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The End of Law
I think, therefore I legislate. We are born, we enact laws, and then we die.
Big Tech v. Antitrust, per US Courts
Cases against Big Tech companies are important first steps, but they also illuminate the long road ahead.
A Workable Work-Life Balance
The Closing the Loopholes Act reflects a major shift in Australia’s industrial relations as the legislation of the employee’s right to disconnect reflects an important step to facilitating work-life balance.
Industrial Manslaughter in NSW
The Work Health and Safety Amendment (Industrial Manslaughter) Bill 2024 represents a significant step towards stronger accountability for workplace safety in NSW.
Law Students and Mental Health: A Crisis
‘Vulnerability’ is not typically a word associated with law students. Instead, law students are seen as ‘privileged’, ‘successful’ and 'intelligent'. But the danger of falling into this pattern of thinking is that the concerns, particularly those surrounding mental health, of law students are easier to dismiss.
The Australian Homelessness Crisis
The 2021 Australian census estimated that more than 122,000 people were experiencing homelessness in Australia.
Sex Workers and Consent: Unblurring the Lines
Sex workers across Australia have had to ask themselves: Do fraudulent payments from clients constitute sexual assault?
Ceci n’est pas une loi: Out of Context
Is this a pipe? Do they exist? / Within this foggy, lawless mist?
How to Panic Productively
Knowing you the way I do, I know that you are aware that your challenges, uncertainties, and questions are not unique, and that other people have felt the same way and have survived. In fact, they have been rather successful.
Australia and Child Sex Tourism
Australia has a vital role in protecting children from child sex tourism domestically and internationally.
How I Learnt to Love the Law
Commercial lawyers draw upon contract law, prosecutors will consider criminal procedure every day, and constitutional lawyers are bound to admin law principles; but legal philosophers seem to sit in a realm of their own.
Can Justice Speak Justly?
Imagine you are standing before the King’s Magistrate in Athens in 399 BC when you witness Socrates, weeks before his trial, ask the following of Euthyphro: ‘Is something pious because it is loved by the gods, or is it loved by the gods because it is pious?'
The Limits of Space Warfare
The military potential of outer space goes beyond supporting ground based military operations. Recent technological developments pose a threat to global peace, particularly in light of the inadequacy of international law.
Undefining the Law
Many things are not laws: morals, suggestions, and the 2002 AU Ford Falcon. Perhaps a definition of what the law is not may help us understand its mystery.
24 Angry Men and the Mysterium Culpæ
24 Victorians were burdened with the power to condemn or exonerate in what is perhaps the most consequential decision they can have on someone’s life.
Australia’s Consumer Confidence Crisis
While the majority of Australians are aware of consumer protection laws, a concerning amount of consumers lack the requisite knowledge or confidence to assert their rights to a business.
Are Laws History?
I shall attempt to, in this essay, provide an answer to the great Why of the law. I intend to prove that the values of law are in our human nature.
We Live in a Society: A Debate
Every man is born free and yet everyone is in chains: This is how Jean Jacques Rousseau saw the world.