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Conference papers and speeches

Anti-Discrimination Law

Gaze, B. 'Using Federal Discrimination Law' presentation to the National Conference of the Federation of Community Legal Centres, 2 September 2002.
Gaze, B. 'Context and Interpretation in Australian Anti-Discrimination Law' presented at the International Sociological Association Congress, Brisbane and at joint meetings of the American and Canadian Law and Society Associations, Vancouver, May - July 2002.

Bill of Rights

Debeljak, J. 'The Victorian Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities Act 2006: Exploring the Interpretative Obligation under the Charter', presented at Courting Change: Our Evolving Court, Supreme Court of Victoria 2007 Judges' conference, Melbourne, 9-10 August 2007.
Debeljak, J. 'Victorian Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities', presented at Using Human Rights in Domestic Law and Advocacy, Human Rights Legal Resource Centre, Melbourne, 14 June 2007.
Debeljak, J. 'Human Rights Responsibilities of Public Authorities Under the Charter of Rights', presented at the Law Institute of Victoria Charter of Rights Conference, Melbourne, 18 May 2007.
Debeljak, J. 'Charter Mechanisms', presented at the Judicial College of Victoria Introduction to Human Rights Seminar, Melbourne, 19 February 2007.
Debeljak, J. Mission Impossible: "Possible" interpretations under the Victorian Charter and their Impact on Parliamentary Sovereignty and Dialogue, presented at the Castan Centre Conference Human Rights 2006: Year in Review, Melbourne, 1 December 2006.
Debeljak, J. Roundtable on the Victorian Charter of Rights, Human Rights Forum, University of Melbourne, 18 August 2006.
Debeljak, J. 'An Australian Bill of Rights' presented at the Greens Forum, Melbourne, 4 February 2005.
Debeljak, J. 'Academic Roundtable Consultation' participant, organised by the Human Rights Consultative Committee of the Victorian Government, formed to consult and report on 'How Best to Protect and Promote Human Rights in Victoria', 24 August 2005.
Debeljak, J. 'The Proposal for an Australian Bill of Rights' presented at the Australian Lawyers Alliance National Conference, Cairns, 20-22 October 2005.
Debeljak, J. 'An Australian Bill of Rights', Greens Forum, Melbourne, 4 February 2005.
Joseph, S. 'Freedom of Expression' Australia's First Bill of Rights: A Forum on the National Implications of the ACT Human Rights Act 2004, Canberra, 1 July 2004.
Debeljak, J., ‘Human Rights in Australia: A Conversation about Values’, The Law Institute of Victoria’s Bill of Rights Committee, Melbourne, 19 June 2003.
Debeljak, J. 'The British Perspective on Bills of Rights: the Human Rights Act 1998 (UK)' presented at the 2002 Bill of Rights Conference held jointly by the Australian Human Rights Centre and the Gilbert and Tobin Centre of Public Law, Sydney, 21 June 2002.
Kinley, D. and Debeljak, J. 'Bill of Rights Roundtable', Gilbert & Tobin Centre of Public Law, University of NSW Faculty of Law, 1 March 2002.
Debeljak, J. 'Human Rights as Judicial Politics or Parliamentary Judgements' presented at Castan Centre's Human Rights and Global Challenges Conference, Melbourne, 10 December 2001. http://www.law.monash.edu.au/castancentre/conference2001/papers/debeljak.html
Debeljak, J. 'Will a Bill of Rights Enhance Access to Civil Justice?' at the Victorian Conference of the Australian Plaintiff Lawyers Association, Mt Buffalo, Victoria, 5-7 May 2000.
Debeljak, J. 'Access to the Civil Justice System: Can a Bill of Rights meet the Challenge?' at the Annual Conference of the Australasian Law Teachers’ Association, Canberra, 2-5 July 2000.

Constitutional Law

Joseph, S. Constitutional Rights, presentation at 'Advocacy, Democracy and Protecting Human Rights: An Australian Context', Swinburne University of Technology Community Seminar, Hawthorn Town Hall, 8 September 2005.
Joseph, S. Commentator on Leslie Zines 'The Scope of Inherent Executive Power', Roundtable on Inherent Executive Power, University of Melbourne, 15 July 2005.
Joseph, S. 'Federalism: Commonwealth/State Relations', Victorian Association of Social Studies Teachers, Iwaki, Southbank, 17 March 2005.
Joseph, S. 'Political Advertising and the Constitution, 'Marking the Constitutional Centenary: An Agenda for Reform', Australian Fabian Society, University of Melbourne, 15 June 2001.

