2013
Property, Planning and Human Rights, Canberra, 25 March 2013 (PDF 59K) (RTF 212K)
Australian Migration and Settlement Awards, Parliament House, Canberra, 18 March 2013 (PDF 17k) (RTF 80k)
Essential and Defining Characteristics of Courts in an Age of Institutional Change, Adelaide, 21 January 2013 (PDF 70K) (RTF 265K)
2012
The Interrogation That Never Ends, 50th Anniversary of the Professor Harry Messel International Science School, Sydney, 27 November 2012 (PDF 68k) (RTF 98k)
Judges and Academics - Dialogue of the Hard of Hearing, Inaugural Patron's Lecture, Australian Academy of Law, Sydney, 30 October 2012 (PDF 60k) (RTF 212k)
Two Chapters about Judicial Power, Peter Nygh Memorial Lecture 2012, 15th National Family Law Conference, Hobart, 15 October 2012 (PDF 129k) (RTF 280k)
Book Launch: Privatising the Public University The Case of Law by Margaret Thornton, Australian National University, Canberra, 4 October 2012 (PDF 156k) (RTF 100k)
GA Kennedy AO - A Man Worthy of Memory, University of Western Australia, Perth, 24 September 2012 (PDF 100k) (RTF 160k)
Women Lawyers in a Public World, Australian Women Lawyers Association Fourth National Conference, Australian National University, Canberra, 11 August 2012 (PDF 160k) (RTF 92k)
The Courts and the Parliament, Queensland Supreme Court Seminar, Brisbane, 4 August 2012 (PDF 224k) (RTF 240k)
Wisdom's Legacy, Francis Burt Chambers 50th Anniversary Dinner, Perth, 28 July 2012 (PDF 108k) (RTF 92k)
A Public Law Perspective on Intellectual Property, Melbourne, 25 July 2012 (PDF191K) (RTF318K)
Public Law - An Australian Perspective, Scottish Public Law Group, Edinburgh, 6 July 2012 (PDF 164k) (RTF 184k)
Human Right Protection in Australia and the United Kingdom: Contrasts and Comparisons, Anglo-Australasian Lawyers Society and Constitutional and Administrative Law Bar Association, London, 5 July 2012 (PDF 216k) (RTF 304k)
Appellate Advocacy in the High Court of Australia, World Bar Conference, London, 29 June 2012 (PDF 84k) (RTF 108k)
Unelected Judges in a Representative Democracy, St Thomas More Society, Sydney, 22 June 2012 (PDF228K) (RTF204K)
Cooperation and Convergence - Judiciaries and the Profession, Commonwealth Lawyers Association Regional Conference, Sydney, 21 April 2012 (PDF 92k) (RTF 168k)
Horses for Courses, National Symposium, International Legal Services Advisory Council, Canberra, 16 March 2012 (PDF 264k) (RTF 92k)
Tax and the Constitution, Tax Institute 27th National Convention, Canberra, 14 March 2012 (PDF 123k) (RTF 114k)
Deakin Law School 20th Anniversary Dinner, Geelong, 18 February 2012 (PDF 39k) (RTF 58k)
Litigating in a Statutory Universe, Victorian Bar Association 2nd Annual CPD, Melbourne, 18 February 2012 (PDF 639k) (RTF 184k)
2011
Aboriginal Women's Legal Education Trust - Launch, Supreme Court of Western Australia, 15 December 2011 (PDF 88k) (RTF 64k)
The Judicial Function in an Age of Statutes, 2011 Goldring Memorial Lecture, Wollongong, 18 November 2011 (PDF 773k) (RTF 217k)
Sir Frank Kitto Lecture, University of New England, Armidale, 23 September 2011 (PDF 144k) (RTF 140k)
University of New South Wales, Law School 40th Anniversary, Sydney, 17 September 2011 (PDF 60k) (RTF 52K)
Closing Address - Asia Pacific Model UN Conference - Final Plenary Session, Canberra, 15 July 2011 (PDF 32K) (RTF 32K)
Trials of Advocacy - The Australian Bar Association Bar Readers' Trial Advocacy Course - Closing Dinner, Perth,
08 July 2011 (PDF 55K) (RTF 52K)
Legal Education in Australia - A Never Ending Story, Australasian Law Teachers' Association Conference, Brisbane,
4 July 2011 (PDF 162K) (RTF 155K)
Public Office and Public Trust, Seventh Annual St Thomas More Forum Lecture, Canberra, 22 June 2011 (PDF 112K) (RTF 88K)
Judging Science - 13th Greek/Australian International Legal and Medical Conference, 30 May 2011 (PDF 136K) (RTF 140K)
The Northern Territory - A Celebration of Constitutional History, Centenary of the Northern Territory Supreme Court Kriewaldt Lecture, Darwin, 23 May 2011 (PDF 144K) (RTF 158K)
