Friday 7^th July

Time:
8:30am – 2:30pm	Registration Desk open
9:30am – 11:00pm	Interest Groups Sessions Property Law: Eileen Webb (Convener) ·    Lynden Griggs (Tas): The Content and Timing of Vendor Disclosure in the Sale of Residential Real Estate - why both must be considered  ·    Alan Toy (Otago): Knowing Receipt in the Torrens Context ·    Eileen Webb (UWA): Almost a decade on - A (Reid) Report Card on Retail Leasing Clinical Legal Education: Pamela Morgan  (Convener) ·     Scott Beattie (VU): Building Communities of Practice Through Work Integrated Learning   ·    Colin James (Newcastle): Anger and Compassion: Using Emotional Intelligence in the Difficult Interview Company Law: Anil Hargovan (Convener) ·   David Parker (VU): The undercapitalisation of a company: can this be the basis for piercing the corporate veil? ·    Jason Harris & Anil Hargovan (UNSW): Assessing the Use of Agency Principles to Lift the Corporate Veil  ·    Larelle Chapple & Catherine McCormack (UQ): Takeovers: Acceptance, Withdrawal and Overcoming Shareholder Inertia  ·    John Lessing (Bond): The Lion Nathan bid for Coopers: a useful and unusual case study for teaching corporations law ·    Josephine Coffey (Syd): A Civil Liability Action for Insider Trading: Fyffes plc v DDC plc & Ors [2006] IEHC 32  International Law: Dan Svantesson (Convener) ·    Michael Morison (USQ): The politics of a Human Right to Democratic Governance ·    Reid Mortensen (UQ): Renvoi's Renewal Regretted    ·    Dan Svantesson (Bond): The not so 'borderless' Internet - Does it still give rise to private international law issues           ·    Natalie Klein (Macq): Threats of Terrorism and Threats to International Legal Structures: A Law of the Sea Perspective   Law and Economics: Anthony Gray (Convener) ·    Anthony Gray (USQ): Economics and Constitutionality of IR Reform        ·    John Orr (SCU): The contemporary funding of Australian universities - is this a path to insolvency ·    Rhett Martin (Monash): Consequences of law: The consequences of constitutional provisions and the relationship between law and economics Comparative and Asian Law: Vivienne Bath (Convener) ·    Neil Andrews (VU): Change and Continuity in an emerging market economy: the boards of directors in China's top 100 listed companies ·    Vivienne Bath (Syd): Comments on the Administrative Licensing Law of the PRC and its Regulatory Implementation ·    Andrew Clarke (UNE): Mittal Steel and Corporate Governance: The New Art of Empire Building       ·    Jane Fu (Deakin): Convergence and Divergence of Piercing the Corporate Veil in China and Australia ·    Judy Gibson (District Court of New South Wales): Judicial Defamation Actions: a comparative view of actions for defamation brought by judges in China with actions brought in common law jurisdictions    Legal Education: Samantha Hardy (Convener) ·    Joel Butler (Bond): Thinking Like a Law Student, Thinking Like a Lawyer? Some preliminary thoughts in relation to the Academy    ·    Lynn Du Moulin (ANU): "Learning and doing" - educating lawyers for practise ·    Matthew Ball (QUT): Legal Education and the 'Idealistic Student': The need for a Governmental Analysis ·    Samantha Hardy (Tas): "Improving Law Students' Written Skills: Teaching Legal Writing in Australian Law Schools"    ·    Judy Gutman, Thomas Fisher & Erika Martens (La Trobe): Law Students' perceptions on dispute resolution and lawyering Tort and Contract: Penelope Watson (Convener)  ·    Debra Ronan (Macq): When is a Windfall not a Windfall? - When it's in the guise of damages. Why the High Court of Australia should continue to resist restitution as a remedy for breach of contract ·    Kylie Burns (Griffith): Overworked and Stressed?  Why negligence doesn't help and it's all your own fault! ·    Pip Wells (AUT): Quotes and Building Services: reflections on an experience of empirical legal research   ·    Bruno Zeller (VU): Internationalization and the Teaching of Contract Law ·    John Horsley (Manukau Institute of Tech) The Marketplace and Legal Doctrine - Tensions in Contract and Corporate Law
11:00am – 11:30am	Morning Tea
11:30am – 1:00pm	Plenary Session: Educating Lawyers Keynote Speaker: Professor Kathy Laster Executive Director, Victoria Law Foundation Dr Peter Cashman, Consultant, Maurice Blackburn Chashman, Lawyers, product liability and public interest lawyers Mr Neville Carter, Managing Director, College of Law (practical legal training) Are the demands of practice increasing? Do cross-cultural sensibilities and social responsibilities provide an advantage, both in the community and commercial sectors? Do lawyers continue to have public duties? What would a contemporary curriculum include and what changes would be needed to the current education and training requirements?
1:00pm – 2:30pm	Lunch
2:30pm – 3:30pm	ALTA Issues Session Chair: Professor Paul Moyle, ALTA Chairperson Speakers: ALTA Executive Members ALTA Executive Members – Professor Michael Adams; Assoc Professor Prue Vines; Andrew Tuch; Terry Hutchinson; and Professor David Barker AM. Guest Speakers: Professor Carl Monk, Association of American Law Schools Alison Bone, Principal Lecturer, University of Brighton, Brighton Business School (on behalf of the Association of Law Teachers, UK) Sean Quinn, Letterkenny Institute of Technology and President of the Irish Association of Law Teachers Summary of the ALTA Plenary sessions – ‘Legal Academic Job Network’ and the ‘Future Directions and Challenges in Legal Publishing’; Discussion of issues for the future and linkages  – ALTA Business Plan and collaboration with CALD; ALTA Referee process.
3:30pm	Close of Conference