Sydney Law School: Recent submissions
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After the storm: The Whaling in the Antarctic Case and the Australian Whale Sanctuary
Published 2014In March 2014 the International Court of Justice (ICJ) handed down its decision in the Whaling in the Antarctic Case between Australia and Japan, in which it found by 12 votes to four that Japan’s whaling program in the ...Open AccessArticle -
Australia's extended continental shelf: What implications for Antarctica?
Published 2009In April 2008, the federal Minister for Resources and Energy announced that the United Nations Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLCS) had recognised the vast bulk of Australia’s claim to an extended ...Open AccessArticle -
The International Criminal Court and the Australian Constitution
Published 2002The International Criminal Court (ICC) came into existence on 1 July 2002, when the 1998 Statute of the International Criminal Court (the Rome Statute) entered into force. Australia ratified the statute that same day, after ...Open AccessArticle -
Enforcing Australian fisheries laws: Testing the limits of hot pursuit in domestic and international law
Published 2004A consideration of aspects of the domestic and international legal regimes applying to the hot pursuit of fishing vessels, with particular reference to the pursuit and arrest of the Volga and Viarsa 1.Open AccessArticle -
Section 53 of the Constitution: an overlooked reference to the constitutional people
Published 2013Section 53 of the Constitution sets out the limitations on the power of the Senate with respect to financial legislation. There is ongoing disagreement as to what legislation is caught by the section. This article does not ...Open AccessArticle