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Emeritus Professor Reg Graycar

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Degrees
LLB (Hons) Adel; LLM Harv

Areas of Interest

  • Public law / Administrative law / Constitutional law
  • Legal systems/processes
  • Law reform
  • Legal responses to systemic injuries
  • Law and gender

Current Position
Emeritus Professor of Law

Former Positions
Full time Commissioner, NSW Law Reform Commission (October 1998 to February 2002); Professor of Law, UNSW (to April 1997); Professor of Law, University of Sydney (to 2012).

Visiting Positions
Visiting Professor, Université de Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne) (2004, 2006); Visiting Scholar, Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, Kings College, London (2006); Visiting Professor, Cornell Law School, USA (2005); Visiting Fellow, Department of Law, European University Institute, Florence, Italy, (2003 and 2004); Visiting Professor, Law Race and Gender Research Centre, University of Cape Town, South Africa (1996); Douglas McK Brown Visiting Professor, Faculty of Law, University of British Columbia, Canada (1996)

Former Part-time Professional Appointments
Member, Family Law Council; Hearing Commissioner, Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission; Commissioner, Australian Law Reform Commission; Legal Member, Social Security Appeals Tribunal

Brief Biographical Detail
Emeritus Professor Graycar is a member of the International advisory board for SSRN, Women, Gender and the Law, and a member of the editorial boards of the Australian Feminist Law Journal, the Adelaide Law Review, Griffith Law Review, the Media and Arts Law Review and Australian Feminist Studies. She is also a member of the International Advisory Board for the Centre for Feminist Legal Studies, University of British Columbia, and the AHRB centre for Gender, Sexuality and Law (UK). Emeritus Professor Graycar has worked with the Australian Institute of Judicial Administration and a number of courts, both in Australia, and overseas, on their judicial education programs. She practises as a barrister, and is a member of the Human Rights Committee of the NSW Bar Association. She was a Director of Women's Legal Services (NSW) Ltd (the largest community legal centre in NSW) from 2000 to 2009 and was Chair of the Board from 2006-2008.

Research Grants

Emeritus Professor Graycar’s research was continuously supported by the Australian Research Council from 1987. Her most recent grant was A Study of Law Reform and its responses to rapid social and community change, 2007-2009 (with Jenny Morgan, University of Melbourne).

Australian Research Council Grants | University of Sydney Grants | Legal Scholarship Support Scheme Grants | Other Competitive Grants

Australian Research Council Grants

2007- 2009 ARC Discovery grant (with Jenny Morgan, University of Melbourne), "A Study of Law Reform and its responses to rapid social and community change" ($220,000)
2004 - 2006 ARC Discovery grant, "Legal Responses to Systemic Injuries" ($130,000)
2000 - 2002 ARC Strategic Partnerships with Industry for Research and Training (SPIRT) grant as industry partner (NSW Law Reform Commission) with Jenni Millbank and David Harland of the Faculty of Law, University of Sydney, "Third Party Guarantees", $169,013 (plus $30,000 plus in kind support from NSWLRC)
1998 - 1999 ARC small (institutional) grant, "Judging, Race and Gender: Legal Perceptions of Judicial Bias" ($26,000)
1997 - 1999 ARC collaborative grant (with Industry partner, Family Court of Australia), "The Family Law Reform Legislation: can changing legislation change legal culture, legal practice and community expectations?" ($156,892, plus $30,000, plus in kind support from the Family Court)
1997 - 1999 ARC large grant, "Margins and Marginalisation in Family Law" ($131,000)
1996    ARC small grant, "Margins and Marginalisation in Australian Family Law" ($16,000)
1994 - 1996

ARC large grant, "A Labour of Love: Women's Work and Accident Compensation Law" ($107,000)
1992 ARC small grant, "Women's Work and Legal Categories" ($10,000); renewed as small grant for 1993 ($4,591)
1989 - 1991  ARC large grant, "Feminist Jurisprudence" ($43,300)
1987 - 1988 ARC large grant, "Women, Law and Dependence" ($22,176)

University of Sydney Grants

2003 Sesquicentenary Research fund, "The Liability Crisis", $40,000
2002 Sesquicentenary Research fund, "Legal Responses to Systemic Injuries", $17,000
 

Legal Scholarship Support Scheme Grants

2009 $3,000 for research assistance for  "A Feminist Adjudication Process: is there such a thing?" to be published in Ulrike Schultz and Gisela Shaw (eds), Gender and Judging, Hart, 2010
2005 $5,000 for research assistance to prepare article for a symposium, "Following Marriage", in the Washington University Journal of Law and Policy (Volume 24, Spring 2007)
2004 $3,500 for research assistance on institutional law reform processes
2003 $4,000 for research assistance for article on Justice Claire L'Heureux-Dube for a festschrift in honour of her retirement from the Supreme Court of Canada
2003 $3,000 for research assistance for work on rethinking law reform
2002 $3,000 for research assistance for an article on gendered assessments of personal injury damages for a festschrift to honour Emeritus Professor Michael Chesterman
2001 $5,000 for research assistance for the 2nd edition of The Hidden Gender of Law
1997 $5,000 for research assistance for "The Gender of Judgments: Damaging Stereotypes of Women Before the Courts"
1996 $3,000 for research assistance for "The Gender of Judgments"
1995 $2,500 for research assistance on continuation of project "Marginalisation of Women in Family Law"
1994 $2,500 for research assistance for "Marginalisation of Women in Family Law"
1993 $2,500 for research assistance for "Gendered Assumptions in Family Law"
1992 Support for participation in an international colloquium on the work/care dichotomy, ANU, Canberra, July 1992
1991 Support for presentation of a paper, "Labouring under Misconceptions: Legal Constructions of Women's Work", to Law and Society in the Global Village, Amsterdam, June 1991.

