Previous Conferences

 -2001 University of the South Pacific
 -2002 Murdoch University
 -2003 Griffith University
 -2004 Charles Darwin University
 -2005 The University of Waikato
 -2006 Victoria University
 -2007 University of Western Australia
- 2008 James Cook University, Cairns
 


 

 

 
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Programme

Sunday 6th July

Monday 7th July


Tuesday 8th July:

Interest Groups:

- Criminal Law
- Company Law
- Comparative and Asian Law
- Dispute Resolution
- Evidence and Procedure
- Indigenous Peoples and the Law
- Intellectual Property
- Law and Computers
- Law and Economics
- Law and Social Justice
- Law for Non Law Students
- Legal Education
- Legal History
- Legal Theory and Law in Context
- Revenue Law
- Torts and Contracts


Wednesday 9th July

Conference Re-cap

 
 

 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
2008 ALTA Conference

 
 

Tuesday 8th July 2008

Time:

 

8:00 - 5:00

Registration Desk open

 

9:00 - 11:00

Plenary Session:
Chair: Mr Jim Brooks, Solicitor and Mediator
 
"Challenges Facing Indigenous Communities Moving into the 21st Century."
Speaker: Mr Parry Agius, Executive Officer, Aboriginal Legal Rights Movement- Native Title Movement

"Welfare Reform Agenda on Cape York."
Speaker: Noel Pearson, Director, Cape York Institute for Policy and Leadership.

"Individual Versus Communal Property Rights: Future Challenges for Indigenous Communities."
Speaker: Ms Nicole Watson, Senior Researcher, Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning, University of Technology, Sydney.

 

11:00 –
11:30

  Morning Tea with the Exhibitors

11:30 – 1:00

Interest Groups Sessions

Legal Education: Lisa Westcott (Convener)

·
   Desmond Butler:
    
Air Gondwana: Teaching Basic Negotiation Skills Using 
     Multi-Platformed Multimedia.

·   Elfriede Sangkuhl:
    
E Learning - Are 'Old' Communication and Listening
     Skills being Devalued in the Pursuit of E Learning?

·   Jennifer Ireland:
     Podcasting in Law

Indigenous Peoples and the Law: Julie Cassidy (Convener)

·     Matiu Dickson:
Tikanga Law or Pa`keha Law? - The Fight to Rest in
Peace.

·    John Horsely and Kelvin Mataira:
Questioning Parliamentary Sovereignty: The (Mis)place of Indigenous Customary Law in Aotearoa New Zealand.

·     Prue Vines:
Making Wills for Indigenous People: Project Report.

Law and Computers: Alexandra Sims (Convener)

·    David Wishart:
Issues in Relation to Electronically Stored Evidence.

·    Feona Sayles:
The Extent of Protection Offered to Victims of Cyber-Stalking.

·    Sylvia Papadopoulos:
Revisiting the Public Disclosure of Private Facts in a
Cyber-World.

·   Alan Toy and Gehan Gunasekara:
Myspace or Public Space: the Relevance of Data Protection Laws to Online Social Networking.
 

Company Law: Anil Hargovan (Convener)

·    Josephine Coffey:
The 'Reasonable Investor'  Test Across Two Continents.

·    Margaret Hyland and Marina Nehme:
Houldsworth or not Houldsworth: That is the Question?

·     Meng Seng Wee:
Managing Contracts in Insolvent Liquidation.

·     Anil Hargovan:
The Concept of Centre of Main Interests Under Australian Cross-Border Insolvency Law Reform: An Analysis.
 

Torts and Contracts: Penelope Watson (Convener)

·    Jennifer Yule:
Tort of Negligent Investigation: Can the Existing Negligence Principles in Australia Accomodate It?

·    Andrew Hemming:
Distinguishing Fact from Comment for the Defence of Fair Comment in a Defamation Action. Is Defamation the 'Galapagos Islands Division' of the Australian Law of Torts?

·    Discussion
 

Dispute Resolution: Marliyn Scott (Convener)

·    Sean Johnson :
Regulation of Mediation Training and Education...Thin End of the Wedge or Just a Wedge?

·    Samantha Hardy:
How do the New National Mediator Standards Impact on the Teaching of Conflict Resolution?

·    Sean Johnson and Peter Raffles:
Mediator Professionalisation - Value Claiming ort Value Creating?

Law for Non Law Students: Patty Kamvounias (Convener)

·    David Parker:
Open Book Examination for Non Law Students, a Discussion.

·    Mathews Thomas:
Building Bridges and Closing Gaps: The Feasibility of Using Group Work as a Part of the Assessment Criteria to Teach Business Law - the Tutor's Dilemma.

·   Patricia Blazey, Michael Quilter and John Selby:
The Introduction of Multiple Choice Assessments in Large Student Cohort Subjects inn Business Law.

·   Michael Lambiris:
Techniques for Generating Computer-Based Feedback.

Law and Economics: John McGrath (Convener)

·    Rhett Martin:
Government Policy Imperatives - Recommendations from Research on the Law and Economics of Water.

·    Jenny Buchan:
Franchisor Insolvency, Franchise Agreements and Consumer Protection :a Dichotomy Between ex ante Contracting and ex post Performance.

·    John McGrath:
Unconscionable Conduct and Industry Codes: A New Dimension.

Legal History: Shane Sullivan (Convener)

 ·    Shane Sullivan:
A Secular Penance. The Newspaper Apology as a Method for Informal Resolution in Legal Disputes in the Kentish Gazette 1768 - 1820.

·    Trevor Daya-Winterbottom:
Amateur Justice in the 18th Century England: the Judicial Career of Sir Thomas Winterbottom.    

