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2O1 5 A LTA CO N F E R E N C E
Legal Education and
Access to Justice
MELBOURNE
JULY 2O15
5pm, Thursday 16 July – 5.15pm, Saturday 18 July
La Trobe Law School, City Campus, Melbourne
ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS
DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS:
FRIDAY 1 MAY 2O15
AUSTR AL A SIAN
L AW TE ACHER S
A SSO CIATION
Inequality
of access to legal services is
a significant problem in Australia. What role can law
schools play in meeting legal needs? The 2015 ALTA
Conference at La Trobe Law School will focus on this
important question, and will provide an opportunity
for law teachers to share their diverse experiences and
expertise in providing clinical legal education, servicelearning opportunities and pro bono service to our
communities locally, nationally and internationally.
While the 2015 Conference will focus on the topics
“Legal Education and Access to Justice” considered
together, the topics will also be considered severally.
Burning issues in Access to Justice will be explored
in a series of parallel sessions on the first day of the
conference, and Burning Issues in Legal Education will
be considered on Saturday 18 July. Parallel sessions
will be held for all of the ALTA Interest Groups.
We hope to be able to welcome you to Melbourne and
hope that you will submit an abstract.
Patrick Keyzer (Convenor)
THE HOST
The La Trobe Law School is delighted to
host the ALTA Annual Conference 2015.
La Trobe Law School was the third law
school established in Victoria, and has a
world class reputation for research on the
topics of access to justice, clinical legal
education, Chinese law, industrial and
employment law, migration law, disability
law, tax and finance law. The Law School
hosts five multidisciplinary journals
including its flagship journal, Law In
Context, has a proud history of leadership
in legal research and legal education,
and is well known for its commitment to
law reform, social justice and socio-legal
research.
CONFERENCE VENUE
The 2015 ALTA Conference will be held at
the La Trobe University City Campus —
Level 20
360 Collins Street
Melbourne.
PROGRAM FORMAT
The conference will commence at 5.00pm
on Thursday 16 July. A Welcome Reception
will be followed by an address from La
Trobe Law School’s Artist-in-Residence,
James O’Loghlin.
On the Friday, The Hon Michael Kirby AC
CMG and Professor Liz Tobin-Tyler will
deliver keynote addresses and a panel
of eminent legal scholars discussion will
focus on “Legal Education and Access
to Justice”. Parallel sessions comprising
papers and symposia will fill the rest of
the day.
Parallel sessions on legal education and
ALTA Interest Group symposia will feature
on the Saturday.
CONFERENCE DINNER
The Conference Dinner will be held on
Friday 17 July at the Old Melbourne Gaol
which, while it sounds dire, is actually
an outstanding venue. The dinner will be
included in the registration fee. The MC for
the evening will be comedian, television
and radio presenter, and sometime
commercial and criminal lawyer,
James O’Loghlin.
Old Melbourne Gaol
REGISTRATION FEES
The conference fee will be $495 (inc. GST),
and a discounted fee of $375 (inc. GST)
will apply for full-time students. These
fees will include the Welcome Reception
and Conference Dinner, and catering
throughout the conference. Registration
will open at the beginning of May.
INVITED SPEAKERS
CONFIRMED TO DATE
The Honourable
Michael Kirby AC CMG
Elizabeth
Tobin Tyler
James
O’Loghlin
Michael Kirby never got over his infatuation
with legal education. He did well at school
and university and rose to the dizzy heights of
President of the SRC and University Union at
Sydney University when he was a law student
there. He went on to be appointed a judge in
the Arbitration Commission in 1975 but was
quickly seconded to be the inaugural chairman
of the Australian Law Reform Commission
(1975-84). This felt like paradise for him as
he was constantly meeting law teachers
and engaging with serious legal puzzles. He
went on to serve as President of the Court
of Appeal of NSW and Solomon Islands
before, in 1996, he was elevated to the High
Court of Australia. Since his retirement from
that court in 2009, differences of opinion
amongst the Justices have plummeted. Law
teachers have lost their best counterpoint
for legal instruction. However, Michael Kirby
has continued working in the international
community. Most recently, he was a member
of the Eminent Persons Group on the future
of the Commonwealth of Nations and chair
of the UN Commission of Inquiry on North
Korea. In all such matters the members of the
bodies in question have been harmonious and
unanimous. Which says something, but we
are not sure what.
Elizabeth Tobin Tyler, JD, MA, is Assistant
Professor of Family Medicine and of Health
Services, Policy and Practice at the Warren
Alpert Medical School and the School of
Public Health at Brown University. She is also
Adjunct Professor of Law at Roger Williams
University School of Law in Rhode Island. She
teaches in the areas of health policy, health
equity, public health law and ethics, and
poverty law.
James O’Loghlin is a television and radio
presenter best known for his work on ABC
Radio and for hosting The New Inventors.
More importantly, he is Artist-in-Residence at
La Trobe Law School.
Michael Kirby is an honorary Professor at
12 universities in Australia and overseas.
He loves going to law schools. He constantly
honours his law teachers, especially Julius
Stone. His stated remaining ambition is still
to become a Law Dean.
Ms. Tobin Tyler is a leading expert in the
development of medical-legal partnerships,
which integrate medicine, public health and
legal services to identify, address and prevent
health-harming social and legal needs of
patients, clinics and populations.
Before James worked in TV and radio he
worked as a commercial lawyer and as a
criminal lawyer, and will welcome ALTA
delegates to the conference with his talk:
“Everything I Learned at Law School Which
Has Helped Me Become Great At Being A
Non-Lawyer”.
FIRST AND FINAL CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
CLOSING DATE FOR RECEIPT OF ABSTRACTS:
Friday 1 May, 2015
Proposals for papers (20 or 30 minutes) and symposia
(60 or 90 minutes including 3 or 4 related papers)
addressing either or both of the conference topics are
due by Friday 1 May.
Proposals for ALTA interest group symposia in any
area of legal scholarship are also due by Friday 1 May.
Acceptances will be emailed in mid-May.
PLEASE NOTE:
Presentation of accepted abstracts is contingent on
registration for the conference; persons whose abstracts
are accepted will be required to register at least 6 weeks
prior to the conference in order for their presentation
to appear on the final program.
The template for abstracts can be downloaded from
the conference website: http://www.alta.edu.au
or the LaTrobe University Law School website:
http://www.latrobe.edu.au/law
Please forward abstracts, using the template, by email to:
info@conorg.com.au
Confirmation of receipt of abstracts will be emailed
within 48 hours; if you do not receive this confirmation,
please contact us.
INFORMATION
For further details regarding the
conference, please contact :
The Conference Organiser
Phone: (+61) (03) 9349 2220
Email: info@conorg.com.au