Support for participation in a panel on Women and the Law, Australian Legal Convention, September 1991
 

Other Competitive Grants

2006 University of Sydney, Humanities and Social Sciences Conference Travel Grant: to participate in two workshops at the Onati centre in Spain: Equality as a Social Right (June 2006), and Revisiting Equality (July 2006)
2005 Canadian High Commission, Faculty Research Program: $5,500, "Legal Responses to Systemic Injuries: What can we learn from the Canadian Redress Programs?"
2004 University of Sydney Overseas Conference Travel Grant: to present a paper at the American Law and Society Conference, Chicago, May 2004
2002 University of Sydney Overseas Conference Travel Grant: to attend a conference to mark the retirement of Supreme Court of Canada Justice; Claire L'Heureux-Dubé in Ottawa, September 2002
1998 Canadian High Commission, Program for International Research Links: $5000 (to host a conference on Diversity Issues in Family Law involving; participants from the faculties of law at the University of Sydney and the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada)
1998 Law Foundation of New South Wales (for and on behalf of Feminist Legal Academics' Workshop organising committee): $5000 for support of FLAW 1999 conference
1997 University of Sydney Overseas Conference Travel Grant: to attend International Society of Family Law conference, July, Durban, South Africa
 

Publications

Books and Monographs | Major Articles and Chapters in Books | Shorter Articles, Notes, Reviews and Other Publications | Theses | Papers Published in Conference Proceedings | Law Reform publications | Submissions/evidence to Parliamentary Inquiries | Conference Papers/Public Lectures


Books and Monographs

  • Reg Graycar & Jane Wangmann, (2007) Redress packages for institutional child abuse: Exploring the Grandview Agreement as a case study in ‘alternative’ dispute resolution 1-43, published as Sydney Law School; Legal Studies Research Paper No. 07/50.
  • Regina Graycar & Jenny Morgan, The Hidden Gender of Law, The Federation Press: Sydney (2nd ed, 2002). Foreword by the Honourable Mary Gaudron, Justice of the High Court of Australia, I-xxvi, 1-486.
  • Reg Graycar, Helen Rhoades & Margaret Harrison, The Family Law Reform Act: The First Three Years, Final Report, The University of Sydney and the Family Court of Australia, December 2000. (exec summary republished in Australian Family Lawyer, December 2000; and Family Matters, Autumn, 2001).
  • Reg Graycar, Helen Rhoades & Margaret Harrison, The Family Law Reform Act: Can Changing Legislation Change Legal Culture, Legal Practice and Community Expectations? Interim Report, The University of Sydney and the Family Court of Australia, April 1999, I-xi, 1-67.
  • Reg Graycar & Jenny Morgan, Work and Violence Themes: Including Gender Issues in the Core Law Curriculum, 2 Vols, (1996) 625pp, archived at: http://pandora.nla.gov.au/tep/10029
  • Regina Graycar & Jenny Morgan, The Hidden Gender of Law, The Federation Press: Sydney (1990).
  • Regina Graycar (ed), Dissenting Opinions: Feminist Explorations in Law and Society, Allen and Unwin (Australia): Sydney (1990).
  • Regina Graycar & Deena Shiff (eds), Life Without Marriage: A Woman's Guide to the Law, Pluto Press: Sydney (1987).
  • Regina Graycar, Legal Resources Book (SA), Legal Services Commission of SA/Allen and Unwin (1981).
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Major Articles and Chapters in Books

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Shorter Articles, Notes, Reviews and Other Publications

