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Free speech in a digital world
On Friday 21st September, RUMLAE member Dr Colette Langos (University of Adelaide Law School) and co-presenter Associate Professor Wanda Cassidy (Centre for Education, Law and Society, Simon Fraser University) gave a plenary presentation at the National Law-Related Conference – Free Speech Today, American Bar Association (Division for Public Health) held in Chicago, United States. The […]
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Bob Brown takes to the High Court to put hardline anti-protest laws to the test
In a landmark case now before the High Court, former Australian Greens leader Bob Brown and fellow forestry protester Jessica Hoyt are arguing that Tasmania’s anti-protest laws unconstitutionally restrict freedom of speech. PLPRU member Associate Professor Peter Burdon, and Associate Professor Mary Heath from Flinders University, have published an article about the case in The […]
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Citizens United and the Crisis of Democracy
In 2010 the US Supreme Court in Citizens United v Federal Election Commission held restrictions on campaign financing by corporations and other entities were unconstitutional under the First Amendment free speech guarantees. It is a decision that Dr Peter Burdon argues has deepened the crisis of democracy in the United States. In 1975 the Trilateral […]
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