Constitutional Avoidance: The High Court's Prudential Approach to Resolving Constitutional QuestionsTuesday, 20 September, 2022 - 17:00 to 18:00Western AustraliaRead more The Palmer Act: The Rule of Law under State ConstitutionsThursday, 15 September, 2022 - 17:00 to 18:00Western AustraliaRead more The Overturning of Roe v Wade – Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health OrganizationThursday, 25 August, 2022 - 17:15Read more The High Court and the Constitution: Where to from here?Thursday, 28 July, 2022 - 17:15 to 18:15QueenslandRead more Climate Change and the ConstitutionWednesday, 25 May, 2022 - 17:30 to 19:00New South WalesRead more Australian Federalism in the Time of COVIDThursday, 31 March, 2022 - 06:15Read more A Comparatively Paradoxical View on Australian Constitutional FormalismMonday, 28 March, 2022 - 13:30 to 14:30QueenslandRead more Legislating with Integrity? The Challenge of Delegated LegislationMonday, 21 February, 2022 - 06:15South AustraliaRead more Change Makers: Financial Barriers to Accessing Constitutional JusticeThursday, 2 December, 2021 - 17:00 to 18:15VictoriaRead more The Most Ambitious Constitutional Cases of 2021Thursday, 18 November, 2021 - 05:15 to 07:00South AustraliaRead more State Legislative Power and the ConstitutionMonday, 15 November, 2021 - 17:30 to 18:30Read more Canadian Developments in Constitutional Law and Human Rights: Carbon Emissions, Voluntary Assisted Dying and Indigenous Self-DeterminationFriday, 12 November, 2021 - 13:00 to 14:00Read more The Australian Constitution and Voice, Treaty, TruthThursday, 4 November, 2021 - 17:00 to 18:15VictoriaRead more COVID Myth-Busting: Power, Rights and the LawWednesday, 27 October, 2021 - 17:30 to 19:00Western AustraliaRead more Secret Hearings and the Constitution: SDCV v DG of Security [2021] FCAFC 51 and the Collaery CaseTuesday, 3 August, 2021 - 17:30 to 18:30New South WalesRead more Minister for Home Affairs v Benbrika: terrorism, preventive detention and the Separation of PowersTuesday, 27 April, 2021 - 17:15 to 18:30QueenslandRead more The Border Closures Case: What Does s 92 Mean Now?Wednesday, 7 April, 2021 - 17:15 to 18:30QueenslandRead more Ten cases of COVID-19 and one case of LoveWednesday, 9 December, 2020 - 17:45 to 19:00South AustraliaRead more Remote Democracy?: A Comparative Perspective on Voting in Pandemics and BeyondThursday, 29 October, 2020 - 22:15 to 22:45Read more Understanding Precautionary Detention: When the Logic of Precaution Spreads from Pandemics to PaedophilesFriday, 25 September, 2020 - 13:00South AustraliaRead more Trans-Tasman Reflections on COVID-19 and Public LawFriday, 28 August, 2020 - 13:00 to 14:30Read more National Security and the ConstitutionThursday, 4 June, 2020 - 17:30 to 19:00NationalRead more Love v Commonwealth: Constitutional Recognition of Indigenous Australians?Wednesday, 3 June, 2020 - 17:00 to 18:30NationalRead more The UK Supreme Court's decision in R (Miller) v Prime Minister and Cherry v Advocate General of Scotland: A Public Discussion between the Honourable Robert French AC and Professor Stephen RossTuesday, 10 March, 2020 - 16:30 to 18:00Western AustraliaRead more Love and Thoms v Commonwealth [2020] HCA 3: The Constitution and Indigenous AustraliansTuesday, 3 March, 2020 - 16:30 to 18:00New South WalesRead more The Case of Prorogations: Brexit and judicial review of advice to the QueenThursday, 27 February, 2020 - 16:30 to 17:30QueenslandRead more The UK Supreme Court and BrexitThursday, 12 December, 2019 - 17:00 to 18:00Australian Capital TerritoryRead more Constitutional CafeWednesday, 11 December, 2019 - 16:15 to 18:15South