Melissa Castan

Indigenous peoples’ human rights and the Victorian Charter: a framework for reorienting recordkeeping and archival practice

Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Date: 10-12-2011

DOI: 10.1007/S10502-011-9164-Z

Effective Law for Rural Environmental Governance: Meta-Governance Reform and Farm Stewardship

Publisher: ANU Press

Date: 22-09-2017

DOI: 10.22459/NDLA.09.2017

Re-evaluating legal citation in a digital landscape

Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)

Date: 09-2017

DOI: 10.1017/S147266961700038X

Abstract: Increasing access to digital works and the proliferation of digital genres has changed the way in which we conceive of information, and particularly legal information, including how it is represented within legal citation practice. This article, written by Melissa Castan and Kate Galloway, contributes to the discourse around legal citation in two ways. It first provides a theoretical justification for citation practice as an element of legal information management crucial to effective scholarship, including knowledge creation and dissemination. Secondly, and based on this theoretical foundation, it identifies the challenges facing existing legal citation practice in the face of new media, new representations of legal scholarship, and new objectives for citation practice. Finally, in this article we distil foundation principles for citation to integrate these erse elements. To illustrate the application of these principles, the article closes with suggested citation practices designed to enhance the existing framework in this digital landscape.

DRIP Feed: The Slow Reconstruction of Self-determination for Indigenous Peoples

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Date: 26-02-2010

DOI: 10.4337/9781849803373.00024

Does the right to birth registration include a right to a birth certificate?

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Date: 12-2011

DOI: 10.1177/016934411102900403

Abstract: International human rights law has long recognised the right of every child to have their birth registered. However, what is less clear is what this right encompasses. For ex le, does the normative content of the right to birth registration include a right to a birth certificate? This is a question that has become very relevant to Indigenous Australians many of whom are experiencing difficulties acquiring a birth certificate. This article argues that the right to birth registration, as set out in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, implicitly includes the right to a birth certificate. This conclusion is reached following an analysis of the work of the Human Rights Committee and the Committee on the Rights of the Child.

Monash University

Location: Australia

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Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP120100160

Start Date: 07-2012

End Date: 12-2018

Amount: $150,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP200100017

Start Date: 12-2020

End Date: 12-2024

Amount: $360,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment And Facilities - Grant ID: LE230100159

Start Date: 2023

End Date: 12-2024

Amount: $319,046.00

Funder: Australian Research Council