  • Reg Graycar, ‘Gender Issues and the Law’, LegalDate, Volume 17, Number 4, August 2005 (pp 5-6)
  • Reg Graycar, ‘A Loved Baby can’t cancel out a Clear Case of Negligence’, op ed column, Sydney Morning Herald, 21 July 2003. (also published in http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=573 )
  • Reg Graycar, ‘The Merit of a Bigger Pond’, op ed column, Sydney Morning Herald, 19 December 2002. (an expanded version was republished as ‘Sex and High Court Appointments: Must all Judges have been Barristers?’ in http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=1256 )
  • Reg Graycar, ‘Women's Hard Labour at Home: There's no Money in That’, op ed column, Sydney Morning Herald, 24 June 2002.
  • Reg Graycar & Jenny Morgan, ‘Heffernan's Impartiality Road Nothing New to Women’, op ed column, Sydney Morning Herald, 8 April 2002.
  • Reg Graycar, ‘Women’s work’ and with Jenny Morgan, ‘Women’, entries for Tony Blackshield, Michael Coper and George Williams (eds), Oxford Companion to the High Court of Australia, OUP (2002), 719-721; 724-725.
  • Reg Graycar, ‘Law Reform: Concept of Family Under Review’ (2001) 39 (3) Law Society Journal 64 -68.
  • Reg Graycar, ‘If it ain’t broke don’t fix it: Matrimonial Property Law Reform and the Forgotten Majority’,http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/10766/20030721/www.familycourt.gov.au/papers/html/graycar.html (May 1999); republished in CCH, Australian Report No 402, 17 September 1999, 4-11.
  • Reg Graycar & Margaret Harrison, ‘Family Law Reforms’ (1997) 47 Family Matters 24-25.
  • Book Review, Christina Murray (ed), Gender and the New South African Legal Order (1996) 12 South African Journal on Human Rights 669-673.
  • Reg Graycar, Casenotes, Social Security Reporter: approximately 20 per year from 1988 to 1995.
  • Reg Graycar, ‘Sterilisation of Children’ (1994) 68 Australian Law Journal 455-457.
  • Reg Graycar, Book Review, Tove Stang Dahl, Women's Law: An Introduction to Feminist Jurisprudence (1989) 17 International Journal of the Sociology of Law 503-508.
  • Reg Graycar, ‘Child Support: Implications for Social Security’ (1988) 44 Social Security Reporter 571-572.
  • Book Review, Katherine O'Donovan, Sexual Divisions in Law (1987-88) 26 Journal of Family Law 265-274 (also published in (1986) 11 Legal Service Bulletin 132-134).
  • Book Review, Catharine A. MacKinnon, Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law (1987) 10 UNSW Law Journal 284-292.
  • Reg Graycar & Jenny Earle, ‘A New Dependence’ (1987) Australian Society 37-38.
  • Reg Graycar & Peter Hanks, ‘Compensation Awards and Social Security Payments’ (1987) 39 Social Security Reporter 499-500.
  • Reg Graycar, ‘Feminism comes to law: better late than never’ (1986) 3 Australian Feminist Studies 115-120.
  • Reg Graycar, ‘Non-Earners and Accident Compensation - Women Sold Out Again’ (1985) 10 Legal Service Bulletin 86-87.
  • Reg Graycar, Digest, Legal Service Bulletin: regular entries digesting recent primary and secondary legal materials on a bi-monthly basis from 1982 to 1985.
  • Reg Graycar, ‘Legal Centres in the Festival State’ in D Neal (ed), On Tap Not on Top: Legal Centres in Australia 1972-1982, (a special issue of the Legal Service Bulletin, 1984), 20-23.
  • Reg Graycar & Richard Phillipps, ‘A National Defamation Law?’ (1983) 8 Legal Service Bulletin 231-232.
  • Reg Graycar, ‘Can Lawyers Reform the Legal Profession?’ (1982) 1 Australian Society 15-16.
  • Reg Graycar, ‘Fighting for the real under-class’ (1982) 1(4) Australian Society 15-16.
  • Reg Graycar & John Goldring, ‘Law, Money and Politics’ (1982) 7 Legal Service Bulletin 154-155 (editorial).
  • Reg Graycar, ‘Occupational Health and Safety - After Williams’ (1982) 7 Legal Service Bulletin 198-199.
  • Reg Graycar, ‘U.S. Legal Services - Closing the Shop?’ (1981) 6 Legal Service Bulletin 25l-253.
  • Reg Graycar & Susan Armstrong, ‘Two Pragmatic Views from the S.A. Legal Services Commission’ in P Cashman (ed), The Role of Research in the Delivery of Legal Services, Law Foundation: Sydney (1981), 91-101.
  • Reg Graycar, ‘Legal Representation under the S.A. Mental Health Act’ (1980) 5 Legal Service Bulletin 72-73.
  • Reg Graycar, ‘Residential Tenancies - the South Australian Experience’ (1979) 4 Legal Service Bulletin 148-151.
  • Reg Graycar, ‘Sex Discrimination - Federal Award Gets in the Way’ (1979) 4 Legal Service Bulletin 186-187.


Theses

  • ‘Some Aspects of 'Validity' in Australian Constitutional Law’, thesis submitted for the award of the degree LLB (Hons), University of Adelaide, 1978.
  • ‘The Impact of Alternative Dispute Resolution on the Urban Poor’, thesis submitted for the award of the degree LLM, Harvard University, 1981.


Papers Published in Conference Proceedings

  • Reg Graycar, ‘Matrimonial Property Law Reform: What Lessons Have We Learnt?’, Family Court of Australia, Papers from the Second National Conference of the Family Court, September 1995, (published September 1996).
  • Reg Graycar & Jenny Morgan, ‘Including Gender Issues in the Core Law Curriculum’, Women, Culture and Universities: A Chilly Climate? (UTS April 1995), Conference Proceedings, November 1995.
  • Reg Graycar, ‘The Gender of Judgments: Would Women Judges Make a Difference?’, 1994 Women in Leadership Public Lecture Series, Edith Cowan University, August 1995.
  • Reg Graycar, ‘The Relevance of Violence in Family Law Decision Making’, International Year of the Family National Conference, November 1994, Conference Proceedings, 1995.
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Law Reform Publications

