Monday

15 September
4.00 p.m. - 5.30 p.m.

Registration and Tea and Coffee Foyer and Lower Ground Floor Atrium

5.30 p.m. - 7.00 p.m.

Opening Plenary LG18

Professor David Feldman (Cambridge) in conversation with Lord Justice Laws

(England and Wales Court of Appeal).

7.00 p.m. - 9.00 p.m.

Buffet dinner Lower Ground Floor Atrium

Tuesday 16 September
9.00 a.m. - 9.10 a.m.

Welcome LG18

Professor John Bell (Director, Cambridge Centre for Public Law)

9.10 a.m. - 10.00 a.m. Keynote Address LG18

Chair: Professor John Bell (Director, Cambridge Centre for Public Law)

Speaker: Professor Jerry Mashaw (Yale), Public Reason as Process and

Substance

10.00 a.m. - 10.15 a.m. Tea and Coffee Lower Ground Floor Atrium

Draft programme, August 2014. Subject to change at discretion of convenors

10.15 a.m. - 11.45 a.m. Parallel Sessions

Public law: Competing
Conceptions
(Room allocations TBC)
Chair: Professor TRS Allan
(Cambridge)

Professor Mark Walters
(Queens), Public Law and
Ordinary Legal Method

Dr Jason Varuhas
(Cambridge/UNSW), The Public
Interest Conception of Public
Law: its Procedural Origins and
Substantive Implications

Dr Paul Daly (Montreal),
Administrative Law: A Values-
Based Approach?

Process and Substance in

Judicial Review: Part 1

Processes of Deliberation and

Popular Engagement

Chair: Professor Philip Joseph

(Canterbury NZ)

Mr Justin Gleeson SC (Solicitor-
General of the Commonwealth
of Australia),
(Un)reasonableness and
(Dis)proportionality

Dr Rayner Thwaites
(Sydney),The Separation of
Powers, Rights and Procedural
Change: Judicial Responses to
Secret Evidence in the United
Kingdom and Australia

Mr Leighton McDonald (ANU),
Inadequacy of Justification as a
Basis for Judicial Review in
Australia: Process and
Substance?

Chair: Professor George

Williams (UNSW)

Dr Paul Kildea (UNSW), Popular
Participation in Constitutional
Reform Process: Reflections on
the Recent Experience of
Australia, the United Kingdom
and Ireland
Professor Stephen Tierney
(Edinburgh), Direct Democracy
in the Process of Constitutional
Change: Constructing a
Deliberative Referendum?

Dr Ron Levy (ANU), Deliberative
Democracy and Political Law:
The Coercion Problem

11.45 a.m. - 1.00 p.m. Plenary Session LG18

Chair: Professor David Feldman (Cambridge)

Speakers:

Professor Mark Aronson (UNSW), From Process to Quality in Judicial Review

Professor David Dyzenhaus (Toronto), Towards a Formal Theory of Public

Law

1.00 p.m. - 2.00 p.m.

Lunch Lower Ground Floor Atrium

Draft programme, August 2014. Subject to change at discretion of convenors

2.00 p.m. - 3.30 p.m.

Parallel Sessions

Contemporary Issues of Process Legitimate Expectations in

and Substance in the British
Comparative Perspective
Constitution

Chair: Professor Cheryl
Chair: Professor Richard
Saunders (Melbourne)
Rawlings (UCL)


Professor Tony Prosser (Bristol), Professor Cora Hoexter
The Economic Constitution
(Witwatersrand), The

Enforcement of Official
Lord Norton of Louth (Hull,
Promises in South African Law
House of Lords), The

constitutional implications of
Dr Rebecca Williams (Oxford),
the Fixed-term Parliaments Act The Multiple Doctrines of
2011
Legitimate Expectations


Professor Gavin Phillipson
Dr Greg Weeks (UNSW) and Dr
(Durham), Constitutional
Matthew Groves (Monash), The
Conventions: Questions of
Legitimacy of Expectations
Process and Legitimacy
About Fairness

Process and Substance in

Administrative Behaviour

Chair: Professor Carol Harlow

(LSE)

Justice Melissa Perry (Federal
Court of Australia), iDecide: the
Legal Implications of
Automated Decision-making in
the Digital Era

Dr Elizabeth Fisher (Oxford) and
Professor Sidney Shapiro (Wake
Forest), Taking Both Public
Administration and Doctrine
Seriously in Administrative Law

Ms Vanessa Macdonnell
(Ottawa), Impact Assessments
and Constitutional Rights

3.30 p.m. - 3.45 p.m.

Tea and Coffee Lower Ground Floor Atrium

3.45 p.m. - 5.15 p.m.

Parallel Sessions

Process and Substance in

Judicial Review: Part 2

Chair: Professor Mark Aronson
(UNSW)

Justice Alan Robertson (Federal
Court of Australia), Is Judicial
Review Qualitative?

