Keynote Speakers


Keynote Address:


Precedents of Injustice

Professor Eve Darian-Smith holds the position of Professor in the Law and Society Program, Global and International Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara and is Senior Fellow, Law School, University of Melbourne. After completing her B.A.(Hons) and L.L.B. at the University of Melbourne, she completed an M.A. at Harvard University and her Ph.D. at the University of Chicago.
She is on the Editorial Advisory Board of Law & Society Review, Canadian Journal of Law and Society, Journal of Legal Anthropology, Studies in Law, Politics and Society and Social and Legal Studies. She has recently published Religion, Race, Rights: Landmarks in the History of Modern Anglo-American Law (2010) and her forthcoming publication Laws and Societies: Contemporary Issues/Global Approaches will be published by Cambridge University Press.
Her research interests include Legal Theory, International Law, Human Rights, Law and Globalization, Race and Ethnicity, and Ethnographic Methods.

Other Plenaries:


Forum: Asylum Seekers in Australia: History, Law and Human Rights

Dr. Savrati Taylor,
School of Law
La Trobe University

Prof. Klaus Neumann
Institute for Social Research
Swinburne University of Technology

Julian Burnside Q.C.
Aickin Chambers
Melbourne

Plenary: Owning the Past

Whose past? “Retrying the case of Breaker Morant”
Craig Wilcox
Independent Scholar
Sydney

Whose present? “Re-writing the past to suit the politics of the present: the work of the Waitangi Tribunal”
Dr David V Williams
Professor of Law
University of Auckland.