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0000-0001-6172-6719
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University of Adelaide
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 05-06-2011
Abstract: In most post-conflict states, a strong level of legal pluralism is the norm, particularly in regions of Africa and Asia where between eighty and ninety per cent of disputes are resolved through non-state legal mechanisms. The international community, in particular the United Nations, persistently drives the re-establishment of the rule of law in war-torn areas where, traditionally, customary law is prevalent. Laura Grenfell traces the international community's evolving understanding of the rule of law in such regions and explores the implications of strong legal pluralism for the rule-of-law enterprise. Using the comparative ex les of two unique case studies, South Africa and Timor-Leste, Promoting the Rule of Law provides insight into the relationship between the rule of law and legal pluralism. Alongside these studies, the book offers a comprehensive introduction to the conceptual framework of the rule of law in the context of approaches taken by the international community.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2009
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-05-2019
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2022
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 14-04-2016
Publisher: Brill
Date: 2004
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 06-05-2019
Abstract: This article reflects on internship courses offered by Australian law schools. It focuses on the barriers faced by students in gaining and undertaking legal internships. In regard to overcoming the financial barriers, it recommends a government student-loan scheme to support students undertaking internships within Australia.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 26-05-2016
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 23-01-2022
DOI: 10.1177/1037969X211065185
Abstract: After ratifying the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (OPCAT) in December 2017, Australia has had four years to prepare its National Preventive Mechanisms. Noting the deadline of January 2022, this article surveys the OPCAT-readiness of Australian jurisdictions. OPCAT aims to prevent ill-treatment in closed environments where people are deprived of their liberty through proactive and independent monitoring. The article observes that some Australian jurisdictions are not ready while others are taking a ‘bare bones’ approach to meeting Australia’s OPCAT obligations, and hence not paying adequate attention to the objects of the treaty.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-04-2015
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2004
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 03-2003
DOI: 10.1111/J.1748-121X.2003.TB00206.X
Abstract: From the 1970 decision of Corbett onwards, legal narratives established two modes of categorising complex social identity in relation to sex and gender. These narratives responded to complex identity questions by attempting to simplify identity by limiting it to biological factors or anatomical and psychological factors. I demonstrate that the law's struggle to ‘make’ sex is reflected to a certain extent by feminism's trajectory, in that feminisms have also attempted to grapple with these complex questions, and often opted for the same simple solutions to the problem of understanding gender, sex and identity. The aim of this paper is to show that some strands of feminist theory, specifically post-structuralist feminist theory, can produce a more progressive and constructive approach to determining sex in their ability to illuminate the complexities of identity. In particular, my aim is to urge those courts that ‘make’ sex to consider these complexities and the implications that flow from placing transgender people into rigid and narrow categories.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 21-09-2023
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 06-2006
DOI: 10.1017/S0922156506003323
Abstract: Many transitional countries face the problem of establishing the rule of law in a weak justice sector where a gulf separates local legal norms from national, constitutional norms that are drawn largely from the international sphere. As a case study of East Timor this article challenges simplistic positivist notions about the normative hierarchy of laws within a constitutionally bounded polity. It argues that in transitional countries such as East Timor legal pluralism is important but must be properly tuned to serve the rule of law. Legal pluralism poses certain dangers when it operates without any of the checks or balances that ensure accountability and the promotion of constitutional values such as equality. The rule of law is not served by an informal system where there are no formal avenues of appeal and thus minimal accountability and transparency. A more promising version of legal pluralism that comports with the rule of law is one that empowers the state to monitor local decisions to ensure that they observe the norms set out in East Timor's Constitution.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 21-09-2022
DOI: 10.1177/1037969X221123602
Abstract: It is widely recognised that a lack of work experience can impede university students seeking graduate employment and that many tertiary students face significant barriers in securing work experience. Drawing on existing research, this article analyses these barriers, and considers the consequences of this inequity for affected in iduals as well as for broader Australian society and the economy. The article proposes various ‘do-able’ reforms to the regulation of work integrated learning in tertiary education and student-finance schemes which would go some way to reducing these barriers.
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