Research Bulletin
No. 40 December-January 2005/6
Welcome to the Research Bulletin for December and January.
In this edition, you will find the latest information on
staff publications, media appearances, and upcoming seminars
and conferences.
TC Beirne School of Law
Journal Publications
Aroney, Nicholas, 2005. Lost in Translation: From Political Communi-
cation to legal communication? The University of New South Wales Law
Journal 28(3) p 833
Aroney, Nicholas, 2005. Law Revolution and Religion: Harold Berg-
man’s Intepretation of the English Revolution, Journal of Markets and
Mortality 8(2) p 355
Chapple, Larelle, Christensen, Blake, 2005. The non-binding vote
on executive pay: a review of the CLERP 9 reform, Australian Journal of
Corporate law, 18, p 263-287
Chapple, Larelle, Cheung, Ernest, 2005. Disclosure of proxy voting
information by Australian managed investment schemes,
Australian Accounting Review, p 75-83
Devereux John, 2005. Review, Law of Tort (9th ed) by PSA Pillai
(revised by A Singh) Singapore Journal of Legal Studies, July, p 301
Fletcher, Keith, 2005. Hotel Partnership: Managing partners duties
of diligence, care and skill - indemnity and contribution, Australian Law
Journal, 79, p760-762
Schloenhardt, Andreas, 2005. Transnational Organised Crime and
International Law: The Palermo Convention, Criminal Law Journal, 29(6)
December, p340-354
PhD Completions
Baird, Rachel, 2006. Regional and national initiatives to deter
illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing in the Southern Ocean in the
absence of effective flag state enforcement.
Advisor: Professor Gillian Triggs, The University of Melbourne
Murugesan, Suppiah, 2005. Singapore’s Constitutional Model of Prag-
matic Governance - A Study of its Emergence, its Institutional Structure
and its Sustainability. Principal Advisor: Professor Suri Ratnapala,
Associate Advisor, Dr Reid Mortensen, The University of Queensland
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Book Chapters
Corrin Care Jennifer, 2005. For better or worse marriage and Divorce
Laws Solomon Islands, International Survey of Family Law, International
Society of Family law, Bristol, UK, pp483-501
Conference Papers and Seminars
TC Beirne School of Law
Aroney, Nicholas, 2005. Justice McHugh and Representative Democ-
racy, Public Law Weekend Conference: A Working Constitution?, National
Museum of Australia, Canberra, 11-12 November
Aroney, Nicholas, 2005. The Constitutional (In)validity of Religious
Vilification Laws: Implications for their Interpretation, Religious Tolerance
Laws: A Challenge to Our Freedom of Speech and Religion Conference,
Melbourne, 3 December
Chapple, Larelle, 2005. Regulation of the Board Nomination Process
and Shareholder Access, Financial Integrity Research Network Corporate
Governance Seminar, RMIT, Melbourne, 21 November
Corrin Care, Jennifer, Walker, Polly, 2005. Issues in South Pacific
Training, CPICL Research Seminar, TC Beirne School of Law, 11 Novem-
ber
Corrin Care, Jennifer, Walker, Polly, 2006. Issues in South Pacific
Training, Australia in the Pacific Conference, QUT, 25 January
Forrest, Craig, 2005. Perspectives from the Southern Hmisphere; Aus-
tralia and South Africa (by video link) The UNESCO Convention on the
Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage 2001: Taking the Conven-
tion Forward, English Heritage and Society of Antiquaries of London Burl-
ing House, Picadilly, London, Friday 28th October
O’Shea Paul, 2005. The new code of Banking Practice as it Applies
to Small Business, Queensland Law Society Property Law Conference,
2005, Friday 18 November, Rydges Hotel, Southbank
Stephenson, Margaret, 2005. A Critique of Queensland’s Indigenous
Cultural Heritage Legislation, Australasian Property Law Teachers Confer-
ence in Vanuatu, December
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Grants
Consumer Law Advice Clinic, $25,000.
