The Legal Function of Serious Disability in Prenatal and Neonatal Health Care Settings. Increasing numbers of Australians are using prenatal testing technologies to avoid having a disabled child. Australians also have access to a range of sophisticated life-sustaining technologies for premature newborns and seriously imperiled infants. Legal guidance on the appropriate uses of these technologies is piecemeal and inconsistent across Australia's States and Territories, and the meaning of serious ....The Legal Function of Serious Disability in Prenatal and Neonatal Health Care Settings. Increasing numbers of Australians are using prenatal testing technologies to avoid having a disabled child. Australians also have access to a range of sophisticated life-sustaining technologies for premature newborns and seriously imperiled infants. Legal guidance on the appropriate uses of these technologies is piecemeal and inconsistent across Australia's States and Territories, and the meaning of serious disability varies amongst members of the community. This project will benefit Australians by providing greater consistency in decision-making about disability. This will be achieved by assessing the value of a uniform framework for governing legal responses to serious disability in the context of reproduction.Read moreRead less
The Prison Project: Penal Culture and the Re-invention of the Prison in Australia. The Prison Project addresses the issue of increased use of imprisonment over recent decades. It is the first comprehensive Australian investigation of penal policy and practice at national and state and territory levels. The research will provide analysis of the reasons and justifications for the increased use of imprisonment, particularly in the context of perceived effects on crime and the substantial public cos ....The Prison Project: Penal Culture and the Re-invention of the Prison in Australia. The Prison Project addresses the issue of increased use of imprisonment over recent decades. It is the first comprehensive Australian investigation of penal policy and practice at national and state and territory levels. The research will provide analysis of the reasons and justifications for the increased use of imprisonment, particularly in the context of perceived effects on crime and the substantial public costs incurred by correctional services. The project will document and analyse the effects of changes in sentencing law and practice, and administrative changes in penal policy.Read moreRead less
Morality, Jus Post Bellum, and International Law. One of the primary aims of this project is to bring scholars of the Just War tradition in political philosophy and political theory into dialogue with international legal theorists and practitioners in order to build a set of clear normative principles to guide decisions concerning compensation, reconstruction, and restoration of peace and justice as well as whether and when to offer amnesties, within societies that have been ravaged by war and a ....Morality, Jus Post Bellum, and International Law. One of the primary aims of this project is to bring scholars of the Just War tradition in political philosophy and political theory into dialogue with international legal theorists and practitioners in order to build a set of clear normative principles to guide decisions concerning compensation, reconstruction, and restoration of peace and justice as well as whether and when to offer amnesties, within societies that have been ravaged by war and armed conflict. As a result, this project has the potential to provide much needed tools for the arbitration of challenging transitional issues of relevance to the post war conduct of the Australian government and military forces.Read moreRead less