  • Defamation: Some Proposals for Reform in NSW, Report of the Attorney General's Taskforce, April 2002 (taskforce member and principal author).
  • Complaints against Lawyers: An Interim Report, NSW Law Reform Commission, Report No 99, 2001 (participated as a Commissioner).
  • Surveillance: An Interim Report, NSW Law Reform Commission, Report No 98, 2001 (participated as a Commissioner).
  • Guaranteeing Someone Else's Debt, NSW Law Reform Commission, Issues Paper No 17 and Summary, May 2000 (Commissioner in charge).
  • Relationships and the Law, NSW Law Reform Commission, preliminary consultation paper, February 2000 (Commissioner in charge) (also published in (2000) 14 Australian Journal of Family Law 69-74).
  • Complaints Against Lawyers: Review of Part 10, NSW Law Reform Commission, Issues Paper No 18, October 2000 (participated as a Commissioner).
  • Contempt by Publication¸ NSW Law Reform Commission, Discussion Paper No 43, July 2000 (participated as a Commissioner).
  • Review of Section 316 of the Crimes Act 1900 (NSW), NSW Law Reform Commission, Report No 93, December 1999 (participated as a Commissioner).
  • Contribution Between Persons Liable for the Same Damage, NSW Law Reform Commission, Report No 89, May 1999 (participated as a Commissioner).
  • Review of the Community Services (Complaints, Appeals and Monitoring) Act 1993 (NSW), NSW Law Reform Commission, Report No 90, July 1999 (participated as a Commissioner).
  • Review of the Disability Services Act 1993 (NSW), NSW Law Reform Commission, Report No 91, July 1999 (participated as a Commissioner).
  • Sterilisation and Other Medical Procedures on Children, Final Report, November 1994, pp. 1-77 (main author, report of the Family Law Council).
  • Female Genital Mutilation, Discussion Paper published by the Family Law Council, January 1994.
  • Appointment of Judges, Family Law Council submission to the Attorney-General, December 1993 (I assisted the Director of Research in finalising this submission).
  • Family Law in Magistrates Courts, Discussion Paper published by the Family Law Council, October 1993, pp 1-40 (I contributed as a member of the Magistrates Courts Committee).
  • Equality Before the Law: Women's Access to the Legal System, Report No 67 (interim), January 1994 (I participated in the preparation of this report as a Commissioner of the Australian Law Reform Commission).
  • Equality Before the Law: Justice for Women, Australian Law Reform Commission, Report No 69, Part I (July 1994). In addition to participating as a Commissioner in the preparation of this report, I had substantial responsibility for writing Chapter 8.
  • Equality Before the Law: Equality for Women, Australian Law Reform Commission, Report No 69, Part II (December 1994); with Professors Hilary Charlesworth & Jenny Morgan, Chapter 16, Minority View.


Submissions/evidence to Parliamentary Inquiries

  • Reg Graycar & Jane Wangmann, Submission to the Senate Committee on Children in Institutional Care, 2003-2004, http://www.aph.gov.au/senate/committee/clac_ctte/inst_care/submissions/sublist.htm; submission nos 51 and 51a, and for oral evidence see http://www.aph.gov.au/hansard/senate/commttee/S7291.pdf, pp 92-104.
  • Reg Graycar, Submission to the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Family and Community Affairs, ‘Child Custody Arrangements in the event of family separation’, 2003.
  • Reg Graycar, 'The Australian Family Law Reform Act', invited address to the Canadian Special Joint Parliamentary Committee on Child Custody and Access, Ottawa, Canada, June 1998.
  • Reg Graycar, Helen Rhoades & Margaret Harrison, Submission to the Senate Legal And Constitutional Affairs Committee on Family Law Amendment Bill 1999.
  • Reg Graycar, Submission to Joint Select Committee on Certain Aspects of the Operation and Interpretation of the Family Law Act (part 2, dealing with aspects of matrimonial property and other financial issues such as superannuation and debts, child custody and access), for the National Committee on Violence Against Women, December 1991, pp. 44-74.
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Conference Papers/Public Lectures

Conference Presentations/Public Lectures 2010

  • "Divergences of Family Law Reform in Australia, or Frozen Chooks revisited again", paper to be presented at Rights and Obligations in the Contemporary Family: Retheorising Individualism, Families and the State, Cegla Centre and Cornell University Law School, Tel Aviv, December 2010.
  • “Reflections on Family Law Reform discourses”, presented at Socio-Legal Feminisms workshop, McGill University Bellairs Centre, Barbados, June 2010.
  • With Jane Wangmann, “A Feminist Adjudication Process: Lessons from Grandview” in Australian Institute of Judicial Administration, Non-Adversarial Justice conference proceedings, May 2010.

Conference Presentations/Public Lectures 2009

  • “Evidencing Judicial Review”, Legal Aid NSW Annual Civil Law Conference, Sydney, November 2009.
  • “Law Reform: A peculiarly common law phenomenon?” invited presentation to Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut des sciences sociales du politique, Paris, October 2009.
  • “Slavery in the High Court of Australia: the use of international legal materials”, invited presentation to Law Department, Sciences Po, Paris, October 2009.
  • “Equality Unmodified?” (with Jenny Morgan), presentation to Sex Discrimination Act Silver Anniversary Conference, Canberra, October 2009.
  • “Evidentiary Issues in Judicial Review”, plenary presentation to Australian Institute of Administrative Law Annual Conference, Canberra, August 2009.
  • “Should Judges Just Apply the Law, or Should They Bring their own Values to the Task?”, participant with Bernhard Schlink, Michael Kirby and Justin Malbon, Judicial Values Forum, Sydney Law School, August 2009.
  • “Is there such a thing as a feminist adjudication process?” invited participant at Gender and Judging Workshop, International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Onati, Spain, June 2009.
  • “Grounds for Review of Administrative Decisions”, Administrative law: Practice and Procedure, Legalwise seminars, June 2009.
  • Panel member, with Director-General of Department of Juvenile Justice and others, Public Interest Law Clearing House (PILCH), seminar on Juvenile Justice (re ID, PF and DV v DJJ [2008] NSWSC 966), April 2009).
  • Organiser, Gender, Race and Reparations Workshop, Faculty of Law, University of Sydney, April 2009; presenter of introductory remarks and chair.
  • “The Grandview agreement: what can we learn from Canada?” Gender, Race and Reparations Workshop, Faculty of Law, University of Sydney, April 2009.
  • Invited participant, Family Law Roundtable with Professor Nancy Polikoff, Fulbright Scholar, UTS, February 2009.

