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Public Law in the Classroom 2018
On 22 February, PLPRU co-hosted the 2018 Public Law in the Classroom Workshop at the University of New South Wales (in conjunction with the Gilbert + Tobin Centre). Public law teachers from around Australia as well as New Zealand and the UK gathered together to share insights, tips and challenges. The event was an outstanding […]
Public Law in the Classroom Teaching Workshop
On Thursday 12 February 2015, the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law, UNSW and the Public Law and Policy Research Unit, University of Adelaide, hosted the ‘Public Law in the Classroom’ workshop. This was the first in what will become an annual event on public law teaching research and practice. Seventy-five public law teachers […]
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Engaging Students in Large Public Law Lectures
PLPRU member Dr Matthew Stubbs has recently published a review of his use of mobile phone voting to engage students in large lectures for his first-year course Principles of Public Law. The abstract of the paper is: This article reports on an action-research project designed to investigate the effect of a technological intervention on the […]
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Support for first-hand Public Law Experience
L to R: Kenneth Richards, Professor John McMillan (Australian Information Commissioner), Sarah Day and Peeta Hutson Over summer, three Adelaide law students got first-hand experience in dealing with Commonwealth freedom of information laws by undertaking an internship with the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) in Canberra as part of the Law School’s Public […]
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What makes law ‘public’?
Convenor of the Public Law Research Community at the Adelaide Law School, Dr Gabrielle Appleby attempts to answer the question of what makes law ‘public’? As the convener of the Public Law Research Community I have often been asked what is ‘public law’. My response is that I have always thought of public law broadly, […]
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What is meant by the terms Public and Private law?
Associate Professor John Gava queries the dichotomy of public and private law. How does it complicate, or limit, our thinking about the law? What does it achieve? Nothing in this comment is motivated by a desire to change anything or respond to anything or to critique anything. I’m simply curious about something that has puzzled me since I’ve arrived […]
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Welcome to the Public Law Research Community
Research and scholarship in public law is a fundamental facet of healthy, democratic government. A defining feature of public law is the conflict between many of its foundational values. Here in Australia we expect the government to be powerful enough to intervene and facilitate ‘the good life’ for all members of our community, and yet […]
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