Presenters

Professor Stephen Owen-Conway KC, Barrister, Sir Lawrence Jackson Chambers
Stephen Owen-Conway KC appears in the Federal Court of Australia and State Courts throughout Australia, practising in the field of commercial and administrative law. Stephen was admitted as a member of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple in early 1971, having been awarded an entrance scholarship. He was subsequently awarded two further scholarships by the Inner Temple. Stephen graduated from the university of Sheffield in 1972. He was first called to the English Bar in mid 1973. Stephen joined the Queensland Bar in 1975; the Victorian Bar in 1976 and the Western Australian Bar in 1977. He was appointed a Queen's Counsel in the states of Queensland and Western Australia in 1992. Stephen has held a number of legal academic positions throughout his career including: visiting lecturer at Nottingham University, senior teaching fellow at the University of Western Australia and lecturer-in -law at the universities of Plymouth, Queensland and Western Australia. Stephen is currently adjunct professor of law at Murdoch University. Stephen's List Clerks are Svenson Barristers who are located in Melbourne.


Professor Anthony Langlois, Stan Perron Dean of Applied Ethics,
Professor Anthony J. Langlois is the Stan Perron Dean of Applied Ethics in the Faculty of Business & Law at Curtin University. He is the founding director of the new Curtin Centre for Applied Ethics. Langlois is a distinguished specialist on Human Rights and International Ethics, with over 25 years of experience as an educator, author and public speaker. He has an international reputation for his human rights scholarship, published by presses such as Cambridge and Oxford, and in leading academic journals. Among other responsibilities, he is on the editorial board of The Journal of Human Rights and the European Journal of Politics and Gender and is a commissioning editor for Australian Outlook (Australian Institute of International Affairs). He was educated at the University of Tasmania and the Australian National University.


Dr. Jacqueline Boaks, Senior Lecturer, School of Management and Marketing, Curtin University
Dr Jacqueline Boaks is the Curriculum Lead in the Centre for Applied Ethics in the Faculty of Business & Law at Curtin University. She holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Western Australia and has over a decade of experience teaching business ethics and leadership ethics. Dr Boaks is the co-editor of Leadership and Ethics and has published extensively on topics including democracy, leadership, and ethics. Her recent work includes articles in the Philosophy of Management (2024) and the Journal of Business Ethics (2014). She is passionate about promoting ethical leadership in both academic and business contexts.