Forthcoming CMCL events include:

“That IceTV is a hard case making bad law” - An academics' debate
Thursday 28th May 2009, Melbourne Law School **Places Limited**
Friday 29th May 2009, Baker & McKenzie, Sydney **Fully booked**

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Australian and New Zealand IP Academics Conference
26-27 June 2009, Melbourne Law School

The conference theme will be ‘Forty Years of Intellectual Property as an Academic Discipline: Taking Stock and Moving Forward'.

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Past events include:

'Landmarks in Australian Intellectual Property Law' Book Launch
Wednesday, 25 March 2009, hosted by Mallesons Stephen Jaques, Melbourne jointly sponsored by CMCL and IPRIA

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Annual Conference - Media, Communications and Public Speech
20 & 21 November 2008, Melbourne Law School

Keynote speakers
Kathy Bowrey - Professor, Faculty of Law, University of NSW
Cherian George - Assistant Professor, Acting Head of Journalism and Publishing, Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University
Jonathan Griffiths - Queen Mary, University of London, School of Law
Dario Milo - Partner, Webber Wentzel, South Africa and University of Witwatersrand
Katharine Sarikakis - Director, Centre for International Communicationss Research, Institute of Communications Studies, University of Leeds

2008 Conference Program

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Defamation Law: Standards of journalism, privilege and fault
11 November 2008, Mallesons Stephen Jaques, Sydney
18 November 2008, Melbourne Law School

Dario Milo Partner, Webber Wentzel (South Africa) and university of the Witwatersrand
Marie McGonagle National University of Ireland, Galway

This seminar brings together international experts on freedom of speech and defamation law to examine the ways in which journalistic conduct is evaluated under the defamation law of South Africa, England and Northern Ireland. In each jurisdiction, the law now considers whether a defendant's conduct in publishing defamatory material is reasonable or responsible. The seminar promises valuable lessons from practice for the Australian law.

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Privacy Law Reform and the Media
2 October 2008, UNSW Kensington, Sydney
8 October 2008, Melbourne Law School

Professor Michael Tilbury, Law Reform Commissioner of NSW
Adrian Lawrence, Partner Baker & McKenzie (Sydney)
Professor Megan Richardson, CMCL (Sydney)
Matthew Ricketson, Media and Communications editor, The Age (Melbourne)
Michael Rivett, Victoria Bar (Melbourne)
Andrew Kenyon , Director, CMCL and Professor, Melbourne Law School (Chair)

In recent months, the NSW Law Reform Commission and Australian Law Reform Commission have been completing major inquiries into privacy law. The ALRC report "For Your Information: Australian Privacy Law Practice" was released in August with significant recommendations for the media and the NSW report is imminent. Parallel with these inquiries, case law avenues to protect privacy in Australia are developing. This seminar brings together experts from law reform, legal practice and the media to examine the implications of the law reform proposals and case law developments.

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An archive of all earlier CMCL events is available.