Project Output
Below is a list of team output from when the team made the ARC grant application, from 2003 onwards.
Book chapters
Journal articles
Conference, seminar and other public presentations
Media work
Submissions
Conferences attended by team members
S Bronitt and B McSherry, 'International and Transnational Crimes' Chapter 15 in S Bronitt and B McSherry, Principles of Criminal Law (2nd Ed, Pyrmont: Thomson LBC, 2005) 851-916.
S Bronitt and S Bottomley, 'Law, Globalisation and Terrorism' Chapter 14 in S Bottomley and Simon Bronitt, Law in Context (3rd Edition, Sydney: Federation Press, 2006).
S Bronitt and J Stellios, “Regulating telecommunications interception and access: a seachange in surveillance laws” in Michael and Michael (eds), The Social Implications of Information Security Measures on Citizens and Business: 29th May 2006, Wollongong, Australia (2006, University of Wollongong Press) 119.
A Byrnes, "United Nations Reform and Human Rights", in Marius Smith
(ed), Human Rights 2005 - The Year in Review (Melbourne: Castan Centre for
Human
Rights, 2006), 31-56, available at http://www.law.monash.edu.au/castancentre/events/2005/byrnes-paper.html
M Gani, 'Updating the Ante in the 'War on Terror' ', in Patty Fawker (ed), A Fair Go in an Age of Terror (Melbourne, David Lovell Publishing, 2004, 90-101).
S Bronitt, 'Constitutional Rhetoric v Criminal Justice Realities. Unbalanced Responses to Terrorism?', (2003) 14 Public Law Review 76-80.
S Bronitt, 'The Law in Undercover Policing: A Comparative Study of Entrapment and Covert Interviewing in Australia, Canada and Europe' (2004) 33(1) Common Law World Review 35-80.
S Bronitt and M Gani, 'Shifting Boundaries of Cybercrime: From Computer Stalking to Cyber-Terrorism', (2003) 27 Criminal Law Journal 303-321.
S Bronitt and J Stellios, 'Telecommunications Interception in Australia: Recent Trends and Regulatory Prospects' (2005) 29 Telecommunications Policy 875.
S Bronitt and J Stellios, “Sedition, Security and Human Rights: ‘Unbalanced’ Law Reform in the ‘War on Terror’” (2006) 30(3) Melbourne University Law Review 923.
S Bronitt and J Stellios, “Regulating Telecommunications Interception and Access in the Twenty-first Century: Technological Evolution or Legal Revolution? (2006) 24(4), Prometheus, 413.
M Gani and G Urbas, 'Alert or Alarmed? Recent Legislative Reforms Directed at Terrorist Organisations and Persons Supporting or Assisting Terrorist Acts' (2004) 8(1) Newcastle Law Review 19-32.
R Hogg, “Criminology, Crime and Politics before and after 9/11”, (2007) 40(1) Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology
M Nolan (for the committee), "Ensuring Accountability: Terrorist Challenges and State Responses in a Free Society" (2006) 25(2) Dialogue 63-67
G Urbas, 'Cyber-terrorism and Australian Law' (2005) 8(1) Internet Law Bulletin 5-8.
Conference, seminar and other public presentations
S Bronitt, 'Australia’s Legal Response to Terrorism: Neither Novel nor Extraordinary?', paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Castan Centre for Human Rights, Human Rights 2003: The Year in Review, Melbourne, 4 December 2003. [Available at the Castan Centre website here; see this site for an overview of the conference. Paper was subsequently included in an edited volume available for purchase online here]
S Bronitt, 'Balancing Anti-Terrorism with Civil/Human Rights' (interlocutor at Video Conference, responding to Professor Perez, the Columbus School of Law, Washington, organised by the US Embassy at National Press Club, Canberra, linking participants in Canberra, Sydney and Washington, DC) April 2004.
S Bronitt, “Security Culture, Human Rights & Extraordinary Law Reform” Symposium, The End Of Human Rights? 11 April 2006, hosted by the ANU Cultures of Human Rights Network @ the National Europe Centre, ANU, available at http://law.anu.edu.au/nissl/Bronitt_symp.pdf
S Bronitt, “Hate Speech, War on Terror and New Sedition Laws”, Free Speech, Hate Speech and Human Rights Workshop, sponsored by ASSA, Law Program, RSSS, ANU Canberra 8-9 September 2006.
