嘎嘎，blog成了两周更新一次了，看来我要一次更新两篇才能够弥补...

 

本周一的Law Lecture的主讲是Justice Kirby！

这个消息，对于我们这些听他名字听了11周的人来说，还是非常值得兴奋的。

Justice Kirby，现任澳洲最高法庭大法官的七名法官之一。这个成就已经足够我们敬仰的。

底下是高法网站上的介绍。Kirby应该算是progressive，尤其和其他那些保守派们相比...不过上次CICI跟我说，那些保守的都是USYD的，而激进的多半是UNSW的。汗阿，值得安慰的事，保守派明显比激进派多...哦哦，Justice Kirby是我们学校的，哈哈。学长~

 

哦，还有一点更吸引我的，Justice Kirby是gay...可见我这个人无聊吧。不过有人更无聊，当场问他这个问题...不过可能问过得人太多，Kirby好像没什么特别的感觉了。

 

讲的其实挺简单的，就是说It's not always easy for Judges to simply apply the law. Judges have to make desicion.法律并不能解释一切问题，很多时候，一个词看上去大家都理解，可是它真正的意思是什么，却并没有固定的答案。所以，法官必须要自己来判断、选择。基本上就是这些，但是中间举了很多例子。比如陪审团之类的。

 

后来提问的时候，有个男生把我们最后这个Assignement的问题搬出来问他...结果哄堂大笑...Kirby说，嗯，估计我是第一个帮你们写作业的高法法官。嘎嘎。那个问题是澳大利亚应该怎么样运用国际法？ 国家法是我们最后这几周的题目，其实我觉得非常的没用...这些都没有实际的法律效用，即使某个国家违法了，也没什么机构可以制裁他们。尤其是对于美国这样的国家来说，对小国或许还有那么点约束力？但是比如澳洲，treaties没少签，可人家不履行这些责任，谁都没辙！Kirby说，那些商业合约，如果出现纠纷，法官可以以合约为基准来解决问题。或者是澳大利亚已经通过了和所签的treaties相应的法规legislations的时候，法官可以用这个法规来审判。但是如果是违背了某个Treaty，而澳洲本地法律却并没有相对应的条例时，法官是否应该用国际法来审判，就是个很重要的问题。

这里最重要的，应该是Human Right，人权方面的。因为澳洲并没有自己的人权保障法，所以是否应该参考Interntaional Human Right Law，就引起了非常多的争议。因为很多人认为这样破坏了所谓的三权分立。立法被认定是议会的职责，作为执法者的法院不应该牵涉进来。

 

然后呢，有个男生问，同性恋在澳洲是否得不到保障。Kirby说，如果他突然去世，他的男友，虽然跟他在一起39年，却一分钱领不到。如果是正常的寡妇，却能每月领到一半的工资。但他同样承认，现在同性恋的处境在日益好转。他还表示，同性恋人士，以及其他的弱势群体，不应该对影自怜，而应该大胆的站出来，承认自己就是同性恋，拒绝别人的歧视。也只有这样，社会才能开始学会公正地对待他们。 赞一下，反正他说的挺有道理的。

 

应该说，他的演讲比我想象的要好。因为我跟很多同学都有顾虑，作为大法官，他说话可能过于专业化，然后我们听不懂什么的。后来发现，虽然他用语也很专业，但是同时也非常简单明了，很不容易！虽然没有牵涉到过于具体的法律，以及法官的职则什么的，但讲座还是很有趣的。

 

Michale Kirby的吸引力可真大。那天早上的lecture基本上坐满了！天哪，真不容易。hoho，这门课的主管感叹，我在Week 1都没见过这么多人啊！ 我们提前2周就在互相提醒了，Week 11早上9点表忘了去Lecture啊！本来还说要带相机的...然后我跟CICI打趣说，要不要找他签名合影啊？ “Uncle Kirby，我们很喜欢你，请跟我们签个名吧！”哈哈，我俩担心会被老师打死，如果不被打死，被挂掉也不好玩，所以就没施行。Thalia说，如果你们一次lecture还没去过，make sure you attend this one!!!结果她那天食物中毒，没来...

