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Mental Fitness in the Law Program – Registrations Open for 2026
Australian lawyers are warmly invited to take part in Mental Fitness in the Law, a free resilience training and research program developed by Macquarie University.
The training component focuses on strengthening the mental resources needed to manage the demands of legal practice through structured self-reflective writing. This process helps translate stressful work experiences into practical coping insights.
The six-week program involves:
- an initial workshop to introduce the three resilient capacities that underpin mental fitness
- a mental fitness manual grounded in resilience theory for ongoing reference
- five short, structured self-reflection writing sessions to actively build your mental fitness
- two individual check-in sessions to personalise your learning
- a final debrief workshop to consolidate your learning
- research activities (including surveys and qualitative analysis of reflections) in contribution towards the research objective of strengthening resilience in lawyers.
Participation is time-efficient, delivered online, contributes to CPD requirements, and is offered at no cost in recognition of participants’ involvement in the research component. Learn more and register here: https://mqedu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cTlaDcbs1uJ6A7Q
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10 February 2026 - Original Discrimination: How The US Supreme Court Disadvantages Plaintiff States
When: 5.15-6.30pm, 10 February 2026
Where: Courtroom 3, Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory, Knowles Place, Canberra City
The US Supreme Court is famously the top US appellate court, but the US Constitution also makes the Court a trial court, giving it original jurisdiction over, among other things, suits by states against other states. This jurisdiction remains exclusive to the Court, making it the sole forum for interstate disputes. Yet the Court uses a variety of prudential doctrines to avoid these cases. While there are good structural and pragmatic reasons for these doctrines, their use is almost certainly unconstitutional. Worse, those doctrines systematically discriminate against plaintiff states in certain types of interstate disputes, depriving those states of a forum and hindering political resolution of these conflicts.
In this free public lecture, Professor Heather Elliott from the University of Alabama will explain the often perverse aspects of the Court's approach to these cases, the problems that flow from that approach, and potential solutions.
Professor Elliott is in Australia as a Visitor at the Centre for International and Public Law (CIPL) at the ANU College of Law, Governance and Policy.
