Sydney Law School Distinguished Speakers Program 2009

March

Speaker	Topic	Date	Cost
Dr Phil Scraton Professor of Criminology, Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice, School of Law, Queen's University, Belfast	Hearing Voices: The Violence of Women's Incarceration	Thu 12 March 5.00-8.00pm	Registration closed
Professor John Tiley CBE LLD FBA Emeritus Professor of the Law of Taxation and Deputy Director of the Centre for Tax Law, University of Cambridge	CGT Reform: Policy and Rhetoric	Mon 23 March 5.30-7.00pm	Registration closed
Peter Garling SC Commissioner, Special Commission of Inquiry into Acute Care Services in NSW Public Hospitals	Sharing Caring in a Time of Budget Insufficiency - Is There an Ethical Reform Paradigm?	Thu 26 March 6.00-8.00pm	Registration closed
Professor Yoshihiro Masui University of Tokyo	Japanese International Tax Reform	Tue 31 March 5.30-7.00pm	Registration closed

April

Speaker	Topic	Date	Cost
Sir Kenneth Keith ONZ KBE QC Judge of the International Court of Justice	Judging in the International Court of Justice and Other National and International Courts and Tribunals	Tue 7 April 6.00-8.00pm	Registration closed
Professor Conor Gearty Professor of Human Rights Law and Director of the Centre for the Study of Human Rights, London School of Economics	An Australian Bill of Rights? Learning from the British Experience	Wed 8 April 6.00-7.30pm	Registration closed
Professor Yuval Shany Hebrew University of Jerusalem	Israel's War in Gaza and International Law	Wed 15 April 6.00-7.30pm	Regstration closed
Dr Jonathan Jackson Methodology Institute and Manneheim Centre for Criminology, London School of Economics	Trust in Justice and the Legitimacy of the Criminal Justice System	Fri 17 April 6.00-7.30pm	Regstration closed
Andrew Dickinson Solicitor Advocate; Consultant to Clifford Chance LLP; and visiting fellow at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law	The New European Private International Law of Obligations: Marvel or Monstrosity?	Mon 20 April 6.00-8.00pm	Registration closed

May

Speaker	Topic	Date	Cost
Professor James Crawford SC LLD FBA Whewell Professor of International Law, University of Cambridge	Current issues in International Commercial Arbitration	Mon 4 May 6.00-7.30pm	Registration closed
Malcolm Gammie CBE QC One Essex Court/Institute for Fiscal Studies, London	Tax Reform in the UK: Mirrlees et al	Tue 12 May 5.30-7.00pm	Registration closed
Carson McNeill International Monetary Fund	Trends in Tax Administration in Developing Countries	Wed 27 May 8.00-9.30am	Registration closed

Speaker

Topic

Date

Cost

Professor James Crawford SC
LLD FBA

Whewell Professor of International Law, University of Cambridge

Current issues in International Commercial Arbitration

Mon 4 May

6.00-7.30pm

Registration closed

Malcolm Gammie CBE QC
One Essex Court/Institute for Fiscal Studies, London

Tax Reform in the UK: Mirrlees et al

Tue 12 May

5.30-7.00pm

Registration closed

Carson McNeill
International Monetary Fund

Trends in Tax Administration in Developing Countries

Wed 27 May

8.00-9.30am

Registration closed

June

Speaker	Topic	Date	Cost
Professor Randall S Thomas John S Beasley II Professor of Law and Business, Vanderbilt University	International Executive Pay: Current Practices and Future Trends	Tue 2 June 6.00-7.15pm	Registration closed
Henry Hu Allan Shivers Chair in the Law of Banking and Finance, University of Texas	'Decoupling', Governance, and the World Financial Crisis	Fri 12 June 6.00-8.00pm	Registration closed

Speaker

Topic

Date

Cost

Professor Randall S Thomas
John S Beasley II Professor of Law and Business, Vanderbilt University

International Executive Pay: Current Practices and Future Trends

Tue 2 June

6.00-7.15pm

Registration closed

Henry Hu
Allan Shivers Chair in the Law of Banking and Finance, University of Texas

'Decoupling', Governance, and the World Financial Crisis

Fri 12 June

6.00-8.00pm

Registration closed

July

Speaker	Topic	Date	Cost
Professor Peter Singer Ira W DeCamp Professor of Bioethics, University Center for Human Values, Princeton University; Laureate Professor, Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics; University of Melbourne	Ethics and World Poverty	Mon 13 July 6.00-7.30pm	Registration closed
Professor Philip Pettit LS Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and Human Values, Princeton University	A Republican Law of Peoples	Thu 16 July 6.00-7.30pm	Registration closed
Wojciech Sadurski Challis Professor of Jurisprudence, Sydney Law School	Reasonableness in Law and Politics	Tue 28 July 6.00-7.30pm	Registration closed
Professor Yasuhei Taniguchi Former Chair of the WTO Appellate Body, Geneva	Does the WTO really settle international trade disputes? Reflections of a WTO Judge, international arbitrator & civil procedure professor	Thurs 30 July 6.30-7.45pm	Registration closed