Conference Presentations/Public Lectures 2008

  • “Running a judicial review case: lessons from ID, PF and DV v DJJ”; talk to administrative law students at UTS, 20 October 2008.
  • “Slavery in the High Court”, Presentation to Faculty of Law, 25 September 2008; presentation to 11 St James’ Hall Chambers, December 2008.
  • Commentary on Professor Margaret Davies, The Horizontal perspective in Legal Theory and Practice, Julius Stone Institute July 2008.
  • With Jane Wangmann, “Is there such a thing as Feminist Adjudication: lessons from the Grandview agreement in Canada”, Law and Society Association, May 2008, Montreal, Canada.

Conference Presentations/Public Lectures 2007

  • Gender, Race, Bias and Perspective: OR, How otherness colours your judgment”, Julius Stone Centenary conference, July 2007 Sydney, and July 2007, Law and Society association conference, Berlin.

Conference Presentations/Public Lectures 2006

  • “Law Reform: What’s in it for Women?”, presentation to AHRB Centre for Law Gender and Sexuality, Law School, Kent University, UK November 2006.
  • “Compensation for Historical Harms”, presentation to Cour de Cassation, Groupe de Travail réparation des préjudices de l'histoire, organised by the Institut des Hautes Etudes sur la Justice (IHEJ) (Paris, October 2006).
  • “Compensation for historical harms: challenges and possibilities”, Menzies-Monash Occasional Seminar In Public Policy, (London, September 2006).
  • “The Role of Law Commissions: some critical reflections”, invited address - plenary panel with the Honourable Justice Sir Stephen Sedley and others - Society of Legal Scholars annual conference (UK), September 2006.
  • “Negligence, judicial activism, 'wrongful conception' and reproductive autonomy: some comparative perspectives”, Comparative Law section, Society of Legal Scholars Conference (UK), September 2006.
  • With Jenny Morgan, ‘Critical Reflections on Equality: A Case Study on Sexual Harassment Laws’, Revisiting Equality, Onati, July 2006, International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Onati, Spain, July 2006.
  • With Jenny Morgan, ‘Understandings of Equality: A View from Australia”, Equality as a Social Right: Towards a concept of substantive equality in comparative and international law, International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Onati, Spain, June 2006.

Conference Presentations/Public Lectures 2005

  • “Gender, Race, Bias and Perspective: OR how otherness colours your judgment”, Faculty workshop presentation, Cleveland Marshall School of Law, October 2005; Santa Clara School of Law, November 2005.
  • Barbara Black Lecture, Columbia Law School, NY, September 2005.
  • “Law Reform: What’s in it for Women?” Presentation at Sex, Gender and Rights, Julius Stone Institute Conference, Sydney, August 2005.
  • “Colloquium: Including Gender Issues in the Law Curriculum”, Presentation at American Law and Society Association conference, Las Vegas, June 2005.
  • “Engendering the Law Curriculum” address to students at Cornell Law School, March 2005.
  • ‘Gender, Race, Bias and Perspective: Or How Otherness Colours Your Judgment’, seminar presentation at Washington College of Law, American University, February, 2005; Cornell Law School, April 2005.
  • ‘Feminist Legal Theory and Understandings of Equality: One Step Forward or Two Steps Back?’, presentation for 5th Annual Women and Law conference, The Global Impact of Feminist Legal Theory, San Diego, February, 2005.

Conference Presentations/Public Lectures 2004

  • ‘Thoughts on equality’, workshop on Gender Equality and the Future of the European Union, workshop, Kent University, September 2004.
  • ‘Law Reform: What’s in it for Women?’ seminar presented for Faculty of Law, University College Cork, Ireland, September 2004.
  • ‘Some Australian Reflections on Women’s Reproductive Bodies’, for international panel Rethinking Reproduction, Family and Universalism¸ Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, May 2004.
  • ‘Law Reform: What’s in it for Women?’ address to National Conference of Women’s Electoral Lobby, Sydney, June 2004.

Conference Presentations/Public Lectures 2003

  • “Sex, Golf and Stereotypes: Measuring Valuing and Imagining the Body in Court”, workshop presentation, Keele University, December 2003.
  • “One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: Examining Understandings of Equality”, presented at Practice and Theory, ESRC Workshop, Keele University, November 2003.
  • “Gender, Race, Bias and Perspective: Or, How Otherness Colours Your Judgment”, paper presented at Feminism and Legal Theory Workshop, Cornell Law School September 2003. Versions of this paper were also presented at the European University Institute, October 2003; Manchester and Kent Law Schools, November 2003; University of East London and Liverpool Law Schools, December 2003.
  • “Violence Against Women: Some international reflections”, presented at Brooklyn Law School, NY, September 2003.
    With Jenny Morgan, Plenary Address, “Legal Feminisms: Then and Now”, Feminist Legal Academics’ Workshop, Adelaide, June 2003.
  • Plenary Address, “Frozen Chooks Revisited: The Challenge of Changing Law/s” for Changing Laws; conference of the Australasian Law Teachers Association, Brisbane, July 2003.

