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Courtesy resignations won’t solve the Philippine National Police’s problems
Gemmo Fernandez writes in East Asia Forum
The Trojan Horse of the global drug wars: from Canberra to Sinaloa
Desmond Manderson writes in The Canberra Times
Finders, Keepers? Who Owns Valuable Lost Property
Wayne Morgan interviewed by Mamamia
ANU study finds young people need more protection online, social media companies urged to act
Faith Gordon quoted in Canberra Times
Snapchat Is Fuelling Britain's Teen Murder Epidemic
Faith Gordon quoted in Vice World News
Commonwealth prosecutors wrong on Witness K case, former NSW DPP says
Kieran Pender quoted in The Guardian
False claim circulates on Facebook that Australians 'will be fined if they discuss COVID-19 conspiracies'
quoted in AFP Fact Check
Do WA's emergency health powers allow forcible testing, vaccination and removal of underwear of children? Here are the facts
quoted in ABC News
Why Celeste Barber's bushfire fundraiser is more complicated than it seems
quoted in ABC News
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Past events
Brave new worlds: Challenges for evidence in the 21st century
- The Honourable Justice Stephen Gageler, High Court of Australia
In partnership with the ANU College of Law, the National Judicial College of Australia will present the biennial Conference on 4 and 5 March 2017.
40th Anniversary of the Federal Court of Australia
The ANU Centre for Commercial Law and Centre for International and Public Law are proud to announce a conference to mark the 40th anniversary of the establishment of the Federal Court of Australia.
ALRC inquiry into the incarceration rates of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
- Judge Matthew Myers AM, ALRC Commissioner
Judge Myers will speak about his work as ALRC Commissioner on the inquiry into the incarceration rates of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
Fair trial rights in the European Court of Human Rights: Recent cases
- Dr Ryan Goss, ANU College of Law
Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights protects the right to a fair trial in civil and criminal proceedings. The Article 6 rights are the most heavily-litigated Convention rights before the European Court of Human Rights, generating a large and complex body of case law.
The crime of aggression: Useless, anachronistic - and beautiful
- Professor Kevin Heller
POSTPONED: The International Criminal Court at 20 years: activities, successes and challenges ahead
- Helen Brady
Due to unforeseen circumstances this event will be postponed until a later date. We apologise for any inconvenience.
Kennedy exceptionalism, the Vietnam War, and the limits of counterfactual history
- Professor Kevin Heller
LRSJ Virtual Recruitment Drive 2021
Join the Law Reform and Social Justice (LRSJ) annual launch and recruitment drive to hear from our director, Associate Professor Matthew Zagor, our student leaders to learn about how to get involved.
Raising the age of criminal responsibility and disproportionate impacts on Indigenous youth
Join the ANU Law Reform and Social Justice (LRSJ) Indigenous Reconciliation Project and ANU Law Students' Society (LSS) in this webinar on raising the age of criminal responsibility and how the Council’s decision disproportionately affects Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth communities.
Alumni panel: Careers in social justice, law reform and advocacy
Join our alumni panel in this online discussion hosted by ANU Law Reform and Social Justice that explores careers in social justice, law reform and advocacy.
Twenty Minutes With The Devil
Part thriller, part black comedy, this play is inspired by events leading to the capture of El Chapo, Mexico’s most notorious drug lord, in 2016. But Twenty Minutes With The Devil transcends its original context, opening instead onto a world that is everywhere and nowhere, in an idiom at once strange and familiar. It asks vital questions about law, politics, and justice in the modern world. About the lives and decisions out of our control that seem to hold us all hostage. And the patterns that entrap us in other ways parents and children, myths and beliefs, childhood memories and fantasies of escape.
LRSJ Launch and Recruitment Drive 2022
Join the Law Reform and Social Justice (LRSJ) annual launch and recruitment drive to hear from our director, Associate Professor Matthew Zagor and our student leaders to learn about how to get involved.
World Day Against the Death Penalty: The Fragility of Abolition in Asia and the Pacific
Panel discussion event to mark the World Day against the death penalty.
ANU-NJCA Joint Conference: Therapeutic Jurisprudence
This conference, presented jointly by the National Judicial College of Australia and The Australian National University, brings together members of the judiciary, academics, policymakers and other experts to consider current issues and challenges in the Australian justice system.
