LAW308 – Constitutional Law

Laura Longmore

Course Coordinator

Sunday 30 August 2020

9:15am- 10:15am Trade and Commerce power (s51(i)) Corporations power (s 51(xx))

10:30am- 11:30am  Taxation power (s 51(ii))

Brett Eurell is a barrister in private practice in Sydney.  Brett practices in public and private law including general commercial, corporate, trust and other contractual disputes.  Before being called to the Bar, Brett was a solicitor in private and government practice.  Brett initially practiced as a litigation associate in the dispute resolution practice group of a national commercial law firm before working with state and federal agencies, including the national corporate regulator.

Brett holds a Master of Business Law from the University of Sydney and a Master of Law in Criminal Prosecutions from the University of Wollongong.  In addition to the Centre for Law and Justice, Brett is a sessional lecturer in a range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses.

Sunday 30 August 2020

1:30pm- 3pm Current issues in emergency law

Michael Eburn is a Barrister and Honorary Associate Professor at the Australian National University and specialises in the field of emergency law in Australia.  Michael was the chief investigator on a Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC project looking at the Policies, Institutions and Governance of Natural Hazards and before that was a researcher on the Bushfire CRC funded project Mainstreaming Fire and Emergency Management across Legal and Policy Sectors; Joint Research and Policy Learning.

Michael was the foundational author of the criminal law text Hayes & Eburn Criminal Law and Procedure in New South Wales used at CSU. Michael is also the author of Emergency Law: Rights, liabilities and duties of emergency workers and volunteers (1st ed 1999, 2nd ed 2005, 3rd ed 2009, 4th ed 2013 The Federation Press, Sydney) which is the only book on the subject of emergency law in Australia.  Michael has written numerous articles and given conference papers and inservice training on legal issues affecting the emergency services.

Michael will be presenting along with the Director of the Centre of Law & Justice, Mark Nolan, for a Q & A forum discussing emergency law, a particularly topical issue as we find ourselves in the midst of global pandemic preceded by a harrowing bushfire season in Australia. This forum will focus on a range of topics from the Constitutional responsibility of the Federal government and State governments with regards to national emergencies to the intersection between emergency law and criminal law

Monday 31 August 2020

10:45- 12noon– Constitutional reform/recent constitutional developments (pre-recorded)

Bede Harris is a native of Zimbabwe. He has a BA(Mod) from Trinity College, University of Dublin, and LLB (cum laude) from Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa, and a DPhil from the University of Waikato in Hamilton, New Zealand. He has previously taught at the University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg; the University of Waikato; James Cook University and the University of Canberra.

Bede’s primary areas of teaching are Business Law and Corporations Law. His areas of research are Constitutional Law (particularly constitutional reform), Indigenous legal issues, Corporations Law and Consumer Law.

In 2001 Bede was awarded a Fulbright Senior Fellowship and attended the American Studies Institute held at the Meyner Centre for the Study of Government at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, where teachers of Constitutional Law from a variety of jurisdictions studied IUS constitutional law, before travelling in the south-west of the United States to study native American self-government.

Bede has made written and oral representations to legislative committee enquiries on constitutional law, human rights protection and civics education within my areas of expertise. He was a moderator of community discussions during the 1999 Republic Referendum, and was co-sponsor of proposal adopted by the Peoples Conference at Corowa, which was convened in December 2001 to consider processes which might be used to put the issue of an Australian Republic before voters. He contributes to the print and electronic media.