McCrimmon, Les --- "Reform, Regulation and Risk: The Internationalisation of Legislation and Legal Policy" [2010] ELECD 419; in Hiscock, Mary; van Caenegem, William (eds), "The Internationalisation of Law" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2010)

Book Title: The Internationalisation of Law

Editor(s): Hiscock, Mary; van Caenegem, William

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781849801027

Section: Chapter 3

Section Title: Reform, Regulation and Risk: The Internationalisation of Legislation and Legal Policy

Author(s): McCrimmon, Les

Number of pages: 16

Extract:

3. Reform, regulation and risk:
the internationalisation of
legislation and legal policy
Les McCrimmon*

INTRODUCTION

We are attending this symposium to celebrate the twentieth anniversary
of Bond University. Like many other speakers and participants, I have a
personal connection with Bond, having been a member of the law faculty
from 1990 to 1995. I also owe to Bond University, and the Law School
in particular, a debt of sincere thanks. It was willing to take a chance on
a practising lawyer from Canada who wanted to change his career and
move to a country where the variation of one season is summer rather than
winter. I could not have joined a more dynamic faculty, filled with brilliant
academics who wanted to create something unique in Australian legal
education ­ a law school which combines excellence in research with excel-
lence in teaching and learning through integrated skills training. In this it
succeeded, and in the process changed the approach to legal education in
this country.
To be part of the faculty at Bond soon after it opened was both excit-
ing and a privilege. So, it was with great pleasure that I accepted the
invitation to join this celebration. I was told, however, that I would have
to sing for my supper, and that song must have as its theme the inter-
nationalisation of legislation and legal policy. It is to that topic that I
now turn.
In concert with the conference theme, I have been asked to focus on the
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