Thursday (Location: Business and Law Building, Ilam Campus)

Conference draft timetable

Thursday (Location: Business and Law Building, Ilam Campus)

Registration 8.30 – 9.00

9.00 Powhiri

9.05-9.30 Opening of the Conference, welcomes and housekeeping

9.30 – 10.45 First plenary – Amanda Nettelbeck: A history of ‘protection’: patterns of legal change and continuity one of the keynote speakers

10.45-11.10 morning tea

11.20 – 12.40 panel sessions (1)

Stream A “Opening and Exploring Connections and Perspectives of Financial Crime in Britain and Australia: ‘What has once happened, will invariably happen again’? / Stream B Resource exploitation, indigenous rights and other interests / Stream C Legal change and technological Change
CerianGriffiths, “The Changing Faces of Fraud: Definitions, Doctrines, and Developments”
Sarah Wilson, “Crime History and opening and exploring connections across space and time: Perspectives on Fraud in Britain and Australia from c 1830”
David Plater‘Even in times of speculative mania, [one] cannot play with impunity upon the credulity of the public’: The Experience of Financial Crime in late 19th Century Australia?” / Elizabeth Macpherson‘Unbundling the bundle of rights: The historical treatment of indigenous water rights in Australia and Chile’
Katie O’Bryan, “Changing Face of River Management in Victoria: the Yarra River (Wilip-gin BirrarungMurron) Bill 2017 (Vic)”
Guy Charlton and Ricardo Napper (paper to be presented by Guy) “Logging, Deforestation and Forestry Conservation in Western Australia 1829-1918 / Blake Brown, “Medical Advances and Malpractice Law in Canada, 1900-1950”-
Anna Kerr, "Evolution and revolution in the development of the law in relation to reproductive rights"”
GennaChurches “Reactionary Policy Making — Privacy, Efficacy and Discretion in the Post And Telegraph Act 1901(Cth) and Colonial Acts”

12.40 – 1.40 lunch

THURSDAY 14th

1.40 – 3.10 panel sessions (2)

Stream AEarly colonial histories / Stream BLegal development- the common law, the judges and reality / Stream CHistories from the wider British Empire
Patsy Withycombe “The Twelfth Man: John Henry Fleming the ringleader of the Myall Creek Massacre 1838”
Libby Connors,“Manliness, Citizenship and Law in the British Empire in the Mid-Nineteenth Century: how Aboriginal manliness was denied on the Queensland frontier”
Patricia Downes“A ‘trifling’ punishment: Australian redcoats transported from within” / Emily Ireland, “An examination of the law, lives and litigation of married women suing without their husbands, by a ‘next friend’, in the English Court of Chancery, 1689-1760”
Dr SonaliWalpola, (ANU) “Post-Australia Acts: The High Court of Australia as Instigator of Change in the Common Law””
Prue Vines, “The (historical) place of the barmaid in vicarious liability” / Justine Collins“Legal Transplantation in the British West Indies and the reverberations thereof, 1500-1700s”.
Diane Kirkby “Merchant Seafarers: Changing ‘the habits and customs of centuries”’
Bevan Marten “ConfrontingBritish Bullies (through shipping law reform)”

3.10 - 3.40- Afternoon tea

3.40 – 5.00 Second plenary session – keynote speakerProfessor Richard Boast QC “Maori Land Tenure and the Courts 1909-1953: The forgotten decades”

5.15- 6.00 ANZLHS AGM ( 2nd floor lounge, Business and Law building)

6.00-7.30 Drinks and social - ( 2nd floor lounge, Business and Law building)

Friday 15 December -

9.00 – 10.30 – Plenary – post-graduate opportunities; publishing and employment ( - speakers Prue Vines , Charlotte Macdonald, Yorick Smaal)

10.30 – 11.00 morning tea

11.00 – 12.15 Third plenary session – keynote speaker Dr Te Maire Tau, Ngai Tahu Research Centre “New Zealand - a quiet revolution? (title TBC)

