International Law Section
The Centre for Asian and Pacific Law of the University of Sydney and the International Law Section's China Focus Group will present a seminar on "Intellectual Property Law in China" in Sydney on 3 May 2010. The seminar will focus on current issues in Intellectual Property Law in China and China's obligations in relation to intellectual property under the WTO. Speakers include Ms Li Li, Senior Legal Counsel for Hewlett Packard in Shanghai, and Professor Natalie Stoianoff, University of Technology Sydney. For further information please click here.
The European Focus Group and Bond University will co-host a seminar on Common and Civil Law issues in Sydney on 20 April 2010. The topic to be discussed is "Unmanageable Discovery". Presenters will include ILS Executive member Dr Wolfgang Babeck as well as Judge Judith Gibson, District Court of New South Wales, and Dr Frederic Veniere, Rudd Peters Lawyers. For further information please click here .
The European Focus Group will welcome Professor Dame Hazel Genn at the Law Council Secretariat in Canberra on 6 April 2010. Dame Hazel Genn will participate in a Roundtable discussion on Civil Justice Reform. Topics to be discussed include:
Dame Hazel Genn is Dean of Laws, Professor of Socio-Legal Studies and Co-Director at the Centre for Empirical Legal Studies in the Faculty of Laws at University College London, where she is also an Honorary Fellow. She is a leading authority on civil justice and has published widely in this field.
Law Society of England and Wales President Robert Heslett, Chief Executive Officer Des Hudson and Head of International Policy Alison Hook visited the Law Council Secretariat in Canberra this afternoon. The small delegation is on a fact-finding and information sharing visit. For the full press release please click here .
The Hon Justice Betty King, Supreme Court of Victoria, will address attendees at the Conference Dinner of the 2010 CPD Immigration Law Conference. For further information please click here .
On 8 February 2010, during the ILEX visit, ILS Chair Dr Gordon Hughes signed a Memorandum of Co-operation wit the American Bar Association Section of International Law. A copy of the Memorandum can be found here.
The immediate past president of the Law Council of Australia, Mr John Corcoran, has been appointed to the Executive of the ILS. Mr Corcoran has been Councillor for Australia for the International Bar Association since 2005. In 2008, he was appointed to the Management Board of the International Bar Association.
The Minister for Immigration and Citizenship, Senator Chris Evans, and the Secretary of the Department of Immigration and Citizenship, Mr Andrew Metcalfe, will speak at the 4th CPD Immigration Law Conference. The Conference will be held in Melbourne on 26 & 27 March 2010. The Conference will be hosted by the Immigration Lawyers' Association of Australasia in cooperation with the Law Institute of Victoria and Russell Kennedy.
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The Immigration Lawyers' Association of Australasia will host a briefing session on the latest changes in the General Skilled Migration Program in Melbourne on 16 February 2010 at 3pm. Speakers will be Mr Tony Spencer, Director Operations & Projects, Trades Recognition Australia, and Ms Jan Febey, Branch Manager, Trades Recognition Australia. For further information please contact the ILS Administrator via email hendryk.flaegel@lawcouncil.asn.au.
The ILS Members' Only website is online again. The Members' Portal can be found at www.lawcouncil.asn.au/memberportal.cfm.
The Honorable Antonin Scalia, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, will be one of many key figures to address the American Bar Association's (ABA) conference on "Cross Border Collaboration, Consequences and Conflict: The Internationalisation of Domestic Law and Its Consequences", to be held in Sydney February 2010. The conference provides an opportunity to hear from some of the most respected legal minds from Australia and abroad. Other key speakers include former High Court Chief Justices, the Honourable Murray Gleeson and the Honourable Sir Anthony Mason, and former High Court Judge Michael Kirby.
The event is a joint effort between the ABA's Section of International Law, the Law Council, the Law Society of NSW and the NSW Bar Association. The conference will be held on 9 February in the Banco Court of the Supreme Court of New South Wales. It will be followed on 10 February by a Moot Court Presentation on the Art of Persuading Judges. Time is running out to register for this conference. For more information, and to access the registration brochure, visit www.abanet.org/intlaw/ilexaus.
Preparations are well underway for the 4th CPD Immigration Law Conference. The Conference will be held in Melbourne on 26 and 27 March 2010. More detailed information will be available shortly.
Dr Wolfgang Babeck and Ms June McPhie have been appointed as the new co-convenors of the International Human Rights Focus Group. Dr Babeck and Ms McPhie are currently assessing activities and topics for the Human Rights Focus Group and will be in contact with Focus Group members shortly.
At its meeting on 11 December 2009, the ILS Executive further agreed to establish an "International Mediation and Arbitration Focus Group". The Focus Group will be chaired by Mr Damian Sturzaker and Professor Jeff Waincymer. ILS members are more than welcome to join this Focus Group. For further information please contact the Administrator of the ILS.
At its meeting on 11 December 2009, the ILS Executive agreed to appoint Ms June McPhie and Ms Mary Macken (President-elect of the Law Society of New South Wales) as members of the ILS Executive. Ms McPhie will replace Judge John North who resigned from the Executive earlier this year.
The Annual General Meeting of the International Law Section will be held via teleconference on Friday 11 December 2009 at 2pm (AESST). For further information please contact the Administrator of the ILS.
The International Law Section and the Law Institute of Victoria have prepared a joint submission to the Inquiry into Australia's Anti-Dumping and Countervailing Duty System. The submission is available from the Law Council's website.