S Bronitt, “New Sedition Laws: Defending or Subverting Freedom?” Keynote Public Lecture (with David Marr, Sydney Morning Herald) part of the Public Forum Program of Civil Liberties Australia (ACT) Inc and Independent Scholars Association of Australia, National Library of Australia, Canberra, Thursday 14 September 2006.
S Bronitt and M Gani gave talks on sedition and terrorism offences at an event entitled "Undressing the Law" organised by Law Students for Social Justice: ANU Law Theatre, 11 October 2006.
S Bronitt, “Prosecuting The War On Terror: European Perspectives”, paper delivered on 24 October 2006 at the National Europe Centre, ANU (Regulatory Dialogue).
S Bronitt and James Stellios, “Regulating Telecommunications Interception and Access in the 21st Century: Technological Evolution or Legal Revolution?” “Perspectives on Accountability” 11th Public Law Weekend, ANU, Friday 3 November 2006 Visions Theatre, National Museum of Australia.
S Bronitt “The New State of Surveillance in Australia: 2006 in Review”, presentation delivered at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, ANU, 13 November 2006.
S Bronitt, “Promoting Multiculturalism and the War on Terror: An Integrated Criminal Justice Model?”, ANU Dialogue across Difference: Governance in a Multicultural Era, 4-5 December 2006 available at http://deliberativedemocracy.anu.edu.au/documents/SimonBronitt.pdf
S Bronitt and M Gani, “Criminal Codes: The Paradox of the Liberal Promise”(Paper presented at the Workshop on Regulating Deviance: The Redirection of Criminalisation and the Futures of Criminal Law, International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Oñati, 14-15 June 2007).
S Bronitt, “9/11: Six years on”, ChURN Campus Seminar Series 2007, 9 September 2007, ANU National Europe Centre, see flier for seminar series available here
A Byrnes and G Porretto, 'The ‘War on Terror’ and International Human Rights Bodies: The Reassertion of Legality', paper presented at the Terrorism and Law Workshop, Gilbert+Tobin Centre of Public Law, University of NSW, Coogee Plaza Hotel, Coogee Beach, 20 June 2005.
A Byrnes, 'Law, Lawyers and Lattes: . . . . the (ir)relevance of the chattering classes in a time of insecurity', UNSW Law Week Public Lecture, 29 March 2006, Faculty of Law, UNSW. Flyer Transcript of lecture
A Byrnes and Gabrielle McKinnon, "The ACT Human Rights Act 2004
and the
Commonwealth Anti-Terrorism Act (No 2) 2005: A Triumph for Federalism
or a Federal Triumph?", paper presented at the Expert Workshop “Ensuring
Accountability: Terrorist challenges and State Responses in a Free Society”,
National Europe Centre, ANU, 20-21 April 2006; Working Paper 1 of the ACT
Human Rights Act Project, April 2006
http://acthra.anu.edu.au/articles/Working%20Paper%20No%201.pdf
A Byrnes, "More law and less law? Recent developments at the international level in the struggles around terrorism”, paper presented at the Expert Workshop “Ensuring accountability – Terrorist Challenges and State Responses in a Free Society”, National Europe Centre, ANU, 20-21 April 2006.
M Gani was a panel member at the Open Forum 'A Fair Go in an Age of Terror', Jesuit Seminar Series, Canberra, 25 March 2004. Paper subsequently published as Gani (2004) above.
M Gani and G Urbas, 'Alert or Alarmed? The Australian Legislative Response to Terrorism', an updated version of Gani and Urbas (2004, above), paper presented on authors’ behalf by Shaun Gath at session entitled “Democracy versus Security”, at International Bar Association Conference, Auckland, New Zealand, 28 October 2004.
M Gani gave a lecture to Year 11 school students at the Canberra College about terrorism on 10 November 2005.
M Gani gave a lecture to High School teachers, entitled "Values in an age of terror", as part of the History, Civics & Law Summer School (themed "Australian Values, Universal Values") on 20 January 2006.
M Gani, "The cases of Mallah and Thomas", paper presented at the Expert Workshop “Ensuring accountability – Terrorist Challenges and State Responses in a Free Society”, National Europe Centre, ANU, 20-21 April 2006.
R Hogg, 'The New Killing Machines: Political Violence & Criminology In The 21st Century', paper presented to 18th Annual Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology Conference, Wellington, 9-11 February 2005.
R Hogg, “Crime and Politics in the Post 9/11 World”, paper presented at the Expert Workshop “Ensuring accountability – Terrorist Challenges and State Responses in a Free Society”, National Europe Centre, ANU, 20-21 April 2006.