AustraliaRead more Holding the Exercise of Public Power by Private Entities to AccountTuesday, 10 December, 2019 - 16:30 to 17:30VictoriaRead more A Beauty in the Eye of the Beholder: Religious Freedom and the Australian ConstitutionWednesday, 13 November, 2019 - 16:30 to 18:30QueenslandRead more The Prorogation Case: Judicial Review in the Age of BrexitTuesday, 12 November, 2019 - 16:30 to 18:00New South WalesRead more Climate change, human rights and constitutional law: do recent cases in the Netherlands and the US translate to Australia?Thursday, 31 October, 2019 - 16:30 to 17:30QueenslandRead more The Implied Freedom of Political CommunicationTuesday, 22 October, 2019 - 11:00 to 12:00South AustraliaRead more Reflections on State tribunal design and federal jurisdiction following Burns v Corbett and Attorney-General (SA) v RaschkeWednesday, 11 September, 2019 - 17:15 to 18:30South AustraliaRead more The Implied Freedom of Political Communication after Clubb and PrestonMonday, 24 June, 2019 - 17:30 to 18:30VictoriaRead more Spence v Qld: Federalism Revived?Thursday, 20 June, 2019 - 17:30 to 19:30QueenslandRead more S 109 and the High Court — The Recent Inconsistency Decisions in Wreck Bay and Outback BallooningWednesday, 8 May, 2019 - 18:00 to 19:00Western AustraliaRead more Election Funding and the Implied Freedom of Political Communication — Unions NSW v NSWWednesday, 3 April, 2019 - 17:00 to 18:00Western AustraliaRead more Election Funding and the Implied Freedom of Political Communication — Unions NSW v NSWWednesday, 3 April, 2019 - 16:45Western AustraliaRead more Is QCAT (still) a court? Super-tribunals and Ch III of the ConstitutionThursday, 28 March, 2019 - 16:30 to 17:30QueenslandRead more Techniques of Constitutional Interpretation through the Lens of Two Recent Section 44 CasesThursday, 28 March, 2019 - 12:00 to 13:00South AustraliaRead more Constitution! AACL SA Christmas Event 2018Wednesday, 12 December, 2018 - 16:30 to 18:00South AustraliaRead more The Kable Principle in the Draft Federal ConstitutionTuesday, 24 October, 2017 - 12:00 to 13:00South AustraliaRead more The Constitution Amendment (Recognition of Aboriginal People) Act 2015 (WA) — its Passage, its Significance and its ImplicationsTuesday, 30 August, 2016 - 18:00 to 19:15Western AustraliaRead more Constitutional Centre of Western Australia Twilight Seminar: The Federal Election Away from the Politics — the Legal IssuesWednesday, 29 June, 2016 - 18:00 to 19:15Western AustraliaRead more Call for papers: IACL Melbourne roundtable — The Invisible Constitution in Comparative PerspectiveMonday, 2 May, 2016 - 00:00 to Tuesday, 3 May, 2016 - 00:00Read more Eastminster: Sir Ivor Jennings, the Westminster Model and State Building in AsiaTuesday, 20 October, 2015 - 12:00 to 13:00Read more 2015 Richard Cooper Memorial LectureThursday, 20 August, 2015 - 17:30 to 19:30Read more A Comparative Conversation on Constitutions: Implications and the Recognition of 'Unwritten Rights' in Australia and IsraelFriday, 7 August, 2015 - 13:00 to 14:00Read more CCCS: 2015 Constitutional Law ConferenceThursday, 23 July, 2015 - 16:00 to Friday, 24 July, 2015 - 17:30VictoriaRead more Judicial Independence in Australia: Contemporary Challenges, Future DirectionsFriday, 10 July, 2015 - 09:00 to Saturday, 11 July, 2015 - 17:00Read more AACL Public Lecture: Lord Bryce and the Australian ConstitutionTuesday, 26 May, 2015 - 18:00 to 19:45VictoriaRead more Recent High Court Cases: CPCF and TajjourWednesday, 13 May, 2015 - 18:00 to 19:00Read more Indigenous Constitutional Recognition SeminarFriday, 8 May, 2015 - 12:45Read more Surrogacy: Whose Rights Are We