Corporations and Human Rights

McBeth, A. 'A right by any other name: The evasive engagement of the international financial institutions with human rights' presented to University of Oslo and George Washington University conference Transnational Corporate Responsibility for the 21st Century, George Washington University, Washington DC, 8 April 2008.
McBeth, A. 'Every organ of society: The responsibility of non-state actors for the realization of human rights' presented to Hamline Journal of Public Law and Policy Symposium 'The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: A reality check', Hamline University, St Paul, Minnesota, 14 March 2008.
McBeth, A. 'Crushed by an anvil: A case study on corporate responsibility for human rights in the extractive sector' presented to Yale Human Rights and Development Law Journal Symposium 'Corporate Social Responsibility in the Extractive Industries', Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 8 March 2008.
Kyriakakis, J. 'The Rise of Extraterritorial Jurisdiction to Address the Global Activities of Multinational Corporations: Trends, Resistances and Futures', paper presented at the Law and Society in the 21st Century International Conference, Humboldt University, Berlin, 26 July 2007.
McBeth, A. 'The responsibility of financial institutions for human rights violations', presented to BankTrack (a group of NGOs campaigning on the social and environmental responsibility of finance institutions), Nijmegen, Netherlands, November 2006.
Joseph, S. 'Corporations and Human Rights', Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, Cambridge University, 5 May 2006
Joseph, S. 'Multinational Corporations and Human Rights', University of Nottingham, School of Law, 16 March 2006.
Joseph, S. 'Transnational Human Rights Litigation and Multinational Corporations', School of Oriental and African Studies, School of Law, University of London, 6 March 2006.
Joseph, S. 'Development, Poverty, Business, and Human Rights', Castan Centre Conference: Human Rights Year in Review, Southbank, Melbourne, 2 December 2005.
Joseph, S. 'Multinational Corporations and Human Rights' Washington College of Law, American University, Washington, 27 September 2005.
Joseph, S. 'Multinational Corporations, Development and Human Rights', International Conference on Human Rights and Development: Approaches to Reform of Governance in Asia, School of Law, City University of Hong Kong, 9 May 2005.
Joseph, S. 'The UN Norms on the Responsibilities of Transnational Corporations and Other Business Enterprises with regard to Human Rights', Amnesty International Lawyer's Group, Slater & Gordon, 21 April 2005.
Joseph, S., ‘Corporations and Human Rights’ , presentation at the DFAT/NGO Human Rights Consultations, Parliament House, Canberra, 5 March 2005.
Joseph, S. 'Human Rights Litigation and Corporations', Blake Dawson Waldron, Melbourne, 11 February 2005.
Joseph, S. 'The Globalisation of Human Rights Law: Implications for Multinational Corporate Actors', Bhopal 20 Years On: Corporate Responsibility for Human Rights Violations Today Conference, University of Sydney, 1 December 2004.
Joseph, S. 'Multinational Corporations and Human Rights', Monash University Faculty of Law, Melbourne, 24 November 2004.
Kinley, D. 'UN's Human Rights Norms for Corporations', Business for Social Responsibility Annual Conference, New York, November 2004.
Kinley, D. 'Impact of the Alien Torts Claims Act in Litigation Against Corporations', Washington College of Law, Washington, October 2004.
Joseph, S. 'US Alien Tort Claims Act: Legal Accountability for Human Rights Abuses', Law Institute of Victoria, Melbourne, 8 September 2004.
Joseph, S. 'The Battle for the Alien Tort Claims Act: Sosa v Alvarez-Machain in the US Supreme Court', Australia and New Zealand Society of International Law (ANZSIL) Annual Conference, Canberra, 19 June 2004.
Kinley, D. 'Law, Lawyers and Corporate Social Responsibility', Monash Institute for the Study of Global Movements Conference on Business and CSR, Melourne, May 2004.
Kinley, D. and Davis, T. 'Human Rights Implications of Privatization and Private Sector Development Activities for World Bank Operations' World Bank Discussion Paper, February 2004.
Kinley, D. 'Corporate Social Responsibility, International Human Rights Law and Economic Development' First Annual Conference of the Monash Asia Institute, Mumbai, Maharashtra State, India. 9 - 13 February 2004
Kinley, D. 'States, Inter-Governmental Organizations and Corporations: A New Architecture for Human Rights Responsibilities', Protecting Human Rights in Australia: Past, Present and Future Conference, Melbourne, December 2003.
Joseph, S. 'Human Rights Litigation against Companies', Inaugural Pavilion Lecture, Centre for Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability (CCRS), University of Zurich, Zurich. 4 November 2003.
Clough, J. 'Corporate Criminal Liability for Human Rights Abuses', Faculty Workshop, for the Frederick K Cox International Law Centre, Case Western Reserve University Law School, Cleveland, Ohio, October 2003.
Kinley, D. 'Corporations, Lawyers and International Human Rights Law', Showcase Session, International Bar Association Conference, San Francisco, September 2003.
Joseph, S., ‘Transnational Human Rights Litigation against Corporations’, Futureye Seminar, Melbourne, 19 May 2003.
Joseph, S., ‘Transnational Human Rights Litigation against Corporations’ University of Tasmania, Law Faculty, Hobart, 6 May 2003.
Joseph, S. 'Corporations and Human Rights', DFAT/NGO Human Rights Consultations, Parliament House, Canberra, 5 March 2003.
Joseph, S. 'Access to Essential Drugs and Human Rights' seminars presented to University of Minnesota; University of Western Ontario; Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto; Case Western Law School, Cleveland; University of Windsor Law School; and Urban Morgan Institute for Human Rights, University of Cincinnati, October- November 2002.
Joseph, S. 'Multinational Corporations and International Human Rights Law', Amnesty Corporate Responsibility Group, 5 June 2002.
Kinley, D. 'Multinational Corporations and Human Rights Law' seminar presented at the Centre for Applied Legal Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, May 2002.
Kinley, D. 'Corporations, Human Rights and Legal Obligations', Inaugural Meeting of Human Rights Interest Group, Mallesons Stephen Jaques, Melbourne, 19 April 2002.
Kinley, D. 'Business and Human Rights: the legal dimension' presented at Regional Workshop on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Asia-Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions, Hong Kong, 11-13 July 2001.
Joseph, S. 'The "Third Wave" of Corporate Human Rights Accountability: Pharmaceuticals and Human Rights', presented at Castan Centre's Human Rights Global Challenges Conference, Melbourne, 10 December 2001. http://www.law.monash.edu.au/castancentre/conference2001/papers/joseph.html
Joseph, S. 'Human Rights Accountability and Multinational Corporations', ACFOA: Development Challenges in the Global Economy, 7 September 2000.

