PROGRAMME AT A GLANCE
Tuesday 4 July 2006
5:00
7:30 Registration Desk Open
5:00
6:00
Convener Social Event-
hosted by VU and the ALTA Secretariat
(City
Flinders Street)
6:00-
onwards
Official Opening- Hosted by Thomson
Legal & Regulatory
Wednesday 5 July 2006
9:30
Conference Opening,
Justice Hon Marcia
Neave, Court of Appeal, Supreme Court of Victoria
9:45 11:00
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
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?
11:00-11:30 Morning
Tea
11:30 1:00 Interest
Group Sessions
1:00 2:30 Lunch, hosted by CCH Publishers
ALTA Executive Meeting
2:30 4:00 Interest
Group Sessions
4:00 5:30 ALTA Legal
Academic Job Network,
Convener: Professor Paul Moyle, ALTA Chairperson
5:00 5:30 Special
Interest Group session
Constitutional Law
5:30-
Onwards
Informal Publishers Dinner, hosted by Routledge-Cavendish
Law Publishers,
Old Melbourne Gaol
Ned Kelly and the Law in Literature and Film
Thursday 6
July 2006
9:30 11:00 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, School of Law,
University of Waikato, NZ, Host School 2005 ALTA
Conference
Mr Chris Holt, Publisher, Federation Press
Professor Richard Johnstone, Associate Dean
(Research), Griffith University
What do
changing definitions and rankings of research mean
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?
11:00 11:30 Morning
Tea
11:30 1:00 Interest
Group Sessions
1:00 2:30
Lunch, hosted by CCH publishers
ALTA AGM
2:30 4:00 Interest
Group Sessions
4:00-5:00 ALTA Future
Directions and Challenges in Legal Publishing,
Convener: Professor Michael Adams, ALTA Executive
Member
5:00-
Onwards
Formal Publishers Dinner, hosted by LexisNexis
Victoria Club, Rialto Towers
Friday 7 July 2006
9:30 11:00 Interest Group Sessions
11:00 11:30
Morning Tea
11:30 1:00 Plenary
Session: Educating Lawyers,
Chair: Professor
Roman Tomasic, School of Law, Victoria University
Keynote
Speaker: Professor Kathy Laster, Executive Director,
Victoria Law Foundation
Dr Peter Cashman, Consultant, Maurice Blackburn
Cashman, Lawyers (product liability and public
interest lawyer)
Mr Neville Carter, Managing Director, College of Law
(practical legal training)
Are the
technical and entrepreneurial demands of practice
increasing? Are cross-cultural sensibilities and
social responsibilities important, both in the
community and commercial sectors? What would a
contemporary curriculum include and what changes
would be needed to the current education and
training requirements at state and national levels?
1:00 2:30
Lunch
2:30 3:30 ALTA
Issues Session,
Chair: Professor Paul Moyle, ALTA Chairperson
ALTA
Executive Members Professor Michael Adams, Assoc
Professor Prue Vines, Andrew Tuch, Terry Hutchinson
and Professor David Barker AM
Professor Carl Monk, Association of American Law
Schools
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.
