Melbourne Law School Institute for International Law and the Humanities

Professor Anne Orford

Cosmopolitanism as the Future of International Law?,
presented at the University of Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne), 15
December 2007

The Responsibility to Protect and the Politicization of International Law, presented as a paper to the Oxford Public International Discussion Group, University of Oxford, 29 November 2007

The Cosmopolitan Turn in International Law, roundtable seminar presented at the Research Institute of Law, Politics and Justice, Keele University, 27 November 2007

The Responsibility to Protect and the Politicization of International Law, presented as a public lecture at the Faculty of Law,University of Uppsala, 8 November 2007

Intervening for Humanity? Human Rights and the Use of Force in the Post-Cold War Period, parallel public lecture series presented at the Institute for International Development, University of Vienna, 17 October 2007 and at the Department of History, Central European University, Budapest, 16 October 2007

Legality, Legitimacy and the Responsibility to Protect, guest lecture presented at the Faculty of Law, University of Stockholm, 3 October 2007

From Metaphysics to Politics? The Responsibility to Protect as a Theory of the State, presented at a workshop on ‘International Law and Wars of Religion’, Faculty of Law, University of Lund, 19-21 September 2007

The Turn to Cosmopolitanism in International Economic Law, presented at a workshop on ‘The Right to Regulate at International
Law’, Institute for International Law and the Humanities, Melbourne Law School, 17 July 2007

The Responsibility to Protect as a Theory of the State, presented by invitation at a conference on ‘Legality and Legitimacy in the International Order’, United Nations University and Orfalea Center
for Global and International Studies, University of California, Santa
Barbara, 27-28 April 2007

Book Review: Hilary Charlesworth, Madeleine Chiam, Devika Hovell and George Williams (eds), The Fluid State' (2006) 7(2) Melbourne Journal of International Law 425-436

‘Cosmopolitanism and the Future of International Law’ (paper presented at the 3rd Melbourne Legal Theory Workshop, Limit, Exception, Emergency, Miracle, Melbourne Law School, 22–24 November 2006)

‘International Law and the South as a Legal Space’ (paper presented at the Of the South Symposium, Griffith Law School, 18–19 July 2006)

Chair, Roundtable discussion on ‘War, Force and Revolution’ (100th Meeting of the American Society of International Law, Washington DC, 31 March 2006)

Book Review: China

Associate Professor Jacqueline Peel

‘International Law and the Determination of Risk: Is “Democratised” Science the Answer?’ (paper presented at Fostering a Scholarly Network: International Law and Democratic Theory, sponsored by American Society of International Law, Australia and New Zealand Society of International Law, Japanese Society of International Law, Canadian Council on International Law, Wellington, 27–28 June 2006)

Professor
Dianne Otto

Agency, Sexuality and Law: Globalising Economies, Localising Cultures, Politicising States, presented at a Research Workshop, Goa, India, 11-14 December 2007, co-organised by the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, and the Centre for Law, Gender and Sexuality, UK

Litigating Human Rights: Public Interest Advocacy and Social Policy Outcomes, presented at a conference at the University of NSW, Sydney, 5 October 2007, organised by the Australian Human Rights Centre in conjunction with researchers from the University of Wollongong and Macquarie University

 

The Transformative Potential of the Victorian Charter, commentary in response to Professor Sandra Leibenberg’s keynote address, ‘Beyond Civil and Political Rights: Protecting Social, Economic and Cultural Rights under Bills of Rights – the South African Experience’ at the Protecting Human Rights Conference, Melbourne Law School, 25 September 2007

Responsibility, Human Rights and Health: How Do Key Stakeholders Meet their Responsibilities?, presented at the Critical Debates in Aboriginal Health Series of Public Forums, convened by the Onemda VicHealth Koori Health Unit, The University of Melbourne, 6 September 2007

Has Emergency Law Become the Norm? Exploring the Significance of the Proliferation of Emergency Regimes in International Law, presented at the 15th Annual Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law Conference, Canberra, 28-30 June 2007