Economic, Social & Cultural Rights

Kinley, D., ‘Economic, Social and Cultural Rights’ presented at the CLA/Interights Conference Enforcing Economic Social and Cultural Rights: Rhetoric or Reality?, Melbourne, 16 April 2003.

Employment and Labour Law

Joseph, S. 'Labour Rights and the UN human rights treaty bodies', Legal Protection of Workers' Human Rights: Regulatory Changes and Challenges, Onati Conference Centre, Onati, Spain, 25 May 2006.
Gaze, B. 'Work-Life Balance: Legal Requirements', Building Industry Work-Life Forum, Building Commission with the Work/Life Association, Melbourne, November 2004.
Gaze, B. Participation in two consultative round table discussions organised by the Victorian Law Reform Commission on its reference into Workplace Privacy, October and November 2004.
Gaze, B. 'Quality Part Time Work - Does Law Require It?', The Quality of Part-Time Work, Centre for Applied Social Research Expert Workshop, RMIT, Melbourne, 19 July 2004.
Gaze, B. 'The Schou Case', Sponsors Seminar, Centre for Employment and Labour Law, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 30 June 2004.

Enforcement Domestic

McSherry, B. High Risk Offenders: Continued Detention and Supervision Options, Community Issues Paper, Sentencing Advisory Council, Melbourne, 2006, pp 1-56
McSherry, B, with David, A., Gelb, K., Moore, V., and Stewart, F. High Risk Offenders: Post-Sentence Supervision and Detention, Discussion and Options Paper, Sentencing Advisory Council, Melbourne, 2007, pp 1-222.

Equality Legislation

Gaze, B. Keynote speech, 'Equality Legislation in an International Context', Building an inclusive equality agenda; legislation, strategies and structures Conference, Equality Commission for Northern Ireland, November-December 2003.

Freedom of Speech

Litaba, O., ‘Criticising Judges – Should Contempt of Court by ‘Scandalising’ be part of the Modern Law of Australia?’ Presented at Washington College of Law, Washington DC, 21 April 2003

Globalisation and Human Rights

Kinley, D. 'Human Rights in the Global Economy', The Nodal and the Global, Australian National University RegNet Conference, Canberra, December 2004.
Kinley, D. 'Human Rights and the Global Economy and the New Architecture of International Law', delivered to Washington College of Law; University of Virginia, Charlottesville; and George Washington University, October 2004.
Kinley, D. 'The Global Economy and Human Rights: Institutions, Intersections and Inconsistencies', International Society of Business, Economics and Ethics Third World Congress, University of Melbourne, 14-17 July 2004.
Kinley, D. 'International Law and the Global Economy' seminar presented at the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, South Africa, May 2002.
Kinley, D. 'Human Rights and Global Challenges', Legal Aid Conference, Victorian Legal Aid, 26 October 2001.
Kinley, D. 'Globalisation & Human Rights', Symposium on Globalisation and the Universalisation of Legal Norms, Sydney University, 24 August 2000.
Kinley, D. 'Economic, Social & Cultural Rights', in Globalising the Rule of Law, Vice-Chancellor's Symposium, Griffith University, Brisbane, 19 August 2000.

Humanitarian Intervention

Joseph, S. 'Humanitarian Intervention', United Nations Association of Australia Mock UN Conference, Deakin University, Melbourne, 4 September 2004.

Human Rights in Burma

Kinley, D., Presented at a forum on ‘The Struggle for Democracy in Burma: Policy Options for Australia' held by AsiaLink Centre and Melbourne Institute of Asian Languages and Societies, Melbourne, 8 May 2003.

Human Rights, Culture & Technology

McAdam, M. 'Linking Human Rights and Human Development in Asia: Facilitating sustainable human development through a rights-based approach to the regulation of tourism', First Annual Conference of the Monash Asia Institute, Mumbai, Maharashtra State, India, February 2004.

