Conferences and Seminars

Past Conferences and Seminars

2010

6 December 2010: Evidence Based Regulatory Reform:beyond 2010
This forum aimed to expand current thinking around both ‘regulatory reform’ and the ‘evidence’ used in reforms. It looked beyond the regulatory reform task as simply one of reducing administrative burdens, towards aiming as a community to improve regulatory effectiveness and using regulatory discretion wisely.

This forum also aimed to provide some reflections on the meaning of ‘evidence-based’ reform and highlight the view that evidence is inherently rich and multifaceted, and as much based on political beliefs and social judgements as on technical and scientific matters. 

Please click on the following speaker presentations:

Reforming Gambling Regulation:From Impotence to Effectiveness
Charles Livingstone
Presentation

Regulating for sustainability: some thoughts from econmics
Ross Gittens
Paper

 

 

2009

20 October 2009: Planning and Climate Change Conference
How climate change issues meld with regional planning and strategies of urban growth is a live issue that will be of interest to all State Government Planning Departments and Local Government Planners with cities struggling with 'sustainability policies' as well as to Planning and Environmental Lawyers.

Please click on the following speaker presentations:

The Ways the Planning Process can be Used for Climate Change
Professor Leslie Stein
Presentation
Paper

Lessons from the South East Queensland Regional Plan
Evan Jones
Presentation

Experience with the Port Phillip "Toward Zero - Sustainable Environment Strategy 2007"
Darren Ray
Presentation
Paper

City of Sydney Climate Change Strategies
John McInerney
Presentation

Climate Change considerations in the Land and Environment Court
The Hon. Justice Brian Preston
Presentation
Paper

Climate Change Considerations in Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT)
Helen Gibson
Presentation
Paper

Climate Change and Planning in New York City
Melanie Meyers
Presentation
Paper

 

17 February 2009: National Consumer Law and Unfair Contract Terms
The Hon. Chris Bowen MP, Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Competition Policy and Consumer Affairs talked about the future direction of consumer policy in Australia at this forum.
Other leading Australian and international commentators provided their perspectives on issues raised by the recent Productivity Commission review of Australia's consumer policy framework.
Proposed changes to Victoria's important unfair contract terms legislation and recent cases was also discussed.

Please click on the following speaker presentations:

Update on Victoria's unfair contract terms legislation
Patrick L'Estrange, Elizabeth Lanyon, Peter Hiland: Update on Victoria's unfair contract terms legislation
Peter Hiland: Update on Victoria's unfair contract terms legislation, 'The Cases'

The Productivity Commission Review of Australia's Cononsumer Policy Framework
Justin Malbon: Unfair Terms
Sitesh Bhojani: The Productivity Commission Review of Australia's Consumer Policy Framework

Government consumer Policy Initiatives and Overseas Experiences
The Hon. Chris Bowen: An Australian Consumer Law: Fair markets - Confident consumers
Chris Willett: Terms, Practices, Fairness and Simplicity

2008

18 November 2008: Water Trading - Future Directions
A forum held at the Monash University Law Chambers, 472 Bourke Street, Melbourne with conjunction with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC).
The forum examined ideas for an efficient and robust water trading system in the Murray Darling Basin by highlighting the major challenges and priorities for water reform.

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25 June 2008: Law and Regulation of Virtual Worlds 
Seminar held at the Monash University Law Chambers, 472 Bourke Street, Melbourne.
Business and communities of users are increasingly operating in virtual worlds, such as Second Life. But doing business in virtual worlds raises many complex, novel legal issues. Already, potentially landmark cases have come before US courts. This seminar featured well-known experts and legal academics in this rapidly-emerging area.

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20 February 2008: Domain Name Law and Regulation
Seminar and book launch held at the Monash University Law Chambers, 472 Bourke Street, Melbourne.
The Domain Name System (DNS), which matches computer addresses to human- friendly domain names, has given rise to novel legal issues including the international arrangements for regulating the DNS and disputes invloving the use of trade marks as domain names. This seminar addressed the latest developments in this rapidly-moving filed.

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2007

19 July 2007: Reducing the Regulatory Burden: Challenges for Victoria
Held at the Monash University Law Chambers, 472 Bourke Street, Melbourne.
This was the second in a series of seminars hosted by the Monash Centre for Regulatory Studies which focused on the Victorian environment and examined successful overseas models to reduce administrative burdens. In addition, a number of case studies were examined, along with challenges in applying new approaches.

 

16 March 2007: The Endogeneity of Law: Are Compliance Systems a House of Cards?
Presented by Professor Lauren B Edelman, University California, Berkeley, USA at Monash University Law Chambers, Bourke Street, Melbourne. The presentation outlined the implications of a theory of law as endogenous, where law is generated within the social releam that it seeks to regulate.