Staff Seminar Program 2006

2005 Seminars 2006 Seminars 2007 Seminars

28 February Mark Israel ‘RQF & Show & Tell research.’

7 March Professor Russell Weaver, Distinguished University Scholar, School of Law, University of Louisville, Kentucky ‘The Right to Speak Ill: Defamation, Reputation and Free Speech.’
Chair Gary Davis

Please note a 2nd seminar this week on Thursday
9 March Caroline Hunter and Judy Nixon, Sheffield Hallam University ‘The mad the bad and the uncivilized: how to deal with antisocial behaviour.’
Chair: Michele Slatter

14 March Professor Peter Russell, Emeritus Professor of Political Science at University of Toronto ‘Appointing Judges in an Age of Judicial Power: Critical Perspectives from Around the World.’
Chair: Gary Davis

21 March Professor Michael Furmston, Emeritus Professor of Law at Bristol University ‘Notional and Actual Damages for Breach of Contract.’
Chair:  Andrew Stewart

28 March Professor David O. Friedrichs, Dept. of Sociology/Criminal Justice University of Scranton, Pennsylvania ‘White Collar Crime in a Globalized, Postmodern World.’

4 April Dr Aogan Mulcahy, Senior Lecturer University College, Dublin 'Informalism and Community in Irish Policing.'
Chair: Andrew Goldsmith

2 May Michele Slatter '"If lawyers are the answer it's a very silly question": routes to housing rights.'
Chair: Hossein Esmaeili

9 May Dr. Tom Madell, Associate Professor Department of Law Umeå University Sweden ‘From the Citizen's Charter to Public Service Guarantees - the Swedish experience.’
Chair: Margaret Davies

16 May Grant Niemann ‘The Royal Commission.’
Chair: Marinella Marmo

23 May Mary Heath 'Sharing the Joy! Stories of Teaching Success and Pleasure in Teaching.'
Chair: Natalie Fowell

30 May Professor Geoffrey Lindell, Adjunct Professor Adelaide University & ANU, Professorial Fellow (Melbourne Uni) ‘Education, the Australian Constitution and the Commonwealth – He who pays the Piper, Calls the Tune.’
Chair: Elizabeth Handsley

6 June Show and Tell Teaching

30 August  Michele Slatter & Julia Miller “'Mind the Gap'/'Be Prepared': challenges for first semester Law studies. Preparedness Issues in first Year Teaching.”
Chair: Michele Slatter

6 September  Kate Sinclair ‘Tech trends in Education.’
Chair: Bibi Sangha

13 September Rachel Spencer ‘From Atticus Finch to Dennis Denuto: Using Popular Media to Teach Legal skills & Ethics.’
Chair: Mark Rankin

4 October Mark Rankin ‘The Church and the Foetus: A Tale of Fragility.’
Chair: Natalie Fowell

10 October Mark Halsey ‘Serving the "second" sentence: Client perspectives of post-custodial life in South Australia’
The seminar will present the main themes to emerge from initial and follow-up interviews with young males aged 15 to 20 years subjected to repeat cycles of incarceration and release across juvenile and adult custodial spheres in South Australia from 2003 to 2006. It will focus specifically on how young men conceive and narrate the difficulties of the second sentence in terms of issues centering on accommodation, drug and alcohol use, employment, peer associations and administrative factors. The talk will conclude by arguing that the high rates of recidivism and reincarceration have as much to do with risky systems of offender management as they do with attempts to manage or surveill risky or dangerous individuals.
Chair: Chris Symes

11 October Prof Neil Brewer (School of Psychology) ‘Developing the research culture in the School of Psychology: what worked?’
Chair: Gary Davis

18 October Justice John Mansfield, visiting Federal Court Judicial Fellow "Corporate Regulation in Australia:  a useful burden?"
Chair: Gary Davis

25 October Helen Culshaw and Heidi Savilla ‘Updating staff on new services, databases, new research tips and other library happenings.’
Chair: Esther Stern

31 October Marinella Marmo ‘Cooperation, harmonisation or integration within criminal justice systems.’
Chair: Lesley-Ann Petrie

8 November Natalie Fowell ‘The problem of the public domain in copyright: recent challenges for information& innovation policy.’
Chair: Andrew Stewart

15 November Show & Tell (Research) session
Chair: Mark Israel