The Role of the Courts in Migration Law, Migration Review Tribunal and Refugee Review Tribal Annual Members' Conference, Torquay, Victoria, 25 March 2011 (PDF 152k) (RTF 161k)
Occasional Address, Graduation Ceremony, Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Western Australia, Perth, 22 March 2011 (PDF 40k) (RTF 38k)
The Judiciary in an Age of Global Interdependence, International Association for Court Administration Conference, Bogor, Indonesia, 15 March 2011 (PDF 101K) (RTF 91.5K)
Albritton Lecture, School of Law, University of Alabama, USA, 18 January 2011 (PDF 100K) (RTF 208K)
"Liberty and Law in Australia", School of Law, Washington University, St Louis, USA, 14 January 2011(PDF 171K) (RTF 288K)
2010
"Law and Justice Outside the CBD", Rural and Regional Law & Justice Conference, Deakin University, Warrnambool, 20 November 2010 (PDF 59K) (RTF 108K)
The Interface between Equitable Principles and Public Law, Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners, Sydney, 29 October 2010 (PDF 162k) (RTF 210K)
"One Small Town", The Law Society of New South Wales Annual Member's Dinner, Sydney, 28 October 2010
Procedural Fairness - Indispensable to Justice?, Sir Anthony Mason Lecture, The University of Melbourne Law School, Law Students' Society, Melbourne, 7 October 2010 (PDF 147k)
Singers of songs and dreamers of plays, Victorian Bar Association Annual Dinner, Melbourne, 3 September 2010 (PDF)
"It's Not Whether You Win or Lose...", Northern Territory Bar Association Annual Dinner, Darwin, 14 August 2010 (PDF)
A Complicated Brief – The Corporations Law Adviser, Business Law Section, Law Council of Australia, Corporations Law Workshop Dinner, Canberra, 31 July 2010 (PDF)
Administrative Justice – Words in Search of Meaning, Australian Institute of Administrative Law Annual Conference – National Administrative Law Forum 2010, Sydney, 22 July 2010 (PDF)
John Forrest: Founding Father from the Far West, National Archives of Australia Constitution Day Lecture, Canberra, 8 July 2010 (PDF)
Courts in a Representative Democracy, University of Southern Queensland, Toowomba, 25 June 2010 (PDF)
Justice as Fairness – A Contested Ideal, University of Western Sydney Biennial Dinner, Sydney, 7 May 2010 (PDF)
Welcome to High Court, 15th National Schools Constitutional Convention Dinner, Canberra, 24 March 2010 (PDF)
Interacting with Diversity: Australian Judges and Regional Courts, Australian Institute of International Affairs – ACT Branch, Canberra, 12 March 2010 (PDF)
Theories of Everything and Constitutional Interpretation – 2010 Constitutional Law Conference Dinner, University of New South Wales – Gilbert &: Tobin Centre of Public Law, Sydney, 19 February 2010 (PDF)
The Executive Power – Inaugural George Winterton Lecture, Sydney Law School, Sydney, 18 February 2010 (PDF)
Protecting Human Rights Without a Bill of Rights, John Marshall Law School, Chicago, 26 January 2010 (PDF)
Constitutional Review of Executive Decisions – Australia's US Legacy, John Marshall Law School – Chicago Bar Association, 25 and 28 January 2010 (PDF)
Australia's Constitutional Evolution, John Fordham Law School Constitutional Law Master Class, New York, 20 January 2010 (PDF)
2009
The Future of Australian Constitutionalism, International and Comparative Perspectives on Constitutional Law: A 21st Anniversary Celebration for the Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies, Melbourne, 27 November 2009 (PDF)
The Constitution and the Protection of Human Rights, Edith Cowan University Vice-Chancellor's Oration, Perth, 20 November 2009 (PDF)
Judicial Activism – The Boundaries of the Judicial Role, LAWASIA Conference, Ho Chi Minh City, 10 November 2009 (PDF)
Public & Private Law: The Intersection – La Trobe Lecture, Melbourne, 30 October 2009 (PDF)
The Chief Justice and the Governor–General, Melbourne University Law Review Annual Dinner, Melbourne, 29 October 2009 (PDF)
Judicial Education – A Global Phenomenon, The International Organisation for Judicial Training, The Fourth International Conference on the Training of the Judiciary, Sydney, 26 October 2009 (PDF)
