The Law School at the University of Adelaide is delighted to announce a
major new conference focussing on research in law by early career
researchers.
Early career researchers encompass those at the very beginning of their research career,
postgraduate research students and those who have completed their PhD not more than
five years ago.
The conference New Researchers, New Research will be held at the National Wine
Centre of Australia, University of Adelaide, on Thursday September 30 and on Friday
October 1, 2004. In keeping with its theme, the conference will have a dual focus.
In New Researchers, the conference will feature sessions tailored to postgraduate and
early career researchers focussing on developing research skills and obtaining research
grants, taken by leading legal researchers from around Australia.
In New Research, the conference will feature presentations on current research in a
variety of legal disciplines in parallel sessions. The aim is to encourage new researchers to
present their research in a supportive environment and enable them to benefit from
feedback from other new researchers as well as from select research leaders in their field.
All participants are strongly encouraged to submit abstracts and give a presentation on
their research.
Call for Registrations:
Registrations are due by September 10, and should be made on the Registration Form
available from the website. Late registrations will be accommodated only if space permits.
Paper Competition
The Paper Competition associated with the conference has now been judged. We were
very pleased with the number of entries received, and the judges have informed us that the
papers submitted were of a very high standard overall. The Conference Committee
extends its very great thanks to Professor Adrian Bradbrook, Dr Judith Gardam, Andrew
Ligertwood and Rosemary Owens for devoting substantial amounts of time to judge our
Paper Competition. The Paper Competition could not have taken place without the
generosity of these eminent academics in giving us their time and expertise.
New Researchers, New Research
A Conference for Early Career Researchers in Law
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Program:
The conference will commence at 10:30am on Thursday 30 September 2004 and will run
all day on Friday 1 October, with an optional winery tour on Saturday 2 October. The
program highlights are as follows:
On Thursday 30 September the following plenary session will be held:
First Draft, Second Draft: Evaluating Feedback On Your Research
Professor Wilfrid Prest and Dr John Emerson
The key process in all research is writing it up and getting a supervisor or a senior
colleague to read and comment. This session aims to assist you to identify relevant
comments and disregard the rest, so that your next draft really will improve.
Reception
On the evening of Thursday 30 September, the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) of the
University of Adelaide, Professor Neville Marsh, will host a reception to welcome
delegates at the National Wine Centre of Australia.
On Friday 1 October the following plenary sessions will be held:
Inside the ARC Grants Process - Opportunities and Strategies for New Legal
Researchers
Professor Graeme Hugo & Professor Margaret Thornton
Our eminent presenters will share the benefits of their extensive experience on the ARC‟s
Humanities Panel, addressing their remarks particularly to funding opportunities for new
researchers and strategies for successful grant applications.
"If I Knew Then What I Know Now": Eminent Researchers Share their
Wisdom
Panel discussion featuring Professors Adrian Bradbrook, Geoffrey Lindell, Jane Stapleton
and Margaret Thornton who will provide their practical tips for successful research.
Targeted Parallel Sessions:
For Post-docs:
Life after PhD: Academic Career or Legal Practice?
Dr Melissa Perry and Dr John Williams
For Current Researchers:
Romancing the Examiners: How to Write a Thesis in Law
Professor Jane Stapleton & Dr Alex Wawryk
For Prospective Researchers:
To PhD or not to PhD: Why do a Research Degree in law?
David Wright & Matthew Stubbs
New Researchers, New Research
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Dinner
Our conference dinner will be on Friday 1 October. The venue is Lemongrass Thai Bistro
in the heart of Adelaide‟s premier dining and entertainment precinct, Rundle Street East.
The restaurant is BYO, promises all the food you can eat, and will happily handle any
dietary requirements (these must be advised at registration).
This will not be „another conference dinner‟ – at $26 per person (including GST) the food
is excellent value; the large private dining room will be a great spot to mingle, relax and
unwind after the conference; we have a banquet menu to cater to all tastes (see below);
and our after-dinner speaker will be brilliant, funny and mercifully brief.
