‘The Vanishing Trial’ (Address, Supreme and Federal Courts Judges Conference, Sydney, 23 January 2008)
‘Written Advocacy’ (Paper, Continuing Legal Education Program of the Victorian Bar, 5 and 26 March 2007)
‘Concerning Judicial Method: Fifty Years On’ (Fourteenth Lucinda Lecture, Monash University Law School, 17 October 2006)
‘Advocacy and Special Leave Applications in the High Court of Australia’ (Address, Victorian Bar, Continuing Legal Education, 22 November 2004)
‘Advocacy in the High Court of Australia’ (Address, Western Australian Bar Association, 25 October 2004)
‘High Court Rules 2004’ (Introductory Remarks, Seminars for the Legal Profession, October/November 2004)
‘After Dinner Speech’ (Law of Obligations Conference, University of Melbourne, 15 July 2004)
‘Keynote Address’ (Insolvency and Trustee Service Australia, 5th National Bankruptcy Conference, Melbourne, 13 May 2004)
‘The High Court of Australia’ (Address, Round Table of the International Association of Constitutional Law, Melbourne, 4 October 2003)
‘Restricting Litigiousness’ (Paper, Litigation in the New Millennium Session, 13th Commonwealth Law Conference, Melbourne, 14 April 2003)
‘Dispute Resolution and the Rule of Law’ (Sino-Australian Seminar, Beijing, 20-22 November 2002)
'Commercial Law: Private Business / Public Concern' (Opening Address, Centre for Commercial Law Conference 2002, Australian National University, 30 September 2002)
‘Lessons from the Rear-View Mirror’ (Leo Cussen Lecture, Melbourne, 31 October 2001)
‘Letting Justice Be Done Without the Heavens Falling’ (Fourth Fiat Justitia Lecture, Monash University, 21 March 2001)
‘Reply to the Honourable Ruth Bader Ginsburg: “Remarks on Judicial Independence: The Situation of the US Federal Judiciary’ (Rule of Law Lectures, Melbourne, 1 February 2001)
‘Australian Law in the Twentieth Century’ (Keynote Address, Judicial Conference of Australia, Melbourne, 13 November 1999)
‘Opening of the Centre for Commercial Law’ (Speech, Australian National University, Canberra, 12 May 1999)
‘Judicial Case Management and the Duties of Counsel’ (Address to the Readers of the Bar Practice Course, Brisbane, 24 February 1999)
