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Organised crime, AIDS, piracy, food security, access to medicines and the digital divide are some of the compelling topics to be discussed at a forum at The University of Western Australia this week.

UWA's Law School's Australian Global Studies Research Centre (AGSRC) forum:  ‘ Impacts of Globalisation' , will be held on Thursday, 13 August and Friday 14 August.

This open forum will bring a multi-disciplinary focus to key contemporary global issues.  The issues range across the fields of agriculture, economics and commerce, government, labour relations, law, medicine, natural and physical sciences, political science and policing.

Mr Anthony Taubman, Director, IP Division, World Trade Organisation, will deliver the keynote address: Globalisation and the New World Order.

Other speakers include Professor Kadambot Siddique , Chair in Agriculture at UWA; Professor Michael Blakeney of the UWAs Australian Global Studies Research Centre; Professor Christoph Antons , Professor of Comparative Law at the University of Wollongong; Professor Franklyn Lisk of the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation at the University of Warwick;  and the Hon Chris Steytler , Parliamentary Inspector of the Corruption and Crime Commission.

What: Impacts of Globalisation forum

When: 13 August, 9am-5pm, and 14 August, 9am-1pm

Where: Banquet Hall , University Club, Hackett Drive, Crawley (nearest carpark                                    Hackett Entrance 1)

Register online at https://www.law.uwa.edu.au/

Media references

Professor Robert Lambert (+61 8) 6488 2934  /  (+61 4) 10 430 338
(Management and Organisations)
Janine MacDonald (UWA Public Affairs)  (+61 8)  6488 5563  /  (+61 4) 32 637 716