R Hogg, Talk on 'Terrorism' to Armidale Rotary Club, 28 March 2006.
R Hogg, "Executive Proscription of Terrorist Organisations: Exploring the Shifting Border Between Crime and Politics", Kirby Seminar, UNE School of Law, 23 May 2006.
P Mathew, 'Anti-terrorist = rights-resistant? The Work of the Counter-Terrorism Committee”, paper presented at the 13th Annual Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law, University House, ANU, Canberra, 16-18 June 2005.
P Mathew, 'Refugee Rights in the Age of Terror', public lecture organised by the ANU Law Students for Social Justice, 26 August 2005.
P Mathew, Speech concerning the preventative detention and sedition provisions of the Anti-Terrorism Bill (No. 2) 2005, ACT Legislative Forum, 31 October 2005. Other speakers included ACT Chief Minister Jon Stanhope, HREOC President Justice John Von Doussa and Gavan Griffiths QC. [Available on the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commmission website here.]
P Mathew, Presentation concerning the preventative detention and sedition provisions of the Anti-Terrorism Bill (No. 2) 2005, Manning Clark House, Canberra, 26 October 2005.
P Mathew, 'Dangerous and Excluded: The Refugee Post 9/11", paper presented to the Moving On Conference, Sydney, NSW Parliament Theatrette, 22 November 2005.
P Mathew, "Black holes, white holes and worm holes: detention, deportation, diplomatic assurances and other subterfuges in the war on terro"', paper presented at the Expert Workshop “Ensuring accountability – Terrorist Challenges and State Responses in a Free Society”, National Europe Centre, ANU, 20-21 April 2006.
M Nolan, 'Studying Lay Reactions to Australian Anti-terrorism Legislation', paper presented in M Nolan and B McKimmie (chairs), Social Psychology and Law Symposium at the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Australasian Social Psychologists, Sydney, 26 April 2003.
M Nolan, 'Legal Responses to Political Violence and ‘Terrorism’: Is Social Psychology Relevant?', Groupthinktank seminar presentation, School of Psychology, 26 November 2004.
M Nolan, 'Australian Attitudes Towards Counter-Terrorism: Perpetrator Motive, Offence Construal, Siege Mentality, and Human Rights Beliefs', paper presented at Human Rights and Human Wrongs: Social Psychology Meets Law and Justice, 2nd Annual Spring Workshop, School of Psychology, ANU, 1-2 November 2005.
M Nolan, 'Comparative Legal History of Counter-Terrorism Law in Australia and Japan: From the Hope Report to the CTC', paper presented at the Terrorism and Law Workshop, Gilbert+Tobin Centre of Public Law, University of NSW, Coogee Plaza Hotel, Coogee Beach, 20 June 2005.
MA Nolan, "Measuring Support for Australian Counter-Terrorism Initiatives and Human Rights: The Impact of Offence Construal, Perpetrator Motive and Siege Mentality" (Paper presented at the Expert Workshop “Ensuring accountability – Terrorist Challenges and State Responses in a Free Society”, National Europe Centre, ANU, 20-21 April 2006).
MA Nolan, 'Measuring Support for Australian Counter-Terrorism Initiatives and Human Rights: The Impact of Offence Construal, Perpetrator Motive and Siege Mentality' (Paper presented at the 35th Annual Conference of the Society for Australasian Social Psychologists, 20-23 April 2006).
MA Nolan, 'Measuring Support for Australian Counter-Terrorism Initiatives and Human Rights: The Impact of Offence Construal, Perpetrator Motive, and Siege Mentality.' (Paper presented on 11 November at the 26th Annual Congress of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, 9-12 November 2006, Lorne, Victoria, Australia)
MA Nolan, ‘Measuring Support for Australian Counter-Terrorism Initiatives and Human Rights: The Impact of Offence Construal, Perpetrator Motive and Siege Mentality'. (Paper presented on 16 May 2007 to the UNSW School of Psychology Colloquium Series)
MA Nolan, 'Legal (Social) Psychology and Criminal Law Reform: Beyond Mere Opinion Polling and Penal Populism' (Paper presented at the Workshop on Regulating Deviance: The Redirection of Criminalisation and the Futures of Criminal Law, International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Oñati, 14-15 June 2007).
G Porretto, “The EU Response to International Terrorism” (Paper presented at the Expert Workshop “Ensuring accountability – Terrorist Challenges and State Responses in a Free Society”, National Europe Centre, ANU, 20-21 April 2006).
