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Monthly Archives: September 2018
Congratulations to our High School winners in the Mooting competition
Congratulations to all that participated in the High School Mooting competitions that were hosted at Adelaide Law School during September 2018. First Prize went to Walford Anglican School for Girls. Second Prize went to: Saint Peter’s Girls School Third Prize went to: St Peter’s College. A big thankyou to all Schools that participated and also […]
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The Forum of Asian Insolvency Reform (FAIR) attended by Professor Christopher Symes
The Forum of Asian Insolvency Reform (FAIR) is a means for sharing and obtaining feedback in areas addressed by the UNCITRAL Principles for Effective Insolvency and Creditor/Debtor Regimes which are a distillation of international best practice on design aspects of these systems. In September 2018 the 11th Forum of FAIR was hosted by the […]
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A Stocktake of the Personal Property Securities Act
Associate Prof David Brown Recently presented to the ACT Law Society on a stocktake of The Personal Property Securities Act (PPSA): Now we are 6 – a stocktake of issues. The PPSA and the PPSR have been in operation for 6 years now, and we have seen amendments to the original legislation, some significant cases, […]
Commonwealth Disability Discrimination Commissioner speaks to Law Reform class
The Commonwealth Disability Discrimination Commissioner (and Adelaide University Law Alumni), Alastair McEwin returned to the Adelaide Law School on 12-13 September, some 25 years after graduation, to speak at a topical public event with Professor Melissa De Zwart, ‘Back to the Future: Technology and People with Disability‘ and to speak to the Law School’s Law Reform […]
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Translating the Law
The reach of our research extends beyond our borders and is now being translated into other languages. In 2014 Dr Alex Wawryk wrote a chapter on International Energy Law, for a book edited by colleagues, Paul Leadbeter and Prof Paul Babie. This chapter will soon be translated into Chinese. There has also been interest in […]
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RUMLAE talks Strategic Command
RUMLAE Participates in STRATCOM Conference RUMLAE Directors Professors Dale Stephens and Melissa de Zwart have recently returned from Omaha, Nebraska where they participated in the Annual U.S. Strategic Command Advanced Operations Law Conference. U.S. Strategic Command is responsible for U.S. Space, Nuclear and Cyber Defence and partners with the University of Nebraska – College of Law […]
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Bargaining and Cooperation at work
Following their recent book on Cooperation at Work, Mark Bray, Johanna Macneil and Adelaide Law School’s Prof Andrew Stewart have written about the good faith bargaining obligations in the Fair Work Act 2009 and the extent to which they contribute to the pursuit of cooperation and mutual gains in the workplace. Entitled “Bargaining, Cooperation and […]
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Launch of ILLUMINATE: A Law Podcast Series
The Law School is pleased to announce the launch of our ILLUMINATE: A podcast series about the law. Illuminate is a short, fun and easy-to-understand podcast series which aims to shine a light on the law. Please go ahead and listen and share amongst your colleagues, friends and family. You will find the podcast playlist […]
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Influencing Space Activities: Adelaide Law School leads the way
Prof Melissa de Zwart and Research Assistant Joel Lisk have influenced the development of regulation of space activities. Their work has recently been heavily cited in a Senate Economics Committee report on the current Space Activities Amendment (Launches and Returns) Bill 2018. Currently before the Lower House of the Federal Parliament, the Bill aims to reform the […]
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Reviewing the brutality of Manus Island
Professor Alex Reilly opens his review of Boochani’s ‘unsparing look at the brutality of Manus Island’ with the following words: “It is a matter of wonder that Behrouz Boochani was able to write No Friend but the Mountains at all. He did so while in Manus prison, using text messages in Farsi on smuggled mobile phones. Egyptian […]
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