Conferences

Upcoming events

The next CALRAs Conference will be in Hong Kong on Saturday 4 April and the morning of Sunday 5 April 2009, which is immediately before the Commonwealth Law Conference there.

The CALRAs Conference will concentrate on practical issues of importance to law reformers, under the general title of Law Reform in Challenging Times. The keynote speaker, on 5 April, will be the Hon Justice Michael Kirby AC CMG, who was the notable first Chairman of the Australian Law Reform Commission. He was also a Justice of the High Court of Australia for 12 years.

Conference topics will include most of the following:

• Reform of the law of murder
• Assisting implementation of law reform recommendations
• Cooperation between law reform agencies and law drafting agencies
• Law reform during a global financial crisis
• Law reform and the Millennium Development Goals

The Conference will be in Room 407 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, 1 Expo Drive, Wanchai, Hong Kong.

The Conference will start on Saturday 4 April, with registration from 8.45am to 9.15am, and concluding by 5.30pm. On Sunday 5 April, the Conference will start at 8.45am for 9.15am and will conclude with a CALRAs General Meeting, starting at 11am and concluding by 1pm.

CALRAs members and all others are very welcome to attend the Conference and General Meeting. There is no charge for attending.

Those wishing to attend should inform the General Secretary by Thursday 26 March 2009.

Past events

Law Reform: Challenges and Opportunities Today. The second biennial Conference was held in Nairobi, Kenya, in September 2007. With considerable assistance from the Kenya Law Reform Commission.

Law Reform: Challenges and Opportunities Today (The inaugural CALRAs conference, London , 11 September 2005 ). With considerable assistance from the Law Commission for England and Wales.

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Courses

CALRAs is involved in a number of study/training courses, in particular about good practice in law reform.

CALRAs is hoping to lead regional courses for law reformers and others in due course. For example, there may be one in Southern or Eastern Africa for that region.

In addition, CALRAs' General Secretary is also the Director of Studies for a one-week course, for all those involved or interested in law reform from any country, to be held in London, England, from 26 to 30 October 2009. This follows a successful similar course in October 2008. For further information, the program description is available for the 2008 course, which also has links to the brochure.

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