 

CICI第二天跟我表述她的兴奋“我昨天听完Kirby，再去上ECON Lecture竟然没睡着！！！”。 真是了不起啊。。。她已经睡了10周了。。。

 

Michael Donald Kirby was appointed to the Court in February 1996. At the time of his appointment he was President of the New South Wales Court of Appeal, having been appointed to that office in September 1984.

He was admitted to the New South Wales Bar in 1967. He was appointed a Deputy President of the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission in 1975.

He served as first Chairperson of the Australian Law Reform Commission from 1975 to 1984. In 1983 he became a judge of the Federal Court of Australia, serving on that Court until 1984.

He has held numerous national and international positions including on the Board of CSIRO, as President of the Court of Appeal of Solomon Islands, as UN Special Representative in Cambodia and as President of the International Commission of Jurists. In 1991 he was appointed a Companion in the General Division of the Order of Australia.

（http://www.hcourt.gov.au/kirbyj.htm）

Justice Kirby was born and educated in Sydney. He holds the degrees BA LLM BEc from Sydney University. The degree of LLM was conferred on him with First Class Honours.

He has had a long connection with Universities, having served as a Fellow of the Senate of Sydney University, as Deputy Chancellor of the University of Newcastle and from 1984 to 1993 as Chancellor of Macquarie University. The University of Newcastle conferred on him the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters in 1987. The University of Sydney and Macquarie University conferred on him the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws. In 1996 he was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia. In 1997 the Bulletin magazine included him amongst Australia's "ten most creative minds". Also in 1997 the National Law School University of India conferred the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws on him.

Justice Kirby practised as a solicitor and then as a barrister before his appointment in December 1974 as a Deputy President of the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission. He is the youngest man appointed to Federal judicial office in Australia. He held that position until 1983 when he was appointed a Judge of the Federal Court of Australia. He relinquished that post upon his appointment in 1984 as President of the New South Wales Court of Appeal. In August 1995 he was appointed to the additional post of President of the Court of Appeal of Solomon Islands. He resigned these positions when, in February 1996 he was appointed one of the seven Justices of the High Court of Australia, Australia's Federal Supreme Court.

Between 1975 and 1984, Justice Kirby was foundation Chairman of the Australian Law Reform Commission. At the same time he served on numerous national bodies including the Administrative Review Council, the Australian Council of Multicultural Affairs and the Executive of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation.

Justice Kirby has held or holds numerous international posts. He has chaired two Committees of the OECD on Privacy and Data Security. He has taken an active part in UNESCO, at its General Conference and in specialised expert bodies studying the rights of peoples in international law. He served as a Member of the Global Commission on AIDS of the World Health Organisation. He has taken part in numerous judicial conferences of the Commonwealth Secretariat.

For the ILO he was part of a mission to South Africa in 1992-3 to examine that country's labour laws. In November 1993, he was appointed the Special Representative of the Secretary General of the United Nations on Human Rights for Cambodia - a position he held until April 1996. In February 1994 he was the Independent Chairman of the Constitutional Conference of Malawi. He returned there in 1997 for a Constitutional Symposium.

In March 1994, he was appointed by the Director-General of UNESCO to be a member of the International Jury for the UNESCO prize for the teaching of human rights. In 1995 he was appointed to the Ethical, Legal and Social Issues Committee of the Human Genome Organisation now based in London: monitoring the largest cooperative scientific project in history. Also in 1995 he was appointed to the Editorial Committee of the Commonwealth of Association for Education in Journalism and Communication.

In 1996 he was appointed to the International Bioethics Committee of UNESCO, Paris. He was also appointed in 1996 to the International Advisory Group on Advocacy Training of the Inns of Court School of Law in London and the International Council for Conflict Prevention of International Alert, London. In 1997 he took part in the preparation of a Judicial Training Manual on Human Rights being prepared by the UN Centre for Human Rights. He has been a Commissioner of the International Commission of Jurists since 1984. In 1995, he was elected ICJ President, a position he still holds.

Justice Kirby was created a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1983 and a Companion of the Order of Australia, the highest civil honour now awarded in Australia, in 1991. In 1991 he was awarded the Australian Human Rights Medal.

