About Us - History and Objectives
The objectives of the International Law Association (Australian Branch) are to promote the study, elucidation and advancement of international law, public and private, the study of comparative law, the making of proposals for the solution of conflicts of law, and for the unification of law, and the furthering of international understanding and goodwill amongst persons of Australian citizenship and normally resident in Australia.
Nygh Scholarship recipient Kim Pham reports on her time at the Hague
Each year one applicant is awarded funding to attend the Hague Conference on Private International Law, whose mission is to work for the progressive unification of private international law rules. The 2011 recipient, Kim Pham, reports on her 6 month internship.
Read about her experience here.
Justice for All? The International Criminal Court - A Conference: A Ten Year Review
Don’t miss the conference on the International Criminal Court being held on 14 and 15 February 2012 at the University of New South Wales. Organised by the Australian Human Rights Centre and the Faculties of Law and Arts at Social Sciences at UNSW, the conference features ICC President, Judge Sang-Hyun Song, ICC Registrar Silvana Arbia, ICC Deputy Prosecutor (and Prosecutor-elect) Fatou Bensouda, Christian Wenaweser former President, Assembly of States Parties, and a number of renowned academic, government and civil society experts on the Court. The two key objectives of the Conference are to examine the role and success of the ICC in achieving gender justice, and to analyse the participation of the Asia Pacific region in the ICC regime.
Details of program and registration are available on the conference website.
Eve Ensler at the Sydney Theatre Co (12 February 2012)
As part of the lead up to the conference, on Sunday, 12 February 2012, at 6 pm at the Sydney Theatre at Walsh Bay, the Australian Human Rights Centre Annual Lecture will be delivered by Eve Ensler, Tony Award winning American playwright, performer, feminist and activist, best known for her play The Vagina Monologues and as a writer and activist focusing on violence against women in situations of conflict. The lecture will explore theatre as a mechanism for giving visibility to human rights violations and as a vehicle for human rights promotion and redress.
Details and booking available here.
Financial Review Legal Conference 2012
This annual Financial Review Legal Conference 2012 is especially designed for in-house counsels, lawyers, barristers and other legal experts to provide a complete picture on the Australian legal market and the issues it faces; opportunities in Asia, government regulation, changing client demands and globalisation of the legal profession.
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Partner makes Marque on ILA
Marque Lawyers partner Damian Sturzaker has been elected as the president of the Australian branch of the International Law Association (ILA) for the third year running.
Sturzaker was again bestowed the title at the annual ILA address last week, which was this year delivered by Justice Allsop, the president of the NSW Court of Appeal...
Conference: Justice for All?
The International Criminal Court: Ten Years in Review
13-15 February, 2012
The conference will mark the 10th Anniversary of the operation of the International Criminal Court (ICC). Speakers include ICC President, Judge Sang-Hyun Song, ICC Registrar Silvana Arbia, ICC Deputy Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda, Christian Wenaweser President, ASP and a number of renowned academic, government and civil society experts on the Court. The two key objectives of the Conference are to examine the role and success of the ICC in achieving gender justice, and to analyse the participation of the Asia Pacific region in the ICC regime.
For more information and online registration, please see:
http://www.justiceforall.unsw.edu.au/
Nygh Internship celebrated
The University of Sydney has published an article discussing the benefits of the Peter Nygh Hague Conference Internship.
South Australian Chapter Launch
We are pleased to announce the launch of a South Australian Chapter of the International Law Association (Australian Branch) on Friday, 2 September. Addressing the launch will be The Honourable Robert Hill, Chancellor of the University of Adelaide and former Permanent Representative of Australia to the United Nations.
Please see your invitation and flyer.
ILA/AIIA Hague Announcement
ILA/AIIA Hague Internship winner announced at event on 9 June 2011 - Invitation.pdf
ILA Newsletter
ILA Newsletter Issue 1 – VIC Chapter - ILA Newsletter Issue 1.pdf
VIC Chapter Launch
VIC Chapter Launch Event - ILA - Victorian Chapter Launch Event.pdf
Sydney Law School Distinguished Speakers Program 2011
Geoffrey Robertson QC - Humanitarian intervention and international law. Click for Details
Call for Papers - 2010 Australian International Law Journal
The Australian International Law Journal is currently accepting submissions of articles, case notes and book reviews on any area of public or private international law, for inclusion in the 2010 annual volume of the Journal.
Click here for details (pdf).
Whale Watching Seminar Gains Media Exposure
Lawyers Weekly
A leading barrister believes that the growing popularity of the Australian whale watching industry could be a key platform in Australia's argument to ban whaling in Antarctic waters.
Dr Chris Ward, a barrister and member of the Sydney Panel of Independent International Legal Experts addressing Japan's Special Permit Whaling, told a seminar in Sydney last night that Australia would look to highlight the importance of whale watching to its tourism sector in proceedings before the International Court of Justice.
"I don't want to be met with howls of derision from the floor, but I think there will be a substantial emphasis on whale watching as a special interest," Ward said. "I don't say that facetiously, it is picked up in the application [to initiate proceedings against Japan in the ICJ] which makes express reference, rather bizarrely and oddly to an aide memoire sent to Japan in 2007, and whale watching is singled out in that aide memoire, as an essential interest of Australia...it is a weak peg, but might be the peg we are putting a few things into," Ward said...
Click here for full online article.
A Practitioner's Guide to International Law
The ILA is pleased to inform its members that the International Law section of the New South Wales Young Lawyers Association, has recently launched "A Practitioner's Guide to International Law"
A Practitioner's Guide to International Law is the first publication of its kind in Australia. A number of ILA members were involved in its publication.
Launched in February 2010, it provides an introductory overview of certain aspects of international law for Australian legal practitioners. The Guide aims to facilitate greater understanding of the area and to promote recourse to international law in resolving disputes before Australian courts and international fora.
Nygh Scholarship recipient Katie Price reports
on her internship at the Hague
INTRODUCTION: For almost 5 months I was the 2008 Peter Nygh Intern at the Hague Conference on Private International Law ('Hague Conference'). This is an organisation that for over 115 years has been dedicated to the harmonisation of cross border legal affairs and in doing so it aims to make life a little easier for those whose legal affairs do not fit neatly within the borders of one country. Whilst 115 years sounds like a ridiculously long time for a conference to be going on, the Hague Conference is no ordinary conference. Rather, it is a standing body with a Permanent Bureau that makes international laws through the consensus of its member states. 39 conventions have been concluded in that time, some that break radical new ground and others that update what has gone before to ensure these conventions keep step with the modern world. Some of the work I performed as an intern had to do with trying to get new conventions off the ground and some work dealt with maintaining and ensuring the continuing relevance of conventions. There were also a number of smaller tasks involving a variety of matters...
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