Monday 24^th September

Time:
8.45am -9.15am	Late Registration, Banquet Hall Foyer and Morning Gathering, Banquet Hall, The University Club of Western Australia
9.15am -11.15am	Opening Remarks: Auditorium: The Hon Jim McGinty, MLA, Attorney General and Minister for Health Professor Bill Ford, Dean, Faculty of Law, UWA Plenary Session 1, Auditorium: Speaker: The Hon Robert French  Judge of the Federal Court “Law and Public Policy: A View from the Bench” and   Professor David Weisbrot President, Australian Law Reform Commission “Public Policy and Law Reform”
11.15am - 11.45am	BREAK FOR MORNING TEA, Banquet Hall
11.45am - 1.15pm	Concurrent Interest Group Sessions Clinical Legal Education: Frances Gibson (La Trobe) (Alternate Convener) ·      Frances Gibson (La Trobe) Aging, Disadvantage and Consumer Credit Issues- Involving Students in Research ·      Robert Hayes & Francine Feld (UWS) Advocacy Training Kit: An Exercise For Students in Self-Directed, Experiential and Blended Learning Torts & Contract (1):  Penelope Watson (Macquarie Uni) (Convener) ·      Des Butler (QUT) Jane Doe v. ABC and Media Liability for Disclosing Personal Information: Four more Bold Steps.. in Four Different Directions ·      Prue Vines (UNSW) Nervous Shock in Employment: the hard line High Court ·      Ian Henry (VU) Vicarious Liability and the Non-Delegable Duty- A Tale of Two Principles ·     Mandy Shircore & Malcom Barrett (James Cook) Drink if you dare: The Civil and Criminal Consequences for the Victim of Intentional Drink Spiking Criminal Law (1): Ian Dobinson (UTS) (Convener) ·     Ian Dobinson & Lesley Townsley (UTS) The Not So Ordinary, Reasonable Person or the Man from Clapham Just got off the Bus. ·      Kelley Burton (QUT) Taming the unruly criminal law: Where do you draw the boundaries of criminal conduct? Dispute Resolution:  Marilyn Scott (UTS) (Convener) ·      Geoffrey Fisher (QUT) Discovery of Documents Between Parties in International Commercial Arbitration ·      Samantha Hardy (La Trobe) Teaching Mediation as Reflective Practice ·     David Spencer and Samantha Hardy (Macquarie and La Trobe) Online Negotiation as a Teaching Tool Jurisprudence & Legal Philosophy: Michelle Sanson (UTS)  (Convener) ·      Michael Head (UWS) Exploring the Enigma(s) of Evgeny Pashukanis Law & Social Justice, Discrimination & Equal Opportunity & Gender Issues (1): Luke McNamara (Macquarie Uni) (Alternate Convener) ·      Paul  Babie (University of Adelaide) Property and Life: The Importance of Spatial Dimension ·     Paula Darvas and Eu-Jin Teo (Monash) 'Labour is not a Commodity': Work 'Choices', Rhetoric, Reality and the limits of Australian Constitutional Law Intellectual Property (1): Natalie Stoianoff (University of Wollongong) (Convener) ·     Elizabth Adeney (Deakin) Moral Rights Action: Meskenas v ACP Publishing Pty Ltd ·     Susan Corbett and Yvonne Van Roy (Victoria University of Wellington) Events Management in New Zealand: One Law to Rule Them All? ·      Geoffrey Hart (USYD) Copyright as Intellectual Property ·      Sarah Hinchcliffe The Impact of the EU- Australian Wine Agreement and TRIPS on Australian Wine Law and Trade Environmental Law (1): Sharon Mascher &  Alex Gardner (UWA) (Alternate Conveners) ·     Caroline Hart (USQ) Identification and discussion of the requirements for an effective carbon trading regime in Australia ·      Laura Horn (UWS) 'Intragenerational Equity' a Key Concept in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change ·      Kenneth Palmer (University of Auckland) Wind Power Consents in New Zealand Ethics & the Legal Profession: Duncan Webb (University of Canterbury) (Convener) ·    Michael Robertson (Griffith Law School) Planning for pervasive ethics learning in the law curriculum ·      Gonzalo Villalta Puig ( La Trobe) The Teaching Of Legal Ethical Judgement ·      Duncan Webb (University of Canterbury) Are Lawyers Regulateable?