For once, a conference dinner to look forward to!
Entrees
Chicken, Prawn and Crab Spring Rolls
Salt and Pepper Squid
Satay Chicken with Peanut Sauce
Mains
Lemongrass Prawns with Spicy Vegetables
Green Curry Vegetables and Tofu
Beef with Cashew Nuts and Vegetables
Basil Chicken with Seasonal Vegetables
Rundle Seasonal Vegetables
Pud Me with Chicken, Egg and Sprouts
Steamed Rice
Coffee or tea
Winery Tour
There will be an optional tour on Saturday 2 October to the outstanding Adelaide Hills
wine region. This tour will be a great opportunity to network with other new researchers
from around Australia in a relaxed environment.
We will depart the Law School at 9:30am, heading first to Chain of Ponds winery, then on
to Hahndorf Hill Wines. After a relaxing lunch (venue to be determined, not included in
price), we will head to the famous Bridgewater Mill for a final wine tasting, before taking
in the views over Adelaide from Mt Lofty Summit on our way to a drop-off at Adelaide
Airport by 3:15pm to enable participants from interstate to fly home at a reasonable time,
returning to the Law School by 4:00pm.
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Biographical Information about our Speakers
First Draft, Second Draft: Evaluating Feedback On Your Research
Wilfrid Prest BA, DPhil, FRHistS, FASSA is a historian with special interest in law and
the legal profession. After teaching for longer than he cares to remember in the
Department of History at the University of Adelaide (with remissions for good behaviour
at Oxford, Cambridge, Canberra and Princeton), he is now based in the Law School,
where he holds an ARC Australian Professorial Fellowship for his project on the life and
work of Sir William Blackstone, author of the Commentaries on the Laws of England.
John Emerson BA(Hons), DEA (Paris-III), PhD is a Visiting Research Fellow with the
University of Adelaide's Law School. John has published articles in Australia, France,
Belgium, United Kingdom and United States. He is working on two books, South
Australian Chief Justices since Federation and History of the South Australian
Independent Bar. He hopes to finish these by the end of 2004 and begin a full-length
biography of poet and former Chief Justice John Bray.
Inside the ARC Grants Process - Opportunities and Strategies for New Legal
Researchers
Graeme Hugo BA(Hons), MA, PhD, FASSA, is a Professor in the Department of
Geographical and Environmental Studies at the University of Adelaide and Director of the
National Centre for Social Applications of Geographical Information Systems. He is the
author of over two hundred books, articles in scholarly journals and chapters in books, as
well as a large number of conference papers and reports. Professor Hugo is a past
president of the Australian Population Association, and has been involved at a high level
with the National Population Council and the International Union for the Scientific Study
of Population. He is Chair of the Australian Research Council‟s Expert Advisory
Committee on the Social, Behavioural and Economic Sciences and of the Linkage
International Committee. He currently serves on ARC committees assessing Federation
Fellowships and Research Network applications and serves on the joint ARC/NH&MRC
Committee on Ethics. He has 9 years‟ experience serving on ARC committees. In 2002,
Professor Hugo was awarded an ARC Federation Fellowship worth $1.125 million for his
five-year project The new paradigm of international migration to and from Australia:
dimensions, causes and implications.
Margaret Thornton BA(Hons), LLB, LLM (Yale), FASSA, has been Professor of Law
and Legal Studies at La Trobe University, Melbourne, since 1990. Her research interests
are in the areas of citizenship, discrimination jurisprudence, legal education, the legal
profession and feminist legal theory. Her present research project is entitled „The Neo-
Liberal Legal Academy‟ and is funded by an ARC (Discovery) Grant. Her most recent
book is an edited collection, Romancing the Tomes: Popular Culture, Law and Feminism
(Cavendish, London, 2002). She was a member of the Social Sciences and Humanities
Discipline Panel, ARC 1994-96, a member of the ARC (Council) 1998-99, and a member
of the ARC Appeals Committee 1999-2000.
