Conference Programme
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| Sunday 12th September (Old Treasury Building) | |
| 17:00-17.30 | Registration |
| 17:30-19.30 | Welcome reception in the Gold Vaults, Old Treasury Building |
| Monday 13th September (Old Treasury Building) | |
| INDIGENOUS LAW | |
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| 9.00-9.30 | Registration |
| 9.30-9.45 | Opening remarks: Larry B.Wenger, President, IALL |
| 9.45-10.00 | Welcome address: Jacqueline Elliott, Court Librarian, High Court of Australia |
| 10.00-11.00 | Keynote address: Do the Walls Have Ears? Indigenous Title and Courts in Australia Justice Peter Gray, Federal Court of Australia |
| 11.00-11.30 | Morning tea |
| 11.30-12.30 | AUSTLII and Indigenous Materials Siobhan McCann, Australasian Legal Information Institute |
| 12.30-14.00 | Luncheon |
| 14.00-15.00 | Indigenous Law - the Canadian Position Pamela O’Connor, Monash University Faculty of Law |
| 15.00-15.30 | Afternoon tea |
| 15.30-16.15 | International Developments in Indigenous Rights Julie Debeljak, Monash University Faculty of Law |
| 16.15-18.00 | Annual General Meeting of IALL |
| 18.15-20.00 | Tour of the Parliamentary Library - Parliament of Victoria. Cocktails |
| Tuesday, 14th September (Old Treasury Building) | |
| ASIAN LAW AND MATERIALS | |
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| 9.30-10.30 | Keynote address: Reflections of an Itinerant Judge in the Asia-Pacific Region
Sir Anthony Mason AC KBE, Former Chief Justice, High Court of Australia |
| 10.30-11.00 | Morning tea |
| 11.00-11.45 | Asian Nations in Transition to Market Economies and the World Trade Organisation: The Shrimp
Case Professor Gillian Triggs, Associate Dean Undergraduate, University of Melbourne |
| 11.45 -12.30 | Training the Trainers from Developing Countries - Issues for the Library Prue Presser, University of Melbourne Law Library |
| 12.30-14.00 | Luncheon |
| 14.00-15.00 | Building an Asian Law Collection Professor Malcolm Smith, Director, Asian Law Centre, University of Melbourne |
| 15.00-15.30 | Coffee break |
| 15.30-16.15 | Acquisition of Asian Law Materials Ruth Bird, Law Librarian, University of Melbourne; Bick-Har Yeung, Head, East Asian Collection, University of Melbourne |
| 16.15 | Depart for the Supreme Court of Victoria Library |
| 17.00-18.00 | Presentation and tour, the Supreme Court of Victoria Library |
| 18.00-19.30 | Cocktails |
| Wednesday 15th September (Monash University Art Gallery & Healesville Sanctuary) | |
| CONSERVATION OF AUSTRALIAN WILDLIFE | |
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| 8.45 | Meet at Old Treasury Building for transport to Monash University |
| 9.45-10.30 | Problems in the Conservation of Australian Wildlife,
Monash University Art Gallery Mick Trimmer, Director of Wildlife Protection, Environment Australia |
| 10.30-11.00 | Morning Tea, Monash University Art Gallery |
| 11.00-11.30 | Tour, Monash University Law Library |
| 11.30- | Excursion to Healesville Sanctuary, including BBQ lunch. |
| 16.45-21.30 | Return via Yarra Valley, tour and dinner at Domaine Chandon winery. |
| Thursday 16th September (University of Melbourne, Plaza Conference Centre) | |
| AUSTRALIAN LAW AND LIBRARIANSHIP | |
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| 9.00-10.00 | International Commercial Arbitration in Australasia
Sir Daryl Dawson, AC KBE CB, Former Justice, High Court of Australia |
| 10.00.-11.00 | Australian Federalism and the Role of the Governor-General. Professor Cheryl Saunders. Centre for Comparative Constitutional Law, University of Melbourne. |
| 11.00-11.30 | Morning Tea |
| 11.30-12.15 | Researching Australian Law Graeme Coss, University of Sydney Faculty of Law; Irene Nemes, University of New South Wales Faculty of Law; Petal Kinder, Monash University Faculty of Law |
| 12.30-14.00 | Buffet luncheon, Plaza Conference Centre |
| 14.30-15.15 | Law Libraries in Australia Panel: Nicholas Pengelley, Law Librarian, Monash University; James Butler, Court Librarian, Supreme Court of Victoria; Jenny Wood, Manager - Library Services, Minter Ellison; Julia Butler, Library Manager, ACT Government Law Library |
| 15.30-17.00 | Tour of Law Library, University of Melbourne |
| 19.00-19.30 | Pre-dinner drinks, Windsor Hotel, Spring Street. |
| 19.30-23.00 | Conference dinner at the Windsor Hotel, Spring Street. |