Conference Presentations/Public Lectures in 2002

  • The Hidden Gender of Law, dinner speech to NSW Women Lawyers Association, Sydney, March 2002.
  • “The Family Law Reform Act”, presentation to Stop Domestic Violence Day forum, Parliament House, Sydney, April, 2002.
  • Keynote Address, Family Law and Domestic Violence conference, Sydney, May, 2002.
  • “Reflections on Marlee Kline, A Roundtable to Celebrate her Life”, Gender Sexuality and Law Conference, Keele, UK, June 2002.
  • “Legal Responses to Systemic Injuries”, paper for Law and Society Association annual meeting, Vancouver, Canada, June 2002.
  • “Public Liability: A Plea for Facts”, presented to forum, 23 September 2002, NSW Parliament House.
  • “A Toast to Claire L’Heureux-Dubé: Evening in Tribute to the Hon Justice Claire L’Heureux Dubé, for the Fund for Social Justice, Ottawa, September 2002.
  • “The influence of Madame Justice Claire L’Heureux Dubé on Australian law” at "Adding Feminism to Law: The Contributions of Madame Justice L'Heureux-Dubé," Workshop September 27, 2002, Fauteux Hall, University of Ottawa.
  • “Equality in Australian constitutional law”; presentation to Advanced Constitutional law seminar, Queens University, Kingston Ontario, September 2002.
  • “Sex, Golf and Stereotypes”, Faculty Seminar, Queens University Faculty of Law, September 2002.

