Speakers

Keynote Speakers

The Conference Committee is delighted to announce that Chief Justice Robert French AC and Professor Richard Larkins AO have accepted their invitation to be the Keynote Speakers for the 2011 Conference.

Chief Justice Robert French AC

Robert Shenton French was appointed Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia in September 2008. At the time of his appointment he was a judge of the Federal Court of Australia, having been appointed to that office in November 1986. He graduated from the University of Western Australia in science and law. He was admitted in 1972 and practised as a barrister and solicitor in Western Australia until 1983 when he went to the Independent Bar. From 1994 to 1998 he was President of the National Native Title Tribunal. At the time of his appointment he was an additional member of the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory and a member of the Supreme Court of Fiji. He was also a Deputy President of the Australian Competition Tribunal and a part-time member of the Australian Law Reform Commission. From 2001 to January 2005 he was president of the Australian Association of Constitutional Law. Chief Justice French was appointed a Companion in the General Division of the Order of Australia in January 2010 and is the sixth High Court Judge to have attended and presented at the Conference since our first in Athens in 1988.

Professor Richard Larkins AO

Richard Larkins is an Emeritus Professor, Monash University. He was Vice-Chancellor and President of Monash University from September 2003 to July 2009. Prior to his appointment at Monash University he was Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences at the University of Melbourne from 1998 to 2003 having served as Professor of Medicine at the University of Melbourne. His clinical and research interests are in diabetes, endocrinology and general medicine. Past positions held by Professor Larkins include Chair of Universities Australia, Chair of the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia, President of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, President of the Endocrine Society of Australia, Chair of the Accreditation Committee of the Australian Medical Council, member on two occasions of the Prime Minister’s Science, Engineering and Innovation Council and a member of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Council. He is an Officer in the General Division of the Order of Australia.

Conference Speakers

Call for papers

We would be delighted to receive offers for paper presentations from delegates in either Law or Medicine. The closing date for receipt of abstracts is Friday 6th August 2010. Please e-mail your presentation title, a brief abstract and short personal biography to Jenny Crofts (jennycrofts@ozemail.com.au) or post to 41 Davison St, Richmond 3121, for review and consideration by the Professional Programme Committee, once again ably lead by Professor Richard Smallwood AO.

It should be noted that financial assistance for travel, registration or accommodation expenses is not available. Social program add-ons will also be at cost to the participant.