The Institute’s staff keep a digest of interesting things they read about legal topics. The articles selected are aimed to assist teachers and students to keep informed about a range of legal issues in Australia and internationally. See the latest from the...
Tomorrow is the 70th anniversary of judgment being handed down in the main Nuremberg trial, the trial of high-ranking alleged German war criminals, as well as seven organisations, by the International Military Tribunal. This trial was only one of many war crimes...
In the seventh post in our series of collaborative posts with New South Wales Young Lawyers’ International Law Committee, Laura Hugh looks back on the Truman Proclamation and its impact on the law of the sea. 71 years ago today, Harry Truman made the United...
The President of the Rule of Law Institute, Robin Speed, has been an active participant in the NSW Parliamentary Committee Inquiry into ICAC and the ICAC Inspector’s report to the Premier earlier this year, drawing the committee’s attention to the case of...
The Queensland Government has recently tabled its proposed amendments to the organised crime scheme set up by the previous Newman Government. The amendments, laid out in the Serious and Organised Crime Legislation Amendment Bill 2016, fundamentally re-shape the...