Concerned With?Friday, 17 April, 2015 - 17:30 to 19:00Read more CREEL/ CCCS Seminar: After the Scottish Referendum: The "Enduring Settlement" and its Implications for the Energy IndustriesTuesday, 17 March, 2015 - 12:00 to 13:00VictoriaRead more ALC/ CCCS Seminar: Constitutional Transition from Military Rule in Burma/Myanmar: Beyond a Narrative of Linear ProgressFriday, 13 March, 2015 - 12:00 to 13:00VictoriaRead more CCCS Seminar: Defending Constitutionalism Through Public Interest Litigation in Bangladesh: A Sceptical ViewTuesday, 10 March, 2015 - 12:00 to 13:00VictoriaRead more The Principle of Legality in Australian and New Zealand Law ConferenceFriday, 20 February, 2015 - 08:15 to 16:45VictoriaRead more CCCS & Obligations Group Seminar: Against Unification: Recognising the Distinctiveness of the Common Law of Review, and the Law under the Human Rights Act 1998Tuesday, 17 February, 2015 - 12:00 to 13:00VictoriaRead more Gibert +Tobin Centre of Public Law: 2015 Constitutional Law Conference and DinnerThursday, 12 February, 2015 - 23:00New South WalesRead more Sir Anthony Mason Lecture in Constitutional LawThursday, 12 February, 2015 - 17:00 to 18:45New South WalesRead more AACL Victorian Seminar Series - Government Contracting Power: England and AustraliaThursday, 22 January, 2015 - 12:00 to 13:00VictoriaRead more Comparative Constitutional Law: Final Courts Round-Up 2014Tuesday, 9 December, 2014 - 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17:30 to 19:30VictoriaRead more AACL Victorian Seminar Series: Commonwealth spending power, from Williams (No 1) to Williams (No. 2)Tuesday, 5 August, 2014 - 17:45 to 19:00VictoriaRead more AACL(ACT) & AIAL Seminar: Indigenous Recognition in the Constitution Tuesday, 1 July, 2014 - 12:30 to 14:00Australian Capital TerritoryRead more CCCS Seminar: Sri Lanka: The Challenge of Constitutional Reform in Post-War ReconciliationTuesday, 24 June, 2014 - 13:00 to 14:00VictoriaRead more Panel on the Unions of NSW Political Finance Case Thursday, 1 May, 2014 - 17:30 to 19:00New South WalesRead more Zelman Cowen Conference & Public Lecture 26-27 March 2014, Melbourne Law SchoolWednesday, 26 March, 2014 - 07:30 to Thursday, 27 March, 2014 - 16:00VictoriaRead more Current Constitutional Controversies Occasional Colloquium Series: The Territory of Marriage: Constitutional law, marriage law and family policy in the ACT Same Sex Marriage CaseWednesday, 19 March, 2014 - 16:30 to 18:00QueenslandRead more CCCS Seminar: How Human Rights Transformed the U.S. ConstitutionThursday, 13 March, 2014 - 12:00 to 13:00VictoriaRead more JUDGES IN CONVERSATION SERIES: Judges and politics: A comparative perspectiveWednesday, 5 March, 2014 - 16:30 to 18:00VictoriaRead more Current Constitutional Controversies Occasional Colloquium SeriesFriday, 28 February, 2014 - 23:00 to Tuesday, 30 December, 2014 - 23:00QueenslandRead more "Judges As Royal Commissioners" Reprised: The Involvement of Australian Judges In Extra-Judicial WorkThursday, 13 February, 2014 - 17:00 to 18:30New South WalesRead more 2014 George Winterton Memorial Lecture: "Judges as Royal Commissioners" Reprised: The Involvement of Australian Judges in Extra-Judicial WorkThursday, 13 February, 2014 - 17:00 to 18:30New South WalesRead more Comparative Constitutional Law ‰ÛÒ Final Courts Round‰ÛÒUp 2013Tuesday, 10 December, 2013 - 16:30 to 18:00New South WalesRead more AACL Annual General Meeting 2013Thursday, 28 November, 2013 - 15:45 to 16:00New South WalesRead more AACL Victorian Seminar Series: The Centralisation of Judicial PowerFriday, 8 November, 2013 - 16:45 to 18:00VictoriaRead more State Law and Order Regimes