Australia in the International Legal System

Madelaine Chiam is Senior Lecturer in the La Trobe Law School, Australia. Alison Duxbury is Professor of Law at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

• 1. Is There an Australian International Law? Alison Duxbury (University of Melbourne, Australia) and Madelaine Chiam (La Trobe Law School, Australia)Part I: Australia as Empire2. Participation in the ‘Gilded Ball’ : Australia and the Council of the League of Nations, Alison Duxbury (University of Melbourne, Australia)3. The Rise and Fall of ‘a Hyphenated Condition’: Australia, the British Empire and the Commonwealth, Frank Bongiorno (Australian National University)4. ‘Treat-Them-Gently-at-All-Costs-and-Please-the United Nations’: The UN Trusteeship Council and Capital Punishment and Clemency in Papua and New Guinea, 1954–65, Murray Chisholm (Australian Capital Territory Board of Senior Secondary Studies)5. Australia, Timor-Leste and International Law, Clinton Fernandes (University of New South Wales, Australia)Part II: Australia and Institutions6. Australia and the United Nations, Alison Pert (University of Sydney, Australia)7. The Increasing Results of Indigenous Peoples’ Engagement in International Law and Geopolitics, Les Malezer (National Congress of Australia’s First Peoples)8. Australia and the International Court of Justice, Margaret A Young (University of Melbourne, Australia)9. International Law in the Attorney-General’s Department: 1901–2000, Henry Burmester10. Australian Government Practice of International Law in the Twenty-First Century, Bill Campbell (Australian National University)11. Ad Hoc and Arbitrary: International Criminal Law in Australian Courts, Monique Cormier (Monash University, Australia)Part III: Australians and International Law12. Child Refugees, Child Rights: Sidestepping International Law in Australian Policy-Making, Jordana Silverstein (University of Melbourne, Australia)13. ‘This is Our Conference’: Elizabeth Reid, Second Wave Feminism and Australia’s Performance of International Law in the 1970s, Jon Piccini (Australian Catholic University)14. The First Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law, 1933–38, Madelaine Chiam (La Trobe Law School, Australia)