Institute Conferences and Events

The Institute engages in a comprehensive program of conferences, forums, symposia and public lectures.

National Preventative Mechanisms under the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture (OPCAT) and the International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2009)

 Principal Speakers:

Professor Richard Harding, University of Western Australia

Professor Neil Morgan, Inspector of Custodial Services, Western Australia

Professor Andrew Byrnes, University of New South Wales

Professor Spencer Zifcak, Australian Catholic University

Mr. David Manne, Director, Refugee and Immigration Legal Centre (Melbourne)

Mr. Jo Szwarc, Victorian Foundation for the Survivors of Torture

The Responsibility to Protect in International Law and Practice (2009)

Principal Speakers:

Gareth Evans AO, QC, Chancellor, Australian National University

Professor Ramesh Thakur, Department of Political Science, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Malcolm Fraser, AC, former Prime Minister of Australia

Professor Joseph Camilleri, Director, Centre for Dialogue, La Trobe University

Professor Alex Bellamy, Director, Asia-Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect

Dr Phoebe Wynn-Pope, University of Melbourne

Professor Spencer Zifcak, Australian Catholic University.

Future Justice: The Challenge of Inter-Generational Equity in Australia

 Principal Speakers:

Professor Peter Doherty AC, Nobel Prize for Medicine

Professor Larissa Behrendt, University of Technology, Sydney

Ms Lara Brown

Professor Spencer Zifcak

Visiting International Speakers:

Professor Steven Greer, University of Bristol, United Kingdom (2009): ‘What is Wrong with Human Rights?’

Professor Mark Kindie, University of Wisconsin (2010): ‘Constitutional Rights in the United States and South Africa’