12.30- 1.30 lunch

1.30 – 3.00 panel sessions (3)

Stream ALaw ancient and medieval / Stream B Early Australia settlement history / Stream CCriminal law histories
Nova Petrechko, “Will the Real Innovator Please Stand Up?: Heretics, Pagans, Magicians, and Theodosius I”
Pamela O’Neil, “CrithGablach's false equilibrium”,
Lindsay Breach “The alienation of monastic land in England before the Conquest” / Justin Cahill, ‘Distance, grain and morality: alternative sources of the first constitution of New South Wales’.
James McComish, "TheJudicature Actin Victoria: Evolution or Equilibrium?"
Paula Byrne “The Maitland Jury c 1840-1870”. / Lisa Durnian,“Bargaining for a guilty plea: The 1941 Mackay Royal Commission”
Andrew Sepie“The Damage Done: a history of section 23(g) of the Evidence Act 1908 within child sexual abuse trials in New Zealand, 1990-2007.”
David Plater (Adelaide) “The ‘Veritable Fiend in Human Guise’? Poisoning and Gender in 19th Century Colonial Australia and the Case of Martha Needle

3.00 – 3.30 afternoon tea

3.30 – 5.00 panel sessions (4)

Stream A Tangata whenua and the colonists / Stream B Australian constitutionalism
Liam Grant,”The Subaltern Speaks, but can Sovereignty Listen? The changing shape of sovereignty”
Laura Kamau, “Rangatira! Social changes in rangatiratanga since 1835 “
David Williams, ‘A “trust” to benefit indigenous peoples: The Nelson settlement, New Zealand, in the 1840s.’ / Sue Milne, “Is the Tail Now Wagging the Dog? The Common Law Concept of Alien at Federation”
Patrick Graham, “ Emergency Powers and the Latham High Court”
Roughley, Fiona (PhD student ANU College of Law) “Continuity and change in the Office of Attorney-General for the Commonwealth”]

6.30 Conference dinner – The Shilling Club, UC.

Saturday [ At Arts Centre, Worcester St]

9.00 - 9.45 Plenary session 4 – keynote speaker Justice Stephen Kos, President of the Court of Appeal “A short history of appeals”

9.45 - 10.20 morning tea[guided tours of Arts Centre and Teece Museum available at 10 and 10.30]

10.20 -11.50. panel sessions(5)

Stream AAspects of NZ courts / Stream BHistories and international law and human rights / Stream C“Violence, Same-Sex Offences and the Law”
Patrick McCabe “Robin Cooke and New Zealand appeals to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council”
Jane Adams “Justice ideals and the development of legal architecture in New Zealand’s nineteenth and twentieth century history”
Michael Gousmett “Special Commissioners of Income Tax v Pemsel (1891) 3 TC 53; An Antipodean Perspective from One Hundred Years Ago” / SheaEasterling “Looking Forward Looking Back: The Role of Customary Law and the UN Declaration on the Rights of indigenous Peoples
Marnie Lloydd, ‘Other’ Foreign Fighters and International Law”
Jon Piccini “A new government with new policies and new attitudes; Gough Whitlam and the human rights ‘breakthrough’ in 1970s Australia”
’ / Andy Kaladelfos and Yorick Smaal, “Prosecuting male rape: Legal responses to sexual violence in Australia”
Yorick Smaal “‘Juvenile Depravity’: Boys and sex in institutional settings.”
Lisa Featherstone and Andy Kaldelfos “Medicine, Psychiatry and Homosexual Offences: The Courtroom in 1950s

11.50 - 1.00 - Final plenary and keynote speaker Professor Charlotte Macdonald (VUW) (title TBC)

1.00-2.30 Book launch ofMagna Carta and NZ (eds Steven Winter and Chris Jones) – address by Dame Sian Elias, Chief Justice of New Zealand (lunch included).

2.30- 3.00 Conference windup and close