and The High Court: Past, Present and FutureWednesday, 23 October, 2013 - 16:30 to 17:30New South WalesRead more Cancellation of ICJ Victoria & CCCS Conference 2013: Human Rights and Democracy: Past Their Use-By Dates?Friday, 11 October, 2013 - 13:00 to Saturday, 12 October, 2013 - 12:00VictoriaRead more CCCS Seminar: Why Modern Constitutionalism Rests on a MistakeThursday, 26 September, 2013 - 14:00 to 15:00VictoriaRead more Fortescue Metals Group Limited v The CommonwealthTuesday, 10 September, 2013 - 17:30 to 19:00VictoriaRead more Sydney Law School: Distinguished Speakers Program: Professor Alec Stone SweetThursday, 29 August, 2013 - 17:30 to 19:00New South WalesRead more CCCS Seminar: Legislative Rights Review: The Perils of Constitutional BorrowingTuesday, 27 August, 2013 - 13:00 to 14:00VictoriaRead more ANU, in association with the Commonwealth Attorney-General's Department presents Tasmania Dam Case: 30th Anniversary SymposiumThursday, 22 August, 2013 - 09:00 to 17:30Australian Capital TerritoryRead more Realism About the High Court Revisited: Pragmatic Statesmanship in the Expansion of Chapter IIIThursday, 15 August, 2013 - 17:30New South WalesRead more The Boundaries of Judicial Review and Justiciability: Comparing Perspectives from Australia and CanadaMonday, 22 July, 2013 - 17:30 to 18:30New South WalesRead more AACL Victorian Seminar Series: What is the relevance of Williams and Plaintiff M61 for the exercise of State executive power?Thursday, 27 June, 2013 - 17:45 to 19:00VictoriaRead more Military Justice and Chapter III of the Constitution: The Constitutional Basis of Courts MartialWednesday, 8 May, 2013 - 17:30New South WalesRead more State Jurisdictional Residue: What Remains to A State Court When Its Chapter III Functions Are Exhausted?Wednesday, 6 February, 2013 - 16:30 to 18:00New South WalesRead more AACL Victorian Seminar Series 2012: The Unrecognised Reserve PowersThursday, 29 November, 2012 - 16:45 to 18:00VictoriaRead more AACL Annual General MeetingThursday, 29 November, 2012 - 16:30 to 16:45VictoriaRead more ART/CCCS Public Lecture: Integrity in Politics: The Power of IdeasThursday, 22 November, 2012 - 16:30 to 18:00VictoriaRead more CCCS Seminar: The Elusive Constitutional Settlement of Sri Lanka's Ethnic CrisisMonday, 8 October, 2012 - 12:00 to 13:00VictoriaRead more The Intersection Between Arbitration Law and Constitutional PrinciplesThursday, 13 September, 2012 - 17:30 to 19:00New South WalesRead more CCCS Book Launch: Legal Protection of Religious Freedom in Australia by professor Carolyn EvansThursday, 6 September, 2012 - 17:30 to 19:00VictoriaRead more AACL (ACT)/ CIPL Seminar:Williams v Commonwealth of Australia and the future of government contractingFriday, 31 August, 2012 - 12:30 to 14:00Australian Capital TerritoryRead more CCCS / AACL (VIC) Public Seminar: the Williams CaseTuesday, 28 August, 2012 - 17:30 to 19:00VictoriaRead more Fifteenth Geoffrey Sawer Lecture 2012 Democracy and the Constitution: The Dangers of LegalismTuesday, 21 August, 2012 - 18:30 to 19:30Australian Capital TerritoryRead more CCCS Seminar: Transnational Constitutionalism‰Ûªs Problem with Constitutional Identity: Prospects and PitfallsThursday, 16 August, 2012 - 13:00 to 14:00VictoriaRead more The Williams CaseMonday, 13 August, 2012 - 17:30 to 19:00New South WalesRead more CCCS Seminar: Constitutions Inside Out: Outsider Interventions in Domestic Constitutional ContestsThursday, 9 August, 2012 - 13:00 to 14:00VictoriaRead more CCCS Conference: Recent Developments in Constitutional Law Thursday, 19 July, 2012 - 18:30 to Saturday, 21 July, 2012 - 13:00VictoriaRead more AACL