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Professors Rosalind Dixon and Gabrielle Appleby write for AUSPUBLAW about the launch of the Feminist Judgments and Critical Judgments Projects website (www.criticaljudgments.com) at the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law last week. The website brings Feminist Judgments and Critical Judgments Projects from across the world (and their associated resources, including Teaching Resources) together in one online repository.
The Gilbert+Tobin Centre of Public Law releases a video in celebration of 20 years of ideas and impact.
Submission from Gabrielle Appleby, Janina Boughey, Sangeetha Pillai and George Williams to the Senate Standing Committee for the Scrutiny of Delegated Legislation regarding the exemption of delegated legislation from parliamentary oversight.
Professor Gabrielle Appleby, Director of The Judiciary Project at the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law, has been involved in organising a letter signed by hundreds of women across the legal profession to the Attorney-General calling on him to make reforms to the discipling and appointment of judges, following the investigation into sexual misconduct by Dyson Heydon AC QC. The women also wrote to the Chief Justice thanking her for her response to the complaints against Mr Heydon.
The story can be read here.
The letter to the Attorney-General is available here, and the letter to the Chief Justice here.
The G+T Centre introduces a new research project, Responding to Covid19: Project on Public Law and Public Health
Lead by Paul Kildea, and with significant contributions from Harry Hobbs, the Australian Electoral Law Library was recently launched on AustLII. The Library includes digital copies of hundreds of court and tribunal decisions on electoral matters across Commonwealth, State and Territory jurisdictions. It also covers legislation and academic scholarship.
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Feminist Judgments/Critical Judgments Website
Click here to access the Feminist Judgments/Critical Judgments Website, an online repository of the growing Feminist Judgments Projects and Critical Judgments Projects from across the world. The repository brings together in one easy to access place the many fantastic online resources that are available for these projects already, making them more discoverable, and spreading them even further. The Feminist Judgments/Critical Judgments Website is proudly hosted by the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law.
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