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Monthly Archives: August 2012

If the Judiciary shouldn’t, who should advise the Governor-General?

This week, further information was revealed on the role of Sir Anthony Mason in advising the Governor-General, Sir John Kerr, in the events leading up to Prime Minister Gough Whitlam’s dismissal in 1975. The revelations raise renewed interest in the propriety of the Judiciary advising the Governor-General in times of constitutional crisis. Gabrielle Appleby considers […]

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CPD – Government Lawyers and the Public Interest: Still Relevant Today?

What is the relationship between the public interest and government lawyers? On one level, the concept pervades the very existence of government lawyers: advising and assisting government understand the limits of its powers is a function conducted in the public interest. But beyond providing one explanation for the existence of government lawyers, should the public […]

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Adelaide Law School congratulates PhD student on winning Dontas Family Travelling Fellowship for 2013

Congratulations to Vanessa White, a PhD student from Adelaide Law School who has successfully won the Dontas Family Travelling Fellowship for 2013. This Fellowship is offered biannually by the Greek/Australian International Legal and Medical Conference to a graduate in Medicine and a graduate in Law who is currently undertaking postgraduate research in either faculty. Vanessa […]

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Adelaide Law School wishes Law Student, Matt Cowdrey, all the best for the Olympics

Adelaide Law School student, Matt Cowdrey is competing in the Para-Olympics, which begin in fifteen days. Australia is hoping for a top-five finish. Swimmer Matt Cowdrey is one of our gold medal hopes. Adelaide Law School wishes all the best to Matt Cowdrey. To read more about Matt Cowdrey, please find his recent Radionational interview […]

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Congratulations to Dr Matthew Stubbs for winning the Executive Dean’s Excellence in Teaching for 2012

Adelaide Law School wishes to congratulate Dr Matthew Stubbs who has been announced this years winner of the Executive Dean’s Excellence in Teaching award for 2012. As the citation states: Dr Matthew Stubbs, Adelaide Law School for Undergraduate award Matthew’s project utilised great innovation and forward thinking in the delivery of an online interactive learning […]

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Is Circumcision a Crime? A critique of the legal regulation of genital cutting in Germany and Australia

The Research Unit for the Study of Society, Law and Religion and the South Australian Chapter of the Australian Association of Constitutional Law present  “Is Circumcision a Crime? A critique of the legal regulation of genital cutting in Germany and Australia”   When: Thursday 13 September 2012 at 1pm-2pm Where: Moot Court Room, Adelaide Law […]

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Same-sex marriage in the States

On Saturday the Tasmanian Premier Lara Giddings announced that her government would introduce a Bill to allow same-sex marriage in that State. Giddings claimed she had legal opinions supporting the constitutionality of the measure, including from the Tasmanian Solicitor-General. UNSW constitutional law academic Professor George Williams has also written on the issue claiming State same-sex […]

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Text, Doctrine and Tradition in Law and Religion

The South Australian Chapter of the Australian Association of Constitutional Law (AACL) and the Research Unit for the Study of Society, Law and Religion (RUSSLR) are proud to host TEXT, DOCTRINE AND TRADITION IN LAW AND RELIGION We inhabit different normative universes. We traverse different symbolic worlds. Symbolic worlds help us to orient ourselves within […]

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Ritualistic masochism or necessary evil? COAG and Australian federalism

Is COAG suited to cooperative federalism? How would we measure that? Adelaide Law School PhD candidate Mark Bruerton considers these questions. The 24th of  July bore witness once again to a governance ritual as old as the Australian nation itself. State and territory leaders met with the Prime Minister for a Council of Australian Government (COAG) meeting […]

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