Law and Society

Law and Society

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Law and Society episodes

  • On the Couch with Rosemary Kayess
    People with disabilities are the most marginalised of minorities, according to Rosemary Kayess, who is the Associate Director of the Disability Studies Research Centre. She speaks with Susi Hamilton from UNSW media about her involvement in drafting the UN Convention on The Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
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  • The Enemy at Home

    In World War 1  nearly 7000 ‘enemy aliens’ of German origin were interned in camps in New South Wales.  That experience is now the subject of a book co-authored by Arts academic Gerhard Fischer, and an exhibition running at the Museum of Sydney from May 7-September 11.

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  • Feeding The Future - Part 2 Community Greengrocers

    Community gardens are one type of urban agriculture that's growing faster than Jack's beanstalk. But it's not just the chemical-free produce that's good for your health, suggests Associate Professor Susan Thompson, who heads up UNSW's Healthy Built Environments program.

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  • AHRCentre Annual Public Lecture: United States Ambassador Jeffrey Bleich (EXTRACT)

    United States Ambassador Jeffrey Bleich gives the Australian Human

    Rights Centre Annual Public Lecture; his topic: The United States and
    Australia's Commitment to Human Rights in the Asia-Pacific. The complete lecture can be found here http://www.youtube.com/unsw#p/u/7/Z_mN_SnOEL4

    Jeffrey Bleich became the United States Ambassador to Australia in 2009.

    He previously served as Special Counsel to the President at the White
    House. From 1995 to 2009, he was a litigation partner in the San
    Francisco office of Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP, where he was
    recognised as one of the nation's top lawyers. After clerking for Judge
    Howard Holtzmann at the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal and acting as Special
    Rapporteur to the International Court of Arbitration, he assisted the
    Special Prosecutor for the International Tribunal for the
    Former-Yugoslavia. Ambassador Bleich received his B.A. from Amherst
    College, his Masters in Public Policy from Harvard University and his
    law degree from the University of California, Berkeley. He has taught
    international human rights at UC Berkeley School of Law, and written and
    lectured extensively on the international criminal court.

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  • The case for recognising indigenous Australians in our constitution

    Prime Minister Tony Abbott has promised to hold a referendum on recognising Aboriginal peoples in the Australian constitution.

    Professor George Williams from UNSW's Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law provides three things that you may not know about Australia’s Constitution – three facts that make this task pressing and important.

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