G Porretto, “Extraordinary Rendition and US Counter Terrorism Strategy”, presentation to ANU College of Law Colloquium Series, 10 August 2006.
G Porretto, “International Criminal Law Aspects of European States’ involvement in US irregular renditions: the role of the Council of Europe and of the European Union” (Paper presented at the Conference on “Regionalising International Criminal Law”, 18-20 August 2006, University of Canterbury Law School – Christchurch).
G Porretto, “Prosecuting the War on Terror: Extraordinary Renditions and the Reassertion of Legality”, paper delivered on 24 October 2006 at the National Europe Centre, ANU (Regulatory Dialogue).
G Porretto, “Spreading Terror Among Civilians as a War Crime” (Paper presented at the Conference: “The Emergence of Customary International Humanitarian Law”, 4 and 5 November 2006, Flinders University School of Law, and co-organised by the Australian Red Cross).
G Porretto, "European States’ involvement in US irregular rendition:
the role of the Council of Europe and of the European Union”, Law&Society@UBC
Seminar Series, 25 January 2007, UBC, Vancouver, Canada, see Seminar flier
at http://www.arts.ubc.ca/index.php?id=10092
S Bronitt, M Gani, M Nolan and J Williams, Submission No. 210 to the Senate Legal and Constitutional Committee Inquiry into the Anti-Terrorism Bill (No. 2) 2005 [Submission available at the Inquiry website in PDF here.]
S Bronitt, M Nolan, M Gani and P Jobling, Submission to the Inquiry into Exposure Draft Terrorism (Extraordinary Temporary Powers) Bill 2005 (ACT), Submisssion No. 13) to the Standing Committee on Legal Affairs of the Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory. Written submission dated 25 January 2006 available at http://www.parliament.act.gov.au/downloads/submissions/LA%2013%20Bronniteatal.pdf.
Transcript of oral testimony Bronitt et al (pp 28-40 of proof transcript) available at the Inquiry website in PDF (http://www.hansard.act.gov.au/hansard/2005/comms/legal11.pdf)
S Bronitt, Advice to the NSW Legislation Review Committee regarding the Terrorism (Police Powers) Amendment (Preventative Detention) Bill 2005 (NSW), (22 November 2005).
A Byrnes (with Gabrielle McKinnon and Hilary Charlesworth), Advice to the Chief Minister of the ACT, Mr Jon Stanhope on the draft Anti-Terrorism Bill 2005 (Cth), (18 October 2005). [Available in PDF here]
A Byrnes (with Gabrielle McKinnon and Hilary Charlesworth), Submission No. 206 to the Senate Legal and Constitutional Committee Inquiry into the Anti-Terrorism Bill (No. 2) 2005. Submission available at the Inquiry website in PDF here.]
A Byrnes, H Charlesworth, G McKinnon, G Porretto, Submission No. 16 to the Standing Committee on Legal Affairs of the Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory. Written submission dated 25 January 2006 available at http://www.parliament.act.gov.au/downloads/submissions/LA%2016%20Byrnes%20Charlesworth%20etc.pdf.
Transcript of oral testimony, Charlesworth, Porretto and McKinnon (pp 115-127 of proof transcript) available at the Inquiry website in PDF (http://www.hansard.act.gov.au/hansard/2005/comms/legal10.pdf).
A Byrnes et al with P Vickery QC, “David Hicks – Military Commissions
Act 2006 – Compliance with Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions
, the Hamdan Decision and Australian Law “, Opinion on the legality
of the proposed trial of David Hicks by a Military Commission, 9 November
2006. The Opinion has been delivered to the Human Rights Law Resource Centre
Ltd ('HRLRC') and to the Law Council of Australia. The Law Council of Australia
has supplied the Opinion to the Federal Attorney-General, the Hon Philip Ruddock
MP. The Opinion is available at
http://www.hrlrc.org.au/html/s02_article/article_view.asp?id=141&nav_cat
_id=145&nav_top_id=62 and
http://www.ahrcentre.org/documents/Hicks%20-%20Opinion%20Australian%20La
w%20Council%20-%209%20November%202006.pdf
P Mathew (with the assistance of G Porretto), Submission No. 187 to the Senate Legal and Constitutional Committee Inquiry into the Anti-Terrorism Bill (No. 2) 2005. [Submission available at the Inquiry website in PDF here; cited in the Committee's report in PDF, pp 26, 28, 45.]