Sydney Law School: Recent submissions
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Law of gifts, conditional donation and biobanking
Published 2013Tissue banks are critical to research efforts into the causes and treatment of many diseases. Biobanks are created from donated tissue but property concepts have not played a major role in understanding methods of the ...Open AccessArticle -
Culture clash : the Australian Law Reform Commission's discussion of retransmission and the world of broadcast
Published 2014The interaction between copyright law and media policy is an area of considerable difficulty. This article analyses and contextualises the conclusions of the Australian Law Reform Commission regarding the retransmission ...Open AccessArticle -
The criminal responsibility of a "failed cadet soldier"
Published 2015On 10 November 1988, Julian Knight was sentenced for "one of the worst massacres in Australian history". Knight, then aged 19, had shot and killed seven people, and injured 19 others, in a shooting spree carried out on ...Open AccessArticle -
(De)regulating the rural environment
Published 2002The 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (the Rio Conference) heralded a new era of environmental law, with its purpose to formulate strategies to achieve sustainable development worldwide, recognising ...Open AccessArticle -
Monstrous mothering: Understanding the causes of and responses to infanticide
Published 2023The deliberate killing of a child by its mother is abhorrent and is associated in the minds of many with mental illness and in particular with postnatal depression. However, at least 50% of perpetrators are neither "mad" ...Open AccessArticle