Health and Human Rights

Penovic, T. 'Mental harm as an instrument of public policy' delivered at Monash University and Kings College London conference Public Health and Human Rights, Prato, 7-10 June 2007
McSherry, B. A plenary presentation 'Mental Health and Human Rights', Public Health and Human Rights Conference, Prato, Italy, 7-9 June 2007.
McSherry, B. 'Providing Mental Health Services and Psychiatric Care to Immigration Detainees: What the Law Requires', Seeking Asylum in Australia Conference, Monash University, 27 November 2005.
McSherry, B. 'Mental Health and Human Rights: The Australian Experience', International Academy of Law and Mental Health, Paris, 5 July 2005.
McSherry, B. 'Risk Assessment by Mental Health Professionals and the Prevention of Future Violent Behaviour', Trends and Issues Paper, Australian Institute of Criminology, July 2004 pp 1-6.
McSherry, B. 'Electronic Mental Heath Records: Ethical, Legal and Administrative Issues Concerning Consent to Disclosure', paper delivered at the 4th Annual International Association of Forensic Mental Health Services Conference, Stockholm, 7 June 2004.
McSherry, B. 'Ethical Issues in the HealthConnect System', presentation Symposium on Shared Electronic Health Records, Deakin University, Toorak Campus, 23 April 2004.
McSherry, B. 'HealthConnect: Ethical Issues', seminar Faculty of Law, University of Tasmania, 15th March 2004.
Joseph, S. 'Access to Pharmaceuticals and Human Rights', Urban Morgan Institute for Human Rights, University of Cincinnati, 18 November 2002.
Joseph, S. 'Access to Pharmaceuticals and Human Rights', Windsor Law School, Windsor, 11 November 2002.
Joseph, S. 'Access to Pharmaceuticals and Human Rights', Case Western University Law School, Cleveland, 4 November 2002.
Joseph, S. 'Access to Pharmaceuticals and Human Rights', Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto, 23 September 2002.
Joseph, S. 'Access to Pharmaceuticals and Human Rights', University of Western Ontario, 18 September, 2002.
Joseph, S. 'Access to Pharmaceuticals and Human Rights', University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 12 September 2002.

Human Rights and Education

Gerber, P. 'From Convention to Classroom: the Long Road to Human Rights Education', University of Melbourne Human Rights Education Conference, 16 February 2007.
Gerber, P. 'The 4th R - Human Rights Education', presented at the Castan Centre Human Rights 2006: Year in Review Conference, Melbourne, 1 December 2006.

Human Rights and the Family

Batagol, B. 'Reading the landscape of power: How family dispute resolution practitioners understand power' presented at the 9th National Mediation Conference, Perth, 10-12 September 2008.
Batagol, B. 'Bargaining in the shadow of the law? The Case of Family Dispute Resolution' presented at the National Legal Aid Dispute Resolution Forum, Perth, 9 September 2008.
Batagol, B. 'Re-visiting the shadow of the law? The Case of Family Mediation in Australia' presented at the Research Committee in the Sociology of Law Annual Meeting, Milan-Como, July 2008.
Batagol, B and King, M. 'Enforcer, Manager or Leader? The judicial role in family violence courts' presented at the Family Violence and Specialist Courts Conference, Canberra, 22-23 May 2008.
Batagol, B. 'Fomentors of strife? Lawyers and family dispute resolution in Australia', paper presented at the National Alternative Dispute Resolution Advisory Council, Third National ADR Research Forum, La Trobe University, Melbourne, 13-14 July 2007.
Batagol, B., 'Learning from Research - Suggestions for Family Dispute Resolution Practitioners in the New Family Law System' presented to the National Mediation Conference, Hobart, 5 May 2006

