This chapter examines a proposal to recast Australia’s federal discrimination laws by doing away with the current fragmented approach by which there are separate legislative regimes responding to sex, race, age and disability discrimination and instead replace them with a combined “Equality...

What would the United States look like if it stood on the side of peace and justice? In this keynote address, Adrien Wing advocates that it would have to support substantive justice. It must commit itself to respecting and using international law to further this type of justice. The United...

This monograph provides a comprehensive examination of mental health tribunal hearings in Australia. It deals with a wide and far-reaching landscape of theories and concepts and their practical application to the day-to-day operations of the tribunals in the states and territories of New South...

This paper draws on unique data from a single, geographically-expansive, US firm with well over 100,000 employees in over 1,000 locations to examine the relationship between an employer’s implementation of a typical dispute resolution system (DRS) and organizational justice, perceived...

There has been considerable ambivalence in the response of the international community and different national governments towards the problem of how to respond to individual terrorist acts and sustained campaigns of terrorist violence. Responses vacillate between a desire to punish and deter...

This article discusses the appropriateness of the International Criminal Court ('ICC') becoming involved in the continuing hostilities in northern Uganda, especially given the potential impact ICC involvement may have on the prospects of peace. Ongoing conflicts such as the one ravaging northern...

Fines and damages are the principal sanctions of criminal, civil and regulatory law. Yet in law it does not matter who pays money sanctions. Damages overwhelmingly are paid by insurers and the cost of insurance premiums loaded into commodity prices and thus dispersed among consumers. Fines are...

Long considered one of the Supreme Court's more conservative justices in matters of economic liberty, George Sutherlan's reputation has suffered largely because of his vigorous opposition to the fabled revolution of the 1930s in which a bare majority of the justices began to adapt the...

Justice Edmonds' judicial output was large, but it did not prevent him from presenting several extra-judicial speeches and papers every year. These represent an impressive body of work: both scholarly and practical. In these writings, Edmonds J analyses the Australian tax system and advocates...

Should the debate about the EU's “democratic deficit” now be replaced by a — new — debate about the EU's “justice deficit?” Is it, in other words, advisable to shift the focus away from (or beyond) democracy to a (search for a) more comprehensive — EU-wide and perhaps genuinely...