·    Michael Josling:
Marriage Brocage Contracts.

Revenue Law: Robin Woellner (Convener)

·    Andrew Maples:
The Non-Disclosure Right in New Zealand - Lessons for Australia.

·    Mark Keating and Audrey Sharp:
Tax Treatment of Environmental Protection in New Zealand.

·   Michael Walpole:
Taxing Virtual Profits.

Legal Theory and Law in Context/ Constitutional Law: Michael Head (Convener)

·    Gonzalo Villalta Puig:
The Constitutionality of Parliamentary Prayers.

·    Helen Sungaila and Alex McEwan:
As to Any Climate Change: Is It Not Time That We Academic Lawyers Cease to Pose the Question and to Begin to Provide the Answer?

1:00 – 2:00

 Lunch with the Exhibitors

2:00 - 3:00

 ALTA Annual General Meeting
 

3:00 - 3:30 Afternoon Tea with the Exhibitors

3:30 – 5:00

Interest Groups Sessions

Legal Education: Lisa Westcott (Convener)

·
     Sally Kift, Rachel Field and Ian Wells:
     
A Proposal for the Curriculum Renewal in the Final
      Year of Legal Education: Drawing on Synergies with
      the First Year Experience for a FYE2.

·    Wendy Larcombe, Pip Nicholson and Ian Malkin:
Findings from an Empirical Study of Commencing Law Students Expectations.

·    Nikki Bromberger and Marina Nehme:
Emotional Aspects of Learning and Related Consequences of Face to Face Classes Moving Online.

Indigenous Peoples & the Law: Julie Cassidy (Convener)

·    Julie Cassidy:
The Stolen Generations and the "G" Word.

·    Chris Davies:
Racism and Sport.

·   Bridget Lewis:
Indigenous Human Rights and Climate Change.
 

Criminal Law: Mandy Shircore (Convener)

·    Kelley Burton:
Developing a Contextual Approach to Implied Consent in a Visual Recording Environment: Climate for Changing the Criminal Law.

·    Malcolm Barrett
Homicide and the Excuse of Accident: Reform, Abolish or Retain?

·   Gerald McGinley :
Criminal Responsibility for Emotional Acts - The Case for Provocation.

·    Andrew Hemming:
Mr Adamson Goes to Berrimah: An Opportunity to Review the Offence of False Accounting in Australian Criminal Law Jurisdictions.

Company Law: Anil Hargovan (Convener)

·    Janine Pascoe:
Corporate Sector Whistleblowing in Australia: Ethics and Corporate Culture.

·    James Mayanja:
The Proper Role of Shareholders in the Public Governance of Australian Public Companies.

·    Marina Nehme, Michael Adams and Catherine Gordon:
E-Learning in Corporate Law: The Value-Add of Online Resources.

Comparative and Asian Law: Vivienne Bath (Convener)

·    Masudul Haque AKM:
Emergency Powers and Caretaker Government in Bangladesh.

·    Andrew Byrnes:
All Promise Dashed? International Law, the Death Penalty and the Indonesian Constitutional Court.

·    David Price:
The "Golden Thread" - Shariah Law and Intellectual Property Protection.

Revenue Law: Robin Woellner (Convener)

·    Robin Woellner:
"Will No-one Rid Me of this Troublesome Debt?" - Directors' Liability for Unremitted PAYG.

·   Michael Blissenden:
The Implications of the White Industries Case on Accessing Documents Held by Accountants.

·    John Bevacqua:
The Plaintiff-Proof Fence: The Justiciability of Activities of the Commissioner of Taxation.

Evidence and Procedure: Wayne Rumbles (Convener)

·    Helen Sungalia and Angela Sungalia:
On Being the Forensic, Expert Witness: An Analysis of Medico-Legal Interface Experience in the Rape Trial.     

·    John Anderson:
'Identification Evidence - Proof and Doubt': An Experiential Teaching Strategy to Promote Deep Analytical Understanding Combined with Development of Practical Legal Skills.

·    Caroline Heske:
The Curious Incident of the Third Standard of Proof in Briginshaw.

Law and Social Justice: Elfriede Sangkuhl (Convener)

·    Scott Mann:
What is Distributive Justice?

·    Michael Head:
Calling Out the Troops: the Australian Military, 'Domestic Violence' and the 'War on Terror'.

·    Terry Hutchinson:
A Snapshot of the Qld Legal Workplace and the Implications for Legal Education.

·    Sally Varnham and Joan Squelch:
Responsibilities, Rights and Regulation - Three R's of Education: A Consideration of the State's Control Over Parental Choice in Education.

Intellectual Property: Susan Corbett (Convener)

·    Alexandra Sims:
Justifying the Fair Dealing Exceptions in Copyright Law.

·    Mark Bender:
Google BookSearch: Pirates of the Collection? Worlds End?

·    Susan Corbett:
Creative Commons Licences - A Symptom or a Cause?

Law for Non-Law Students: Patty Kamvounias (Convener)

·    Helen Murphy and Tao Bak:
Community of Practice Project

·    Jennifer Butler, Kristy Richardson and Eric Holm:
Pedagogical Challenges of Teaching Law to Non Law Students.

·    Catrina Di Battista:
The Application of Theory in Multiple Intelligences to Business/Commercial Law Courses

·    Susan Fitzpatrick, Michael Adams and Mac Collings:
Student Feedback Helps to Re-Design First Year Law Subject.

 

5:00

Close of Day Two

7:00-10:30

Conference Dinner at Tjapukai Aboriginal Cultural Park