Indigenous Issues

Castan, M and Yarrow, D (with Arnold Bloch Liebler). Policy analysis paper concerning Northern Territory Emergency Response Bills for Reconciliation Australia, 8 August 2007.
Castan, M and Yarrow, D. 'Wadeye: Racial discrimination and the delivery of public services in remote Indigenous communities', seminar presentation for the Centre for Australian Indigenous Studies, Monash University, 25 July 2007.
Yarrow, D., and Castan, M. 'The architecture of agreement-making: legal incentives and impediments to Indigenous resource agreement making in Australia, Canada and the United States', paper presented at the Mining, Petroleum, Oil and Gas Symposium: Indigenous Participation in the Resource and Extraction Industries Conference, Broome, Australia, 9-10 July 2007.
Yarrow, D. 'Native title jurisprudence and the Indigenous social imagers', paper presented at the AIATSIS 2007 Native Title Conference, Cairns, Australia, 6-8 June 2007.
Yarrow D. and McNeil, K. 'Has Constitutional Recognition of Aboriginal Rights Adversely Affected their Definition?', paper presented at The Constitution Act, 1982 and Canada's Continuing Constitutional Evolution Conference, Saskatchewan Institute of Public Policy, Regina, Canada, 23-25 May 2007.
Castan, M and Yarrow, D. 'The comparative constitutionalism of Indigenous-settler state relations: opportunistic borrowing?' Federalism and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: Comparative Perspectives and Strategies Conference, Hawaii, 9-11 January 2007.
Castan, M and Yarrow, D. 'The Reception of American Judicial Theories of Indigenous Autonomy in New Zealand, Canada and Australia', Federalism and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: Comparative Perspectives and Strategies Conference, Hawaii, 10 January 2007.
Yarrow, D. 'The landmark case that wasn't - Cooper v Stuart and the jurisprudence of complacency', paper presented at the Landmarks in Legal History Conference, 25th annual conference of the Australian and New Zealand Law and History Society, Hobart, 8-10 December 2006.
Castan, M. 'International Standards', Indigenous Australian Human Rights, Aboriginal Advancement League, August 2005.
Castan, M. 'Teaching Indigenous Legal Issues', Adelaide University, 22 August 2005.
Castan, M. 'Native Title and Mabo: An insiders insight', National Native Title Tribunal, Melbourne.
Castan, M. 'NTRB Lawyers Professional Development Project', AIATSIS/ATSIC Native Title Conference, 4 June 2004.
Castan, M. 'New Developments in Australian Native Title', Guest Lecture, University of Oklahoma, October 2003.
Castan, M. ‘International Law and Indigenous Claims’, Centre for Australian Indigenous Studies Seminar Series, 30 April 2003. Plus additional lectures for ‘Koorie Studies’ and ‘Aborigines and the Law’ in May 2003.
Castan, M. 'Terra Nullius, Res Extincta; Australian Legal Culture and Indigenous Identity', presented at Imaging Aboriginality: Indigenous/European entanglements in culture and representation CAIS conference, Prato Italy, 9-12 April 2002.
Castan, M. 'When sorry is not enough: reconciliation in Australia' at University of Wisconson-Madison's Conference Interrogating Reconciliation, Manila, Philippines, August 2001.O'Connor, P. 'Reparation for past assimilation policies: Canadian and Australian responses', International Third World Legal Studies Association of the Western Cape, January 4 - 6, 2001.

International Human Rights Law

Joseph, S. 'Human Rights in Asia', Visiting Lecturer, American University, Washington DC, a component of their International Human Rights Academy, June 2006.
Joseph, S. 'The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights: 40 Years On', Brunel University London, 4 May 2006.
Joseph, S. 'Appraisal of the ICCPR: 40 years after', University of the West of England (Bristol), Faculty of Law, 29 March 2006.
Joseph, S. 'Throwing out the Rulebook: Australia, its Allies and International Law', Australian Green Party, Melbourne, 4 November 2005.
Kyriakakis, J. 'International Corporate Criminal Liability through a Human Rights Lens' presented at the Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law Post-Graduate Student Workshop, Canberra, 15 June 2005.
Kinley, D. 'Peace and International Human Rights Law', International Peace Program, Xavier University, New Orleans, November 2004.
Joseph, S. 'US Alien Tort Claims Act: Legal Accountability for Human Rights Abuses', Law Institute of Victoria, Melbourne, 8 September
Debeljak, J. 'Human Rights in Limbo: Australians in Guantanamo Bay' presented at a Seminar held by Amnesty International Australia, Melbourne, 10 August 2004.
Debeljak, J. 'The International Criminal Court', Back to Basics Seminar, Australian Red Cross Victoria, Melbourne, 20 July 2004.
Joseph, S., Interview regarding the Australian Governor-General, SBS Radio, World View, 9 May 2003.
Kinley, D., Presented at the Melbourne Asia Policy Papers Workshop ‘Enforcing International Human Rights Post September 11th’ at the invitation of AsiaLink Centre, Australian Centre for International Business and Melbourne Institute of Asian Languages and Societies, Melbourne, 6 March 2003
Kinley, D., ‘Viet Nam and International Human Rights Laws’ presented at the Australia-Viet Nam Human Rights Committee’s Annual General Meeting, 6 December 2002.
Debeljak, J., ‘International Human Rights Law: Its Relevance to Australian Practice’ presented at the Inaugural Seminar of the Victorian Branch of Australian Lawyers for Human Rights (ALHR), 21 November 2002.
Kinley, D. 'Human Rights Training and the Myanmar Government', Burma/Myanmar Update 2002, Coombs Theatre, The Australian National University, 14 February 2002.
Kinley, D. 'The Rhetoric of Human Rights?' presented at Extremism and Exclusion: The European Experience and Australian Resonances, Contemporary Europe Research Centre, University of Melbourne, 14 November 2001.
Joseph, S. 'International Human Rights Law: Australia's Response', Amnesty International Ivanhoe Group, 19 August.

International Organisations

Kyriakakis, J. 'The Complementarity Objection Against the Inclusion of Legal Persons in the Jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court', paper presented at 23rd World IVR Congress of Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy, Jageillonian University, Krakow, 6 August 2007.
Joseph, S. 'The International Criminal Court', Australian Green Party, Melbourne, 7 June.
Duxbury, A. 'The Immunity of International Organisations for Human Rights Abuses', presented at the American Society of International Law and Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law Joint Conference, Sydney, June 2000.

