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Peter Moon is a prominent Information Technology lawyer. He has written a regular column for the Australian Financial Review since 1996 and is a regular fortnightly talk back guest with Jon Faine on ABC774 in Melbourne. He has also been a featured guest on number of programmes with Doug Aiton, Terry Laidler and Mark Skurnik. Peter, an accomplished public speaker, has been a member of the Australian National Debating Team on four occasions, and represented Australia at the 1998 World Series Debating. |
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Ruth Bird
Ruth's career started in high school teaching before she undertook postgraduate studies in Librarianship, spending several happy years as a teacher librarian. Nearly 20 years ago she changed to law librarianship, working at two law firms, and the law library at the University of Melbourne. In 2004 she moved to Oxford University, where she is the Bodleian Law Librarian. Along the way she has computerised collections, been a marketing manager, helped design two new libraries, taught legal research, written articles, been responsible for precedents and knowledge management, and tried always to encourage positive, user focussed changes to services and practices in each workplace. |
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Julian Burnside is a barrister practising in Melbourne and other parts of Australia. He joined the Bar in 1976 and took silk in 1989. He acted for the Ok Tedi natives against BHP, for Alan Bond in fraud trials, for Rose Porteous in numerous actions against Gina Rinehart, and for the Maritime Union of Australia in the 1998 waterfront dispute against Patrick Stevedores. He was the Senior Counsel assisting the Australian Broadcasting Authority in the "Cash for Comment" inquiry and was senior counsel for Liberty Victoria in the Tampa litigation. He has acted pro bono in many human rights cases, in particular concerning the treatment of refugees. He is passionately involved in the arts. He collects contemporary paintings and sculptures and regularly commissions music. He is Chair of Fortyfive Downstairs, Chair of Chunky Move, Chair of the Mietta Foundation and deputy Chair of Musica Viva Australia. He has written a successful children's book, Matilda and the Dragon (Allen & Unwin) and a book of essays on language and etymology, Wordwatching - field notes from an amateur philologist, (Scribe, 2004). He compiled a book of letters written by asylum seekers held in Australia's detention camps. The book, From Nothing to Zero was published in 2003 by Lonely Planet. In 2004 he was elected as a Living National Treasure.He is married to artist Kate Durham. |
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Hon. David Caygill is a former New Zealand Cabinet Minister and Member of Parliament and is currently Deputy Chair of the New Zealand Commerce Commission.
At age 22 he was elected to the Christchurch City Council and served there for three terms (1971-80). In 1978 David was elected to Parliament and served as an MP for the following 18 years. During the Lange and Palmer Governments David was Minister of Trade and Industry (1984-88), Minister of Health (1987-88) and Minister of Finance (1989-90).
From 1993-96 he was Deputy Leader of the Opposition. Following his retirement from politics in 1996 he returned to his former profession as a lawyer, joining the national firm of Buddle Findlay as a partner specialising in public law.
David has served on a number of outside bodies, including as chair of the Accident Compensation Corporation. He is currently a director of Infratil Ltd and of Target Pest Enterprises Ltd. He also chairs Education New Zealand Trust, the Pegasus Health group of companies, and is a member of the Board of the Nurse Maude Association.
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Mark Davison is the author of several major works relating to intellectual property and competition law. He has written The Legal Protection of Databases, a book published in the intellectual property series of Cambridge University Press and is the co-author of the third edition of Shanahan's Australian Law of Trade Mark and Passing Off, the leading reference work on Australian trade mark law. He has also published two casebooks dealing with competition law and aspects of consumer protection. In addition to his doctorate on sui generis protection of databases, he has a diploma in Indonesian language and studies and he is the winner of three Australian Research Council large grants. Besides teaching in the postgraduate and undergraduate courses at Monash, he has taught in various projects in Thailand, Vietnam and Indonesia. |
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Jerry Dupont is Executive Director of the Law Library Microform Consortium (LLMC), a library cooperative which publish thousands of legal titles in microform and digital-image format. LLMC's work is described on its corporate web site, www.llmc.com. Its on-line service, www.llmc-digital.org, serves most of the major colleges and universities in the US and Canada. Dupont holds degrees in law, business administration and library science and served earlier as assistant director of the University of Michigan Law Library and as founding director of the University of Hawaii Law Library.
He is author of the annotated bibliography: The Common Law Abroad: Constitutional & Legal Legacy of the British Empire.
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Margaret Greville is the Law Librarian at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. She has a MA (Hons) and LLB from the University of Auckland (NZ). She has been a law librarian for over 30 years, in law firms (large and small), in two academic law libraries, and in a courts library - both in New Zealand and Australia. Most of that time has been spent in academe. She has championed the teaching of legal research skills to law students, and has also taught legal practitioners and non-law librarians. She was instrumental in promoting the creation of a law librarianship module in a New Zealand Library School, and has participated in teaching it.
