly welcomed to attend this event., Come along and have a free glass of champagne
5:30pm	Close of Day
7:00pm	Publishers Dinner - hosted by Routledge-Cavendish Old Melbourne Gaol Ned Kelly: Jerilderie letter