Access to Justice Without Lawyers: Understanding Legal Self-Help in Australia. While legal self-help is extensively practised, it is not well understood. Some people choose to do their own legal work while others have no option. The project will use case studies to identify the circumstances (in terms of context, user characteristics and available support) in which self-help is most likely to benefit the user as well as where such self-help should not be promoted. The project will benefit govern ....Access to Justice Without Lawyers: Understanding Legal Self-Help in Australia. While legal self-help is extensively practised, it is not well understood. Some people choose to do their own legal work while others have no option. The project will use case studies to identify the circumstances (in terms of context, user characteristics and available support) in which self-help is most likely to benefit the user as well as where such self-help should not be promoted. The project will benefit governments, courts, private companies, legal aid commissions, community legal centres and other agencies, all of which provide information services designed to assist people to handle law-related work themselves. Read moreRead less
The Impact of ACCC Enforcement Action: Evaluating the explanatory and normative power of responsive regulation and responsive law. The project will enhance the capacity of the ACCC and other business regulators to ethically and effectively regulate to achieve the goals of regulatory policy such as a fair, competitive economy, occupational health and safety, and environmental integrity. Australia is already well recognised as a leader in ambitious empirical and policy-oriented social science rese ....The Impact of ACCC Enforcement Action: Evaluating the explanatory and normative power of responsive regulation and responsive law. The project will enhance the capacity of the ACCC and other business regulators to ethically and effectively regulate to achieve the goals of regulatory policy such as a fair, competitive economy, occupational health and safety, and environmental integrity. Australia is already well recognised as a leader in ambitious empirical and policy-oriented social science research on regulatory compliance (through the ARC funded Governance Network including RegNet at ANU). This project will enhance that reputation with the most comprehensive data set on the corporate compliance impact of enforcement action and fundamental re-thinking of foundational theoretical questions about the nature and capacities of regulation.Read moreRead less
Who is Law For? An Analysis of the Nature of the Legal Being. The project will provide the first contemporary comprehensive scholarly treatise on "the legal person" as this legal concept applies to natural beings and objects: from rational humans, to human foetuses to animals to trees. It will have a direct bearing on legal decision-making in some of the most sensitive and controversial areas of law and therefore will have a highly practical legal application. For example, the project critically ....Who is Law For? An Analysis of the Nature of the Legal Being. The project will provide the first contemporary comprehensive scholarly treatise on "the legal person" as this legal concept applies to natural beings and objects: from rational humans, to human foetuses to animals to trees. It will have a direct bearing on legal decision-making in some of the most sensitive and controversial areas of law and therefore will have a highly practical legal application. For example, the project critically evaluates the legal status of the embryo and so will be of immediate interest to national and international law reformers considering the legality of the new reproductive technologies, cloning and embryonic stem cell research.Read moreRead less