Dr Philip Murray (Cambridge),
Process, Substance, and the
History of Error of Law Review

Professor TT Arvind (Newcastle)
and Dr Lindsay Stirton
(Sheffield), Strangled at Birth?
The curious origins of Judicial
Review

Processes of Constitution-
Making and Constitutional
Change

Process and Substance in the

Control of Executive Legislative
Power

Chair: Professor Janet McLean

(Auckland)

Professor Cheryl Saunders
(Melbourne), Constitution-
making Processes: Practice and
Theory in Flux

Dr Clodagh Harris (UCC) and
Professor Conor Gearty (LSE),
Crowd-Sourcing a New UK
Constitution

Professor Ian Cram (Leeds),
Amending the Constitution

Chair: Professor Robert Thomas

(Manchester)

Dr Gabrielle Appleby and Dr
Joanna Howe (Adelaide),
Scrutinising Parliaments
Scrutiny of Delegated
Legislative Power

Mr Shubhankar Dam (Singapore
Management University), The
Form and Substance of Indias
Alternative Paliament

Dr Andrew Edgar (Sydney),
Judicial Review of Delegated
Legislation

Draft programme, August 2014. Subject to change at discretion of convenors

6.30 p.m. - 7.30 p.m.

Drinks Lower Ground Floor Atrium

7.45 p.m.

Conference Dinner Selwyn College

Wednesday 17 September
9.00 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. Plenary Session LG18

Chair: Professor Robert Thomas (Manchester)

Speakers:

Professor Carol Harlow (LSE) and Professor Richard Rawlings (UCL),

Executive Reaction to Judicial Review: Striking Back!

Professor Maurice Sunkin (Essex), The Impacts of Judicial Review and

Effective Redress
10.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. Tea and Coffee Lower Ground Floor Atrium
10.45 a.m. - 12.15 p.m. Parallel Sessions
Process and Substance in
Administrative Rule-Making

Chair: Professor Tony Prosser
(Bristol)

Professor Peter Cane (ANU),
Control of Administrative Rule-
Making in the US and England

Professor Kevin Stack
(Vanderbilt), The Paradox of
Process in Administrative
Rulemaking

Process and Substance in Public Process, Substance, and the

Law Adjudication
Judiciary
Chair: Professor Cora Hoexter
(Wits)

Dr Anashri Pillay (Durham),
Process and Substance in
Economic and Social Rights
Adjudication

Dr Tom Hickman (Barrister,
Blackstone Chambers), Process
and Substance in Human Rights
Adjudication

Professor Mary Liston (British
Columbia), Transubstantiation
in Canadian Public Law:
Processing Substance and
Instantiating Process

Chair: Professor Brice Dickson

(Queen's Belfast)

Professor Alan Paterson
(Strathclyde), Vote-changing in
the UKs Top Court

Professor Christopher Forsyth
(Cambridge), Doctrine,
Conceptual Reasoning and
Certainty in the Judicial Process

Ms Alysia Blackham (PhD
Candidate, Cambridge) and
Professor George Williams
(UNSW), Process and Substance
in Court Communication

12.15 p.m. - 1.15 p.m. Lunch Lower Ground Floor Atrium

Draft programme, August 2014. Subject to change at discretion of convenors

1.15. p.m. - 3.00 p.m. Parallel Sessions

Process and Substance in
Constitutional Design and
Review
Chair: Dr Mark Elliott
(Cambridge)

Professor Kent Roach
(Toronto), Remedies for Laws
that Violate Human Rights

Dr Eoin Carolan (University
College Dublin), A Model of
Collaborative Constitutionalism:
Bringing Substance Back to
Institutional Separation

Dr Aileen Kavanagh (Oxford),
Substance and Legislative
Process in Human Rights
Adjudication

Dr Adam Tucker (York),
Substance, Process and Jackson
v Attorney General

The Crown and Prerogative

Power

Chair: Professor Maurice Sunkin
(Essex)

Professor Janet McLean
(Auckland), Crown, Empire and
Redress for the Historical
Wrongs of Colonization in New
Zealand

Professor Anne Twomey
(Sydney), Legal Advice on the
Exercise of Reserve Powers

Public Law Procedure and

Substantive Values

Chair: Dr Jason Varuhas

(Cambridge/UNSW)

Professor Peta Spender (ANU),
A Different Justice? The Role of
Procedure in Public Law
Adjudication

Ms Sarah Nason (Bangor),
Judicial Review as
Proportionate Justice

Dr Joseph McIntyre and Dr
Lorne Neudorf (Thompson
Rivers), Judicial Review:
Avoiding Substantive Outcomes
through Procedural Reform?

3.00 p.m. - 3.15 p.m. Tea and Coffee Lower Ground Floor Atrium
3.15 p.m. - 4.45 p.m.

Closing Plenary: Themes and Reflections LG18

Chair: Professor John Bell (Director, Cambridge Centre for Public Law)

Speakers:

Professor David Dyzenhaus (Toronto)

Professor David Feldman (Cambridge)

Professor Carol Harlow (LSE)

Professor Cheryl Saunders (Melbourne)

Draft programme, August 2014. Subject to change at discretion of convenors