Conference “Judicial Reasoning: Art or Science
?”
Saturday 7 February and Sunday 8 February 2009
Papers
Opening
Address - Chief Justice Robert French, High Court of Australia
Blinking
on the Bench: How Judges Decide Cases - The Hon. Andrew J. Wistrich,
United States District Court, Central District of California USA
Legal
Existentialism : Reasoning beyond Reason in the Law - Professor James Raymond,
President of The International Institute for Legal Writing and Reasoning
New York USA
Judicial Reflections
on the Art and Performance of Judging - Associate Professor Greta Bird
& Dr Nicole Rogers, School of Law and Justice, Southern
Cross University NSW
Disparities
in sentencing decisions: evidence of unconscious influences - Professor
Jane Goodman-Delahunty, Australian Graduate School of Policing
& School of Social Science and Liberal Studies, Charles Sturt University;
& Professor Siegfried L. Sporer University of Giessen,
Germany
Judicial
decision-making and neurobiology - Dr Hayley Bennett, Prince
of Wales Medical Research Institute, NSW and Professor Tony Broe,
Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute, NSW
Prejudice, the
judicial virus - Justice John Dowsett, Federal Court of
Australia
A judge’s
perspective on using sentencing databases - Justice Brian Preston,
Chief Judge, Land and Environment Court NSW
An explicit representation
of judicial reasoning - Mr Andrew Stranieri, Centre for
Informatics and Applied Optimisation, University of Ballarat VIC
Judicial Reasoning
and the Acquisition of Concepts - Dr Anthony Connolly,
ANU College of Law, Australian National University
Judicial Reasoning
and the 'Just World Delusion' - Dr Julia Davis, Associate
Professor in Law, University of South Australia
Reasoning By Analogy
In the Law - Professor John Farrar, Bond University QLD
Scientific Evidence,
A Need for Caution in Decision Making - Mr Jonathan Beach
QC, Victorian Bar
Social context education for the judiciary - Mr George Thomson,
National Judicial Institute, Canada [being transcribed]
Values and assumptions
in judicial decisions - The Hon. Richard Chisholm, formerly
a Judge of the Family Court of Australia, Visiting Fellow at ANU College of
Law