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Vol 12, Issue 1
NATHAN GRECH Crimes are reported at all hours of the day online, on television and in print. Often, background information is provided about the offenders themselves. In recent times, one group of characteristics among offenders has emerged as an influential factor on deciding the outcome of criminal cases – that is, special circumstances related to substance addiction, mental health, and cognitive impairment. Vol 12, Issue 1
EDWARD WORLAND The psychological effects of total boredom are well documented, but perhaps have to be experienced to be appreciated. And sooner or later you are going to be faced with a tough-but-necessary reading, a three-hundred page, densely cross-referenced monster on some tricky constitutional point of such extreme specificity that it boggles the mind to imagine how it could ever be relevant to anyone, a straight up, take-no-prisoners sort of judgment for which no secondary reading or explanation or Anesti precis could ever possibly suffice and which must be dealt with first-hand—grappled with and absorbed and ultimately, God-willing, understood. Vol 12, Issue 1
DUNCAN WALLACE Can an Anarchist Respect the Law? Identifying as an anarchist, I have often over the course of my law degree pondered how I should understand my subject - particularly given the common perception that an anarchist studying law is akin to an atheist joining a monastery. Vol 12, Issue 1
BEN WILSON Stop wasting time arguing about freedom of speech when we should be nationalising the legal profession We’re all aware of the brouhahah surrounding section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act, about the tension between protecting racial minorities from abuse and protecting the public from censorship. In fact, s18(c) protects no one (barring the rich or well connected) from anything, and here’s why: either bringing or defending an action under the law could well make you bankrupt. On the 28th of May, 2013, Cindy Prior, an indigenous woman working at the Queensland University of Technology, asked three white students to leave a computer room reserved for indigenous students. They did so, but posted Facebook comments critical of the policy, at points joking about being white supremacists. Vol 12, Issue 1
NICHOLAS PARRY-JONES On May 1st of this year The Australian wrote a since redacted article saying that Facebook claimed it could recognise, in real time, anxiety in teens and use this for advertising. Facebook disputed this, claiming its aggregate data 'intended to help marketers understand how people express themselves... never used to target ads'. Assume what Facebook said is true and they don't have targeted ads, but what's stopping them? |
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