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"If I Knew Then What I Know Now…": Eminent Researchers Share their
Wisdom
Adrian Bradbrook MA, PhD (Cambridge), LLM (Osgoode Hall), PhD, LLD
(Melbourne) is Bonython Professor of Law and a former Dean of the Law School at the
University of Adelaide. He has held visiting academic appointments at universities in
Poitiers (France), Mannheim and Marburg (Germany), Colorado (USA), Calgary (Canada)
and Hong Kong. In 2003 he was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Laws from the
University of Mannheim. His specialties are the Law of Property and Minerals and Energy
Law, in which he has published widely. Professor Bradbrook is a part-time member of the
Residential Tenancies Tribunal, and is the Deputy Chair of the IUCN Commission on
Environmental Law‟s Committee on Energy and Climate Change and a member of the
Board of Directors of the International Energy Foundation.
Geoffrey Lindell is an Adjunct Professor of Law at the Adelaide and Australian National
Universities and a Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne. Before his recent
retirement as a full time academic, he held senior academic positions at the Australian
National University and later the University of Melbourne. He has taught and published
widely in the field of Australian constitutional law. He has assisted in some major reviews
of the Australian Constitution, as well as having provided (and continues to provide) legal
and constitutional advice to governments and parliaments. He also appeared as counsel in
two major High Court constitutional cases, Fencott v Muller (1983) and McGinty v Western
Australia (1995). He was, until recently, the inaugural Secretary of the Australian
Association of Constitutional Law, a body he helped to form.
Jane Stapleton BSc, PhD, LLB, DPhil (Oxford), originally trained as a scientist before
resigning a postdoctoral post at Cambridge University to study law at the Australian
National University and then at Oxford University. From 1987-1997, she taught at Balliol
College, Oxford (where she remains a Fellow). She is currently Professor in the Law
Program of the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University,
Statutory Visiting Professor at Oxford University, the Ernest E Smith Professor of Law at
the University of Texas, and an Academic Associate at Fountain Court Chambers in the
Temple. Professor Stapleton is also a Commonwealth Fellow of the British Institute of
International and Comparative Law, and a Member of the American Law Institute. Her
interests cover the law of obligations, liability and compensation systems, ranging from
product liability to philosophical foundations of the common law such as causation, duty
and good faith. She has held Visiting Professorships in the USA and at the European
University Institute, and has acted as consultant in major commercial, pharmaceutical and
medical litigation in the United Kingdom, United States and Australia.
Margaret Thornton – see details above.
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Life after PhD: Academic Career or Legal Practice?
Melissa Perry holds an Honours degree in Law from the University of Adelaide, and the
degrees of Master of Law and PhD from the University of Cambridge. Her doctorate was
in the area of international law on the subject of state succession and boundaries, and was
awarded the Yorke Prize. She has practiced at the South Australian bar since 1992 and has
a national practice in constitutional law, native title, administrative law and international
law, appearing primarily in the Federal Court and High Court. She regularly publishes in
her fields and delivers papers at local and national conferences. She is also co-author of
Australian Native Title Law with Stephen Lloyd which was published late last year with
Thomson‟s Law Book Co. In addition to practising at the bar, she held a visiting research
fellowship with the Australian National University last year and presently holds a like
position with the University of Adelaide.
John Williams BA(Hons), LLB, PhD is a Reader in Law at the Australian National
University and former Associate Dean of Research at the University of Adelaide Law
School. He is admitted as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of New South Wales. Dr
Williams is a specialist in Australian constitutional law and legal history, and has taught
and published widely in these areas. He founded and is co-editor of The New Federalist:
The Journal of Australian Federation History, and has been a member of the Council of
the Australian Association of Constitutional Law since its inception. John‟s current 3-year
project is funded by an ARC (Discovery) Grant and is titled The High Court of Australia:
A Biographical Study.