She is the principal author of Legal Research and Writing in New Zealand, 2d ed, by Margaret Greville, Scott Davidson and Richard Scragg, Wellington NZ, LexisNexis (NZ) 2004. A new edition is in process, and is due for publication later this year. She has also written for both LLRX http://www.llrx.com/features/newzealand.htm (2002) and more recently for GobaLex http://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/New_Zealand.htm (2004).
She has been an active member of the NZLLG for the last 30 years. She has written and spoken at conferences & seminars, most recently at the Joint Study Institute (JSI, Sydney, 2004) and at the New Zealand Law Librarians' Symposium, Auckland, 2004.
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Emily Hudson is a Research Fellow at Melbourne University's Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia (IPRIA). Much of Emily's research relates to law and the cultural institution sector, including major projects on copyright, digitisation and cultural institutions, as well as intellectual property and Indigenous knowledge. Emily has a background in intellectual property litigation, and is co-author of Copyright and Cultural Institutions: Guidelines for Digitisation (with Andrew Kenyon). Emily holds degrees in science and law, as well as a Masters of Law, all from the University of Melbourne |
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Dr Sarah Joseph is the Director for the Castan Centre for Human Rights Law. She has been a member of the Faculty since 1995. Her teaching and reasearch interests are International Human Rights Law and Consitutional Law. Her PhD is on the topic of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. She has published a number of books, including Corporations and Transnational Human Rights Litigation (Hart 2004), co-authoring The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights: Cases, Commentary and Materials (OUP, 2nd ed, 2004), and Federal Consitutional Law: a contemporary view (LBC, 2001). She is a lead investigator on an Arc linkage project on Multinational Corporations and Human Rights. Sarah has also conducted numerous professional human rights training courses for overseas and Australian Government Officials. |
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Petal Kinder is Court Librarian at the High Court of Australia. Prior to her commencement at the High Court Petal was the Manager of the Library and Information Services at the Federal Court in Melbourne. Before that she lectured in the Law Faculty at Monash University where she designed, implemented and taught legal research courses at undergraduate and graduate levels for over five years. Petal has written articles on legal research and also designed an interactive web based legal research program. She is currently a Board member of the International Association of Law Libraries (IALL) and Director of the Communications Committee of IALL. |
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Simon Mount is a Crown Prosecutor in Auckland, New Zealand. He is part of the team prosecuting the Pitcairn Island rape trials, and spent a year researching Pitcairn's history for the Privy Council hearing in July 2006. He has taught law at Columbia University in New York and the University of Auckland, and is on the Council of the Legal Research Foundation in New Zealand. |
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Peter Murgatroyd is the Law Librarian of the University of the South Pacific. Peter is also Campus Librarian of the Emalus Campus of the University, located in Port Vila, Vanuatu. Prior to working at the University of the South Pacific, Peter was a library manager at two leading corporate law firms in New Zealand. Since his appointment at the University of the South Pacific in 1998 Peter has developed a number of web based resources for Pacific legal research including the Pacific Law Journal Index and the Pacific Law Blog and a range of topical pathfinders and research tools on Pacific law.
Peter has been invited to speak on Pacific legal research issues at Conferences in Australia, New Zealand, Vanuatu and Great Britain. Peter Murgatroyd was a member of the working group that established the online Pacific Legal Information Institute [PacLII] and continues to offer support to PacLII. Peter is a Contributing Editor to WorldLII.org and a columnist for the Australian Law Librarian. Peter has had articles on Pacific legal resources published in the Australian Law Librarian, Legal Information Management and the Journal of Academic Librarianship. Peter is Past-President of the Vanuatu Library Association. |
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James Robertson is recognised as one of the global thought-leaders on intranets and content management. James has worked with a wide range of organisations, in both the public and private sectors. He has also keynoted conferences and workshops in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei, Denmark, Canada, the US and the UK. |
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Michael Rubacki has worked in the legal publishing industry for almost 30 years, initially in the private sector but mainly in the New South Wales public sector where he is the Publishing and Administration Manager with the Parliamentary Counsel's Office. In addition to traditional print design and production, he has a special interest in online access to legislation and the associated capture, storage and presentation of legislative data in static and dynamic forms. Michael's work has involved managing policy and technological issues surrounding the ownership and management of data and has included working on recent access projects in Western Australia, New Zealand and Cambodia. |
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The Hon Justice Whelan
Justice Simon Whelan graduated from the University of Melbourne in 1977 with a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Laws (Honours). He initially practised as a solicitor before commencing at the Bar in 1981. During his time at the Bar he predominantly practised in the area of commercial litigation, and particularly specialised in corporate insolvency. He was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1995. For a number of years he was a Visiting Fellow of the Faculty of Law, University of Melbourne, and taught in the LLM programme with Julie Dodds-Streeton SC, now his colleague on the Supreme Court bench. He was appointed to the Supreme Court of Victoria on 17 March 2004.
Prior to his appointment he was, in addition to his legal activities, for 23 years a member of a group of radio sports commentators and performers known as the ‘Coodabeen Champions’, and as such is a member of the MCC Media Hall of Fame. |
