Show David Derham Australia Law Professor Speaks Today By SUSAN WOODLAND Chronicle Staff Writer Professor David Derham of the University of Melbourne Law School will speak to law students and faculty members on the topic Systems in today at 11 Park DERHAM is to the University of Chicago where he will teach for the next four-and-a-half Following his stay there he will teach at the Northwestern University Summer To some America's federal structure of courts has been copied in the Australian departures have been made from America's judicial and recital of some of these variances will be included in EXPLAinING these Derham listed some such as elected the fed-era supreme court is a general and that in some s. appeals are still made to the Council in his opinions on these differences were an over our own vl said that in Australia there are no elected on page 1 DAVID DERHAM speaks today Derham from Page judges in the inferior and Lt he did not think that the election system had any that selection at a professional level is HE ALSO said that the High Court or Supreme is writing very good laws and that is of the best common law courts' in the world Derham worked with the during the He a practicing barrister and received his position in the Chair of Jurisprudence in He spent one year at Oxford in and also six months at In the past 10 or 12 years there have been several American students studying at the University of most of them doing post-graduate Remarking that they have been very good Derham said that they would like to have more Americans studying at the Australian |