New Directions for Law in Australia

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ISBN (print):

9781760461416

ISBN (online):

9781760461423

Publication date:

Sep 2017

Imprint:

ANU Press

DOI:

http://doi.org/10.22459/NDLA.09.2017

Disciplines:

Law; Social Sciences: Indigenous Studies

Countries:

Australia

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• Preliminary Pages (PDF, 0.3MB)
• Foreword (PDF, 0.1MB) – The Hon Michael Kirby AC CMG
• Introduction (PDF, 0.1MB) – Ron Levy, Molly O’Brien, Simon Rice, Pauline Ridge and Margaret Thornton
• Keynote: Reforming Law – The Role of Theory (PDF, 0.1MB) – Margaret Davies

Part I. Commercial and Corporate Law

1. The Privatisation of Australian Corporate Law (PDF, 0.2MB) – Ross Grantham doi
2. On the Road to Improved Social and Economic Welfare: The Contribution to Australian Competition and Consumer Law and Policy Law Reform (PDF, 0.1MB) – Russell Miller AM doi
3. Tax, Inequality and Challenges for the Future (PDF, 0.2MB) – John Passant doi
4. Brand New ‘Sharing’ or Plain Old ‘Sweating’? A Proposal for Regulating the New ‘Gig Economy’ (PDF, 0.2MB) – Joellen Riley doi
5. Good Call: Extending Liability for Employment Contraventions Beyond the Direct Employer (PDF, 0.1MB) – Tess Hardy doi
6. The Australian House Party Has Been Glorious – But the Hangover May Be Severe: Reforms to Mitigate Some of the Risks (PDF, 0.1MB) – Gill North doi
7. Back to Basics: Reforming Australia’s Private Sector Whistleblowing Laws (PDF, 0.1MB) – Kath Hall and Heather Cork doi
8. Lawyers as Whistleblowers: The Need for a Gatekeeper of Justice Whistleblowing Obligation/Exception (PDF, 0.1MB) – Suzanne Le Mire and Christine Parker doi

Part II. Criminal Law and Evidence

9. Criminal Justice Law Reform Challenges for the Future: It’s Time to Curb Australia’s Prison Addiction (PDF, 0.2MB) – Lorana Bartels doi
10. Is Criminal Law Reform a Lost Cause? (PDF, 0.1MB) – Simon Bronitt doi
11. Rethinking Rape Law Reform: Challenges and Possibilities (PDF, 0.1MB) – Wendy Larcombe doi
12. The Fraught Dichotomy between Context and Tendency Evidence in Sexual Assault Cases – Suggestions for Reform (PDF, 0.1MB) – John Anderson doi
13. Improving the Effectiveness of Corporate Criminal Liability: Old Challenges in a Transnational World (PDF, 0.1MB) – Jonathan Clough doi
14. Stereotypes in the Courtroom (PDF, 0.1MB) – Blake M McKimmie doi
15. The Justice Motive: Psychological Research on Perceptions of Justice in Criminal Law (PDF, 0.1MB) – Diane Sivasubramaniam doi
16. How Interpretation of Indistinct Covert Recordings Can Lead to Wrongful Conviction: A Case Study and Recommendations for Reform (PDF, 0.1MB) – Helen Fraser doi
17. Australia’s Lower-level Criminal Courts: Tackling 21st Century Problems in a 19th Century Paradigm? (PDF, 0.1MB) – Anne Wallace doi

Part III. Environmental Law

18. What is the Mainstream? The Laws of First Nations Peoples (PDF, 0.1MB) – Irene Watson doi
19. Overturning Aqua Nullius: Pathways to National Law Reform (PDF, 0.2MB) – Virginia Marshall doi
20. A Governance Framework for Indigenous Ecological Knowledge Protection and Use (PDF, 0.2MB) – Natalie P Stoianoff doi
21. Reforming Environmental Law for Responsiveness to Change (PDF, 0.1MB) – Jan McDonald doi
22. Future Water: Improving Planning, Markets, Enforcement and Learning (PDF, 0.1MB) – Cameron Holley doi
23. Effective Law for Rural Environmental Governance: Meta‑Governance Reform and Farm Stewardship (PDF, 0.2MB) – Paul Martin, Amanda Kennedy and Jacqueline Williams doi

