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ABOUT THE FORUM:

Child sexual abuse is a serious concern for the community and only a small proportion of perpetrators are ever 'brought to justice'. The criminal justice approach provides only one avenue of redress and one that many victims are not keen to use or do not see as an adequate means of resolution. The aim of this forum is to generate discussion about how best to address the legal and societal "justice gaps" in and outside the criminal justice system and how to minimise the trauma and meet the needs of those who have been sexually abused.

The betrayal of trust inherent in child sexual abuse is a key element of the abuse and contributes to the often very long-lasting impact on the victims. Many victims suffer in silence.

There is little reliable information to guide those involved, including professionals, about the ways in which historical and institutional abuse is dealt with, and the likely benefits, pathways and outcomes of any prosecution. There is also little information about other ways of reaching an appropriate resolution. This forum is particularly timely given the recent establishment of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.

This forum will provide an opportunity to discuss alternative and systemic approaches in the light of the impact of the abuse and the process on victim complainants as well as the investigative and evidentiary issues.

SPEAKERS INCLUDE:

• Assoc Professor Judy Cashmore AO, Sydney Law School, Unviersity of Sydney
• Professor Kathleen Daly, Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Griffith University
• Dr Jodi Death, Crime and Justice Research Centre QUT
• Nicola and John Ellis, Clinch Long Letherbarrow
• Dr Gary Foster, Living Well
• Dr Cathy Kezelman, President, Adults Surviving Child Abuse
• Megan Mitchell, National Children's Commissioner
• Detective Michael Newbury, South Australia Police
• Professor Patrick O'Leary, Griffith University
• Kara Shead, NSW Crown Prosecutor

Lawyers/barristers: attendance at thisforum is equal to6 MCLE/CPD units.

This event is part of Sydney Social Justice Research Network (SSJN) Workshop Program for 2013.

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Guest speakers

• Stella Young,editor of ABC's Ramp Up, disability advocate and comedian
• Dr Peggy Dwyer, Barrister

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On Sunday 1 March 2009, Sydney Law School alumnus Matt Laffan passed away after he fought and lost the biggest battle of his colourful and active life. In memoriam of the significant impact Matt has had in his short life, Sydney Law School has established an annual social justice address in his honour.

This year's address will be held on Wednesday 19 June, commencing with a recollection of Matt Laffan by barrister Dr Peggy Dwyer, followed by an address by Stella Young, disability advocate and editor of ABC's Ramp Up.

Matt Laffan had severe disabilities, but he will be remembered most for his impressive abilities. With enormous enthusiasm for life, Matt grabbed opportunities and made the most of them.

About the speakers

Stella Young

Stella Young is Editor of ABC's Ramp Up website, the online space for news, discussion and opinion about disability in Australia, a disability advocate and comedian.

Stella has been active in the disability community in a variety of roles, including membership of the Victorian Disability Advisory Council, Ministerial Advisory Council for the Department of Victorian communities and Women With Disabilities Victoria. She was a two-time state finalist in the Melbourne International Comedy Festival's Raw Comedy competition; and has hosted eight seasons of Australia's first disability culture program No Limits.

With a strong interest in issues facing women and young people with disabilities, Stella has worked with the Youth Disability Advocacy Service to establish the LiveAccess project, advocating for better access to live music venues. Prior to joining the ABC, Stella worked in Public Programs at Melbourne Museum.

Dr Peggy Dwyer

As a barrister, Peggy appears in a wide range of criminal matters, including jury trials, contested hearings, appeals, Children's Court matters and Parole Board hearings. Peggy has appeared as counsel in jury trials in NSW, the Northern Territory and Western Australia.

She has a busy practice in coronial proceedings, appearing as Counsel Assisting the Coroner (in the NT and NSW) and counsel for interested parties. She also has a significant interest in medical law and appears in disciplinary tribunals including the Medical Tribunal and Medical Council, for both prosecution and defence.