The Gastronomics of TWAIL’s Feminist Flavourings: Some Lunch-time Offerings, Luncheon address presented at The Third World and International Law Conference III, Albany Law School, 20-21 April 2007

The Gender of Peacekeeping, presented at a Research Seminar, International Law Interest Group, Columbia University, 12 April 2007

“Taking a Break” from “Normal”: Thinking Queer in the Context of International Law, presented as part of the Queering International Law Panel, American Society of International Law Annual Meeting, Washington DC, 28-31 March 2007

Emergency Law: Cautionary Tales about Responding to International Terror and Peacekeeping Sex, presented at a Faculty Research Seminar, Melbourne Law School, 20 August 2007; also presented at a joint seminar of the Centre for the Study of Law, Gender and Sexuality and the International Law Interest Group, University of Kent, Canterbury, 21 March 2007

The Exile of Inclusion: Rethinking Feminist Strategies in Human Rights Law, Centre for Legal Research, International Law and Human Rights Unit, University of West England, Bristol, 16 March 2007

Survival and Consent: UN Peacekeeping Sexual Economies and State Consent in International Law, Second Annual Shimizu Lecture in International Law, London School of Economics, 7 March 2007

 

Experts Group Meeting on CEDAW Article 2: National and International Dimensions of State Obligation, International Women’s Rights Action Watch Asia Pacific (IWRAW-AP), Kuala Lumpur, 14-16 February 2007

 

‘Emergency Sex: Responding to the Intersecting Dynamics of Survival,
Agency and Coercion in Peacekeeping Sexual Economies’ (paper presented at the 3rd Melbourne Legal Theory Workshop, Limit, Exception, Emergency, Miracle, Melbourne Law School, 22–24 November 2006)
 

‘The Power of Indicators to Shape Women’s Property Rights: Taking a Human Rights Approach’ (paper presented at an International Women’s Development Agency Symposium on the Harmonisation of Gender Indicators, Canberra, 15–16 June 2006)

Sovereignty, Universality and Development, presented at the Joint Conference of the International Sociological Association/Socio-legal Studies Association/Law and Society Association, Humboldt University, Berlin, 2007

Rights as Regulation: The Integration of Development and Human Rights, presented at the 15th Annual Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law Conference, Canberra, 28-30 June 2007

 

‘Development and the Rule of Law’ (paper presented at a conference on Human Rights and Global Justice, Centre for Human Rights in Practice, University of Warwick, March 2006)

‘Antony Anghie, Imperialism, Sovereignty and the Making of
International Law’ (2006) 69 Modern Law Review 486–88

Protection Elsewhere: The Legal Implications of Requiring Refugees to Seek Protection in Another State, presented at the ‘Metropolis’ conference, Melbourne, 9 October 2007

Climate Change and Refugees, presented at a workshop on ‘Human Rights and Climate Change’, Human Rights Forum, University of Melbourne, 23 August 2007

International Protection for the Victims of Sex Trafficking, presented at a workshop on ‘Feminism and International Law’, National Centre of Competence in Research on International Trade Regulation, University of Zurich, 23-24 June 2007

Constraints on Protection Elsewhere Schemes Imposed by the Refugee Convention, presented at a workshop on ‘Protection Elsewhere: International Law and the Off-Shore Processing and Protection of Refugees’, Melbourne Law School, 23 February 2007
 

Jürgen Kurtz, The State Decides the Exception? International Law and
the Argentine Financial Crisis, presented at a workshop on ‘The Right
to Regulate at International Law’, Institute for International Law and the Humanities, Melbourne Law School, 17 July 2007

‘Common Law Precedence’ (paper presented at the 3rd Melbourne Legal Theory Workshop, Limit, Exception, Emergency, Miracle, Melbourne Law School, 22–24 November 2006)

Jennifer Beard, ‘The Professional Limits of Legal Ethics: Lawyering at the Edges of the Body Politic’ (paper presented at the 3rd Melbourne Legal Theory Workshop, Limit, Exception, Emergency, Miracle, Melbourne Law School, 22–24 November 2006)