As part of its commitment to community engagement, since 2004 the QUT Faculty of Law has hosted a series of 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 2011 |
| 20 April |
Mr Nicholas Cowdery AM QC, Former Director, Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, NSW |
Prosecutors: Protecting Human Rights |
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| 18 May |
Professor Larissa Behrendt,
Director of Research at Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning UTS |
Indigenous People and the Australian Constitution - A Matter of Justice |
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| 30 June |
The Honourable Paul Lucas MP, Queensland Attorney-General |
Reflections on Law and Justice Issues for Queensland |
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| 20 July |
Mr Michael Sayers QC, Former Chief Executive of the Law Reform Commission (UK and Wales) |
Justice, Human Rights and Law Reform |
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| 3 August |
Ambassador Kriangsak Kittichaisaree, Ambassador of Thailand |
Universal Jurisdiction and the Suppression of Modern-Day Piracy at Sea |
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| 14 September |
Professor Charles Sampford, Queensland University of Technology |
Tax Carbon not Consumption:
Learning from the GFC and avoiding a GCC (Global Carbon Crisis) |
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| 12 October |
Professor Judith Bessant, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology |
Outsourcing Sovereignty? The Law, Cyber-security and Democracy after the European Convention |
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| 10 November |
Senator George Brandis SC |
Topic to be confirmed |
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2010 Past Lectures |
| 2 March |
Professor Robert Miller, Lewis & Clarke Law School, Portland, Oregon |
The Doctrine of Discovery in Australia and the United States |
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| 12 April |
Senator the Hon Penny Wong -
Minister for Climate Change, Energy Efficiency and Water |
Climate Change - A Great Economic Challenge |
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| 19 May |
Mr Mick Gooda - ATSI Social Justice Commissioner, Australian Human Rights Commission |
The Practical Power of Human Rights |
Transcript of lecture is available for download |
| 15 June |
Professor David Brown, Emeritus Professor, Faculty of Law, UNSW |
Searching for a Social Democratic Narrative in Criminal Justice |
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| 4 August |
The Hon Berna Collier, Judge of the Federal Court of Australia |
Making Decisions in the Federal Court: A Personal Perspective |
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| 8 September |
Professor Ken Polk, Professorial Fellow, Dept Criminology, University of Melbourne |
Frauds and Fakes in the Australian Aboriginal Art Market |
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| 6 October |
Chief Commissioner Simon Overland, Victoria Police |
Connecting the Community: Policing and Society in the 21st Century |
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| 28 October |
Mr Philip Noonan, Director-General IP Australia |
Repairing the Patent System - How do we Fix the Problems and Answer the Critics? |
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| 16 November |
Assoc Prof Christy Simpson, Dept Bioethics, Dalhousie University, Canada |
Good Governance: Organizational Ethics in Health Care |
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2009 Past Lectures |
| 5 March |
Mr Joe Trippi |
Online campaigning in the US Presidential election |
View the lecture |
| 27 March |
The Honourable Justice Roslyn Atkinson, Judge of the Supreme Court of Queensland |
Juries in the 21st Century: making the "bulwark" better |
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| 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 |
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| 29 May |
Professor Larry Lessig - Stanford University Law School, USA |
Change Congress and Regulatory Transparency: CHANGE v2: What changes Obama will need? |
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| 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 |
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| 21 July |
Her Excellency Ms Penny Wensley AO, Governor of Queensland |
Flyer |
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| 3 August |
Professor Justin O'Brien - Research Professor, Faculty of Law and Faculty of Business |
Engineering a Financial Bloodbath: How Securitization Destroyed the Legitimacy of Financial Capitalism |
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| 5 August |
Dr Francis Gurry, Director-General, World Intellectual Property Organisation |
The Changing Landscape of Intellectual Property |
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| 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) |
Professions Without Borders: Global Ethics and the International Rule of Law |
Transcript of lecture and powerpoint presentation are available for download |
| 30 September |
The Honourable Dean Wells MP |
Two's Company, Three's a Crowd: Why we could manage with two levels of government and how we could get there |
Transcript of lecture and powerpoint slides are available for download |
| 11 November |
The Honourable Duncan Kerr MP |
Commonwealth Executive Power: New fields for Federalism? |
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2008 Past Lectures |
| 29 January |
Mr David Boulding |
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and Practise of the Law |
Lecture notes are available for download. View the lecture |
| 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 |
Lecture notes are available for download |
| 19 March |
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Special Event: Colloquium on Contemporary Issues in Intellectual Property Protection |
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| 30 April |
The Honourable Dean Wells |
Reasonable Assaults: The law relating to corporal punishment in Queensland |
View the lecture |
| 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? |
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| 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 |
View the lecture |
| 30 October |
Senator The Honourable Joe Ludwig MP |
Mandate Theory and Senate Practice |
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| 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 |
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2007 Past Lectures |
| 15 February |
Dr Richard Matthews, Mount Allison University, Canada |
On Neither Excusing nor Justifying Torture |
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| 26 March |
Dr Simon James, University of Exeter |
Tax Simplification is not a Simple Issue |
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| 2 May |
Professor David Bogen, University of Maryland |
Indigenous Peoples and the Law - Ancient Customs: Modern Dilemmas |
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| 18 June |
Justice Michael Kirby |
Technology and the Law: Can the law keep pace with nanotechnology? |
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| 16 July |
Professor Clive Walker, University of Leeds |
Controlling Terrorism by Order |
View the lecture |
| 8 August |
Ms Andrea Cabral, USA Eisenhower Fellow to Australia |
The Impact of Penal Policy and Prison Industry on Social Justice |
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| 12 September |
Mr Julian Burnside QC |
Taking Liberties |
View the lecture |
| 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 |
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| 21 November |
Peter Applegarth SC, Mark Johnston, and Peter Black |
Paparazzi, Stalkers and Footballers' Secrets: the emerging tort of privacy invasion |
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| 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 |
Powerpoint available for download
View the lecture
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