Victorian Seminar Series 2012: The Significance of The Human Rights (Parliamentary Scrutiny) ACT 2011 (CTH)Thursday, 7 June, 2012 - 17:30VictoriaRead more Constitutional Centre (WA) Lecture Series 2012: Complex Laws in Legal Practice: Statutory Interpretation for Practitioners Joint venture between The Constitutional Centre of Western Australia, the AACL and UWA Law SchoolWednesday, 30 May, 2012 - 18:00 to 19:30Western AustraliaRead more CCCS & ERRN (VIC) Joint Seminar: Money in the 2012 American Presidential ElectionsWednesday, 23 May, 2012 - 13:00 to 14:00VictoriaRead more CCCS Seminar: Models of Democracy and Models of Constitutionalism in Latin AmericaTuesday, 15 May, 2012 - 17:30VictoriaRead more AACL Victorian Seminar Series 2012: Constitutional InterpretationThursday, 26 April, 2012 - 17:30 to 19:00VictoriaRead more The High Cost of Judges: Reconsidering Judicial Pensions and Retirement in an Ageing PopulationMonday, 5 March, 2012 - 16:30 to 18:00New South WalesRead more Gilbert + Tobin 2012 Constitutional Law ConferenceFriday, 17 February, 2012 - 07:30 to 16:00New South WalesRead more Public Lecture: Western Australians and the Future of Federation: Why the West has More to Teach Australia about Federalism than the East Coast AdmitsTuesday, 15 November, 2011 - 17:00 to 18:00Western AustraliaRead more CCCS Seminar: Valerie Morse v The Police [2011] NZSC 45 (6 May 2011); SC 10/2010Tuesday, 8 November, 2011 - 12:00 to 13:00VictoriaRead more The Fractured Constitutional Basis of Environmental RegulationMonday, 31 October, 2011 - 16:30 to 17:30New South WalesRead more Seminar: Momcilovic v The Queen [2011] HCA 34Friday, 21 October, 2011 - 16:30 to 18:00VictoriaRead more Courting Controversy: The Constitution and Indigenous AustraliansWednesday, 12 October, 2011 - 17:30 to 19:00VictoriaRead more CCCS/ART Inaugural Lecture: Integrity in Parliament - Where Does Duty Lie?Tuesday, 11 October, 2011 - 17:30 to 18:30VictoriaRead more Public Lecture: 'Swelling the ranks of the peripatetic unemployed': The first decade of the High Court of AustraliaMonday, 3 October, 2011 - 17:00 to 18:00Western AustraliaRead more 'Insult and Emotion, Calumny and Invective': The Constitutional Protection of Incivility in Political CommunicationWednesday, 14 September, 2011 - 17:30 to 19:00New South WalesRead more Annual General Meeting Wednesday, 14 September, 2011 - 17:30 to 17:45New South WalesRead more 2011 Public Law WeekendFriday, 9 September, 2011 - 09:00 to Saturday, 10 September, 2011 - 17:00Australian Capital TerritoryRead more Deputy Premier's Address: Role of the Attorney-GeneralTuesday, 6 September, 2011 - 17:30 to 18:30South AustraliaRead more CCCS Seminar: From the Pursuit of Unity to Respect of Diversity: A Retrospect and Reflection of Chinese Ethnic PolicyWednesday, 31 August, 2011 - 13:00 to 14:00VictoriaRead more CCCS Seminar: Wainohu v New South Wales [2011] HCA 24 (23 June 2011)Friday, 26 August, 2011 - 13:00 to 14:00VictoriaRead more Conference: Australian Society of Legal Philosophy Annual Conference Friday, 29 July, 2011 - 09:00 to Sunday, 31 July, 2011 - 17:00QueenslandRead more Conference: Law and Religion: Legal Regulation of Religious Groups, Organisations and CommunitiesFriday, 15 July, 2011 - 09:00 to Saturday, 16 July, 2011 - 16:00VictoriaRead more Sir George Turner Public Lecture: Do Bills of Rights Protect or Endanger Religious Freedom: The American Consitiutional ExperienceThursday, 14 July, 2011 - 18:30 to 19:30VictoriaRead more Conference: Power and Politics: New Dimensions of Federalism in AustraliaSaturday, 2 July, 2011 - 10:00 to Sunday, 3 July, 2011 - 17:00Western AustraliaRead more