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Symposium on Managing Systemic Risk 7 - 9 April 2010 
Call for Papers
(Preliminary Programme to be Released on 1 January 2010)

For more information contact:
Warwick.Symposium@warwick.ac.uk
                        
   

“This paper will investigate the manner in which Australia’s counter-terrorism strategy, as defined in its terrorism laws, was operationalised in the case of Dr Mohamed Haneef and examine the roles and performance of the Australian Federal Police, the Commonwealth Department of Public Prosecutions and the then Howard Government in this case. It will also consider the role and performance of the media in shaping the way in which the case was played out, focusing on the attempt by each of these actors to use the media to its own advantage and to the detriment of some or all of the others. In examining the manner in which the various actors behaved and attempted to influence media coverage as the case unfolded, the paper will also consider how the concepts and principles of national security, human rights, due process, and so on were invoked by the different actors (including the media and Dr Haneef’s legal team) to influence the direction taken by the case and sway public opinion. The paper will also briefly examine the establishment, terms of reference, conduct and final report of the Clarke Inquiry and consider how the Rudd Government responded to the final report and its recommendations. The paper will conclude with a provisional assessment of the impact that the Haneef case could have on the further development of Australia’s counter-terrorism strategy and how the strategy is likely to be operationalised in the future.”

2 December  

“The UK’s relationship with the European Union promises to move up the political agenda as the general election looms closer. David Cameron has indicated that if elected he will be seeking new settlements with the EU. There is rumbling in the Conservative Party that if elected the new government will repeal the UK's implementing legislation on the European Convention on Human Rights the Human Rights Act. In this presentation I will examine how these political tensions are revealed in the UK's approach to EU citizenship and the rights of free movement of persons, including British citizens elsewhere in the EU.”