Millbank to give Marsden Lecture

UTS Professor of Law Jenni Millbank will present this year’s John Marsden Lecture hosted by the NSW Council for Civil Liberties (CCL) at the Sydney Masonic Centre on November 9.

Millbank will speak on ‘Surrogacy, Reproductive Coalitions and Outsourcing Exploitation’ at the free event in the Masonic Centre’s Grand Lodge Room.

Millbank is a specialist in family and relationship law, reproductive rights, and refugee law. She is recognised as one of Australia’s leading experts on same-sex relationship recognition.

She has been involved in research, scholarship, law reform, litigation, community consultation and activism in that area for over a decade, and has a long association with the NSW Gay and Lesbian Rights Lobby.

Millbank’s current research has a focus on assisted reproduction, particularly decisions around embryos and the role of law in families formed through surrogacy.

Attendees will be served drinks from 6.30pm, with Millbank speaking from 7.10pm. The event will conclude at 8.30pm.

The annual lecture is named after lawyer John Marsden, the long-serving president of the NSW CCL and a well-known champion of law reform for sexual minorities. Marsden died in 2006.

info: John Marsden Lecture, 6.30pm, Tuesday, November 9, Sydney Masonic Centre, 66 Goulburn St, Sydney. RSVP to office@nswccl.org.au or 9286 3767.