Funded by the Consumer Credit Fund. The grant will be used to fund the
cost of seconding a solicitor from Clayton Utz to ontinue supervising the
six students from UQ Law School who do a clinical legal education course
through the clinic.
TC Beirne School of Law
Media and Other Appearances
White, Michael, 2005. ABC Radio Australia, Fijian and Tongan dispute
over the claim to the Minerva Reef, 30 November
School Seminar Program
The Seminar Series has a dedicated page on the law school website;
please check this site for latest details
http://www.law.uq.edu.au/events
Calls for Papers and Abstracts
Journal
Indigenous Law Journal
Please visit site:
http://www.indigenouslawjournal.org/submit.htm
Media & Arts Law Review
The Media & Arts Law Review is a quarterly, refereed journal examining
all areas of media and arts law. The MALR publishes independently ref-
ereed articles from Australian and international authors as well as con-
ference reports and book reviews, on topics such as digital communica-
tions, contempt of court, copyright, defamation, free speech, journalism,
privacy and the public interest.
From 2006, the MALR will be available in full text on LexisNexis interna-
tionally, as well as in paper format, ensuring that it reaches the widest
legal audience.
The MALR welcomes submissions of articles for publication in 2006.
Please discuss any queries with the MALR’s editor,
Andrew Kenyon: a.kenyon@unimelb.edu.au.
You can read more about the MALR at the Centre for Media and Commu-
nications Law, University of Melbourne:
http://www.law.unimelb.edu.au/cmcl
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Commercial Law Journal
Publishing in early 2006, the Commercial Law Journal will focus on a
range of commercial law issues of relevance to legal and accounting
practitioners and academics, and to those working in the financial plan-
ning and financial services are.
TC Beirne School of Law
Articles in the Journal will include corporations law, contract law, taxa-
tion, intellectual property, corporate governance, and securities and in-
vestment law. The editorial team, based in the School of Accounting and
Law at RMIT University are calling for submission of papers for consider-
ation for the Journal. The Journal seeks contributions in three categories:
Refereed articles Original contributions which have neither been pub-
lished nor submitted to another publication and which are to undergo a
formal process of peer review before publication. Current developments
Book reviews and discussion on recent cases, legislation, exposure drafts
and other matters of interest. Shorter articles On topical matters of in-
terest to lawyers, accountants and financial advisers which are not to be
refereed. Estimated length up to 2500 words.
Please submit to the editor at editor.clj@rmit.edu.au. Contributors
should use the Australian Guide to Legal Citation, available online at
http://mulr.law.unimelb.edu.au/mulr/aglc.htm
Conferences or Seminars
Invited Papers
Monash University, Prato, 2006
In June-July 2006, Monash University Law School will host this conference
which will explore the legal and medical issues raised by “querulous” or
“vexatious” people, described as those who pursue their grievance beyond
reasonable bounds.
Confirmed speakers include (among others):
Rt Hon Lord Woolf
Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales
Hon Justice Diana Bryant
Chief Justice, Family Court of Australia
Professor John McMillan
Ombudsman, Commonwealth of Australia
Prato, Italy
30 June - 1 July 2006
Papers are Invited: Please visit the website
http://www.law.monash.edu.au/conference/prato/
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Passages: Law, Aesthetics, Politics
13-14 July 2006.
University of Melbourne Law School.
TC Beirne School of Law
PASSAGES will bring together interdisciplinary scholars working across
several media and genres – including photography, film, literature, paint-
ing, digital technologies – and working more broadly at the intersections
of law and aesthetics.
OFFERS OF PAPERS AND PANELS ARE NOW INVITED. The deadline for
abstracts is MONDAY 1 MAY 2006. The conference will have both ref-
ereed and non-refereed contributions. For refereed contributions, full
papers must be submitted with your abstract.
PASSAGES is organised by Andrew Kenyon, Peter Rush and Alison Young
at the University of Melbourne and hosted by the Faculty of Law, its
Centre for Media and Communications Law, and the Law and Literature
Association of Australia.
