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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Chief Justice Robert French AC

The Honourable Justice Raynor Asher

Professor Peter Coaldrake AO

The Honourable Justice John H Byrne

Professor Sally Kift

Dr Carol Nicoll PSM

Professor Jill McKeough

Professor Richard Johnstone

Professor Margaret Sheil

DINNER SPEAKER:

Andrew Boe

My Lawyer Rules:
Assuring legal and education standards

This theme responds to the current focus on higher education standards for teaching and learning as well as also for research quality.

Australia is establishing the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA) which will regulate the sector against agreed standards for higher education, and the ALTC Discipline Scholars for Law - one of whom is QUT’s own Prof Sally Kift - have developed threshold learning outcomes for the Bachelor of Laws.

Both Australia and New Zealand have established quality assurance processes for measuring the quality of research outputs. The Australian Research Council's Professor Margaret Sheil will talk about the initial quality assurance exercise in Australia.

The theme also responds to the Australian move towards national standards for the legal profession. It is therefore timely to explore the issue of standards for the legal education, and for the legal profession, with Australasian teachers of law.