| Collegial Conversations opens up an informal space for Melbourne Law School staff and RHD students to share ideas and get to know each other better. They are run throughout the academic semesters (and occasionally during non-teaching periods) on Tuesday and Thursday lunchtimes in the Common Room on level 9.
There is no need to book. Lunch is available from 1pm for $5 (billed bi-monthly: no need to pay on the day), or you are welcome to bring your own lunch if you'd prefer. Until 1.30pm, we chat amongst ourselves. We then hear from our speaker for about 10-15 minutes and have some time for questions and discussion. Proceedings are brought to a close promptly at 2pm. Speakers might be MLS staff members, visiting scholars or someone from outside MLS. As the list below reflects, the scope of potential topics is very wide. Please check back here regularly as we will be adding new slots and speakers as they are confirmed. If you would like to speak at the conversations, have an idea for a speaker or have any suggestions or queries, please contact the conversations’ joint coordinators, Matthew Bell and Michael Timmins. |
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Timetable
| Date | Presenter and Topic |
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7 July 2009 |
(cancelled due to illness) |
| 9 July 2009 | David Caudill (Villanova)
Experts Attacking Experts: Early Toxicologists, the Arsenic Wars, and the Crisis in US Forensic Science A copy of David's presentation is available here. |
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| 28 July 2009 | Fred Ellinghaus (Melbourne Law School)
The Pacific Contract Code Project |
| 30 July 2009 |
Kevin Jon Heller (Melbourne Law School) Bashir and the ICC |
| 4 August 2009 | David Rosenbloom (NYU)
Justice Sotomayor's nomination |
| 6 August 2009 |
Michael Musheno (San Francisco State University) Growing up with Stories in America's Outback: Bringing Story-Telling to Socio-Legal Studies |
| 11 August 2009 | No Collegial Conversation - Departmental Meeting |
| 13 August 2009 |
Andrew Godwin (Melbourne Law School) Teaching transactional law subjects and transaction skills |
| 18 August 2009 |
Alison Duxbury (Melbourne Law School) My time at the Centre for Transnational Legal Studies |
| 20 August 2009 | Kevin Jon Heller (Melbourne Law School)
Bashir and the ICC |
| 25 August 2009 | Ann Genovese (Melbourne Law School)
Repatriation and curation of indigenous evidence |
| 27 August 2009 |
Elise Bant (Melbourne Law School) An Australian in Oxford |
| 1 September 2009 |
No Collegial Conversation - Staff Meeting |
| 3 September 2009 |
Jeremy Gans and Kevin Jon Heller (Melbourne Law School) Why blog? Why not? Links: Jeremy's blog; Kevin's blog |
| 8 September 2009 |
Eve Darian-Smith (University of California) New Indian Wars: Conflict Over Native Americans in US Society |
| 10 September 2009 | Carolyn Evans (Melbourne Law School)
Constitution Making in Nepal: A Never-ending Story? In February of this year, Carolyn Evans was part of an international delegation that travelled to Nepal as consultants for the Nepal constitution making process. In this conversation she will reflect on some of the serious problems with the process that emerged over the period of the conference. In addition, she will discuss the way in which the 'women's rights' group took a completely different approach to constitution making that was constantly marginalised and trivialised by the larger constitution making body. |
| 15 September 2009 |
Andrew Christie (Melbourne Law School) Playing the Judge: Reflections on 10 years as a WIPO domain name dispute resolution Panelist Information about the World Intellectual Property Organisation Domain Name Administrative Panels available at www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/ |
| 17 September 2009 |
No Collegial Conversation - Staff Meeting |
| 21 September- 2 October 2009 |
Non-teaching period: no Collegial Conversations (unless otherwise notified) |
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6 October 2009 |
Lawrence Gostin (Georgetown Law)
Current Miegunyah Distinguished Visiting International Fellow
Do Rich Countries Have a National Self Interest in Global Health Assistance to the Poor?
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| 8 October 2009 |
Kirsty Gover (Melbourne Law School)
The Cherokee Nation Has Expelled the Descendants of Its Former Slaves – What Happens Next?
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| 13 October 2009 | Di Otto and Gerry Simpson (Melbourne Law School)
Remembering Tom Franck: An influential international legal scholar |
| 15 October 2009 |
Narrelle Morris (Melbourne Law School) Australia's war crimes trials of the Japanese |
| 20 October 2009 |
Michael Timmins (Melbourne Law School) The False Hope of Refugee Resettlement |
| 22 October 2009 |
Dr Patricia Easteal (University of Canberra) How I'm spending my sabbatical... |
| 27 October 2009 |
Joo Cheong Tham (Melbourne Law School) Why I am not a human rights lawyer |
| 29 October 2009 | Simon Evans (Melbourne Law School)
The Exile of the Chagos Islanders Just on a year ago, the House of Lords upheld prerogative legislation that confirmed the exile of the Chagos Islanders, decades after they were first removed from their home to make way for the US base on Diego Garcia. Simon will sketch the legal and political saga of the Chagos Islanders and how they have been affected by the impact, first, of the cold war and, more recently, of the ‘war on terror’.
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