Judicial Independence

Debeljak, J. 'Courts versus the People: Have the Judges Gone too Far?' the Annual Colloquium of the Judicial Conference of Australia, Launceston, 26 - 28 April 2002.
Debeljak, J. 'Judicial Independence: Norms and Declarations, and some Practical Outcomes', a paper to launch A Collection of Materials for the Judicial Conference of Australia, at the annual "Colloquium 2001 – Uluru" of the Judicial Conference of Australia, Uluru, 7 to 9 April 2001.

Prisons

Naylor, B., ‘Just Prisons: Researching Prison Disciplinary Processes and the Scope for Justice in Prisons’, Melbourne University, Department of Criminology, 3 July 2003.
Naylor, B. 'Doing Justice in Prison: Process, Protection and Proof in Prison Disciplinary Systems' paper presented at ANZ Society of Criminology Conference, Brisbane, 30 September - 2 October 2002.
Naylor, B. 'Prison Disciplinary Systems: Process and Proof' paper presented at the International Institute of Forensic Studies Conference, Prato, 2 - 5 July 2002.
Naylor, B. 'Public accountability in Victoria's prisons' a paper presented at the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology Conference, Melbourne, February 2001.
Naylor, B. 'Prisons, Privatisation and Human Rights' presented at Castan Centre's Human Rights and Global Challenges Conference, Melbourne, 10 December 2001. http://www.law.monash.edu.au/castancentre/conference2001/papers/naylor.html

Privacy

Gaze, B. 'Privacy and Research Involving Humans' paper presented to the National Privacy Conference, Melbourne, November 26-27, 2001.

Pro Bono Human Rights Work

Castan, M. 'Pro Bono work and Human Rights Law' delivered at PILCH Annual General Meeting, 13 December 2000.

Public Accountability

Kneebone, S. 'A Down Under view of a Top-Down Problem', commentary on Model Whistleblowing Statute paper at joint workshop of American University, Washington College of Law and Monash University Law School, May 2002.
Kneebone, S. Commentary on 'Privatisation, the "Level Playing Field and the Public-Private Divide" Restructuring the Water Industry' at AIAL Seminar, April 2001.