Full details about abstracts, papers, registration, travel and
accommodation will be available on the conference website soon:
see http://www.law.unimelb.edu.au/cmcl.
Further enquiries to the conference organisers at law-cmcl@unimelb.edu.
au.
Until this date, we are seeking both academic abstracts and practitioner
presentations.
http://www.public-policy.unimelb.edu.au/conference06/call.
html
For more information about this exciting event, please visit the confer-
ence website, or email: lrose@unimelb.edu.au.
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Calls for Attendance
ACSANZ Conference 2006
Canada and Australasia:
globalisation, nations, cultures and
borders
TC Beirne School of Law
The Association for Canadian Studies in Australia and New Zealand
(ACSANZ) is pleased to announce its 2006 Conference, to be held at the
University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand from 11-13 April. ACSANZ
is a multidisciplinary association with membership across the humanities
and the social sciences. We always welcome new members.
Our 2006 ACSANZ Conference is entitled, “Canada and Australasia: glo-
balization, nations, cultures and borders.”
The convenor is Dr David MacDonald of the University of Otago, School
of Political Science. Email: david.macdonald@stonebow.otago.ac.nz
http://homepage.powerup.com.au/~acsanz/index.html
Australasian Law Reform Agencies Conference,
‘The Business of Law Reform’ and ‘Peering Over the Horizon’
Sydney, 10 -12 April 2006,
Manly Pacific Hotel
Email: conference@alrc.gov.au
Emerging Issues in Tort Law: A Conference
The University of Western Ontario
On June 9-10, 2006 the Faculty of Law of the University of Western On-
tario will be hosting a conference, the theme of which is Emerging Issues
in Tort Law. The purpose of the conference is to bring together the acad-
emy, the judiciary and the bar to discuss undertheorized and underex-
plored areas of tort law that are likely to examined by appellate courts in
the near future.
The official registration form for the conference will not be available until
the new year
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Call for Attendance, continued,
The 3rd Asian Law Institute (ASLI) Conference
Call for Papers
“The Development of Law in Asia: Convergence versus Divergence?”
TC Beirne School of Law
Thursday and Friday, 25 and 26 May 2006
The third Conference will bear the theme “The Development of Law in
Asia: Convergence versus Divergence?” It will be held at the East China
University of Politics and Law (ECUPL) in Shanghai on Thursday and Fri-
day, 25 and 26 May 2006.
Please visit our web site at http://law.nus.edu.sg/asli/ for a copy of
the registration form and the panel sessions. The registration form con-
tains information such as submission of paper abstracts, conference fees,
hotel reservations, etc.
For enquiries, please contact the ASLI Secretariat at asli@nus.edu.sg.
If you wish to contact the organizing committee urgently at ECUPL, you
can reach them at asli@ecupl.edu.cn
The Sixth Biennial Conference in Property Law
School of Law at the University of Reading
21 March - 23 March 2006.
Please visit: http://www.rdg.ac.uk/law
The keynote speaker is Professor Martin Partington, Law Commission for
England and Wales
The International Society for the Reform of Criminal Law
20th international Conference
“Justice for All - victims, defendants prisoners and the
community”
Brisbane, July 2-6
Chaired by the Hon Justice Ian Callinan AC
for further details
email: isrcl2006@cdpp.gov.au
David Adsett 07 3224 9444
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Life, Death and Human Nature: Bioethics and Biolaw in the 21st
Century
11th conference of the Australasian Bioethics Association incorporating the
10th annual conference of the Australian Institute of Health Law & Ethics
5,6,7,8 July 2006
Queensland University of Technology
TC Beirne School of Law
Gardens Point Campus, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Keynote speakers:
Professor Brian Hurwitz
Doyly Carte Professor of Medicine and the Arts, Kings College London
Dr Ruth Richardson
Affiliated Scholar, Dept of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge Uni-
versity
Professor Derek Morgan
Professor of Health Law & Biomedical
Innovation, QUT Faculty of Law
Website:
http://www.law.qut.edu.au/about/aba.jsp
Email:
abaconference2006enquiries@qut.edu.au
11th Annual Copyright Conference
ACIPA
17th February 2006.
