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oapen-20.500.12657-310852021-11-15T08:21:28Z New Directions for Law in Australia Levy, Ron O’Brien, Molly Rice, Simon Ridge, Pauline Thornton, Margaret law australia law reform Australia bic Book Industry Communication::1 Geographical Qualifiers::1M Australasia, Oceania & other land areas::1MB Australasia::1MBF Australia bic Book Industry Communication::L Law For reasons of effectiveness, efficiency and equity, Australian law reform should be planned carefully. Academics can and should take the lead in this process. This book collects over 50 discrete law reform recommendations, encapsulated in short, digestible essays written by leading Australian scholars. It emerges from a major conference held at The Australian National University in 2016, which featured intensive discussion among participants from government, practice and the academy. The book is intended to serve as a national focal point for Australian legal innovation. It is divided into six main parts: commercial and corporate law, criminal law and evidence, environmental law, private law, public law, and legal practice and legal education. In addition, Indigenous perspectives on law reform are embedded throughout each part. This collective work—the first of its kind—will be of value to policy makers, media, law reform agencies, academics, practitioners and the judiciary. It provides a bird’s eye view of the current state and the future of law reform in Australia. 2017-11-13 00:00:00 2020-04-01T13:23:20Z 2020-04-01T13:23:20Z 2017 book 639352 OCN: 1012397100 9781760461423 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31085 eng application/pdf n/a 639352.pdf http://press.anu.edu.au/publications/new-directions-law-australia ANU Press 10.22459/NDLA.09.2017 10.22459/NDLA.09.2017 ddc8cc3f-dd57-40ef-b8d5-06f839686b71 9781760461423 open access
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For reasons of effectiveness, efficiency and equity, Australian law reform should be planned carefully. Academics can and should take the lead in this process. This book collects over 50 discrete law reform recommendations, encapsulated in short, digestible essays written by leading Australian scholars. It emerges from a major conference held at The Australian National University in 2016, which featured intensive discussion among participants from government, practice and the academy. The book is intended to serve as a national focal point for Australian legal innovation. It is divided into six main parts: commercial and corporate law, criminal law and evidence, environmental law, private law, public law, and legal practice and legal education. In addition, Indigenous perspectives on law reform are embedded throughout each part. This collective work—the first of its kind—will be of value to policy makers, media, law reform agencies, academics, practitioners and the judiciary. It provides a bird’s eye view of the current state and the future of law reform in Australia.
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