Thursday 6^th July

Time:
8:00am – 5:00pm	Registration Desk open
9:30am – 11:00am	Plenary Session: Researching law Chair: Professor Rosalind Croucher, Dean, Division of Law, Macquarie University Keynote Speaker: Professor Hilary Charlesworth, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University and ARC College of Experts Professor John Farrar, Dean, University of Waikato, New Zealand Mr Chris Holt, Publisher, Federation Press Professor Richard Johnstone, Associate Dean (Research) Griffith University What do changing definitions and rankings for law schools and legal academics, individually and in collaboration? How do we make the most of the changes to further law and justice research? How do they fit with the needs of law students, law publishers, law reformers and legal practitioners?
11:00am – 11:30am	Morning Tea
11:30am – 1:00pm	Interest Groups Sessions Government Law and Constitutional Law: Imtiaz Omar (Convener) ·    Bebe Harris (Canberra): Parliamentary Scrutiny of the Executive - a proposal for Constitutional Reform ·    Imtiaz Omar (UNE): Legislative Intention, Judicial Power and Issues of Individual Liberties: Persisting Interpretive Problems  ·    Michael Stokes (Tas): Legitimate Expectations: a Limitation Rather than an Extension of the Scope of Procedural Fairness   ·    Michael Stokes (Tas): Characterisation: A New Look at Barger's Case Law for Non-Law Students: Susan Corbett (Convener) ·     Ian Henry (VU): Milking the "Cash Cow" on a Sustainable Basis    ·    Judie Lancaster & David Meltz (UTS): Is the Tail Wagging the Dog?: A Critical Evaluation of the New-Look Subject Feedback Process ·     Fred Rollo (CQU): Teaching Tax Law in the Accounting Stream: Emerging Issues     ·     Angelo Veljanovski (VU): Cross-sectoral transitional support for Corporate Law Students   Company Law: Anil Hargovan (Convener) ·     Roman Tomasic (VU): The Challenges of Corporate Law Enforcement and the Future of Australian Law Corporations ·    James Mayanja (USQ): Enforcement of Directors' Fiduciary Obligations: The Role of Public Law Sanctions ·     Vicki Comino (UQ): ASIC and its enforcement record since the introduction of the civil penalty regime in 1993     ·     Neil Andrews (VU): Walking on the dark side: the implications of stock exchange regulation for corporate governance    ·   Judith Marychurch & Natalie Stoianoff (Woll): Blurring the Lines of Environmental Responsibility: How Corporate and Public Governance was Circumvented in the Ok Tedi Mining Limited Disaster  Tort and Contract: Penelope Watson (Convener) ·     Penelope Watson (Macq): Legal and Ethical Issues in Wrongful Life Actions ·    Des Butler (QUT): Cyber bullying: new technology, new challenges to law     ·    Rosalind Croucher (Macq): Excluding the Self-Excluded - 'Reasonable Force' and the Problem Gambler in Australia  ·    Tina Cockburn (QUT): The re-emergence of intentional torts in the wake of the Civil Liberty Acts  Law and Computers: Alexandra Sims (Convener) ·    Peter Black (QUT): To Blog or Not to Blog: The role of blogs in legal academia  ·    Gehan Gunasekara (Auck): The "Final" Privacy Frontier? Regulating Transborder Data Flows ·    Bill Willesee (Curtin): Your Responsibility for what your child did on the internet using your computer    ·    John Zelenikow (VU): The Use of Information Technology to help in Dispute Resolution   Comparative and Asian Law: Vivienne Bath (Convener) ·    Mary Ip & Bill Butcher (UNSW): What does WTO entry mean to Chinese consumers? ·    Hong Lay (Nanyang Technological University): A Balanced Scorecard Approach to Survey Corporate Governance Practices of Singapore’s Listed Companies: STI Companies and Temasek-Linked Companies ·    Sheikh Solaiman (Woll): Investor Protection and Criminal Liabilities for Defective Prospectuses: Bangladeshi Laws Compared with Their Equivalents in India and Malaysia ·    Margaret Wang (VU): Does Imprisonment deter Fraudulent Executives: An Examination of Corporate Fraud in Taiwan's High-Technology Sector  ·    Patricia Blazey & Alexander Low (Macq): Harmonisation and The Rule of Law in China * Can East meet West Legal Education: Samantha Hardy (Convener) ·    Philippa England (Griffith): A Five-Year Review of Flexible Delivery in a Core Undergraduate Course: A High Speed Journey to Somewhere…   ·    Elise Histed (Monash): The Tools of the Trade  ·    Sally Kift (QUT): The Learning, Teaching and Assessment of Ethical Values in Law: What are the Possibilities? ·    Sandra Nichols, Hope Ashiabor, Patricia Blazey, Penelope Janu & Alex Low (Macq): Stakeholder expectations for generic skills in accounting graduates, curriculum mapping and implications for change     South Pacific Legal Studies: Jennifer Corrin  (Convener) ·    Jennifer Corrin  (UQ): A Vertical or Horizontal Effect for Human Rights in the South Pacific?  ·    Rebekah Plachecki (VUW): Legislating for counter-terrorism: Some pacific examples  ·    Guy Powles (Monash): Testing Tradition in Tonga: Fresh Approaches to Constitutional Change
1:00pm – 2:15pm	Lunch - hosted by CCH Publishers
1:00pm – 2:30pm	ALTA AGM
