Murdoch law academics Dr Augusto Zimmermann and Lorraine Finlay and PhD candidate Joshua Forrester have given evidence before the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade. The Parliamentary Committee is currently conducting an Inquiry into the status of […]
Rather than promote tolerance, religious vilification laws stress separateness. Confronted by cases where, say, one creed’s condemnation of another’s dogma is indicted as hate speech, our secular courts will be obliged to address matters entirely theological. This is absurd and […]
Recently our president, Dr Augusto Zimmermann spoke at the 25th Anniversary of the Samuel Griffith Society in Perth. The occasion was to celebrate 25 years of the society and to advertise this years conference to be held in Perth on […]
The members of the Western Australian Legal Theory Association met for the first general meeting of 2017. As noted in the previous news update, our speaker was Mr John Sakr who gave an informative and interesting presentation on the ideological […]
WALTA is proud to announce the first general meeting of 2017. It is to be held at 6pm on Tuesday, 4th April in the Post Graduate Suite, Room 2.1031 (ECL, level 2) at Murdoch University. Joining us will be guest speaker […]
We are very pleased to announce that the 2016 publication of our annual law journal, The Western Australian Jurist is out now. Please find a copy here. The Austlii database should be updated with our newest issue soon. We also […]
The Western Australian Legal Theory Association is proud to launch the new website. We hope users find the website more friendly and easier to navigate. Articles will be posted soon.
On the 13 February 2016 Justice Antonin Scalia peacefully passed away in his sleep. But the impending United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary’s confirmation battle for his successor will be anything but peaceful. After all, his successor will be […]
On December 23, 2015, the Sejm—the Polish lower House of Parliament—passed a Bill to amend the Polish Constitution that will control the functioning of the Constitutional Tribunal. On the following day the Polish Senate passed the Amendment, and President Andrzej […]