Anti-terrorism laws and countering violent extremism in Australia
Australia has enacted a remarkable array of laws directed at the threat of terrorism. These include recent statutes that authorise the collection of metadata and the imprisonment of foreign fighters. The Government has also announced a new law that will enable it to strip people of their citizenship.
Professor George Williams AO will present a public lecture in the Allan Scott Auditorium at the University of South Australia examining these laws and assess the role they are playing in countering violent extremism.
George Williams AO is one of Australia’s leading constitutional lawyers and public commentators. He is the Anthony Mason Professor, a Scientia Professor and the Foundation Director of the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law at the Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales.
As an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow, he is engaged in a multi-year international project on anti-terror laws and democracy. He has held visiting positions at Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto, Columbia University Law School in New York and University College London.
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George is a well-known media commentator on legal issues. He has been a columnist for The Australian and the Canberra Times and an on-air analyst for ABC Television.
Register now to attend this free event on Tuesday 23 June at 5.30pm.
Presented by the University of South Australia’s School of Law and the International Centre for Muslim and non-Muslim Understanding.
FREE registration: Anti-terrorism laws and countering violent extremism in Australia
With Professor George Williams, University of New South Wales
Tuesday 23 June 2015, 5.30pm – 7.30pm
Allan Scott Auditorium, University of South Australia, City West campus
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