September 1997

 

给小叶子和小佳子

某佳今天非常乖的说，虽是周末，也早早爬起来上网，看来是没有忘记叶子昨天晚上比赛 至于昨天live的时候这家伙为什么不在，我也就不追究了。。。   问我要完视频便消失了，等我耐不住性子去问她，宠晔会已经更新了 原文在这里 http://spaces.msn.com/yestyle/Blog/cns!BC987195189B3C85!154.entry   想说的话呢，小佳子已经说了很多，比如：   看着叶子UB,BB的预赛视频...... UB的热身明显好过比赛的那套~ 反到是,比赛中的表现跟训练课累到不行的状态一样......   喜欢的那个47秒仰头静止动作.再也看不到不了吗? 手扶高抬腿立转360~也就我家叶小姐作出来得干净漂亮. 因为那股气,就是刚好最舒服雅致的水准.   不得不说,叶子的拉拉提上法漂亮的要命!侧空翻也美极了.   小叶子进了自由操和平衡木，高低杠则失败得离谱 不过高低杠比赛的时候杠子出了问题，多少有些影响吧？ 其实小叶子长了体重，高低杠冬训没练，能力下降了，这些我们不是不知道 总是忍不住要给这个孩子找些excuse，就像去年十运会的平衡木预赛，以及世锦赛的平衡木决赛   整半年没看叶子的比赛了，中国的冬天真够长。。。 这次一出家门，就比了个10.95，小丫头又会挨骂吧？ 看着同去的同组的小娅摔了还能第一，小丫头又是什么心情呢？   这孩子比赛的时候还以为在热身吧？和她的某R姐姐一样。。。   自由操舞蹈少了，难度动作多了，我最喜欢的亮相没有了 平衡木加了好看的侧空翻和高举腿转体，羊跳和杨波跳还是教科书   看了两年半的平衡木，闭着眼睛也能知道是什么动作的平衡木，一下子变了 看了一年的自由操，被CCTV大特写慢镜头的舞蹈，都变了   以前一直想着叶子的平衡木什么时候能换编排啊，什么时候能加难度啊 现在真加了，又觉得陌生起来。。。   不那么清楚的视频，小叶子的脸在自由操中恍恍惚惚 好像没有了以前的笑容，连脑门也没有以前亮   “我前一阵确实好辛苦”。。。   胡思乱想中   不写了，今晚决赛，叶子的两项都要加油，平衡木请一如既往地优雅，自由操请一如既往地迷人。   PS，谢谢小佳子，我非常喜欢看你写叶子，请继续。你这样的姐姐，对叶子而言不是多余。

貌似我是一周更新一次了。

过去的一周，不提也罢。

死得够惨了，不想再死一次。起码不是在分数出来前就在死一次。

这个大学，我还是没有弄清楚。

也是因为很久没碰到这样刁钻的老师了吧。Hollman还是小巫见大巫了。

 

刚看了2004 US Olympics Trials。再叹一次。以前没觉得Liz Tricase那么厉害的说。跳马强自由操强也就算了，连这样的选手高低杠还有京格尔、极高的特卡、马卡洛夫和直体360旋下，真汗。Tabby Yim这场比得够好，要不是最后ACL断了，她应该去奥运会的。还是要说，除了最后去的六个，美国真的能再去1到2支队伍。Tabby Yim, Liz Tricase, Tia Orlando, Allyse Ishino, Carly Janiga, Nicole Harries, Alice Sacramone, Hollie Vise, Chellsie Memmel，这个名单还可以列下去。我甚至怀疑，08年美国队都能不能有这么强大的家底？ 很可惜这批人基本上都选择去上大学，没有几个留在Elite。当然，即使留下了，也不一定有什么作为，毕竟这两年美国也是不缺人的。可是总觉得像Liz她们，更像是空有一身技艺，却没参加过一场世界大赛，白白浪费了。真不如出口到别的国家几个。

 

又在看《玫瑰的故事》，真不知道自己看了多少次了。家里堆满书的感觉真好，这周没打算好好学习，就想好好看看闲书。上周复习伤了。

 

好像没什么可说得了。

Giaan退役了。我昨天才看到新闻。sigh，也许cwg给她打击还是很大吧。不管怎么说，她也算不错了，世锦赛和奥运会的金牌都有了。这也不是什么容易的成就。