Sydney Law School Distinguished Speakers Program 2012

Professor Nicholas C Bala | Professor Lawrence Gostin | Professor Michel Rosenfeld | Professor Dame Hazel Genn QC | Professor Paul Marcus | Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman | Ms Erin Brockovich | The Hon Nicola Roxon MP | Professor Helene Ruiz-Fabri | Lord Brian Kerr of Tonaghmore | Mr Michael Sexton SC

Registration will open approximately 6 weeks prior to each lecture, and prices are inclusive of a cocktail function.

Registration
$25 inc GST: full fee
$20 inc GST: Sydney Law School alumni
$10 inc GST: University of Sydney students

Unless otherwise advertised, doors will open at 5.30pm for 6-7pm lecture, followed by a cocktail reception until 8pm.

Lecture program

Speaker	Topic	Date	Registration
Professor Nicholas Bala, Faculty of Law, Queen's University Kingston, Ontario L.S.M., B.A. (Toronto), LL.B. (Queen's), LL.M. (Harvard)	The 2011 Family Law Amendments & Family Violence: Has Parliament Finally Got it Right?	Wed 22 February	Closed
Professor Paul Marcus, College of William and Mary (Virginia) and criminal lawyer J.D., A.B., University of California-Los Angeles	Why the U.S. criminal justice system has some unusual features, and other nations such as Australia do not	Mon 5 March	Closed
Ms Erin Brockovich, President, Brockovich Research & Consulting, environmentalist and consultant, Shine Lawyers	Paying it forward - Erin Brockovich 12 years on	Mon 19 March	Closed
Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman	The next stage of the nuclear age: better, worse or more of the same?	Mon 2 April	Closed
Professor Dame Hazel Genn QC, Dean of Laws, University College London DBE, QC (Hon), FBA, BA (1971), LLB (1985), LLD (1992)	Access to justice	Thu 19 April	Closed
Professor Lawrence Gostin, Georgetown University Law Centre and Johns Hopkins University B.A., State University of New York, Brockport; J.D., Duke; LL.D. (Hon.), State University of New York	President Obama’s health care reform: The Supreme Court and the future of the American health system	Wed 23 May	Closed
Lord Brian Kerr of Tonaghmore	The Australian internet activist, the radical Jordanian cleric and the English businessman - recent cases concerning the UK's extradition obligations	Thu 2 August	Closed
Professor Michel Rosenfeld, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, New York B.A., 1969, M.A., 1971, M.Phil., 1978, Ph.D., 1991, Columbia University; J.D., 1974, Northwestern University	US first amendment run amuck: Protecting hate speech, letting money talk and other disproportionate excesses as viewed from a comparative perspective	Thu 9 August	Closed
Professor Helene Ruiz-Fabri Dean of the Sorbonne Law School, Paris France *This is a free lecture	The Sense & Direction of Multilateralism in International Trade Law	Thu 23 August	Closed
Mr Michael Sexton SC Solicitor General for NSW	The Constitution vs The States? Federalism After Federation Is There A Role Still Remaining For The States in The Australian Federation?	Thu 13 September	Closed

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Sydney Law School Distinguished Speakers Program 2012

Lecture program