Accessibility

Sydney Law School is wheelchair accessible. Lecture Theatre 101 is a tiered venue, however positions are available for wheelchairs.This lecture will have Auslan Interpreter provision.

Please notify us of any accessibility requirements you may have so that we can assist you appropriately by calling 9351 0248.

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About the lecture

Over the last couple of years the Delaware courts have been highly critical of the players in the U.S. buyout game, particularly where there have been conflicts of interests. Investment bankers have borne a large portion of the criticisms as a result of the Del Monte and El Paso buyouts. But management, directors, and in some cases, buyers, have also come under fire.

In recent U.S. transactions, dealmakers have noted these lessons, and 2013 appears headed towards being the year of the buyout. However, even as old criticisms are addressed new, or reformulated, ones have surfaced in deals like Dell's fight with its shareholders to gain approval for a massive management-led LBO; Sprint's attempt to squeeze out the minority holders of Clearwire in the face of a competing bid; the sale of Sprint itself to Softbank in a complex deal; and even the sale of NYSE to upstart and former adversary Intercontinental Exchange (ICE). It seems like this year's deals are too good not to do as even LBO critic (and master investor) Warren Buffett has prominently changed course and teamed up with private equity to buy H.J. Heinz.

Ron Barusch's well known 'Dealpolitik' columns at The Wall Street Journal address many of these criticisms. Come join us to hear how the recent U.S. cases have influenced the terms of buyouts and the areas in which this year's deals remain controversial.

About the Speaker

Ronald C. Barusch was a mergers and acquisitions lawyer with Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP for over 30 years. Ron retired in 2010 after 25 years as a partner at the firm, including three years as office leader of Skadden's Sydney office. He is currently a visiting lecturer at Sydney Law School teaching 'Cross Border Deals.'

Ron also writes 'Dealpolitik' for The Wall Street Journal's Deal Journal providing a strategic look at deals currently making the headlines as well as the major forces at work in the deal-making world

Commentator: David Friedlander, Partner, King & Wood Mallesons

Chair: Professor Jennifer Hill, Sydney Law School

Lawyers/barristers: attendance at this seminar is equal to 1 MCLE/CPD unit.

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Speakers

Associate Professor Anil Hargovan, Australian School of Business

Jason Harris, Senior Lecturer, UTS

Chair: Professor Jennifer Hill, Sydney Law School

It is well established, following judicial authority by the High Court of Australia in Spies, that directors owe a duty to consider creditors' interests upon corporate insolvency and that such a duty is one of imperfect obligation that is incapable of direct enforcement by the creditors. Notwithstanding such orthodox authority, the precise nature and scope of directors' duties to creditors upon corporate insolvency remains a vexed issue which continues to plague the judiciary as a consequence of the absence of any detailed consideration of such issues by the High Court.

The recent appellate court decision in the Westpac Banking Corporation v The Bell Group Ltd (in liq) (No 3) exemplifies the legal uncertainties on this topic which arose upon the directors' exploration of corporate rescue plans in the context of looming insolvency.

It is now unclear as to whether directors must go beyond consideration of creditors' interests and ensure that creditors are protected in conformity with the pari passu principle. Furthermore, the extent to which the judiciary can intervene to adjudicate on the directors' beliefs and business judgements in this context is also clouded by uncertainty. The seminar, in light of the Bell appeal to the High Court of Australia, will consider such issues.

Lawyers/barristers: attendance at this seminar is equal to 1 MCLE/CPD unit.

Beyond 'Groundhog Day': Can productivity and fairness be improved without further 'labour law reform'?

Over the last two decades labour law reform has had a high profile in Australian policy debates, higher in fact than nearly all other advanced industrial societies. The seemingly endless calls for 'reform' and changes to labour law now mean Australia has a highly volatile industrial landscape, a volatility not arising from industrial disputation but which is policy induced.

