The demand for energy has motivated the expansion of natural gas hydraulic fracturing (‘fracking’) in recent years in many countries across the globe, including the United States (‘US’) and Australia. Natural gas, large ...

This study explores the operation of legal parentage within Australian family law through analysing judgments and legislation in ‘misattributed fatherhood’ cases – where the person who is publicly identified or assumed to ...

The Five Eyes is a global mass surveillance network, partnering the United States, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the UK, with the US as the lead partner. The Five Eyes have a self-stated goal of ‘collecting it all’ ...

My thesis shows that there is a new conceptual space that can be occupied in general jurisprudence. I hold that legal positivism can be made compatible with an externalist semantic analysis of the term “law”. My research ...

There has been growing concern in recent years that international investment law, and its enforcement through investor-state dispute settlement, interferes with the regulatory autonomy of host states to enact measures for ...

As long as the prospect of wars exists, the development and sophistication of military technology will continue. For many centuries now, States have repeatedly addressed the question of weapons legality on a multilateral ...

This thesis examines the relationship between proportionality and facts in constitutional adjudication. The Australian High Court has developed various tests of constitutional validity that incorporate elements of the ...

The 1960 Ethiopian Civil Code is the largest legal transfer project into 20th century Ethiopia. Considered as one of the ‘landmark’ cases of ‘voluntary reception’ of western law in a non-western country, it has been studied ...

In Australia, there has been no empirical research examining what legal factors determine a trade mark infringement claim under s 120 of the Trade Marks Act 1995 (Cth) (‘1995 TM Act’). Nor has there been empirical research ...