Part IV. Private Law

24. Pitfalls of Statutory Reform in Private Law: Recipient Liability for Breach of Trust (PDF, 0.1MB) – Darryn Jensen doi
25. Recent Reforms to Australian Charity Law (PDF, 0.1MB) – Matthew Harding doi
26. Consumer Protection, Recreational Activities and Personal Injury Compensation: Inconsistency in Need of Reform (PDF, 0.2MB) – Joachim Dietrich doi
27. Statutory Interpretation and the Critical Role of Soft Law Guidelines in Developing a Coherent Law of Remedies in Australia (PDF, 0.2MB) – Elise Bant and Jeannie Paterson doi
28. Meeting the Potential of Alternative Remedies in Australian Defamation Law (PDF, 0.2MB) – Robyn Carroll and Catherine Graville doi
29. Designing Reparation: Lessons from Private Law (PDF, 0.1MB) – Simone Degeling and Kit Barker doi
30. Apologies, Liability and Civil Society: Where to from Here? (PDF, 0.1MB) – Prue Vines doi
31. Renovating the Concept of Consent in Contract and Property Law (PDF, 0.2MB) – Robyn Honey doi
32. Nudging Charities to Balance the Needs of the Present against Those of the Future (PDF, 0.1MB) – Ian Murray doi

Part V. Public Law

33. Voluntary Voting for Referendums in Australia: Old Wine, New Bottle (PDF, 0.1MB) – Graeme Orr doi
34. Reforming Constitutional Reform (PDF, 0.1MB) – Scott Stephenson doi
35. Does Australia Need a Popular Constitutional Culture? (PDF, 0.1MB) – Lael K Weis doi
36. Constitutional Dimensions of Law Reform (PDF, 0.1MB) – Gabrielle Appleby and Anna Olijnyk doi
37. The Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security: A Point of Increasing Influence in Australian Counter-Terrorism Law Reform? (PDF, 0.1MB) – Dominique Dalla-Pozza doi
38. Rights Dialogue under the Victorian Charter: The Potential and the Pitfalls (PDF, 0.1MB) – Julie Debeljak doi
39. Court Records as Archives: The Need for Law Reform to Ensure Access (PDF, 0.1MB) – Andrew Henderson and Kim Rubenstein doi
40. A Positive Freedom of Public Speech? Australian Media Law Reform and Freedom of Political Communication (PDF, 0.1MB) – Andrew T Kenyon doi
41. The Need for Reform of Australia’s Birth Registration Systems (PDF, 0.2MB) – Melissa Castan and Paula Gerber doi
42. Simplifying Government Secrecy? (PDF, 0.1MB) – Daniel Stewart doi

Part VI. Legal Practice and Legal Education

43. Australian Legal Practice: Ethical Climate and Ethical Climate Change (PDF, 0.2MB) – Vivien Holmes, Stephen Tang, Tony Foley and Margie Rowe doi
44. Strengthening Australian Legal Ethics and Professionalism (PDF, 0.1MB) – Adrian Evans doi
45. Since Lawyers Work in Teams, We Must Focus on Team Ethics (PDF, 0.1MB) – Justine Rogers doi
46. The Legal Roots of a Sustainable and Resilient Economy: New Kinds of Legal Entities, New Kinds of Lawyers? (PDF, 0.2MB) – Bronwen Morgan, Joanne McNeill and Isobel Blomfield doi
47. Wearing Two Hats: Lawyers Acting as Mediators (PDF, 0.1MB) – Mary Anne Noone doi
48. Enabling Marginalised Voices to Be Heard: The Challenge to Law Reform Bodies (PDF, 0.1MB) – Liz Curran doi
49. The End of Ramism: And the Shape of Things To Come (PDF, 0.1MB) – Craig Collins doi
50. Shared Space and the Regulation of Legal Education (PDF, 0.1MB) – Paul Maharg doi
51. Dreaming of Diversity in Legal Education (PDF, 0.2MB) – Margaret Thornton doi

• Bibliography (PDF, 0.4MB)

Reviews

It is hard to think of a better description of principled reform of the law of the kind supported by ‘New Directions for Law in Australia’. We might hope that this publication will become a regular event.

—Bob Debus, Australasian Parliamentary Review, Vol 33(2) Spring Summer 2018
Read the full review on the Australasian Study of Parliament Group website