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Conference Program
Please note that all plenary and concurrent sessions will have time allocated for questions and comments from the audience.
Friday 11 August
6.00pm – 9.00pm
Conference welcome reception, Allens, Level 28, Deutsche Bank Place, Corner of Hunter and Phillip Streets, Sydney
Saturday 12 August
8.15am – 9.00am
Registration & tea/coffee, Federal Court of Australia, Level 21, Law Courts Building, 184 Phillip St, Queens Square, Sydney
9.00am – 9.30am
Welcome and opening
The Hon Kevin Lindgren AM QC
The Hon Justice Francois Kunc
Gadigal Elder Uncle Charles (Chicka) Madden to give ‘Welcome to Country’
9.30am – 10.30am
Plenary 1: Keynote address
Chair: The Hon Chief Justice James Allsop AO
Speaker: Professor Martha C. Nussbaum, Why Lawyers Need a Broad Social Education
10.30am – 11.00am
Morning tea
11.00am – 12.30pm
Plenary 2: Current status of legal education – where we are now and how we got here
Chair: Emeritus Professor Rosalind Croucher AM
Speakers:
· Emeritus Professor Dennis Pearce AO, The Past is a Different Country
· Emeritus Professor Sandford Clark AM, Regulating Admission – Are we there yet?
· Emeritus Professor David Barker AM, The Bowen Report – The Overlooked Influence on Legal Education
· The Hon Michael Black AC QC, An examination of the Standards for Australian Law Schools and the relationship of the Standards with the Legal Profession Uniform Law
12.30pm – 1.30pm
Lunch
1.30pm – 3.00pm
Concurrent 1A: Pedagogy and outcomes
Chair: Professor Brian Opeskin
· Associate Professor Lyria Bennett Moses, Understanding artificial intelligence to realise the value of legal training
· Christina Do, ‘Business, Law and Regulation’: A platform for teaching law students to think critically in first year
· Dr Laura Griffin, Technology, diversity and legal problem-solving: facilitating student learning through ‘legal thinking’ activities
· Professor Alex Steel, Finding words to quicken, not deaden, the spirit of legal education: reflections on approaches to drafting standards
Concurrent 1B: Making connections
Chair: Professor Joellen Riley
· The Hon Nicholas Hasluck AM QC, The Case for Change
· Justin Gleeson SC, Can Australian lawyers of the future afford not to be internationalist?
Concurrent 1C: The ‘good’ lawyer
Chair: Fiona McLeod SC
· Andrew Henderson, ‘I want to do something that involves horses and law’: Identifying students’ drive as a compass to being a ‘good’ lawyer
· Dr Christian Duperouzel, A vocational guide to discerning whether or not to study law and enter the legal field
· Susan Carter, Statutory Interpretation and Legal Ethics: once and done or taught throughout the curriculum?
· Alan Cameron AO, Good mental health as an essential component of the “Good Lawyer”
3.00pm – 3.30pm
Afternoon tea
3.30pm – 5.00pm
Concurrent 2A: Technology and teaching
Chair: Stuart Clark AM
· Dr Alexandra George, Embedding Emerging Practice Technologies in Law Teaching
· Dr Marina Nehme/Dr Justine Rogers, Digitising Education and the Challenge of Engaging Learners
· Dr Philippa Ryan, Exploring the use of writing analytics technology to improve law students’ self-assessments
· Dr Sarah-Jane Hiller, Law Students Online: Student Engagement and Learning Through Critical Reflection
Concurrent 2B: Purposes and goals of legal education
Chair: Emeritus Professor Michael Coper
· Emeritus Professor John Farrar, The Future of Australian Legal Education– A Comparative View
· Professor Patrick Keyzer, What role, if any, should Australian law schools have in servicing legal needs in the community? How can this be sustainably done?
· Professor Simon Rice OAM, A Place for Critical Perspectives in Legal Education
· Terri Mottershead, The Future of Legal Practice (And why it matters to legal educators)
6.00pm – 7.00pm
Pre-dinner drinks, The Strangers’ Lounge, NSW Parliament House, 6 Macquarie St, Sydney
7.00pm – 10.00pm
Conference gala dinner, The Strangers’ Dining Room, NSW Parliament House, 6 Macquarie St, Sydney
Speaker: The Hon Justice Virginia Bell AC
Sunday 13 August
9.00am – 10.30am
Plenary 3: What every lawyer should know
Chair: Dr Nuncio D’Angelo
· Associate Professor Michael Legg, New Skills for New Lawyers
· The Hon Justice John Basten, Teaching Statutory Interpretation
· Kirsty McPhee, Preparing for the Business of Law, not the Practice of Law
· Professor David Rolph, The Role of Legal History in Australian Legal Education
Concurrent 3A: Enhancing access to, and indigenous engagement in, legal education
Chair: His Hon Judge Matthew Myers AM
· Annette Gainsford/Associate Professor Alison Gerard, Embedding Indigenous Cultural Competence in a Bachelors of Laws: the CSU Experience
· Associate Professor Bronwyn Olliffe/Angela Dwyer/Maxine Evers, Diversity in Law School
· Professor Jenny Buchan/Dr Leela Cejnar, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion through online learning: using a Massive Open Online Course in the study of law to extend learning opportunities
Concurrent 3B: Experiential learning
Chair: The Hon Justice Alan Robertson
· Associate Professor Cathy Sherry, Meaningful use of digital technology for genuine understanding of land law
· Neville Carter, Australian Legal Education Sector: Key Metrics
· Svetlana German/Robert Pelletier, An innovative future for legal education: problem based learning, clinical placements and the transformation of the doctrine/skills dichotomy
Concurrent 3C: Preparing for the impact of technology on legal practice
Chair: Professor Simone Degeling
· Associate Professor Penny Crofts, Teaching skills for future legal practitioners
· Associate Professor Gabrielle Appleby/Associate Professor Sean Brennan/Professor Andrew Lynch, Keep Calm and Carry On: Why the Increasing Automation of Legal Services Should Deepen and Not Diminish Legal Education
· Professor Nick James, Surviving the Digital Disruption of Legal Education and Legal Practice
· Associate Dean Tania Leiman, Educating for the past, the present or the future?
Plenary 4: Looking to the future of legal education
Chair: The Hon Michael Kirby AC CMG
· The Hon Justice Alan Robertson, Deputy President, Australian Academy of Law
· Fiona McLeod SC, President, Law Council of Australia
· Professor William MacNeil, Chair, Council of Australian Law Deans
· Dan Trevanion, President, Australian Law Students Association
· Professor Martha C. Nussbaum
1.30pm – 1.45pm
Closing remarks
1.45pm – 2.30pm
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