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14th Annual Patron’s Address [2025] |
The Hon Chief Justice Richard Niall, Supreme Court of Victoria |
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13th Annual Patron’s Address [2024] Bridging the Gulf: the Role of the Academy in the Development of the Law |
The Hon Justice Helen Bowskill, Chief Justice of Queensland |
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12th Annual Patron’s Address [2023] |
The Hon Justice Peter Quinlan, Chief Justice of Western Australia |
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11th Annual Patron’s Address [2022] Leave those blue-eyed babies alone: Rhetorical Limitations on Parliamentary Sovereignty |
The Hon Patrick Keane AC KC |
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10th Annual Patron’s Address [2021] Thinking about Law: The importance of how we attend and of context |
The Hon James Allsop AO, Chief Justice of the Federal Court of Australia |
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9th Annual Patron’s Address [2020] |
Her Excellency The Hon Margaret Beazley AC QC, Governor of New South Wales |
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8th Annual Patron’s Address [2019] The academy and the courts: what do they mean to each other today? |
The Hon Susan Kiefel AC Chief Justice of Australia |
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7th Annual Patron’s Address [2018] Back to the Future? Reconciling sovereignty and the interest of first peoples |
The Rt Hon Dame Sian Elias |
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5th Annual Patron’s Address [2016] |
Justin Gleeson SC |
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4th Annual Patron’s Address [2015] |
Professor Paul Brand |
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3rd Annual Patron’s Address [2014] |
The Hon Chief Justice Sundaresh Menon |
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2nd Annual Patron’s Address [2013] Lions in Conflict: Ellesmere, Bacon and Coke – the prerogative battle |
The Hon James Spigelman AC QC |
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1st Annual Patron’s Address [2012] |
The Hon Chief Justice Robert French AC, High Court of Australia, Patron of the Australian Academy of Law |
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2019 8th Austin Asche Oration The Journey of a Restless Advocate – Creating a more gender equal Australia |
Ms Elizabeth Broderick |
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2018 NSW Event A Panel Discussion on the Non-Financial Barriers to Justice |
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The Hon Robert French AC |
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Professor Sarah C Derrington |
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2017 WA Event Legal and Literary Pursuits |
The Hon Nicholas Hasluck AM, |
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2015 QLD Event The Province of an Independent Legal Profession |
Mr Walter Sofronoff QC |
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2015 NSW Event Magna Carta in its Medieval Context |
The Hon James Spigelman AC QC |
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2014 WA Event North Korea, International Law and Political Reality |
The Hon Michael Kirby AC CMG |
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The Hon Justice Patrick Keane Justice of the High Court of Australia |
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Professor Jane Stapleton, ANU College of Law |
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The Chief Justice of Australia, The Hon Robert French AC, Patron of the Australian Academy of Law |
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Joint Winners: Ms Natalie Ngo and Mr Tom Allchurch, Associate to the Hon Justice Garde at the Supreme Court of Victoria and Solicitor, NSW Crown Solicitor’s Office |
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2019 Topic: How do private law and public law interact in Australia? What are, and what should be, the available remedies (public or private or both) where they interact? |
Winner: Ellen Rock |
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2018 Topic: Rights and freedoms under the Australian Constitution: what are they and do they meet the needs of the contemporary Australian society? |
Winner: Ashleigh Mills |
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2017 Topic: How well do Australian legal institutions respond to climate change? How could that response be improved? Note: ‘Australian legal institutions’ includes legislatures, courts, public administration, universities and other legal teaching and research institutions |
Winner: Phillipa McCormack |
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2016 Topic: What effects have advances in technology (including artificial intelligence) had upon the discipline of law in academia, the practising profession and the courts, and how may that effect change over the next ten years? What steps should be taken now to harness the benefits and limit the detriments of those advances |
Joint Winners: Lyria Bennett Moses and Robert Size Associate Professor, University of NSW and Graduate Lawyer, Hall & Wilcox Lawyers |
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2015 Topic: How should academia, the practising profession and the courts assist each other in the education of Australian lawyers? |
Winner: Ailsa McKeon |
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2019 Michael Coper Memorial Prize Winner 2019 A Total Ban on Gene Doping: Not the most Gene-ius Idea |
Ms Hennie Lui |
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Dr Andrew Cannon, Deputy Chief Magistrate for South Australia |
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Dr Andrew Cannon, Deputy Chief Magistrate for South Australia |
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The Hon Kevin Lindgren AM, QC |
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Emeritus Professor Horst Lucke, formerly Professor of Law, University of Adelaide |
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Emeritus Professor Horst Lucke, formerly Professor of Law, University of Adelaide |
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Emeritus Professor Horst Lucke, formerly Professor of Law, University of Adelaide |
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Emeritus Professor Horst Lucke, formerly Professor of Law, University of Adelaide |
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Professor Brian Opeskin, Professor of Legal Governance, Macquarie University |
