Michael Kirby Lecture and 20th Anniversary of the School of Law and Justice
Seventh Michael Kirby Lecture
When: 6pm, Friday, 11 October, 2013
Venue: Whitebrook Theatre, Lismore campus,
Southern Cross University
Speaker: Professor Megan Davis, Director, Indigenous Law Centre, University of New South Wales
Topic: Indigenous Australians and the Constitutional Project: The Politics of Discrimination, and Why 'Recognition' is not Enough.
This Lecture will consider the most recent constitutional project: the 'recognition' of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples in the Constitution of Australia. Professor Davis will explore the politics of racial non-discrimination in the current constitutional reform process and explain why 'soft' recognition – the trend in State Constitutions – should be disavowed.
Cost: Free
20th Anniversary Dinner Celebration
When: 7:30pm, Friday, 11 October, 2013
Venue: Zest Function Room, Lismore campus,
Southern Cross University
Speakers: The Hon Michael Kirby AC CMG, and
His Honour Magistrate David Heilpern
MCs: Richard Harris and Kate Lavender
Cost: $90 or $75 for current students
RSVP and Dinner payments: Please register and pay here by 27 September, 2013.
Each year Southern Cross University and the School of Law and Justice hold the Michael Kirby Lecture and Dinner, which features a keynote address by a prominent person in the areas of law, social policy or justice.
The lecture series is named after Australia's most iconic judge, The Hon Michael Kirby. When he retired from the High Court in 2009, Mr Kirby was Australia's longest serving judge. He has remained active in retirement. He has served as the President of the Institute of Arbitrators and Mediators Australia and as Editor-in-Chief of The Laws of Australia. He is an Honorary Visiting Professor at 12 universities, including Southern Cross University.
Keynote presenters have included:
- 2012: The Hon Malcolm Turnbull MP, Member for Wentworth since 2004
- 2011: Associate Professor Thomas Faunce, bioethics scholar, Australian National University since 2003
- 2010: The Hon Justice Margaret McMurdo AC, President of the Court of Appeal for the Supreme Court of Queensland since 1998. She was the first woman appointed to this role.
- 2009: Professor Adrien Wing, human rights scholar and lawyer, University of Iowa since 1987
- 2008: Pamela Tate SC, the first woman appointed to the position of Solicitor-General in Victoria, 2003 - 2010
- 2007: The Hon Michael Kirby
Updated: 21 May 2013