Refugees, Asylum Seekers and 'Illegal' Immigrants

Kneebone, S. 'Migration Control at Sea - the Australian case' presented at the Extra-territorial Migration Law Workshop, Queen Mary College, London, 13 June 2008.
Kneebone, S. 'Non-State Actors and State Responsibility - 'Well-founded Fear of being Persecuted' and the Refugee Definition', presented at the Best Practices for Refugee Status Determination: Principles and Standards for State Responsibility Conference, Monash Prato, Italy, May 2008.
O'Sullivan, M. 'Temporary Protection in Australia and the UK Compared', Refugees and the Rule of Law Roundtable, 11 August 2007.
Penovic, T. 'Seeking asylum in Australia, the path to refuge' delivered at the 'Unpacking the Suitcase' conference sponsored by VicHealth and the South Eastern Migrant Resource Centre, Melbourne, 12 July 2007.
Penovic, T. 'False Imprisonment as a surrogate claim for promoting personal liberty', Compensation Torts and Immigration Detention Conference, Melbourne, 30 March 2007.
Penovic, T. 'Refugee Processing and Mental Health: How far does the duty of care extend?' presented to La Trobe Refugee Health Research Centre at the Victorian Foundation for the Survivors of Torture, 28 March 2006.
Kneebone, S. '"Effective Protection" and social and economic rights in Safe Third Countries" presented by invitation at workshop on Protection Elsewhere: International law and the offshore processing and protection of refugees, Melbourne University Law School, 23 February 2007.
Dastyari, A. 'Offshore Processing: An Australian Phenomenon', Castan Centre Human Rights 2006: Year in Review Conference, 1 December 2006
Dastyari, A. 'Out of Sight out of Right?: Who can be held accountable for Immigration Detainees Harmed on Nauru?', presented at a Symposium on Asylum Seekers: International Perspectives on Interdiction and Deterrence, RMIT University, Melbourne, 15 September 2006.
Kneebone, S. 'Natural Justice and Non-Citizens: A Matter of Integrity?' present to the Faculte de Droit Universite de Montreal, 11 September 2006.
Kneebone, S. 'Access to Justice: The Impact of Interdiction Measures' presented at Roundtable on 'Asylum Seekers in the Legal System: Refugees' Rights to Protection', Centre for International Studies, University of Montreal, 5 September 2006.
S. Kneebone paper - http://cdim.cerium.ca/article3190.html
Roundtable - http://cdim.cerium.ca/article3146.html
Dastyari, A. 'Secrets to successful dialogue between academics, NGOs, practitioners and policy makers in the Australian campaign for the release of children from imnmigration detention', presented to the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration, York University, Toronto, 20 June 2006.
Dastyari, A. 'Alternatives to Immigration Detention in Australia' presented to the Canadian Council for Refugees International Refugee Rights Conference, York University, Toronto, 17 June 2006
Kneebone, S. 'The Legal and Ethical Implications of Extraterritorial processing of Asylum Seekers: The Safe Third Country Concept', paper presented to conference on Moving On: Forced Migration and Human Rights, Faculty of Law, Sydney University, November 2005.
Kneebone, S. 'The Legal and Ethical Implications of Extraterritorial processing of Asylum Seekers: Europe Follows Australia, paper presented to conference on Seeking Asylum in Australia 1995-2005: Experiences and Policies, School of Historical Studies, Monash University, Caulfield, November 2005.
Kneebone, S. 'The Pacific Plan: Practices, Processes and Outcomes' paper presented to Workshop on The Right to Seek and Enjoy Asylum?', the Pacific, Mediterranean and Caribbean Plans Compared, Prato, Italy, September 2005.
Penovic, T. 'Racism and the non-citizen child', paper delivered for the Centre for Equity and Innovation in Early Childhoos and the Victorian Multicultural Commission, University of Melbourne, 9 November 2005.
O'Sullivan, M. 'Protecting the Rights of the Child Asylum Seekers - Case study: Australia' presented at the 4th World Congress on Fam8ily Law and Children's Rights, Cape Town, South Africa, March 2005.
Penovic, T. 'Children in Immigration Detention', 21st Annual Law and Society Conference: Societies and Laws: (Re)act? (Re)create? (Re)form?, University of Newcastle, 8-10 December 2004.
Kneebone, S. 'Recent Developments in Australia's Immigration Policies', Essendon Community Centre Open Day, Melbourne, 2 October 2004.
McSherry, B. 'Indefinite and Preventive Detention Legislation: The High Court's Cautious Approach' Plenary Address, 24th Annual Congress, Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, Port Douglas, 17 July 2004.
Kneebone, S. 'Australia's treatment of refugees post-Tampa', Institute for the Study of International Migration, Georgetown University, Washington, 9 June 2004.
Kneebone, S. 'Australia and the Pacific Region', Regionalism and Forced Migration Workshop, London, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, 28 May 2004.
Penovic, T. 'The separation of powers, Lim and Australia's 'voluntary' detention of children', Children in Immigration Detention: The Policy, The Practice and the Prognosis Conference, Melbourne, 2 April 2004.
Kneebone, S., ‘Is the Australian Refugee Review Tribunal Institutionally Biased?’ presented at the 8th Conference of the International Association for Studies of Forced Migration in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
Kneebone, S. 'Fairness in Tribunals - Issues relating to the RRT - Bias in Tribunals' presented to Law Fest (The Law Society of South Australia), July 2002.
Joseph, S. 'Australia's obligations to asylum-seekers under international human rights law', Amnesty International Inner South Group, 3 April 2002.
Kinley, D. 'Refugees and International Human Rights', Mentone Girls Grammar School, 17 October 2001.
Kneebone, S. 'Nationality, Alienage and Non-refoulement' paper presented to the International Conference on the Refugee Convention, University of New South Wales, Sydney, December 2001.
Kneebone, S. 'Tampa-proofing Refugee Law Australian Style: A comparative Look at Recent Responses to the "Refugee Problem"', Victorian Association of Social Studies Teachers, Melbourne, 26 November 2001.
Kneebone, S. Commentary on the 'Tampa Incident' to Monash NTEU Branch, September 2001.
Kneebone, S. Faculty seminar 'Natural Justice and Non-citizens: Lessons from the Tampa crisis', Queen's University, Kingston, Canada, 22 October 2001.
Kneebone, S. Seminar for Master's students, 'Comment limiter le droit de refugie a la mode australienne', University of Montreal, Canada, 22 October 2001.
Kneebone, S. 'Merits Review and Refugee Status Determinations and the Natural Justice Paradigm' paper presented to Refugee Conference, Perth, November 2000 and published in a volume of the proceedings by the Myer Foundation, Refugee Policy and Practice in Australia.

Terrorism

Joseph, S. 'Torture and Terrorism' (invited paper), Law and Liberty in the War on Terror, Gilbert & Tobin Centre, University of New South Wales, 4 July 2007.
McSherry, B. 'The Investigation, Detention and Prosecution of Suspected Terrorists: Goodbye to the Right to Liberty?', Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, Victorian Branch, Queenscliff, 27 August 2005.
McSherry, B. 'Sex, Drugs and Evil Souls: Is Preventive Detention Justifiable?', Inaugural Lecture, Louis Waller Chair, Monash University, Melbourne, 18 August 2005.
McSherry, B. 'Terrorism Related Offences in Australia: Their Use and Implications for Australian Domestic Law', Australian and New Zealand College of Forensic Psychiatry Conference, Gold Coast, 13 August, 2005.
Joseph, S. 'Australia's Anti-Terrorism Legislation: Compliance with the Constitution and International Human Rights Law', Mallesons Stephen Jacques, Human Rights Law Group, 28 April 2004.

