News

Wednesday 9 November 2016
Congratulations to Dr Jackie Hartley and Dr Grant Hooper for being awarded their PhDs at the UNSW Graduation ceremony on 7 November
Monday 7 November 2016
A Storify page about the Celebrating 100 Years of the Solicitor-General event captures a blizzard of social media commentary. The Storify was prepared by Lynsey Blayden and Gabrielle Appleby
Monday 7 November 2016
2017 Holt Prize for first time authors of a legal work that is academic or practical in nature - entries close on 31 March. Judging panel: Justice Virginia Bell, Prof Keith Mason and Prof George Williams
Monday 7 November 2016
Melissa Crouch writes in East Asia Forum on 'Reining in Emergency Powers in Myanmar'
Monday 7 November 2016
Melissa Crouch co-authors a chapter on the military and constitutional reform in Myanmar and Thailand in the Annual Review of Constitution-Building Processes published by International IDEA and available online here
Wednesday 26 October 2016
George Williams makes a submission to the Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters on changes to electoral law needed after the 2016 federal election
Monday 24 October 2016
Gabrielle Appleby writes in the Sydney Morning Herald on George Brandis and the government playing short-term politics at the expense of long-term good government
Monday 24 October 2016
Grant Hoole writes on remedial discretion in constitutional cases for the I-CONnect blog
Monday 10 October 2016
Gabrielle Appleby writes in The Conversation on the stand off between the Attorney-General and Solicitor-General
Monday 10 October 2016
Gabrielle Appleby makes a submission to the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Reference Committee on the Nature and scope of the consultations prior to the making of the Legal Services Amendment (Solicitor-General Opinions) Direction 2016
Monday 10 October 2016
The 2015 High Court Statistics by Andrew Lynch and George Williams published in the UNSW Law Journal
Wednesday 5 October 2016
George Williams to speak on gender equality among barristers before the High Court in Canberra on 11 October
Tuesday 4 October 2016
George Williams writes in the Sydney Morning Herald on a national anti-corruption body
Tuesday 4 October 2016
Sean Brennan talks to Prime 7 News about the constitutional challenge under section 92 to the greyhound racing ban in NSW
Monday 26 September 2016
Alysia Blackham (University of Melbourne) and Gabrielle Appleby make a submission to the Standing Committee on the Model Code of Professional Conduct Federation of Law Societies of Canada, on their ‘Post-Judicial Return to Practice Discussion Paper'
Monday 26 September 2016
Registrations are open for Celebrating 100 Years of the Commonwealth Solicitor-General, an event co-hosted by the Centre with the Australian Association of Constitutional Law featuring five former Commonwealth Solicitors-General
Monday 26 September 2016
George Wiliams writes in the Sydney Morning Herald on the Same Sex Marriage Bill
Friday 16 September 2016
Congratulations to Ben Golder on his promotion to Associate Professor.
Tuesday 13 September 2016
A new book edited by Andrew Lynch, Great Australian Dissents, is published by Cambridge University Press. Featuring chapters from 21 authors, it follows a 2015 workshop supported by the Centre and UNSW Law.
Friday 9 September 2016
Sarah-jane Morris, doctoral candidate with UNSW Law and the Centre, writes for the AUSPUBLAW blog on the finality principle and how it was trumped in Kirk's case.