August

Speaker	Topic	Date	Cost
Professor Stafford Smiley Georgetown Law Centre	Tax Reform Under President Obama	Tue 4 August 5.30-7.00pm	Registration closed.
Professor Lawrence Gostin Linda D and Timothy J O'Neill Professor of Global Health Law, Georgetown University Law Centre Professor Daniel Tarantola Professor of Health and Human Rights, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, The University of New South Wales	Global Health Beyond the Millennium Development Goals	Thu 6 August 5.30-8.00pm	Registration closed.
Professor Tom Campbell Director, Centre for Applied Philiosophy and Public Ethics	Resuscitating Lost Causes: Confessions of a Legal Positivist	Tuesday 11 August 6.00-7.30pm	Registration closed.
Professor Lawrence Gostin Linda D. and Timothy J. O'Neill Professor of Global Health Law, Georgetown University Law Centre Professor Simon Chapman School of Public Health, University of Sydney Professor Patricia Peppin Professor of Law, Queens University, Ontario Additional presenters announced shortly.	Global Health Day at the University of Sydney	Fri 28 August 9.00am-4.00pm	Registration closed.
Professor Kazuo Sugeno Professor of Labor Law, University of Tokyo	Towards a New Form of Flexicurity?: Fluctuating Employment System in Japan	Mon 31 August 6.00-7.30pm	Registration closed.

Speaker

Topic

Date

Cost

Professor Stafford Smiley
Georgetown Law Centre

Tax Reform Under President Obama

Tue 4 August

5.30-7.00pm

Registration closed.

Professor Lawrence Gostin
Linda D and Timothy J O'Neill Professor of Global Health Law, Georgetown University Law Centre

Professor Daniel Tarantola
Professor of Health and Human Rights, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, The University of New South Wales

Global Health Beyond the Millennium Development Goals

Thu 6 August

5.30-8.00pm

Registration closed.

Professor Tom Campbell

Director, Centre for Applied Philiosophy and Public Ethics

Resuscitating Lost Causes: Confessions of a Legal Positivist

Tuesday 11 August

6.00-7.30pm

Registration closed.

Professor Lawrence Gostin
Linda D. and Timothy J. O'Neill Professor of Global Health Law, Georgetown University Law Centre

Professor Simon Chapman
School of Public Health, University of Sydney

Professor Patricia Peppin
Professor of Law, Queens University, Ontario

Additional presenters announced shortly.

Global Health Day at the University of Sydney

Fri 28 August

9.00am-4.00pm

Registration closed.

Professor Kazuo Sugeno

Professor of Labor Law, University of Tokyo

Towards a New Form of Flexicurity?: Fluctuating Employment System in Japan

Mon 31 August

6.00-7.30pm

Registration closed.

September

Speaker	Topic	Date	Cost
Professor Deborah DeMott David F Cavers Professor of Law, Duke Law School; McWilliam Visiting Professor in Commercial Law, Sydney Law School	Legal Perspectives on Dealing in Art and Objects of Cultural Heritage	Tue 1 September 6.00-7.00pm	Registration closed.
Mr Murray Gleeson AC Former Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia; Adjunct Professor, Sydney Law School	Legal interpretation: the bounds of legitimacy	Wed 16 September 6.00-7.30pm	Registration closed.
Professor Ian Dennis Professor of Law and Director of the Centre for Criminal Law, UCL; Editor, Criminal Law Review	The Common Law Right to Confrontation: Meanings and Myths	Mon 21 September 6.00-7.30pm	Registration closed.
Professor Eric Talley UC Berkeley	Allocating Risk and Uncertainty M&A Agreements	Thu 24 September 5.30-7.00pm	Registration closed.

October

Speaker	Topic	Date	Cost
Professor Mariana Valverde Director, Centre of Criminology, University of Toronto	How We Came to See Cities as Collections of Land Uses	Wed 7 October 6.00-7.30pm	Registration closed.
Professor Alvin Warren Ropes & Gray Professor of Law, Harvard Law School	Tax Policy after the Financial Crisis	Mon 19 October 5.30-7.00pm	Registration closed.
Professor Tim Edgar University of Western Ontario	Is TOFA Finally Over? A View from Canada	Tue 27 October 5.30-7.00pm	$66 inc GST Registration required
Professor Kurt Deketelaere Director of the Institute for Environmental and Energy Law, Katolieke Universiteit Leuven	The EU Emissions Trading Scheme: What Can Australia Learn?	Wed 28 October 6.00-7.30pm	FREE Registration required

November

Speaker	Topic	Date	Cost
Brian J Arnold Consultant, Goodmans LLP, Toronto	Interminable International Tax Reform	Tue 3 November 5.30-7.00pm	$66 inc GST Registration required
Professor Jeremy Webber Canada Research Chair in Law and Society, University of Victoria	Reconciliation and Injustice in Indigenous/non-Indigenous Relations	Thursday 5 November 6.00-7.30pm	FREE Registration required
Professor Martti Koskenniemi Academy Professor, University of Helsinki	Ius Gentium and Forms of Modern Power: The Legacy of 16^th Century Spanish Scholasticism	Thu 12 November 6.00-7.30pm	Registration required
Chief Justice Spigelman AC NSW Supreme Court	The Forgotten Freedom: Freedom from Fear	Tues 17 November 6.00-7.30pm	Registration required

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