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Real estate agent threatening to sue former tenant over 'defamatory' online review
Jelena Gligorijevic quoted in ABC News
(Un)lawful Lockdown And Government Accountability
Jelena Gligorijevic writes in Scoop
Will the modern university make it to its 1000th birthday?
Desmond Manderson writes in The Canberra Times
In politics and law, does art matter?
Desmond Manderson interviewed by ABC Radio National - Big Ideas
Porter is swimming against the tide on legal cannabis
Desmond Manderson writes in The Canberra Times
Cannabis laws bound for the courtroom to work out whether ACT or Commonwealth is right
Desmond Manderson quoted in ABC News
A No-Deal Brexit? British Businesses May Get a Good Deal under a UK-China Free Trade Agreement
Joseph Lee writes in University of Oxford
The National Security Risks Over Huawei and its 5G Network: Is an Outright Ban or a Restricted Access the Answer?
Joseph Lee writes in University of Oxford
Taking Bigotry off the Books in India
Wayne Morgan interviewed by Policy Forum Pod
Give Me Beauty or Give Me Death: Understanding Trump's Nostalgia Through La La Land and Jackie
Justine Poon writes in Demos Journal
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Doing the research I do has left scars: Challenges of researching in the transitional justice field
- Dr Olivera Simić, Griffith University
Transitional justice research involves critical examination of difficult topics that can raise ethical and methodological issues for participants and for researchers.
Against epistocracy: Reconsidering the demographic objection
- Udit Bhatia, University of Oxford
Why should we prefer democracy to an epistocracy of competent persons? In his response to this question, David Estlund appeals to the ‘demographic objection’.
Reading group - Contemporary critical theory: What is it? What's it for?
This reading group, convened by author and philosopher of aesthetics Robyn Ferrell, now an Adjunct Professor with the Centre for Law, Arts and the Humanities, will excavate the history of critical theory from Benjamin and Adorno, with a focus on theoretical work by leading figures in recent years and on contemporary issues of the most urgent importance.
Performing sovereignty and the refugee body
- Likim Ng
HDR student Likim Ng presents her thesis paper.
Why the law is what it ought to be
- Professor Trevor Allan LLD, FBA
In this seminar, Professor Trevor Allan LLD, FBA of the University of Cambridge will present his thesis that the law is constituted by the requirements of justice for the political community in which it operates, so that a public conception of justice is substituted for conflicting private ones.