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- First Page
- Title Page
- Copyright and Imprint Information
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Keynote: Reforming Law – The Role of Theory
- Part I. Commercial and Corporate Law
- 1. The Privatisation of Australian Corporate Law
- 2. On the Road to Improved Social and Economic Welfare: The Contribution to Australian Competition and Consumer Law and Policy Law Reform
- 3. Tax, Inequality and Challenges for the Future
- 4. Brand New ‘Sharing’ or Plain Old ‘Sweating’? A Proposal for Regulating the New ‘Gig Economy’
- 5. Good Call: Extending Liability for Employment Contraventions Beyond the Direct Employer
- 6. The Australian House Party Has Been Glorious – But the Hangover May Be Severe: Reforms to Mitigate Some of the Risks
- 7. Back to Basics: Reforming Australia’s Private Sector Whistleblowing Laws
- 8. Lawyers as Whistleblowers: The Need for a Gatekeeper of Justice Whistleblowing Obligation/Exception
- Part II. Criminal Law and Evidence
- 9. Criminal Justice Law Reform Challenges for the Future: It’s Time to Curb Australia’s Prison Addiction
- 10. Is Criminal Law Reform a Lost Cause?
- 11. Rethinking Rape Law Reform: Challenges and Possibilities
- 12. The Fraught Dichotomy between Context and Tendency Evidence in Sexual Assault Cases – Suggestions for Reform
- 13. Improving the Effectiveness of Corporate Criminal Liability: Old Challenges in a Transnational World
- 14. Stereotypes in the Courtroom
- 15. The Justice Motive: Psychological Research on Perceptions of Justice in Criminal Law
- 16. How Interpretation of Indistinct Covert Recordings Can Lead to Wrongful Conviction: A Case Study and Recommendations for Reform
- 17. Australia’s Lower-level Criminal Courts: Tackling 21st Century Problems in a 19th Century Paradigm?
- Part III. Environmental Law
- 18. What is the Mainstream? The Laws of First Nations Peoples
- 19. Overturning Aqua Nullius: Pathways to National Law Reform
- 20. A Governance Framework for Indigenous Ecological Knowledge Protection and Use
- 21. Reforming Environmental Law for Responsiveness to Change
- 22. Future Water: Improving Planning, Markets, Enforcement and Learning
- 23. Effective Law for Rural Environmental Governance: Meta‑Governance Reform and Farm Stewardship
- Part IV. Private Law
- 24. Pitfalls of Statutory Reform in Private Law: Recipient Liability for Breach of Trust
- 25. Recent Reforms to Australian Charity Law
- 26. Consumer Protection, Recreational Activities and Personal Injury Compensation: Inconsistency in Need of Reform
- 27. Statutory Interpretation and the Critical Role of Soft Law Guidelines in Developing a Coherent Law of Remedies in Australia
- 28. Meeting the Potential of Alternative Remedies in Australian Defamation Law
- 29. Designing Reparation: Lessons from Private Law
- 30. Apologies, Liability and Civil Society: Where to from Here?
- 31. Renovating the Concept of Consent in Contract and Property Law
- 32. Nudging Charities to Balance the Needs of the Present against Those of the Future
- Part V. Public Law
- 33. Voluntary Voting for Referendums in Australia: Old Wine, New Bottle
- 34. Reforming Constitutional Reform
- 35. Does Australia Need a Popular Constitutional Culture?
- 36. Constitutional Dimensions of Law Reform
- 37. The Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security: A Point of Increasing Influence in Australian Counter-Terrorism Law Reform?
- 38. Rights Dialogue under the Victorian Charter: The Potential and the Pitfalls
- 39. Court Records as Archives: The Need for Law Reform to Ensure Access
- 40. A Positive Freedom of Public Speech? Australian Media Law Reform and Freedom of Political Communication
- 41. The Need for Reform of Australia’s Birth Registration Systems
- 42. Simplifying Government Secrecy?
- Part VI. Legal Practice and Legal Education
- 43. Australian Legal Practice: Ethical Climate and Ethical Climate Change
- 44. Strengthening Australian Legal Ethics and Professionalism
- 45. Since Lawyers Work in Teams, We Must Focus on Team Ethics
- 46. The Legal Roots of a Sustainable and Resilient Economy: New Kinds of Legal Entities, New Kinds of Lawyers?
- 47. Wearing Two Hats: Lawyers Acting as Mediators
- 48. Enabling Marginalised Voices to Be Heard: The Challenge to Law Reform Bodies
- 49. The End of Ramism: And the Shape of Things To Come
- 50. Shared Space and the Regulation of Legal Education
- 51. Dreaming of Diversity in Legal Education
- Bibliography
