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President:	Tom Campbell, Charles Stuart University, Canberra	WEBSITE http://lawrsss.anu.edu.au/aslp/ CONTACT E-mail: aslp@coombs.anu.edu.au
Secretary-Treasurer:	Peter Cane, Australian National University, Canberra
Vice-Presidents:	The honorary officers of the Society are elected at the Annual General Meeting. Tom Campbell has been President since 1999. He is Professorial Fellow at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, an Australian Research Council funded Special Research Centre, Charles Sturt University, Canberra. He was formerly Professor of Law at the ANU. The Secretary-Treasurer is Professor Peter Cane, Head of the Department of Law in the Research School of Social Sciences (RSSS), ANU. The Vice-Presidents are Professor Sandra Berns (Griffith Law School), Professor Jeffrey Goldsworthy (Monash University Law School), Professor Martin Krygier (University of New South Wales Law School), Dr Desmond Manderson (University of Sydney Law School and Director of the Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence), Michael Stokes (University of Tasmania Law Faculty), Professor Ngaire Naffine (Adelaide University Law School).
Executive Committee:	The Executive Committee consists of the President, the Secretary-Treasurer, Professor Hilary Charlesworth (Centre for International and Public Law, ANU), Dr Tony Connolly (Law Faculty, ANU), Professor Byan Horrigan (Law, University of Canberra), Professor Michael Smith (Philosophy, RSSS, ANU), Leighton McDonald (Law Faculty ANU) and Dr Adrienne Stone (Law, RSSS, ANU).

Second ASLP Essay Prize. The Society is pleased to announce the second ASLP essay prize competition. The prize is designed to encourage original research and writing in legal theory and the philosophy of law by young scholars around the world. Submissions are invited from currently enrolled graduate students in any discipline. Submissions may be on any topic in legal theory or the philosophy of law. Essays should be written in English and should not exceed 10,000 (ten thousand) words in length (including footnotes). The author of the winning essay will receive a cash prize of AUD1,000 plus a contribution of up to AUD500 towards the cost of attendance at the Society’s annual conference to present the essay as a paper. The winning essay will be considered for publication in the Australian Journal of Legal Philosophy. The closing date for submissions is 31 January, 2004. The winner will be chosen by a panel appointed by the executive committee of the Society, which reserves the right not to award the prize if no submission of sufficient quality is received. Entries should be sent to the Secretary of the Society (Prof P Cane, RSSS, ANU, ACT 0200, Australia or pcane@coombs.anu.edu.au). They should be submitted either in hard-copy with an accompanying floppy disk, or electronically as an email attachment, preferably in MS Word.

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