Australian Academy of Law

The Academy sponsored 15 separate seminars, meetings, addresses and roundtable events including a 2.5 day major Conference in September 2023 involving well over 30 presentations. The events marked with an asterisk were joint events with another institution. *6 July 2023 The 12th Annual Austin Asche Oration in Law and Governance Speaker: Academy Fellow Mr Tony McAvoy SC 26 Jul 2023, The Ins and Outs of Juries 15 Aug 2023 Michael Coper Roundtable: What do nonacademic lawyers think of legal scholarship how do they use and evaluate it? *810 September 2023 Enduring Courts in Changing Times (with 40 speakers/commentators). To mark some important national legal bicentenaries, a 2½ day joint event with the Australian Law Journal (ALJ) and the Australasian Institute of Judicial Administration (AIJA). Those legal bicentenaries are, for New South Wales, the Third Charter of Justice promulgated on 13 October 1823 establishing the Supreme Court and, for Tasmania, the first sitting of the Supreme Court of Van Diemen s Land on 10 May 1824. *14 September 2023 Unnecessary and Insufficient Factual Causes in the Law 12 October 2023 12th Annual Patron's Address The Hon Chief Justice Peter Quinlan 21 Nov 2023 Michael Coper Roundtable: End of Year Review 22 Nov 2023 Contempt of Court A lecture by Professor David Rolph FAAL *4 December 2023 Joint AAS/AAL Annual Symposium, with presentation by Dame Julie Maxton 20 Feb 2024 Michael Coper Roundtable Presentation by National AntiCorruption Commissioner the Hon Paul Brereton AM RFD SC FAAL 18 Mar 2024 Mechanisms in the ART Bill to thwart Robodebttype maladministration: the Hon Justice Kyrou 18 April 2024 In conversation with Overseas Fellow Desmond Browne CBE KC 23 Apr 2024 Michael Coper Roundtable: Genocide and the International Court of Justice 08 May 2024 Aspects of Commercial Arbitration 26 Jun 2024 Corporate Culture: WA Higher Degree Research Showcase Seminar