Romancing the Examiners: How to Write a Thesis in Law
Alex Wawryk received First Class degrees in Economics and Law, and a PhD in Law,
from the University of Adelaide, Australia. Her PhD thesis, entitled, “The Protection of
Indigenous Peoples‟ Traditional Lands from Oil Exploitation in Emerging Economies,”
won the Bonython Prize for Best Original Postgraduate Thesis in 2002. She is a lecturer at
the University of Adelaide in the subjects Environmental Law, Minerals and Energy Law,
and Contract Law. She is a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of South Australia,
and is a member of the Law Society of South Australia‟s Planning, Environment and
Local Government Committee. Dr Wawryk has published articles in a number of journals,
including the Journal of Energy and Natural Resources Law, the University of New South
Wales Law Journal, the Melbourne University Law Review, the Australasian Journal of
Natural Resources Law and Policy and the Environmental and Planning Law Journal.
Jane Stapleton – see details above.
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To PhD or not to PhD: Why do a Research Degree in law?
Matthew Stubbs BFin, BEc, HonsLLB, GDLP is presently Joyner Scholar in Law at the
University of Adelaide and is working on his PhD in Australian Constitutional Law.
Matthew teaches Introduction to Australian Law and is a Barrister and Solicitor of the
Supreme Court of South Australia and the High Court of Australia. His research interests
are in the areas of constitutional law and international human rights.
David Wright BEc, LLB(Hons), LLM is Senior Lecturer and Associate Dean of Research
in the Law School at the University of Adelaide. David lectures in Equity, Commercial
Equity and Remedies, and has published a number of books including The Remedial
Constructive Trust, and is the author of a numerous articles in refereed journals in these
areas. He is also co-editor of the Adelaide Law Review, and submitted his PhD in June
2004.
Conference Committee:
The Conference Organising Committee consists of staff, PhD students and PhD graduates
from the University of Adelaide, and is chaired by Cornelia Koch, who is joined by Laura
Grenfell, Bernadette Richards, Jenny Richards, Matthew Stubbs and Dr Alex Wawryk.
Sponsors:
This conference would not be possible without the generous
support of the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Adelaide,
Professor James McWha and of Professor Fred McDougall,
Executive Dean, Faculty of the Professions, University of
Adelaide.
Thanks also to our external sponsors...
Petaluma Wines Thomson Legal and Regulatory LexisNexis
The Conference Organising Committee is extremely grateful for their support.
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Law School, The University of Adelaide
The Law School at the University of Adelaide was established in 1883. For over 120
years, we have been at the heart of the South Australian legal community. We are
delighted to be building on this tradition of excellence by looking to the next generation of
legal researchers and supporting cutting edge legal research in the New Researchers, New
Research conference.
More information about the Law School at the University of Adelaide is available at
http://www.law.adelaide.edu.au/.
Travel
Adelaide has a major international airport with direct flights from all capital cities and a
number of regional centres, and is served by rail links to Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Alice
Springs and Darwin. For more information on travel to and within South Australia, visit
www.SouthAustralia.com.
Accommodation
There is no residential accommodation on campus at the University of Adelaide, and the
University's residential colleges are not able to offer accommodation for this conference.
Adelaide has a wide range of accommodation, ranging from the excellent Adelaide
Central YHA at around $20 per night, through cabin-style accommodation at the Adelaide
Caravan Park, to a range of apartments and luxury hotels. More information on
accommodation in Adelaide is available at www.SouthAustralia.com.
Further Information
The conference website at http://www.law.adelaide.edu.au/research/conference.html will
be updated regularly with the latest news, including a full program once it is available.
For further information, please contact the Conference Committee by email
lawnrnr@adelaide.edu.au or by telephone (08) 8303 5713.
We look forward to seeing you in Adelaide!
New Researchers, New Research
A Conference for Early Career Researchers in Law
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