Victorian News Bulletin

This page features recent issues of the Victorian Chapter’s News Bulletin. Click on the heading to access each edition.

Issue 11 – July 2014

Contents:

• President’s Report
• Harmonising the WTO Public Morality Exceptions and the Seals Dispute        – International Economic Law Update
• Mothers of Srebenica v The Netherlands
• The Law of the Sea Convention and Coastal States’ Right to Prevent Oil Pollution
• Putin, Crimea and the Crime of Aggression
• Events, Opportunities, Conferences
• Editor’s Blog Roll

Issue 10 – March 2014

Contents:

• President’s Report 
• ‘Justified Morality’ and Seals – International Economic Law Update 
• Editor’s blog roll 
• BIMCO’s Recognition of the Singapore Chamber of Maritime Arbitration 
• ILA Public International Law Moot 
• International Law Events and Conferences
• Interview – Katie Allan and Steph Batsakis, reading for the BCL
• Calls for Papers 

Issue 9 – November 2013

Contents:

• Professor Donald R. Rothwell: The Law of the Sea and South China Sea Disputes
• Interview: The Hon. John Fahey AC on Doping and the Law 
• The Treaty of Lisbon and Pressure for Policy 
• Changes in EU International Investment Agreements
• The Evolution of a Lawyer-Linguist
• Secretary, Department of Families, Housing, Community and Indigenous Affairs v Mahrous
• International Economic Law Update
• International Conferences and Calls for Papers

Issue 8 – July 2013

Contents:

• A report on the 2013 Public International Law Moot Competition;
• An interview with The Hon. Justice Bernard Bongiorno AO on Comparisons and Reflections on Australian and European Legal Systems;
• Case note: Three Waves of Litigation in the Castel v TCL Air Conditioner Dispute
• Commentary: High Court Upholds s 16(1) of the International Arbitration Act
• International Economic Law Update
• Blog Roll
• Message from the President of the ILA (Australia)
• Member information on events and opportunities to become involved.

Issue 8 – April 2013

Reports on ILA Events

• The Next 50 Years of Public International Law with Professor James Crawford
• International Legal Challenges to Australia’s Tobacco Plain Packaging Laws and Other Issues in Investment Policy

Interview

• Professor Gerry Simpson and the Future of International Law

Case Notes

• Santhirarajah v Attorney-General for the Commonwealth of Australia
• Australia’s Whaling Dispute Heats Up

Other

• Public International Law Moot Competition Update

Blog Roll

International Law Events & Opportunities

Issue 7 – December 2012

Contents:

Article

• Transnational Crimes: International Legal Framework? Interminable complexities and the unknown in relation to ‘War’
  

Other

• Public International Law Moot Competition Update

International Law Events & Opportunities

Issue 6 – September 2012

Contents:

• ILA 2012 Biennial Conference Report
• NSW Chapter Event Report – Outlawing Merchants of Death: Creating an Arms Trade Treaty
• Article
  HMS Victory and the Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage 2001
• Case-note
  International Administrative Tribunals and the International Court of Justice: A ‘prehistoric and fossilized procedure’?
• Book review
  The Cambridge Companion to International Law
• Note
  The Call for an Iraq War Inquiry

Issue 5 – June 2012

Contents:

• A report on our recent events, Business, Bribery and Corruption: Strategies for Conducting Business in the Asia-Pacific Panel (18 April 2012) and Responsibility to Protect (29 May 2012)
• Contributions from members on R2P, Business and Human Rights, Arbitration Provisions in the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, the Chevron/Ecuador-Lago Agrio Litigation and International Norms
• An interview with Cambridge PhD candidate Jason Pobjoy; and
• Member information on events and opportunities to become involved

Issue 4 – March 2012

Contents:

• In focus: Citizens and Civilians in International Law by Andrew Farran
• Interview with Professor Sundhya Pahuja
• Report from our Planning Evening
• News and events

Issue 3 – December 2011

Contents:

• Opinion: The Global Financial Crisis and the EU Summit by Andrew Farran
• In focus: International Criminal Law – an interview with Dr Gerry Nagtzaam
• Report back from the Chapter’s ‘Tackling Legal Challenges in Cross Border Transactions’ event
• Committee update on the Chapter’s 2012 Executive Committee
• News and events

Issue 2 – September 2011

Contents:

• In focus: Libya and the R2P Principle – where to from here? by Andrew Farran
• In focus: Jurisprudence of International Law – an interview with Dr John Morss
• Report back from the Chapter’s ‘Human Trafficking and Servitude’ panel event and ‘International Arbitration in Australasia – Prospects and Trends’ panel event
• Committee update
• News and events

Issue 1 – June 2011

Contents:

• In focus: International Criminal Law – an interview with Dr Gideon Boas
• Committee update
• Report back from Chapter’s launch event
• News and events