The State of the Australian Judicature, The 36th Australian Legal Convention, Perth, 18 September 2009 (PDF)
Notaries – from Stones to Electrons, Australia and New Zealand College of Notaries Biennial Conference, Melbourne, 11 September 2009 (PDF)
The Common Law and the Protection of Human Rights, Anglo Australasian Lawyers Society, Sydney, 4 September 2009 (PDF)
International Law and Australian Domestic Law, Supreme Court of New South Wales Annual Conference, Hunter Valley, 21 August 2009 (PDF)
Surfing the Wavefront, Law Council of Australia Trade Practices Workshop, Yarra Valley, 15 August 2009 (PDF)
Modest Questions – Great Answers, International Committee of the Red Cross and Australian Red Cross, 60th Anniversary of the Geneva Conventions, Canberra, 12 August 2009 (PDF)
Perspectives on Court Annexed Alternative Dispute Resolution, Law Council of Australia – Multi–Door Symposium, Canberra, 27 July 2009 (PDF)
From Light and Life to Genes and Galaxies – 45 Years On, 35th Professor Harry Messel International Science School, Sydney, 13 July 2009 (PDF)
Relaunch of National Archives Exhibition on the High Court at the "Memory of a Nation" Gallery, Canberra, 8 July 2009 (PDF)
Adding Value To Law Making – Australia and New Zealand Scrutiny of Legislation Conference, Canberra, 6 July 2009 (PDF)
In Praise of Unelected Judges – The John Curtin Institute of Public Policy, Public Policy Forum, Perth, 1 July 2009 (#PDF)
"Oil and Water?" – International Law and Domestic Law in Australia, The Brennan Lecture, Bond University, 26 June 2009 (PDF)
Federalism in The Supreme Court of India and The High Court of Australia – Second Indo Australian Legal Forum Meet 2009, Canberra, 3 June 2009 (PDF)
James Merralls' AM QC – The Doyen of Law Reporters – 40 Years Editor of the Commonwealth Law Reports, Melbourne, 29 May 2009 (PDF)
In Hope of Convergence – A Regional Perspective on Competition Law, 2009 Competition Law Conference, Sydney, 23 May 2009 (PDF)
Boundary Conditions – The Funding of The Courts Within a Constitutional Framework, Australian Institute of Judicial Administration, Australian Court Administrator's Group Conference, Melbourne, 15 May 2009 (PDF)
Don't you know who I am? – Ego and Identity in the Administration of Justice, New South Wales Bar Association, Bench and Bar Dinner, Sydney, 8 May 2009, (PDF)
Science and Judicial Proceedings - Seventy-Six Years On, Medico Legal Society of Victoria, 2 May 2009, (PDF)
Intellectual Property –Living in the Twilight Zone, Licensing Executives Society of Australia and New Zealand, Annual Conference, Canberra, 4 April 2009, (PDF)
The Human Dimension of the Law, University of Canberra – Isaacs Law Society - Law Ball, Canberra, 3 April 2009, (PDF)
Native Title – A Constitutional Shift?, JD Lecture Series, University of Melbourne Law School, 24 March 2009, (PDF)
The Future of Litigation: Dispute Resolution in Jurassic Park? Annual Conference 2009, Bar Association of Queensland, 7 March 2009, (PDF)
Superannuation - A Confluence of Legal Streams, 26 February 2009, (PDF)
"In praise of breadth" – A reflection on the virtues of generalist lawyering, Law Summer School 2009, University of Western Australia, 20 February 2009, (PDF)
Conference on Judicial Reasoning: Art or Science?, Opening Address: Chief Justice Robert French, Australian National University, National Judicial College of Australia and Australian Academy of Forensic Science, Canberra, 7 February 2009, (PDF)
2008
"Swapping Ideas: The Academy, the Judiciary and the Profession", delivered at the Australian Academy of Law 2008 Symposium Series, Melbourne, 1 December 2008, (PDF)
Rolling a Rock Uphill? – Native Title and the Myth of Sisyphus, Judicial Conference of Australia National Colloquium, 10 October 2008, (PDF)
Unleashing the Tiger? – Competition Law in China and Hong Kong, Conference Opening Address, Melbourne Law School, 4 October 2008, (PDF)
Cause for Celebration, Law Council of Australia 75th Anniversary Dinner, 19 September 2008, (PDF)
Law Libraries – Places of Power and Danger, The Art of Information, Australian Law Librarians Association Conference 2008, Perth, 18 September 2008, (PDF)