1.15pm - 2.15pm	BREAK FOR LUNCH, Banquet Hall
2.15pm -3.15pm	Plenary Session 2, Auditorium Speaker:  Professor of Public Law, Carol Harlow, London School of Economics  “Changing Worlds: Law and Social Policy in an Age of Globalisation”
3.15pm - 3.45pm	BREAK FOR AFTERNOON TEA, Banquet Hall
3.45pm -5.15pm	Concurrent Interest Group Sessions Legal Education (1): Samantha Hardy (La Trobe) (Convener) ·    Michael Blissenden (UWS) Legal Education Today: Teaching to Engage Law Students ·      Michelle Sanson (UTS) Piloting the Use of the YouTube Genre as Teaching Aids in Law. ·     Des Butler (QUT) The Contracts Vignettes: Cost-Effective podcasting producing quality learning outcomes in first year Contract Law Law & Medicine (1): Debbie Wilson (Massey University) (Alternate Convener) ·   Katrina George (UWS) Regulating Voluntary Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide ·      Debra Wilson (Massey) Legal Implications of Chemical Castration of Sex Offenders in Criminal Law ·      Robert Hayes (UWS) Mental Illness and Dangerousness: Why the Danger Criterion in Mental Health Research and Training Centre Criminal Law (2): Ian Dobinson (UTS) (Convener) ·    Dennis Baker (UWS) Criminal Harmdoing and Consent ·      Andrew Hemming (CDU) Sexual Offences: Aboriginal Children ·      Jennifer Yule (QUT) Is the Victim To Blame? Current Issues with Regards the Defences of Provocation and Self-Defence in the Criminal Law Context. Practical Legal Training: Paul Rogers (UWS) (Alternate Convener) ·    Paul Rogers (UWS) Placement in PLT: A Thoroughbred or just a Hack? ·      Lynn DuMoulin (ANU) Influencing public policy and the law: lawyers at the intersection of policy, law, administration and politics ·      Daniel Stepniak (UWA) Placements: Much more than an alternative form of assessment Law & Social Justice, Discrimination & Equal Opportunity and Gender Issues & the Law (2): Luke McNamara (Macquarie University) (Alternate Convener) ·   Helen Hodgson &  Rebecca Boden (UNSW & University of Wales) Not So Distant Cousins Family Benefits in Australia and the UK ·      Michael Head (UWS) Calling out the Troops: The Australian military, 'domestic' violence' and the 'war on terror' ·      Francesca Bartlett (UQ) Model Advocates or a Model for Change? Intellectual Property (2): Natalie Stoianoff (University of Wollongong) (Convener) ·    Jani McCutcheon ( UWA) Parody or Satire Defence ·      David Price (CDU) All the Colours of the Rainbow: A Review of Recent Judicial Decisions in Respect of the Registration of Certain Colours as Trade Marks ·      Alexandra Sims (University of Auckland) The Handmaiden and the Whipping Boy: The Courts' Use of Public Policy in Limiting Copyright Protection Law & Computers: Alexandra Sims ( University of Auckland) (Convener) ·      John Selby (Macquarie) A New Institutional Economics Analysis of the Governance of the .au Domain Name Space Environmental Law (2): Sharon Mascher & Alex Gardner (UWA) (Alternate Conveners) ·    Trevor Daya- Winterbottom (University of Waikato) Climate Change, Harmonisation, and Public Policy ·      Mark Tranter ( USQ) Dealing with public concern in planning and environment matters Law & Economics: Anthony Gray (USQ) (Convener) ·    John McGrath (UWS) An unruly Horse Begins to Gallop: An Uncertain Future for Australian Insolvency Law ·      Anthony Gray (USQ) The Commonwealth's Trade and Commerce Power Legal History: Shane Sullivan (UQ) (Alternate Convener) ·    David Barker (UTS) The influence of Private Acts on the development of infrastructure of local communities in the United Kingdom ·    Shane Sullivan (UQ) Violence, local magistrates and the informal law 1700- 1833
7.00pm -10.00pm	Conference Dinner Frasers Restaurant, Kings Park, Perth