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Playing with fire

April 17, 2010 – 10:28 am

Here in Victoria, the heat has been on former Victoria Police Chief Commissioner Christine Nixon and her performance during the Black Saturday bushfires on 7 February last year. 174 people were killed and many houses were lost. Nixon retired from the post in mid-2009 to become head of the Victorian Bushfire Recovery and Construction Authority. [...]

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Judges can “Google” too

March 23, 2010 – 12:45 pm

The Second Circuit of the Court of Appeals in the US has handed down a decision concluding that it’s permissible for a judge to use Google to confirm a hunch in some circumstances (United States v Bari). The defendant was one Anthony Bari who was released on terms from prison after committing a bank robbery. [...]

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What law may do

December 2, 2009 – 9:02 pm

There is a lively debate going on among members of the skeptical listserv I frequent about Senator Fielding’s call for a Royal Commission, with one poster commenting: I always thought that Senator Fielding was a dill, but his latest call for a Royal Commission into climate science really takes the cake. The notion that lawyers [...]

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Queers, Foucault, truth, justice and the law: guest post by Lorenzo

November 11, 2009 – 4:46 am

[Introduction by SL: Lorenzo is a blogger I admire; he writes quite a bit on Queer history, and also very wisely and thoughtfully on the 'method' of history and scholarship. His home blog is here. Now, I'm just a humble linguist and lawyer, but I've long suspected that a lot of historians have been led [...]

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Calling history, come in history

September 21, 2009 – 1:27 am

Lawyers (and others) with professional expertise in a given field often complain when a film, television program or book makes use of their discipline for purposes of popular entertainment and then gets it wrong. I’ve lost count of the number of times (as DEM can testify) that I’ve wanted to throw things at the telly [...]

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