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Monthly Archives: November 2011
The Terror Presidency: Executive Lawyering during National Crises
The Terror Presidency: Executive Lawyering during National Crises by Professor Jack Goldsmith DATE Wednesday, 7 December TIME 1:00pm VENUE Room GO3, Napier Building, The University of Adelaide, North Terrace Professor Jack Goldsmith is the Henry L. Shattuck Professor at Harvard Law School, where he teaches and writes about national security law, presidential power, cybersecurity, international law, internet […]
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Menzies scholarship awarded to Adelaide Law School graduate
Eleanor Mitchell, an Adelaide Law School graduate and past University Medallist, has been awarded a 2012 Sir Robert Menzies Foundation Scholarship. Eleanor will undertake a Bachelor of Civil Law at the University of Oxford in 2012. A University Medallist in 2009, Eleanor is currently an Associate to Justice Jayne Jagot of the Federal Court of […]
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BILS/UBC Workshop on Stigma in Insolvency
On 17 January at the University of British Columbia, BILS will co-host (with the Annual Review of Insolvency Law, based at UBC) a one-day workshop on the Impact of Stigma in Insolvency, which will be chaired by Professor Janis Sarra (BILS Advisory Board), and commentator will be Emeritus Professor Jacob Ziegel, University of Toronto. Associate […]
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An advertised post: ASIC Commissioner (Insolvency)
ASIC on 20th October announced that Michael Dwyer, was retiring as Commissioner after three busy years. Mr Dwyer’s experience in the insolvency industry has coincided with the GFC, and with the Senate Inquiry into Liquidators, Administrators. Like the ASIC Chair, we pay tribute to Mr Dwyer’s efforts (particularly as a former Adelaide practitioner) and […]
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Advanced Contract Law Conference co-hosted by Adelaide Law School
On Friday 11 November 2011 the Adelaide Law School and the Law Society of South Australia co-hosted a highly successful conference on Advanced Contract Law. An appreciative group of legal practitioners attended the day-long event, which featured visiting experts Prof John Carter (Sydney University) and Prof James Devenney (Exeter University), as well as the Law […]
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Adelaide Law School academic to talk at Law Council of Australia symposium
On Friday 25 November Dr Peter Burdon will speak on the topic of Earth Jurisprudence at a symposium organised by the Law Council of Australia on the future of environmental law. The symposium will mark the contributions of Emeritus Professor Ben Boer and Professor Robert Fowler have made, and continue to make, significant contributions in […]
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Celtic Tiger refugees and their debt tail
As I sit in my University sabbatical office in mid-west Ireland, surrounded by the signs of an economy staggering, my office door opens and my office neighbour introduces herself and then starts, “I have a friend….” Well this friend, her husband and two children have left Ireland and gone to Australia, but they have a […]
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