Free Public Lecture Series

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As part of its commitment to community engagement, since 2004 the QUT Faculty of Law has hosted a series of free public lectures on topics of interest to the legal and justice professions and the general public.

Past presenters include: The Honourable Sandra Day O’Connor, former Justice of the US Supreme Court; Her Excellency Quentin Bryce, Governor of Queensland, The Hon Geoffrey Davies AO; The Hon Dean Wells MP; Commissioner Pru Goward; Chief Justice Michael Black AC; Malcolm Turnbull MP, The Hon Justice Michael Kirby AC CMG; as well as distinguished international and local academics and business people.

Future presenters in the QUT Public Lecture Series for 2009 include:

• 21 July - Her Excellency Ms Penny Wensley AO, Governor of Queensland
• 3 August - Professor Justin O'Brien - Research Professor, Faculty of Law and Faculty of Business, "Engineering a Financial Bloodbath: How Securitization Destroyed the Legitmacy of Financial Capitalism".
• 19 August - Professor Charles Sampford - Director, The Institute for Ethics, Governance and Law (a joint initiative of the UN University, Griffith and QUT in association with the ANU)
• 9 September - The Honourable Dean Wells MP

2009 Past Lectures

• 5 March - Mr Joe Trippi, "Online campaigning in the US Presidential election" Courtesy of Microsoft Australia.
• 27 March - The Honourable Justice Roslyn Atkinson, Judge of the Supreme Court of Queensland, "Juries in the 21st Century: making the "bulwark" better".
• 21 April - The Honourable Chief Justice Diana Bryant, Chief Justice of the Family Court of Australia. "Mental Health and Risk Assessment in the Family Law System". Transcript of lecture is available for download.
• 6 May - Mr Tom Calma - Race Discrimination Commissioner, Australian Human Rights Commission. "A human rights agenda for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples for the twenty first century".
• 29 May - Professor Larry Lessig - Stanford University Law School, USA. "Change Congress and Regulatory Transparency: CHANGE v2: What changes Obama will need?"
• 16 June - Lt Col David Freeman, Chief Legal Officer of Headquarters 1st Division, Australian Army Legal Corps. "The legal and political considerations of the ADF's involvement in Afghanistan: a day in the life of a Military Lawyer on Operations".

2008 Past Lectures

• 29 January - Mr David Boulding, "Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and Practise of the Law". Lecture notes are available for download.
• 13 February - The Hon Kerry Shine, Queensland Attorney-General and Minister for Justice. "Safeguarding Citizens' Rights: The role of the courts and the Attorney-General.".
• 19 March - Special Event: Colloquium on Contemporary Issues in Intellectual Property Protection
• 30 April - The Honourable Dean Wells - Reasonable Assaults: The law relating to corporal punishment in Queensland.
• 2 April - His Honour Judge Marshall Irwin. "A Vision for the Future of Queensland Magistrates Courts." Transcript of lecture is available for download..
• 16 June- Professor Gao Fuping, East China University of Political Science & Law. "Information Property: How far will the intellectual property regime expand?".
• 8 October - Professor Peter Grace, QUT Institute of Sustainable Resources, and Professor Douglas Fisher, QUT Faculty of Law. "Climate Change: The Science and the Law".
• 30 October - Senator The Honourable Joe Ludwig MP. "Mandate Theory and Senate Practice".
• 5 November - The Honourable Duncan Kerr SC MP. "The High Court and the Executive". Transcript of lecture is available for download.
• 8 December - The Honourable Christopher Pyne MP. "Beyond Bradley: The future of higher education in Australia".

2007 Past Lectures

• 7 December - Mr Erik Wilbers, Acting Director and Head of the Domain Name Dispute Resolution Section of the Arbitration and Mediate Centre of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) based in Geneva, Switzerland. "Developments in Intellectual Property Alternative Dispute Resolution."
• 21 November - Peter Applegarth SC, Mark Johnston, and Peter Black. "Paparazzi, Stalkers and Footballers' Secrets: the emerging tort of privacy invasion". [Flyer]
• 10 October - Mr Michael Cope, President of the Queensland Council of Civil Liberties. "Freedom of Speech in an Age of Anxiety: A restatement of basic principles."
• 12 September - Mr Julian Burnside QC. "Taking Liberties".
• 8 August - Ms Andrea Cabral, USA Eisenhower Fellow to Australia. "The Impact of Penal Policy and Prison Industry on Social Justice".
• 16 July - Professor Clive Walker, University of Leeds. "Controlling Terrorism by Order".
• 18 June - Justice Michael Kirby, "Technology and the Law: Can the law keep pace with nanotechnology?"
• 2 May - Professor David Bogen, University of Maryland - "Indigenous Peoples and the Law - Ancient Customs: Modern Dilemmas".
• 26 March - Dr Simon James, University of Exeter. "Tax Simplification is not a Simple Issue".
• 15 February - Dr Richard Matthews, Mount Allison University, Canada. "On Neither Excusing nor Justifying Torture".