2025 Margaret Stone Lecture with The Honourable Justice Nye Perram

03/04/2025

The Honourable Margaret Stone AO FAAL was a scholar, academic, teacher, practitioner, Judge, Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security, leader and mentor. Throughout her career she taught, advised and adjudicated on matters that spanned the breadth of Australian law.

In the 2025 Margaret Stone Lecture, Justice Nye Perram will speak on Private Property and Public Rights: a new phenomenon?

The Anglo-American legal tradition has long encumbered some private property rights with burdens in favour of the public or the State. These have ranged from uses of commons through to legislative enlistment or appropriation and, in certain circumstances, exercises of executive power to similar effect. Modern statutes create whole classes of regulated assets which may be used against the wishes of their owners but the mingling of private property and State utilisation of that property is not new and the practice can be discerned both with tangible assets, such a railways, wharves and toll roads, as well as many species of intellectual property. The paper explores whether there is any unifying theme underpinning these inroads into private ownership of property.

This event is co-hosted by UNSW Law & Justice and Herbert Smith Freehills.

Date: Thursday 8 May

Time: 6.30pm – 7.30pm

Location: Court 1, Federal Court of Australia, Level 21, 184 Phillip Street, Sydney

Registration: https://2025margaretstonelecture.eventbrite.com.au/?aff=inbrief

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