The Law and Literature Association of Australia aims to create and promote dialogue between people interested in the practices of law, of literature and their relation to wider cultural practices. More specifically, it aims to create an exchange of ideas between the legal profession and the legal academy, to promote interdisciplinary scholarly dialogue, and to develop international and Australian research in law and the humanities.

The Association's annual conference takes place over three days, has a mixture of plenary or keynote addresses, panel sessions, workshops and related intellectual and cultural events such as film screenings. Previous conference speakers have been drawn from:

The international academic community, eg

• Austin Sarat, William Cromwell Professor of Political Science, Amherst College USA
• Costas Douzinas, Professor of Law, University of London
• Mieke Bal, Professor of the Theory of Literature, University of Amsterdam
• David Caudill, Professor of Law, Washington & Lee University
• James Boyd White, Hart Wright Professor of Law and Professor of English language and literature at University of Michigan
• Richard Weisberg, Professor of Law, Cardozo Law School, New York
• Dragan Milanovic, Professor of Criminal Justice, Northeastern Illinois University
• John Frow, Regius Professor of English Literature and Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh

The Australian academic community, eg

• Terry Threadgold, formerly Professor of English at Monash University, currently Professor of English at Cardiff University
• Alison Young, Associate Professor in Criminology at Melbourne University
• Regina Graycar, Professor of Law at University of Sydney

The Australian legal profession; eg

• Justices Asche, Callinan, Gaudron, Heerey, Kirby, O'Connor, Chief Justice Phillips
• Barristers and solicitors from throughout Australia

In addition, the participation of postgraduate students and new or young academic researchers has always been especially encouraged. The Association's conference is interdisciplinary, international, theoretical and a place for the exchange of ideas between the academy and the legal profession.

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