Offices of Minter Ellison Lawyers
Level 22, Waterfront Place
A number of important events occurred in copyright law in Australia in 2005.
New copyright legislation introduced as a result of the US-Australia Free
Trade Agreement was accompanied by a number of significant copyright de-
cisions. As well as providing important guidance on the scope of recent leg-
islative changes, particularly in relation to digital copyright, these decisions
also offered insights into judicial attitudes to copyright in Australia. Mean-
while the Federal Government announced two major reviews into aspects of
copyright law: an inquiry into the future of copyright exceptions and a review
of the new anti-circumvention laws.
This conference will be of interest to copyright owners and consumers, aca-
demics, practitioners, librarians and policy-makers.
Please visit website:
http://www.acipa.edu.au/frame_conferences.html
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Call for Attendance, continued
Monash University
Australian Insider Trading Regulation - Where Next?
Friday 10 and Saturday 11 February, 2006
Novotel, Melbourne
TC Beirne School of Law
Rivkin and Vizard have again focused attention on Australian regulation
of insider trading. This workshop analyses the insider trading debate to
date.
Workshop Presenters:
Associate Professor Paul Latimer, Monash University
Dr Greg Lyon, Barrister, Melbourne
Mark Steward, ASIC, Melbourne
Richard Flynn, ASX
Professor Laura Beny, University of Michigan
Professor Koen Geens, Partner, Eubelius Lawyers, Brussels
Professor Sally Gunz, University of Waterloo, Canada. Director, University
of Waterloo Centre for Accounting Ethics
Dr Millicent Chang, UWA
Cameron Fleming, Partner, Russell McVeagh Solicitors
Michael Heffernan, Analyst and Media Commentator, FW Holst & Co, Share-
brokers and Financial Planners, Melbourne
(dinner speaker)
Workshop Sponsors
Australian Stock Exchange
Department of Business Law and Taxation, Monash University
For further information please contact Associate Professor Paul Latimer
ph: (03) 9905 2379 fax: (03) 9905 9100
Cost is only $100 for Academics
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Call for attendance, continued,
Centre for Consumer Law, Houston Law Centre
Teaching Consumer Law
A conference for law school professors, adjunct professors and clinical
professors.
TC Beirne School of Law
May 19-20, 2006
University of Houston Law Centre
On Friday, May 19th and Saturday, May 20th, 2006, the
Center for Consumer Law at the University of Houston Law Center
will present its third Teaching Consumer Law Conference at
the University Hilton Hotel in Houston, Texas. “Consumer Law-The Past,
Present and Future” will cover topics every teacher of consumer law
needs to know, including: selection of teaching materials; new develop-
ments in consumer bankruptcy; the changing role of the FTC; compensa-
tory and punitive damages; new consumer credit regulations; a global
viewof teaching law; and the outlook for consumer arbitration.
For more information please contact:
Professor Richard M. Alderman
Dwight Olds Chair in Law
Director, Center for Consumer Law
100 Law Center
Houston, Texas 77204-6060
alderman@uh.edu
Australian Association for Professional and Applied Ethics
Conference
The 13th annual conference of the Australian Association for Professional
and Applied Ethics (AAPAE) will be held at the University of New South
Wales, in Sydney, June 12-14, 2006.
A notice of the conference is available on the AAPAE website
http://www.arts.unsw.edu.au/aapae/
click on ‘Conferences’
The direct address is
http://www.arts.unsw.edu.au/aapae/conference06
Papers are invited in any area of professional and applied ethics. Dedi-
cated streams are planned in the areas of business ethics, healthcare
ethics, public sector ethics, environmental ethics, and defence ethics.
Inquiries can be directed either to the address below or to the confer-
ence convenor
Stephen Cohen
s.cohen@unsw.edu.au