At this year's labour law conference we will explore ways to improve productivity within the existing system and consider how labour relations policy-making can be improved. Attention will be devoted to reflecting on what works well, how perceived problems in the law can in fact be managed in ways that prevent the need for yet more 'system reform' and how the statutory framework could be made more stable in the long term. Perspectives will be provided by legal strategists who advise pace setting employers and unions, key union and employer leaders who define strategies in light of what is (as opposed to those who lament what 'ought to be') and seasoned researchers knowledgeable of the operation of the law and how, more often than not, factors other than it are crucial for determining efficiency and equity outcomes.

This year's speakers include:

• Professor Joellen Riley, Dean, Sydney Law School, University of Sydney
• The Hon Professor Geoffrey Giudice AO, University of Melbourne
• Richard Bunting, Partner, Ashurst
• Josh Bornstein, Principal, Maurice Blackburn Lawyers
• Stephen Smith - Director National Industrial Relations, AiG
• Tim Lyons, Assistant Secretary, ACTU
• Anthony Forsyth, Associate Professor & Director, Juris Doctor Programs, RMIT
• Geoff McGill, Visiting Industry Scholar, WRC, University of Sydney Business School
• Professor Emeritus Ron McCallum, Sydney Law School, University of Sydney
• Barbara Pocock, Director, Centre for Work + Life, University of South Australia
• Chair: Professor John Buchanan, Director, Workplace Research Centre, University of Sydney Business School
  

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Registration

Cost: Early Bird - $795 until 22nd May
General Conference rate - $895
USYD Staff and Student rates are available - Contact WRC

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Speakers

Professor Bryan Horrigan,Dean, Monash University Law School

Associate Professor Ian Lee, University of Toronto

Chair: Professor Jennifer Hill, Sydney Law School

Lawyers/barristers: attendance at this seminar is equal to 1 MCLE/CPD unit.

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The Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence, Sydney Law School is pleased to host the upcoming Australian Society of Legal Philosophy Conference. The conference, held at the University of Sydney from Friday 16 - Sunday 18 August, will feature papers from various fields of legal theory.

Conference Speakers
Professor Brian Leiter, Karl N. Llewellyn Professor of Jurisprudence and Director, Center for Law, Philosophy, and Human Values, University of Chicago

Professor Emilios Christodoulidis, Professor of Legal Theory, University of Glasgow

Professor Wojciech Sadurski, Challis Professor in Jurisprudence, Sydney Law School, University of Sydney

Book Symposium:
The book symposium will feature two titles;

Forms Liberate: reclaiming the jurisprudence of Lon L Fuller
(Hart Publishing, 2012) by Kristen Rundle, Lecturer in Law, The London School of Economics and Political Science;

Philip Selznick: Ideals in the World
(Stanford University Press, 2012) by Martin Krygier, Gordon Samuels Professor of Law and Social Theory at the University of New South Wales

Conference Program - Friday 16 August
3.30pm: Registration
4.00pm: KEYNOTE ADDRESS - Professor Brian Leiter
5.30pm: Conference Welcome Drinks
7.00pm: Conference Dinner - Rubyos, Newtown

Conference Program - Saturday 17 August
9.30am - 5.30pm: Conference Sessions & Book Symposium

Conference Program - Sunday 18 August
9.30am - 1.00pm: Conference Sessions

Call for Papers
The conference organisers welcome papers from any field of legal theory. Abstracts of around 100 words should be submitted by email by Friday May 24 to:

Professor Jeff Goldsworthy, Faculty of Law, Monash University (jeff.goldsworthy@monash.edu)

Cost:
Early Bird Full Fee $200
Early Bird Alumni $160
Early Bird Student $100
Early Bird rates are available until Friday 19 July, 2013.

