Michael Pelly in The Australian Legal Affairs on Friday took some comfort from England soccer (now former) captain John Terry's failure in court to stop publication of an affair with a team mate's ex, suggesting the decision of High Court Justice Tugendhat would have Australian media lawyers smiling ...

London based international law firm Allen & Overy announced that they will launch an Australian practice based in Sydney and Perth. 14 new appointed partners will work in the Sydney office and 3 new appointed partners will work in the Sydney office. The new practice will significantly bolster th ...

Here's a statement from Liu Xiaobo dated Dec. 23, 2009; translation courtesy of Prof. David Kelly of the China Research Centre, University of Technology Sydney. English text below; Chinese text here. It may not be an original observation, but I...

It's not every day that we get a new paper on the Torrens system, but today is that day! From Australia, where Sir Robert invented the system, Patricia Lane (Sydney Law) has posted Indefeasibility for What? Interpretive Choices in the...

The Omnivores Trifecta: Agriculture, Food and Health and the Systemic Relationships between them Dr. Richard Bawden Systemic Development Institute, Australia Wednesday, February 3, 2010 Reception @ 5:00 pm Seminar from 5:30 6:45 pm 338 Natural Resources Building RSVP, ...

These are some of the things I've been tweeting about today:check out @scrivenersfancy, where the hilarious tony martin writes about going to the movies in "multiplexity" http://j.mp/4C1o5RRT @scrivenersfancy: This week at 'The Scrivener's Fancy': Matt Quartermaine asks why isn't the ABC mak ...

A retired Family Court judge, a prominent magistrate with a keen interest in child abuse and family violence a renowned legal academic and a woman who has devoted herself to the protection of children have been made Members of the Order of Australia in today's Australia Day list.The judge is Justice ...

These are some of the things I've been tweeting about yesterday and today:reading on cnn opinion "don't let twitter, facebook, google be the only game in town" http://j.mp/5drCr1i would like to think it is ... "is seeing bobby flay the contractual right of cable subscribers?" http://j.mp/4LWBclco ...

Catherine Dauvergne (University of British Columbia Faculty of Law) and Jenni Millbank (University of Technology, Sydney) have posted "Forced Marriage as a Harm in Domestic and International Law" on SSRN. Read the abstract here: This article reports on our analysis...

As part of the mandate of John Ruggie, the Special Representative of the Secretary General (SRSG) on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises, an expert, multi-stakeholder consultation on that project was convened by Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto i ...