A selection of addresses prior to 2002 includes

  • “Reforming Family Law: Lessons from the Part VII research”, address to Law Society/Legal Aid Commission Family Law Specialist Accreditation conference, Sydney, October 2001.
  • “Australian Responses to Relationship Issues”, plenary address (with the Hon Margaret Wilson, Attorney General of New Zealand), Triennial New Zealand Law Conference, Christchurch, October 2001.
  • “Mine, Mine, Mine: Contracting Out”, paper for Triennial New Zealand Law Conference, Christchurch, October 2001.
  • With Margaret Harrison, “Private Ordering: Who Benefits?” invited presentation to NZ Centre for Conflict Resolution, Wellington, October 2001.
  • “Compensating the Stolen Generations”, workshop presentation for Moving Forward: Achieving Reparations for the Stolen Generations, Sydney, August 2001.
  • “Recent Parenting Amendments”, paper for Justice, Courts and the Community: The Challenge Continues, 25th Anniversary conference, Family Court of Australia, Sydney, July 2001.
  • “Third Party Guarantees”, paper presented to conference of the Australian Finance Conference, Sydney and Melbourne, March, 2001.
  • “Common Law And Same Sex Relationships”, paper presented to Miller Du Toit conference, Fanily Law in a Changing Society: From the Margins to the Mainstream, Cape Town, South Africa, February 2001.
  • “Families, Law and Family Law: Contesting the Terrain”, plenary address to 10th World conference of the International Society of Family Law, Brisbane, July 2000.
  • “Reforming Relationships Law: Rethinking Law Beyond the Marriage Paradigm”, presented to Australian Institute of Family Studies conference, Sydney, July 2000.
  • “Dealing with Property Disputes Outside the Family Law Act” presented to 9th National Family Law Conference, Sydney, July, 2000.
  • With Helen Rhoades and Margaret Harrison, “Law Reform in Children’s Cases, England and Australia: One Step Forward or Two Steps Back?, plenary session, 9th National Family Law Conference, Sydney, July, 2000.
  • “Policy and Law Reform”, plenary address, NSW Community Legal Centres’ conference, Sydney, June, 2000.
  • Workshop Facilitator, session on ‘Gender and Judging’, Women, Justice and Authority Conference, Yale Law School, April 2000.
  • “The Politics of Family Law Reform”: presentation to Australian Family Law Teachers’ Workshop, Sydney, September, 1999.
  • “Where to from here”? Plenary Address presented at American Association of Law Schools conference, Women in Legal Education, NY, USA, October 1999.
  • “The Bride Wore Pink …. To the Property Relationships Amendment Legislation 1999: a history of family law reform in NSW”, paper presented at Queens University/Law Commission of Canada conference on Domestic Partnerships, Kingston Ontario, October 1999.
  • “Some Reflections on Law, Gender, Violence and Diversity”, keynote address, 2nd Australasian Women in Policing Conference, Brisbane, July 1999.
  • With Margaret Harrison and Helen Rhoades, “The Family Law Reform Act”: Interim Findings from a Research Project”, presented at Family Law Conference, May 1999; and Family Court Registrars conference, May 1999, Sydney.
  • With Helen Rhoades, “Children’s decision making and what judges ‘know’”: paper presented to Family Court Registrars conference, May 1999, Sydney.
  • “Reflections on Law, Gender and Inequality”, 1999 Wesley College foundation lecture, Sydney, May 1999.
  • “If it ain’t broke don’t fix it”: presented at a public forum on family law reform, NSW Bar Association, May 1999.
  • “Some Reflections on Law, Gender, Violence and Diversity”, keynote address to International Women’s Day conference, Sydney, March 1999.
  • “The Gendered Underpinnings of Personal Injury Damages Assessments”, invited lecture to Australian Plaintiff Lawyers’ Association, Sydney, March 1999.
  • “Sex Golf and Stereotypes”, address to partners and legal staff at Gilbert and Tobin solicitors, Sydney, March 1999 (also presented at faculty seminar at Macquarie University Faculty of Law, April 1999).
  • With Jenny Morgan, “Reflections on the Legal Academy: The ‘Seven-Up series’, Feminist Legal Academics’ Conference, Sydney, February 1999.
  • With Margaret Harrison and Helen Rhoades, “The Family Law Reform Act: Metamorphosis or More of the Same?”, plenary address, Law Council of Australia, Family Law Section, Biannual conference on Family Law, The Challenge of Change, Hobart, October 1998.
  • With Helen Rhoades, “How do Family Court judges ‘know’ the things they know?” Family Court of Australia, 3rd National Conference, Melbourne, October 1988.
  • “Equality for Women Under the Constitution?” address to the annual Jessie Street National Women’s Library luncheon, Parliament House, Sydney, September 1998.
  • “The Australian Family Law Reform Act”, invited address to the Canadian Special Joint Parliamentary Committee on Child Custody and Access, Ottawa, Canada, June 1998.
  • “Sex, Golf and Stereotypes: Measuring, Valuing and Imagining the Body in Court”, presentation to Gender, Law and Sexuality conference, Keele University, England, June 1998.
  • “Non economic loss assessments for women”, presentation to Canadian Law and Society Association, Ottawa, June 1998.
  • With Hilary Charlesworth and Jenny Morgan, “Equality for Women Under the Constitution?”, annual dinner, ANU Women Law Students Association, May 1998.
  • “Sex, Golf and Stereotypes: Measuring, Valuing and Imagining the Body in Court” breakfast address to the NSW Women Lawyers’ Association, March 1998.
  • With Hilary Charlesworth and Jenny Morgan, “Equality for Women Under the Constitution?”, address to Women’s Constitutional Convention, Parliament House, Canberra, January 1998.
  • “Hoovering as a Hobby and Other Stories: Gendered Assessments of Personal Injury Damages”, presentation for the Australian Institute of Judicial Administration/NSW Judicial Commission, Orientation Programme for New Judges, Wollongong, November 1997.
  • “Gendered Assessments of Personal Injury Damages”, Briefing for staff and clients of Dunhill Madden Butler, November 1997.
  • “Women and the Law”, keynote address to the NSW Legal Studies conference, October 1997.
  • “Teaching about Families and Family Law”, presentation to the Australian Family Law Teachers’ Workshop, October 1997.
  • “Strategies to Overcome Gender Bias”, Presentation to Community Legal Centres Conference, Adelaide, September 1997.
  • Address to the Women Lawyers’ Association of NSW, September 1997.
  • “Hoovering as a Hobby and Other Stories: Gendered Assessments of Personal Injury Damages”, Continuing Legal Education Presentation, Bar Association of NSW, September 1997.
  • Concluding Address, Feminist Legal Academics Workshop, Melbourne, July 1997.
  • “Including Gender Issues in the Tort Law Curriculum”, presentation to Australian Torts Teachers’ Workshop, Melbourne, July 1997.
  • With Margaret Harrison, “The Australian Family Law Reform Act: Can Changing Legislation Change Legal Culture, Legal Practice And Community Expectations?”, Paper presented for the 9th World Conference of the International Society of Family Law, Durban South Africa, July 1997.
  • “Families, Law and Family Law”, keynote address at conference, Disputing the Family, Melbourne, March 1997.
  • “The Gender of Judgments: Some Reflections on Bias”, Legal Studies dinner, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, December 1996.
  • “Hoovering as a Hobby and Other Stories: Gendered Assessments of Personal Injury Damages”, the Douglas McK Brown Lecture, UBC Faculty of Law, Vancouver, Canada, November 1996.
