Justice Connections 4 – Institutional Law Reform and Justice
Justice Connections, hosted by the University of Canberra and the Australian National University, University House, 20 November 2015. Part 1 Part 2 Transcript [This dialogue followed a presentation by Dr Anrew Leigh MP.] Simon Rice (SR): Ros is President of the Australian Law Reform Commission and has just been reappointed for three years, and I chair the ACT Advisory Law …
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Read moreForty Years On – Lessons of the ALRC | The Hon Michael Kirby AC CMG
The Hon. Michael Kirby AC CMG – Inaugural Chairman of the Australian Law Reform Commission (1975-84); Justice of the High Court of Australia (1996-2009). Based on oral remarks on the 40th anniversary celebration held in the Federal Court of Australia, Sydney, on 23 October 2015. With honour, praise and reflection Chief Justice, Attorney General, Uncle Chicka, …
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Read moreALRC 40th Anniversary Celebration | Chief Justice Robert French AC
Chief Justice Robert French AC, Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia, 23 October 2015, Federal Court, Sydney.President Rosalind Croucher, Attorney-General Senator George Brandis, Sir Gerard Brennan, Chairman Emeritus Michael Kirby, my colleague Justice Susan Kiefel, your Honours, ladies and gentlemen. I thank the Australian Law Reform Commission for the invitation to participate in this important …
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Read moreThe ALRC’s first 40 years | Prof Rosalind Croucher AM
Professor Rosalind Croucher AM* President, Australian Law Reform Commission, 23 October 2015, Federal Court, Sydney. Thank you, Mr Kirby, for your wonderfully warm and vivid recollections of the early years of the ALRC. Marking the achievements of four decades In my role as President I stand on the shoulders of giants: particularly the six Chairmen and …
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Read moreAdvocacy through law reform
Moot Court Bench—Coffee Hour Seminar, Professor Rosalind Croucher AM*, President, Australian Law Reform Commission, Jackson McDonald, Perth, 29 September 2015. Introduction Thank you Dr David Cox, both as Chair of the Law Reform Commission of Western Australia and as a partner of Jackson McDonald, for hosting today’s seminar. Thank you to Lorraine Finlay, Director of …
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Read moreMichael Kirby Lecture 2015 | Re-imagining Law Reform—Michael Kirby’s Vision, Human Rights and the Australian Law Reform Commission in the 21st Century
Professor Rosalind Croucher AM*,President, Australian Law Reform Commission, 9 July 2015, Southern Cross University. Introduction Vice-Chancellor Peter Lee, Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Research, Professor Geraldine Mackenzie, Dean Rocque Reynolds, Professor Bee-Chen Goh and—the Hon Michael Kirby AC CMG, Chairman Emeritus of the Australian Law Reform Commission. I would like to echo Bee-Chen in her warm acknowledgment of …
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Read moreGovernance and Public Policy
Australia India Youth Dialogue, 28 January 2015, by Professor Rosalind Croucher, President, Australian Law Reform Commission* Thank you for including me in today’s discussion on the theme of ‘Governance and Public Policy’. As the head of an independent Australian federal Government agency, this is a topic that is dear to my heart. Independence will be the central theme in …
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Read moreAn Academic in the World of Law Reform—of Writing and ‘Jousting with Demons’
by Professor Rosalind Croucher, President, Australian Law Reform Commission*, 31 October 2012 at the Sydney Law School 2013 Postgraduate Conference—Stability and Transformation. Abstract The process of research and writing, of the kind that all research students are engaged in, is akin to jousting with demons. There are other metaphors one might use—gazing at oceans, walking through mud. But they …
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Read moreYour Country Needs You! The Value of Academic Research to Law Reform
Professor Rosalind Croucher, President, Australian Law Reform Commission, at Griffith University, Faculty of Law, Emerging Scholars Colloquium, 31 October 2012. Introduction Thank you very much for inviting me to speak today. Professor AJ Brown is very persuasive! But, as I am an academic through and through, it is always a pleasure to be back on campus, and in a law school, …
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Read moreAn academic in law reform land—and how you, too, can play a part
Professor Rosalind Croucher, President, Australian Law Reform Commission*, Monash University, Faculty of Law Research Seminar Series, 4 October 2012. Introduction Thank you very much for inviting me to speak today. Professor Bryan Horrigan is very persuasive! But, as I am an academic through and through, it is always a pleasure to be back on campus, and in a law …
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