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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 2008 include:
- 30 April 6 pm - 7 pm -The Honourable Dean Wells - Reasonable Assaults: The law relating to corporal punishment in Queensland.
Details of these lectures will be published on this website and by email to our database as they become available. (Note that these dates and/or times may change.)
2008 Past Lectures
2007 Past Lectures
- 15 February - Dr Richard Matthews, Mount Allison University, Canada. "On Neither Excusing nor Justifying Torture".
- 26 March - Dr Simon James, University of Exeter. "Tax Simplification is not a Simple Issue".
- 2 May - Professor David Bogen, University of Maryland - "Indigenous Peoples and the Law - Ancient Customs: Modern Dilemmas".
- 18 June - Justice Michael Kirby, "Technology and the Law: Can the law keep pace with nanotechnology?"
- 16 July - Professor Clive Walker, University of Leeds. "Controlling Terrorism by Order".
- 8 August - Ms Andrea Cabral, USA Eisenhower Fellow to Australia. "The Impact of Penal Policy and Prison Industry on Social Justice".
- 12 September - Mr Julian Burnside QC. "Taking Liberties".
- 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."
- 21 November - Peter Applegarth SC, Mark Johnston, and Peter Black. "Paparazzi, Stalkers and Footballers' Secrets: the emerging tort of privacy invasion ".
- 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."
- 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.".
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