  • “The Gender of Judgments: Some Reflections on Bias”, the Annie McDonald Langstaff Lecture, Faculty of Law, McGill University, Montreal, November 1996.
  • With Jenny Morgan, “Including Gender Issues in the Core Law curriculum”, seminar presented to Faculty of Law, UBC, September 1996, Faculty of Law, University of Victoria, October 1996, Faculty of Law, University of Calgary, October 1996 (Canada).
  • The Gender of Judgments: a Mini-Symposium with responses from the Hon Justice L’Heureux Dube (Supreme Court of Canada); The Hon Justice CA Fraser (Chief Justice of Alberta) and the Hon Justice C Johnston (Provincial Court of Alberta), Calgary, October, 1996.
  • “Damaging Stereotypes: Gender and the Assessment of Personal Injury Damages”, annual conference of the National Association of Women Judges (US), Memphis, TN, September 1996.
  • “The Impact of Gender on the Assessment of Personal Injury Damages”, faculty seminar presented to University of Florida College of Law, Gainesville, Florida, September 1996.
  • “Equality for Women in Law”, Women’s Legal Resources Centre, June 1996.
  • “A Visitor’s Reflections on the new South Africa”, Faculty of Law, UNSW, June 1996.
  • “Legal Categories and Women’s Lives”, paper presented to conference on Researching Gender and Law, Centre for Applied Legal Studies, Gender Research Project, University of the Witwatersrand, March 1996.
  • “Gender Bias and Equality: Some Reflections from Australia”, presented to Cape Town Magistrates and Justice College, Pretoria, March 1996.
  • “Gender Issues and the Core Law Curriculum”, presented to faculties of law at University of Cape Town, University of the Witwatersrand, University of South Africa, University of Natal (Pietermaritzburg), University of Natal (Durban), March-April 1996.
  • “Violence and the Family Law Act”, City of Sydney Law Society, February 1996.
  • “The Relevance of Violence in Family Law Decision-Making”, to BLEC Family Law Day, 3 February 1996.
  • “Gendered Assumptions in Personal Injury Damages Assessment”, to WA Supreme Court Judges, Perth, January 1996.
  • “Civil Remedies in the Family Court for violence against women”, for the First National Conference on Sexual Assault Law, Melbourne, November 1995.
  • “The Gender of Judgments”, Eureka 95, Australian Institute of Judicial Administration (AIJA) conference on gender awareness issues for the judiciary, Ballarat, October 1995.
  • “Women and Equality Before the Law”, Redfern Legal Centre Publishing, “Women and the Law, opening address, Sydney, October, 1995.
  • “Telling Tales: Legal Stories about Violence Against Women”, US/Australia Law and Humanities Institute/Law and Literature Association, Berkeley, California, September 1995.
  • Law Reform: Taking Gender into Account” paper presented to the Australasian Law Reform Agencies’ Conference, Brisbane, September 1995.
  • “Matrimonial Property Law Reform in Australia: What Lessons can we Learn?”, paper to the Family Court of Australia’s second national conference, Queensland, September 1995 (also presented to the WA Family Law Practitioners’ Association annual conference, May 1996).
  • “Women’s Work: Gendered Understandings” to Australian Institute of Judicial Administration (AIJA) Faculty Training Program, Melbourne, September 1995.
  • “The Relevance of Violence in Family Law Decision Making”, to Qld Family Law Practitioners’ Association, July 1995.
  • (with Jenny Morgan), “Including Gender Issues in Core Law Curricula”, presented to Women, Culture and Universities: A Chilly Climate, Sydney, April 1995. Also presented to University of New England, UWA, Murdoch University, Southern Cross University and Northern Territory University Law Schools.
  • “Equality for Women Before the Law”, presented to NSW Women Lawyers’ Association, Annual Lexpo Breakfast (October 1994); presented to Auckland Women Lawyers’ Association (November 1994).
  • “Matrimonial Property and Equality for Women, Discourses in Discord”, keynote paper presented to NZ Family Property Symposium, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, Wellington, November 1994.
  • The Relevance of Violence in Family Law Decision Making, paper given to Family Court of Australia, Annual Judges conference, Adelaide (October 1994); International Year of the Family Conference, Adelaide (November 1994).
  • “Marginalisation of Women in Family Law”, Paper presented to the Southern Regional conference, Family Court of Australia, Ballarat, October 1994.
  • “Hearing Women in Court”, Public Interest Law conference, Sydney, September 1994.
  • “Legal Responses to Women’s Work”, Seminar, UNSW Social Policy Research Centre, (August 1994).
  • “The Gender of Judgments: Will Women Judges Make a Difference?” to Edith Cowan University, Women in Leadership Public Lecture Series (Perth, June 1994).
  • “Gender Bias in Tribunals” (with Professor Jenny Morgan); presented to Administrative Review Council’s Tribunals conference (Melbourne, October 1993).
  • “Gender Issues in Personal Injury Damages”, paper presented to the Law and Literature Conference (October 1993).
  • “Gendered Assumptions in Family Law”, presented to Law Society of the Northern Territory’s Continuing Legal Education Program (September 1993); Law Council of Australia, Family Law Section, Adelaide, November 1993; Family Court Gender Awareness Seminar, Kooralbyn, QLD, April 1994.
  • “Property and Gender”, Paper presented to the World Congress on Family Law and Children’s Rights, July 1993.
    “Gender Bias in Family Law”, paper presented to the National Family Court conference, July 1993.
  • “Violence Against Women: Interrogating Legal Responses”, paper presented as part of panel at Canadian Law and Society conference, June 1993.
  • “The Gender of Judgments”, working paper presented to Faculty of Law, University of British Columbia, September 1992; Feminism and Law Workshop Series, University of Toronto, September 1992; Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, October 1992; Feminism and Legal Theory Conference, Columbia University Law School, New York, June 1993 and National Community Legal Centres Conference, Brisbane, July 1993.
  • “Will Women’s Judgments Make a Difference?”, speech presented on plenary panel at Australian Law and Literature conference, Sydney, July 1992.
  • “Legal Categories and Women’s Work: Explorations for a Cross-Doctrinal Feminist Jurisprudence”, paper presented at Australian Legal Convention, Adelaide, September 1991; the Australian Institute of Criminology, conference on Women and the Law, September 1991; Faculty of Law, Australian National University, October 1991 and Women and Work, Sydney University, May 1992.
  • “Labouring under Misconceptions: Legal Constructions of Women’s Work”, paper presented to Law and Society in the Global Village, Amsterdam, June 1991.
  • “Women, Work and the Law”, paper presented to House of Representatives Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs, `Equal Opportunity and Equal Status for Australian Women’, Parliament House, Canberra, May 1991.
  • “The Hidden Gender of Law: Implications for Curriculum”, paper presented to Osgoode Hall Law School, York University; Carleton University Department of Law; Faculty of Common Law, Ottawa University (April to June, 1989); a revised version was also presented to Australian Law Teachers Association Conference, Canberra, September 1990 and Sydney University Law School, October, 1990.
  • “The Unfortunate Experiment: the New Zealand Cervical Cancer Scandal”, paper presented at State University of New York, Buffalo Law School, April, 1989.