Latest Selden Podcast Episodes
Oliver Wendell Holmes and the First Amendment
Selden Society lecture series Australia - December 02, 2019 14:00 - 1 hourOliver Wendell Holmes Jr (1841–1935) was a scholar and jurist of indisputable brilliance, widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential judges in the English speaking world. Of all of his opinions, nothing defines his life’s work better than his famous approach to the First Amendm...
The trials of Oscar Wilde
Selden Society lecture series Australia - November 04, 2019 14:00 - 53 minutesIn Victorian England the work of the courts was a subject of immense public interest, with the leading barristers of the day enjoying celebrity status. In this era there was no litigation more closely followed than the trials of Oscar Wilde. This fascinating lecture, presented by The Honourable ...
Next Witness panel discussion
Selden Society lecture series Australia - October 01, 2019 03:00 - 46 minutesThis month we have a special edition of the podcast featuring a panel discussion on the relationships between art, aesthetics and justice. The event was a part of the recent Next Witness exhibition in the library featuring the works of contemporary Australian artist Julie Fragar. Inspired by...
The Dobell Case
Selden Society lecture series Australia - September 05, 2019 04:00 - 1 hourOne of the world’s leading art prizes, The Archibald Prize, has been the battleground for debates and disputes about the definition of portraiture since its inception in 1921. It was established in 1919, pursuant to the will of Mr J F Archibald (a former editor of The Bulletin). Its annual exhib...
Rhetoric and reality: the making of English medieval legislation
Selden Society lecture series Australia - July 02, 2019 02:00 - 51 minutesIn this lecture, Professor Paul Brand looks at the different rhetorics of legislation enacted during the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries, a period when the initiative in legislation still clearly lay with the King and his advisers (rather than with the Commons in parliament) and also a...
The Irish convict doctor who delivered Dick Atkin—Dr O'Doherty
Selden Society lecture series Australia - June 04, 2019 01:00 - 46 minutesLord Atkin's first encounter with a doctor was in 1867, when Dr Kevin O'Doherty attended his birth in Brisbane. Twenty years earlier O'Doherty had been transported to Tasmania for his advocacy of Irish nationalism. By 1867 he was a leading surgeon in Brisbane, and, like his friend Robert Atkin, ...
Lord Atkin – Judicial courage and the decorum of dissent
Selden Society lecture series Australia - May 09, 2019 03:00 - 31 minutesThis lecture explores Lord Atkin’s famous dissent in the 1941 case of Liversidge v Anderson, where he sought to strike down a wartime internment decision that had been given without reasons. More about the case can be found in the Supreme Court Library’s online exhibition celebrating Lord Atkin....
Lord Atkin – Judicial courage and the decorum of dissent
Selden Society lecture series Australia - May 09, 2019 03:00 - 31 minutesThis lecture explores Lord Atkin’s famous dissent in the 1941 case of Liversidge v Anderson, where he sought to strike down a wartime internment decision that had been given without reasons. More about the case can be found in the Supreme Court Library’s online exhibition celebrating Lord Atkin....
Mabo v State of Queensland (No. 2)
Selden Society lecture series Australia - April 08, 2019 14:00 - 54 minutesThis episode of the podcast gives a first-hand account of one of the most important judgments ever delivered by the High Court, Mabo v the State of Queensland (No.2). It was presented as part of our 2016 lecture series. The presenter is the Honourable Margaret White AO, who acted as junior couns...
Leading cases of the common law – McKenzie v McKenzie [1971] P 33
Selden Society lecture series Australia - March 04, 2019 14:00 - 43 minutesThis lecture examines the celebrated 1971 English case of McKenzie v McKenzie, in which the Court of Appeal unanimously affirmed the important principle that any person conducting proceedings in court is entitled to quiet assistance from a person of their choice. 2019 marks fifty years since the...
Guns and judges: Antonin Scalia and the right to bear arms
Selden Society lecture series Australia - January 23, 2019 14:00 - 47 minutesAntonin Scalia was a prominent and controversial member of the Supreme Court of the United States: February marks the anniversary of his unexpected death in 2016. The lecture is presented by the Honourable Justice Glenn Martin, judge of the Supreme Court of Queensland. A video of the lecture an...
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