2:30pm – 4:00pm	Interest Groups Sessions Revenue Law: Rob Woellner (Convener) ·   Rob Woellner & Stephen Graw (JCU): Self-Assessment: are we there yet? ·   Geoffrey Hart (Sydney): The Impact of Whitfords Beach in urban land Development ·    Julie Cassidy (Deakin): ATO Practice Statement Law Administration on the Application of General Anti-Avoidance Rules PS LA 2005/24: A Selective Assessment of Part IVA Jurisprudence? ·    Lyndal Taylor (UTS): Income Splitting - some can and some can't! Commercial Law and Consumer Protection: Susan Watson (Convener) ·    Patty Kamvounias, Bronwynnes Bailey & Mary Wyburn (Sydney): Flogging a Dead Horse? The ACCC, Penalties and Insolvent Respondents ·    Aviva Freilich (UWA): A Radical Solution to Problems with the Statutory Definition of Consumer: All Transactions are Consumer Transactions ·    Yvonne Van Roy (VUW): Should be the approach to predatory pricing recently proposed by the European Commission be adopted within the competition Law of Australia and New Zealand?        ·    Michael Josling (Auck): Arrangements with creditors and the requirement for class voting Clinical Legal Education: Pamela Morgan (Convener) ·    Anne Macduff (USQ): New challenges in educating lawyers: changing perceptions of study workload from 'doing time' to 'satisfying work'! ·   Geoff Monahan (UTS): Planning for the future: Clinical legal education for contemporary law students  ·    Frances Gibson (La Trobe): When a stranger calls: Standards for providing legal advice by phone or email    Evidence and Procedure: Kay Lauchland (Convener) ·    Judith Marychurch (Woll): Judicial assessment of the reliability of hearsay evidence: a gendered process?     ·    Elisabeth McDonald (VUW): Judicial assessment of the reliability of hearsay evidence: a gendered process?   ·    Eileen Webb (UWA): Propensity Evidence - Two Recent Developments  Environmental Law: Catherine Iorns-Magallanes (Convener) ·    Angela Dwyer (UTS): Precaution and threatened species listing: the potential of 'data deficient' ·     Catherine Iorns-Magallanes (VUW): The Precautionary Principle in the New Zealand Fisheries Act: Recent Challenges in the New Zealand Court of Appeal ·   Laura Horn (UWS): Corporate Environmental Accountability and Responsibility  ·    Sharon Mascher (UWA): Building a Wooden Bridge to the Future: The Role of Carbon Sinks in a National Emissions Trading Scheme ·    Terry Quilty (UWA): A Comparison of liability issues and resultant efficacy of an internal and an external economic instrument: The Permanent Forest Sink Initiative and the Clean Development Mechanism  ·    Shawkat Alam (Macq): The Proposed Indian River-linking Project: An Appraisal of its Ecological and Socio Economic Implications for Lower Riparian Countries    International Law: Dan Svantesson (Convener) ·    Daud Hassan (UTS): Positivism and Development of International Law ·    Emma Henderson (La Trobe): Rights of Passage; Recent Developments in Asylum Protection Regimes in Australia and New Zealand - Does a Human Rights Framework Make a Difference? Comparative and Asian Law: Vivienne Bath (Convener) ·    Simon Marsden (UofSA): Common Law and Civil Law Approaches to Interpretation under Article 158 of Hong Kong's Basic Law: A European Conflict Laws Analogy? ·    Colin Hawes (UTS): Critical & cultural analysis of recent corporate governance reforms to Chinese banks      Legal Education: Samantha Hardy (Convener) ·    Francine Rochford (La Trobe): The university student in a take-away world    ·    Wayne Rumbles (Waikato): Podlaw: Can you podcast the study of Law? ·    Michelle Sanson (UTS): Graduate Attributes means more than just Skills ·    Joanne Stagg-Taylor (Griffith): Thinking like a Lawyer: deeper legal learning through practical skills education ·    Lyndal Taylor & Helen Kiel (UTS): Case Management and Students: Lessons from Teaching and Practice  Law and Medicine: Leanne Houston (Convener) ·    Tina Cockburn & Bill Madden (QUT & UWS): Duty to Disclose medical error in Australia ·    Debbie Wilson (Massey): Cloning and the media  ·    Julie Zetler (Macq): Electronic Patient Records and Privacy: should we be concerned? ·    Leanne Houston (UTS): The legal implications of Imaging Technology
4:00pm – 5:30pm	ALTA 'Future Direction and Challenges of Legal Publishing' Chair: Professor Michael Adams, ALTA Executive Member Guest Speakers: Sonny Leong, Executive Chairman, Routledge-Cavendish, UK Gillian May, Academic Manager, LexisNexis Law Publishers Professor Paul Latimer, Professor, Monash University, Department of Business Law and Taxation, Faculty of Business and Economics The session will involve the above speakers addressing: Copyright Issues: Who owns the rights to books when they become electronic, the publisher or the university Textbooks are not considered scholarly under the current DEST publication rules. A balance is needed between support issues when academics complete a textbook. Completing the textbook is a huge undertaking in itself; however, more often than not, academics are then expected to produce the following: The study guide; Electronic issues; Question books Direction in content area, the balance between what the academic feels is important and the market research conducted by the publishers which may provide different outcomes. Are publishers aware of the challenges facing academics from the introduction of the Research Quality Framework (RQF)?: Perhaps more provision for refereeing and reviewing may increase academic publishing. Support for authors: Electronic manuscripts sent to authors who are undertaking subsequent editions are generally sent to authors in a format that cannot be easily amended, is a change necessary?
5:00pm	Close of Day
7:00pm	Conference Dinner - hosted by LexisNexis Law Publishers Rialto Tower