Legal Theory
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In the Media
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
Upcoming events
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.
Past events
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.
ANU Law and Philosophy Forum: Hohfeldian analytics of rights of action
- Professor Kit Barker, University of Queensland
Join Professor Kit Barker in the ANU Law & Philosophy Forum, a series focused on issues spanning law and philosophy. Professor Kramer will be sharing his work-in-progress, in which he applies Hohfeldian analytics to ‘rights of action’ in public and private law.
Inventing Necessity: How Modern Jurisprudence Transformed the New 'Third World' States
- Dr Coel Kirkby
Join our next ANU College of Law 'virtual visitor' Dr Coel Kirkby (University of Sydney) as he discusses his latest research.
ANU Law and Philosophy Forum: The concept of harm
- Tony Zhou, Corpus Christi College, the University of Cambridge
Join Tony Zhou as he discusses the concept of harm, the extent to which risks can count as harms, and implications for legal duties in this session of the ANU Law and Philosophy Forum.
ANU Law and Philosophy Forum: Legality as public reason
- Dr Michael Foran, University of Strathclyde, UK
Join Dr Michael Foran as he talks about the principle of legality, and its capacity to constitute what we might call ‘public reason’ in this ANU Law and Philosophy Forum session.
ANU Law and Philosophy Forum: Fair labelling in criminal law
- Khomotso Moshikaro, Trinity College, the University of Cambridge and the University of Cape Town
Khomotso Moshikaro will talk to the ANU Law and Philosophy Forum about the ethics of fair labelling in criminal law, and how this relates to our understanding of criminal wrongdoing.
What is wrong with slavery?
- Associate Professor Joshua Neoh
Join Associate Professor Joshua Neoh as he explores what is wrong with slavery and its implications in this session of the ANU College of Law research seminar series.
ANU Law and Philosophy Forum: Reflections on Death
- Associate Professor Joshua Neoh
The ANU Law and Philosophy Forum is delighted to announce its seventh meeting in 2021: a reading and discussion led by Dr Joshua Neoh, who will be reflecting on the topic of death.
ANU Law & Philosophy Forum: Freedom of Expression as Self-Restraint
- Professor Matthew Kramer, Cambridge University
Join Professor Matthew Kramer from Cambridge University for the second instalment of the ANU Law & Philosophy Forum.
Colonial Legal Imaginaries | Southern Literary Futures
- Debolina Dutta
- Christopher Gevers
- Luis Gómez Romero
- Honni van Rijswijk
You are invited to join us for a discussion with four leading thinkers on colonial legal imaginaries and southern literary futures, whose work encompasses the histories and traditions of four continents.
The patterns and purposes of anti-abortion legal experimentalism
- Professor Fiona de Londras
Hosted by the ANU College of Law Visitors Committee, this seminar will be presented by Professor Fiona de Londras (Birmingham Law School).