The Relationship between International Human Rights Law and Domestic Law

Debeljak, J. 'International Human Rights Law: Its Relevance to Australian Practice' presented at the Inaugural Seminar of the Victorian Branch of Australian Lawyers for Human Rights, 21 November 2002.
Kinley, D. 'Legal Perspectives on the UN Global Compact', Discussion Forum at Ruyton Girls' School, 7 March 2002.
Kinley, D. 'The Shrinking State's Growing Responsibilities for Human Rights Protection', presented at Castan Centre's Human Rights and Global Challenges Conference, Melbourne, 10 December 2001. http://www.law.monash.edu.au/castancentre/conference2001/papers/kinley.html
Kinley, D. 'Human Rights and Corporate Responsibilities', Reputation Qest UN Global Compact Seminar, Blake Dawson Waldron, Melbourne, 18 October 2001.
Joseph, S. 'Federalism and International Human Rights', presented at the American Society of International Law and Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law Joint Conference, Canberra, 29 June 2000. United Nations Global Compact

Trade

Joseph, S. 'World Trade Organization and Human Rights' presented at Strategies for the Future: Protecting Human Rights in the Pacific' Conference, Insel Fehmarn Hotel, Apia, Samoa, 29 April 2008.
Joseph, S. 'World Trade Organization and Human Rights', Strategies for the Future: Protecting Human Rights in the Pacific conference, Apia, Samoa, 29 April 2008.
Joseph, S. 'Democratic Deficit and the WTO', World Trade Institute, Berne, 19 November 2007.
Joseph, S. 'Democratic Deficit and the WTO', London School of Economics, 8 November 2007.
Joseph, S. 'The WTO and Human Rights: Not just a case of Regime Envy', University of Leicester Faculty of Law, 31 October 2007.
Joseph, S. 'Democratic Deficit and the WTO', Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, Cambridge University, 26 October 2007.
Joseph, S. 'Democratic Deficit and the World Trade Organisation', The World Trade Organisation and Human Rights: Interdisciplinary Perspectives Colloquium, Prato, 21 June 2007.
Joseph, S. 'The World Trade Organisation and Human Rights', Southern Currents Conference, (Austtralia and New Zealand Law Librarians), University of Melbourne, 29 September 2006.
Joseph, S. 'Trade to Live or Live to Trade: the WTO and Human Rights', Inaugural lecture by Professor Joseph at the Monash University Law Chambers, 2 August 2006.
Joseph, S. 'Trade to Live or Live to Trade: the WTO and Human Rights', Queens University Belfast, 25 April 2006.
Joseph, S. 'Trade to Live or Live to Trade: the WTO and Human Rights;, Lancaster University, Law School, 22 March 2006.

Trafficking

Kneebone, S. 'Trafficking in the Greater Mekong Sub-Region' presented to the Immigration Legal Practitioners Association, London, 11 June 2008.
Debeljak, J and Kneebone, S. 'Regional Responses to Global Trafficking in the Greater Mekong Sub-Regi8on: the cases of Laos PDR and Cambodia' presented at Restoring the Rule of Law in International Affairs: the 15th Annual Australian New Zealand Society of International Law Conference, Australian National University, Canberra, 28-30 June 2007.
Kneebone, S. 'Trafficked Women and Refugee Protection', paper presented at workshop held at the Department of Criminology, Monash University, 11 December 2006.
Debeljak, J. 'Prevention of Trafficking in Persons', presented at Faculty of Law and Faculty of Arts Workshop, Monash University, 11 December 2006.
Kneebone, S. 'Trafficking, Crime and Migration: a proportionate response? Australia, Canada and the UK Compared; delivered at the Sex 'n Drugs 'n Shifty Roles : European and International Perspectives on Corruption, Organised Crime and Illegal Immigration Conference, CERC University of Melbourne, 4 December 2006.
Debeljak, J. 'Background Paper: Australia's Response to Eradicating Trafficking in Persons', presented at the GAATW Workshop, Working Together to Prevent Human Trafficking, Bangkok, 13-17 November 2006.
Debeljak, J. 'Working Together to Prevent Human Trafficking', Global Alliance Against Trafficking of Women, Bangkok, Thailand, 13-17 November 2006.
Kneebone, S. 'Australia's Response to Trafficking Issues: Women as Agents, Refugees and Victims', presentation to the Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford, 14 October 2006.
Kneebone, S. 'Australia's Response to Trafficking Issues: Women as Agents, Refugees and Victims' presented to the Centre for International Studies, Universite de Montreal, 15 September 2006.
Kneebone, S. Australia's Response to Trafficking in Women: Transnational Crime or Human Rights?', presented to the Law Institute of Victoria, 15 August 2006.
Debeljak, J. Roundtable on the 'Trafficking of Women for Sexual Purposes: Barriers to Reporting and Engaging with Victim Services', Australian Institute of Criminology, Canberra, 28 July 2006.
Kneebone, S and McSherry, B. 'Trafficking in Women and Forced Migration: Moving Victims Across the Boarder of Crime into the Domain of Human Rights' presented at the IASFM Conference, Toronto, June 2006.
Joseph, S. 'The WTO should play a more active role in regulating human rights in the new global economy', Law Institute of Victoria, Melbourne, 7 June 2001.

Women's Rights

Gaze, B. 'Managing Diversity: Legal Approaches to Part Time Work' presentation to Department of Education and Training (Vic) Managing Diversity Forum, 3 September 2002.
Gaze, B. Flexible Work and the Law - some themes and issues' presented to Work/Life Association Roundtable seminar Keeping an Eye on the Law, 24 August, 2002.