Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law, UNSW

29/01/2020

Register now for the 2020 Constitutional Law Conference. Click on the link below for more information.

The 2020 Constitutional Law Conference and Dinner will be the nineteenth consecutive staging of this flagship event. It will be held at the Art Gallery of New South Wales on Friday 21 February 2020. Participants at this event are updated on recent important developments in the High Court, Federal Co...

08/08/2019

The former High Court judge spoke at the third The Gilbert and Tobin Centre of Public Law Mason Conversation at the Banco court.

26/07/2019

UNSW Law's Melissa Crouch suggests that Indonesia's Moment may be here with the presidential pardon of a female victim of sexual harassment, as reported in the SMH

Indonesian woman Baiq Nuril was jailed for recording her boss sexually harassing her. Now, she is set to be pardoned by president Joko Widodo.

14/06/2019

See the link below to view information on a scholarship for a PhD on "A Liberal Response to Populist Constitutionalism"

Join a community of world-class researchers at UNSW Sydney.

29/05/2019

Call for Abstracts now open for the 2019 Postgraduate Workshop in Public Law. Click through for more details.

The Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law in the Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales invites abstracts for its 2019 Postgraduate Workshop in Public Law which will be held on 23-24 September. 

18/04/2019

Associate Professor Melissa Crouch suggests that the Australia Indonesia free trade agreement presents an opportunity to strengthen relations between the two countries. But is Australia really ready? A step in the right direction, says Crouch, would be for the Australian Government to ramp up its support for Indonesian language studies in Australia.

It is time to put Indonesian back on the priority list of languages to be studied in Australia.

06/03/2019

A joint submission by Professor Gabrielle Appleby and Dr Janina Boughey of the UNSW Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law and Professor Mark Aronson, to the Senate Standing Committee on Regulations and Ordinances, currently conducting an inquiry into Parliamentary Scrutiny of Delegated Legislation. This submission is now available on the Committee’s website:

06/03/2019

A joint submission by members of the UNSW Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law (Professor Gabrielle Appleby) and the UNSW Centre for Law, Crime and Justice (Professor Luke McNamara and Dr Vicki Sentas) to the Tasmanian Justice Department on the Workplaces (Protection from Protesters) Amendment Bill 2019, which amends that State’s anti-protest laws, key provisions of which were struck down by the High Court in the 2017 decision of Brown v Tasmania for breaching the implied freedom of political communication. Click the link below to read the submission.

21/02/2019

Papers and PowerPoint slides from many speakers at our 2019 Constitutional Law Conference now available on our website. Link below.

The 2019 Constitutional Law Conference and Dinner was the eighteenth consecutive staging of this flagship event. It was held at the Art Gallery of New South Wales on Friday 15 February 2019. Participants at this event were updated on recent important developments in the High Court, Federal Court and...

11/12/2018

Call for papers for 'Interdisciplinary Workshop on Understanding and Responding to Right Wing Terrorism' to be held at on 15-16 July 2019. Deadline for abstracts is 1 February 2019. See the link for further details. Please share widely.

Western democracies continue to regard the greatest threat of terrorism as coming from Islamic terrorism. Legal and non-legal strategies to combat terrorism, such as community inclusion initiatives, immigration restrictions and new criminal offences, have been developed with this specific threat in....

03/10/2018

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