Legal System

International law expert and Laureate Professor Hilary Charlesworth has been elected as a judge of the International Court of Justice – the first Australian woman in the United Nations body

Governments around the world are being taken to court for inaction on climate change – but can litigation help fill the policy gap?

We should expect Australia’s Parliament to comply with their own workplace health, safety and anti-discrimination laws when it comes to protecting the people who work there

History will judge “terribly” any country which finds a COVID-19 vaccine but does not share it, says Prime Minister Scott Morrison. How do we ensure this doesn’t happen?

The Geoffrey Rush defamation trial failed to place scrutiny on the Sydney Theatre Company’s role in leaking the sexual harassment complaint and their inability to handle it in sensitive and confidential way

Regulators are catching up with new DIY technologies that promise to help manage Type 1 Diabetes

Australia’s large number of law schools is a product of higher education policy change in the 1980s, but has it limited opportunities for growth?

In the past couple of years, legal rights have been awarded to a number of rivers around the world. Why?

There is significant public good in having people with legal training working across all sectors of our economy

In his new book, Professor Jeremy Gans explores a famous case of juror misconduct from the 1990s, and its ongoing implications for the trial-by-jury system