Welcome to Scholarship for the Legal Community - a curated selection of recent and salient academic research with a Victorian audience in mind. You can access article summaries at Scholarship for the Legal Community. | Judicial College Victoria
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Contracts
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Ryan Catterwell, 'Purposive contract interpretation and the High Court' (2020) 49 Australian Bar Review 54
Andrew Godwin, ‘The Contractual Impact of COVID-19 on Corporate and Financial Transactions’ (2020) 48 Australian Business Law Review 116
Jenny Buchan and Rob Nicholls, ‘The Challenges of Navigating the COVID-19 Pandemic for Australia's Franchise Sector’ (2020) 48 Australian Business Law Review 126
Buwaneka Arachchi, ‘Chains, Coins and Contract Law: The Validity and Enforceability of Smart Contracts’ (2020) 47 Australian Business Law Review 40
Corporations Act and ASIC Act
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Ian Ramsay and Miranda Webster, 'An analysis of the use of stepping stones liability against company directors and officers' (2021) 50 Australian Bar Review 168
Tort Law
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Joachim Dietrich and Iain Field, 'Statute and Theories of Vicarious Liability' (2020) 43(2) Melbourne University Law Review 515
Anthony Gray, ‘The Evolution from Strict Liability to Negligence: Implications for the Tort of Private Nuisance’ (2020) 94(9) Australian Law Journal 699
Felicity Maher, ‘An Empirical Study of Exemplary Damages in Australia’ (2020) 43(2) Melbourne University Law Review 694
Criminal Law
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Marco Lopresti and Andrew Burke, 'Suppression Orders in Criminal Trials: Still Necessary in the Digital Era' (2021) 45(1) Criminal Law Journal 18
David J Carter, 'Transmission of HIV and the Criminal Law: Examining the Impact of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis and Treatment-as Prevention' (2020) 43(3) Melbourne University Law Review 937
Dr Nicole Rogers, ‘Climate Activism and the Extraordinary Emergency Defence’ (2020) 94 Australian Law Journal 217
Sentencing
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Guy C Charlton, ‘Indigenous over-incarceration and individualised justice in light of Bugmy v The Queen’, (2021) 50 Australian Bar Review 427
Marilyn Bromberg, 'The Devil You Know Is Not Better – The Non-Consensual Distribution of Intimate Images and Sentencing' (2020) 44(3) Criminal Law Journal 173
Mirko Bagaric, Theo Alexander, and Brienna Bagaric, ‘Offenders Risking Deportation Deserve a Sentencing Discount but the Reduction Should Be Provisional’ (2020), 43(2) Melbourne University Law Review 423
Mirko Bagaric and Gabrielle Wolf, ‘An argument for recognising childhood sexual abuse and physical abuse as a mitigating factor in sentencing’ (2020) Australian Bar Review 227
Julian R Murphy et al, ‘An Ancient Remedy for Modern Ills: The Prerogative of Mercy and Mandatory Sentencing’ (2020) 46(3) Monash University Law Review 252.
Evidence
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Helen Fraser and Yuko Kinoshita, 'Injustice Arising from the Unnoticed Power of Priming: How Lawyers and Even Judges can be Misled by Unreliable Transcripts of Indistinct Forensic Audio' (2021) 45(3) Criminal Law Journal 142
Greg Taylor, 'Respects of Character' (2020) 44(1) Criminal Law Journal 32
Gary Edmond et al, 'Facial Recognition and Image Comparison Evidence: Identification by Investigators, Familiars, Experts, Super-Recognisers and Algorithms' (2021) 45(1) Melbourne University Law Review (advance)
Gary Edmond, ‘Regulating Forensic Science and Medicine Evidence at Trial: It's Time for a Wall, a Gate and Some Gatekeeping’ (2020) 94 Australian Law Journal 427
David Hamer, ‘Myths, Misconceptions and Mixed Messages: An Early Look at the New Tendency and Coincidence Evidence Provisions’ (2021) 45 Criminal Law Journal 232.
Equity, Trusts and Estates
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Fabian Di Lizia, 'The Requirement of Property or Possessory Rights for Relief against Forfeiture' (2021) 95 Australian Law Journal 641
Man Yip and Kelvin FK Low, 'Reconceptualising Fiduciary Regulation in Actual Conflicts' (2021) 45(1) Melbourne University Law Review (advance)
Kit Barker, ‘Unjust Enrichment in Australia: What Is(n't) It? Implications for Legal Reasoning and Practice’(2020), 43(3) Melbourne University Law Review 903
Christie Gardiner and Lee Aitken, ‘Rebutting the presumption of intentional revocation of a Will by destruction: An examination of electronically signed and remotely witnessed Wills’ (2022) 51 Australian Bar Review 70 (NEW)
Public Law (including human rights)
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Hasan Dindjer, 'What Makes an Administrative Decision Unreasonable?' (2021) 84(2) Modern Law Review 265
Consumer and Competition Law
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Elise Bant and Jeannie Marie Paterson, ‘Systems of misconduct: Corporate culpability and statutory unconscionability’ (2021) 15 Journal of Equity 63
Philip H Clarke, ‘Unconscionable conduct under the Australian Consumer Law: Clarification and Contention’ (2021) 49 Australian Business Law Review 180
Katharine Kemp, ‘Causation in Misuse of Market Power Claims under the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth)’ (2022) 49(4) Australian Business Law Review 208.
Indigenous Legal Issues
Judge Heemi Taumaunu, ‘Te Ao Mārama – a vision for the District Court of New Zealand’ (2022) 96 Australian Law Journal 94 (NEW)
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