Conference Dinner: $75 per person

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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

This interdisciplinary conference will explore the role for law in supporting and promoting global health. We are inviting abstracts for papers addressing any topic related to the conference theme. Possible topics include:

• Health and human rights
• Communicable diseases
• Non-communicable diseases
• International trade law and human health
• Intellectual property law and human health
• Medical tourism
• Sexual and reproductive rights
• Health research in a global context
• Access to medicines
• Food security
• Health and migration
• Disability, marginalisation and exclusion

Abstracts of 150 words, 100 words of biographical information and contact details should be sent to law.events@sydney.edu.au by 30 April 2013.

To register your interest and to receive further information about the conference please register your details HERE

Conference convenors:
Professor Belinda Bennett (University of Sydney)
Associate Professor Ian Kerridge (University of Sydney)
Professor Michael Freeman (University College London)
Dr Sarah Hawkes (University College London)

This conference is being presented by Sydney Law School's Centre for Health Governance, Law and Ethics in cooperation with the Sydney Medical School's Centre for Values, Ethics & Law in Medicine.

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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

This interdisciplinary conference will explore the role for law in supporting and promoting global health. We are inviting abstracts for papers addressing any topic related to the conference theme. Possible topics include:

• Health and human rights
• Communicable diseases
• Non-communicable diseases
• International trade law and human health
• Intellectual property law and human health
• Medical tourism
• Sexual and reproductive rights
• Health research in a global context
• Access to medicines
• Food security
• Health and migration
• Disability, marginalisation and exclusion

Abstracts of 150 words, 100 words of biographical information and contact details should be sent to law.events@sydney.edu.au by 30 April 2013.

To register your interest and to receive further information about the conference please register your details HERE

Conference convenors:
Professor Belinda Bennett (University of Sydney)
Associate Professor Ian Kerridge (University of Sydney)
Professor Michael Freeman (University College London)
Dr Sarah Hawkes (University College London)

This conference is being presented by Sydney Law School's Centre for Health Governance, Law and Ethics in cooperation with the Sydney Medical School's Centre for Values, Ethics & Law in Medicine.

To register for this seminarCLICK HERE
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Speaker:

Professor Stephen Bottomley, Dean, ANU Law School

Chair: Professor Jennifer Hill, Sydney Law School

Lawyers/barristers: attendance at this seminar is equal to 1 MCLE/CPD unit.

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Seminar Description

Some jurisdictions weathered the global financial crisis far better than others. Australia has attracted much international attention as a result of its post-crisis economic performance.

This seminar will be based on her recent, co-authored book on The Regulatory Aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis (Cambridge University Press, 2012). The seminar will explore why Australia fared so well in the crisis, compared to other common law jurisdictions, such as the U.S. and U.K. For many commentators, the answer to this question has been that Australia was "lucky", in that its economy was buoyed by China's demand for resources. Jennifer will argue, however, there are a number of other significant, but often under-appreciated, factors which contributed to Australia's resilience during the crisis. These include legal structures and reform; financial market regulation; banking history; and corporate governance.

About the speaker:

Jennifer Hill is Professor of Corporate Law at Sydney Law School and a Director of the Ross Parsons Centre. She writes widely in the field of corporate law and governance, and has taught at several US law schools, including Vanderbilt, University of Virginia, University of Texas and Cornell.

Jennifer is a Research Associate of the European Corporate Governance Institute and a member of the corporations law editorial board for Cambridge University Press. She is also a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law (AAL) and a member of the Corporations and Markets Advisory Committee (CAMAC), Legal Sub-Committee. Jennifer is also an International Commentator on Columbia Law School's Blue Sky Blog on Corporations and the Capital Markets.

Jennifer's recent publications include:- (i) R. S. Thomas and J.G. Hill (eds), Research Handbook on Executive Pay (2012, Edward Elgar); and (ii) and E. Ferran, N. Moloney, J.G. Hill and J.C. Coffee, Jr.), The Regulatory Aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis (Cambridge University Press, 2012).

Commentator: John Trowbridge, Former Consultant, Executive and Regulator in Financial Services

Lawyers/barristers: attendance at this seminar is equal to 1 MCLE/CPD unit.