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1 AN ACADEMIC IN LAW REFORM LAND—AND HOW YOU, TOO, CAN PLAY A PART Professor Rosalind F Croucher President, ALRC

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Professor Rosalind Croucher, President, Australian Law Reform Commission, Monash University, Faculty of Law Research Seminar Series, 4 October 2012

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AN ACADEMIC IN LAW REFORM LAND—AND HOW

YOU, TOO, CAN PLAY A PART

Professor Rosalind F CroucherPresident, ALRC

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Law reforming

• what drives law reform?• the process of law reforming• the process of writing• the law reform process and you

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WHO AND WHAT DRIVE

LAW REFORM

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5Original Public Record Copy (1900).

Courtesy of the Parliament House Art Collection, Art Services Parliament House.

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• Parliament• joint ministerial councils• departmental committees• Administrative Review Council• Family Law Council• Royal Commissions• other ad hoc bodies• law reform commissions

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9Portrait of Jeremy Bentham, Henry William Pickersgill (1782–1875). National Portrait Gallery, London: NPG 413.

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Jeremy Bentham's "Auto-Icon" at University College London.

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THE PROCESS OFLAW REFORMING

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Brisbane

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Family Violence inquiry 2009-2010

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THE PROCESS OFWRITING

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• Conceptual framework• House style• Rigorous editing

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Commissioner, Professor Les McCrimmon

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Privacy Report ready for dispatch, 2008

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• Background• Methods• Research• Findings• Conclusion• Recommendation

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• Summarise the ‘story’• Key facts• Supporting detail

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Report – plus Summary reports

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• Headings• Short sentences

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How can you help?• suggestions of people to speak to (you?)• subscribe to our e-newsletters• encouraging/writing submissions• suggesting ALRC presentations at relevant

seminars/forums• spreading the word!

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A lasting and pervasive contribution to law

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The Hon Michael Kirby AC CMG Chairman, ALRC, 1975-1984

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Now it’s your turn!

YOUR COMMISSION NEEDS

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For further information about ALRC work, copies of speeches and presentations

• ALRC website – all papers, reports available online (free): www.alrc.gov.au• Email: [email protected]

• GPO Box 3708, Sydney 2001

http://www.alrc.gov.au/
mailto:[email protected]

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