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Cashman, Peter Those involved in producing the Alternative Law Journal, not to mention the contributors, are to be congratulated on 45 years of providing an alternative insight into the legal system and its strengths and weaknesses. Article source: https://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=910449945969093;res=IELHSS

Macpherson, Elizabeth Review(s) of: Legal Rights for Rivers: Competition, Collaboration and Water Governance, by Erin O’Donnell, Routledge, 2018, $242 (hardback), eBook from $31.37. Article source: https://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=910878504308032;res=IELHSS

O’Toole, Suzanne; Keyzer, Patrick The Legal and Social Issues Committee of the Victorian parliament will soon publish a report on spent convictions and criminal record discrimination. Victoria is the only state in Australia that does not have a spent convictions scheme. The purpose of this article is to review the recent decision of the High…

Spencer, Pauline Review(s) of: Judges, Judging and Humour, by Jessica Milner Davis and Sharyn Roach Anleu (eds), Palgrave MacMillan, 2018, 335 pages, e118,99 (eBook). Article source: https://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=910897137279290;res=IELHSS

Barnett, Katy This article discusses whether the demand that law academics show citations by a superior court is disadvantageous to women, using the citations of academic work by the High Court of Australia from 2015, 2016 and 2017. The preliminary data show that male academics were cited much more often than female academics (even for…

Serry, Bradley Review(s) of: Radical Heart: Three stories make us one, by Shireen Morris, Melbourne University Publishing, 2018, 246 pages, $27.99 (paperback). Article source: https://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=910934403221807;res=IELHSS

Vijeyarasa, Ramona This article is premised on the fact that every area of law needs a gender perspective. It discusses the prospects for a Gender Legislative Index, a tool to enable us to evaluate and score legislation, by placing laws on a scale from genderregressive to gender-responsive, when set against global benchmarks from international law…

Grossi, Renata The 2017 High Court case of ‘Thorne v Kennedy’ highlighted and sparked discussion around the injustice of financial agreements and when they may constitute unconscionability and undue influence. However, the case also raises another important discussion about the relationship between love and money. This article picks up this conversation. How does society navigate…

Goldsworthy, Daniel The article proposes that deep-learning technologies have the capacity to produce artificial super-intelligence, which makes possible one of Dworkin’s most controversial and tantalising theories: that there is in fact one right answer to any legal question. Article source: https://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=910543110825384;res=IELHSS

McLean, Jessica; Mackenzie, Rohan Automation and privatisation of the Australian visa processing system may produce digital injustices. As of late 2018, the federal government is pursuing automation and privatisation of visa processing to increase revenue, but this move will cut at least 3000 jobs and, given other experiences in automation and privatisation processes pursued by…