Dec |  | Rhodes Scholarship for David Winterton | |
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| | | Opinion: Bryan Mercurio - "Get used to the new (and productive) form of trading" | |
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| | | Counter-terrorism laws: special issue of UNSW Law Journal | |
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| | | The Sex Discrimination Act - A 20-year review: UNSW Law Journal | |
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| | | Professor Robert King, Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academic) UNSW, announced the formation of the Private Law Policy & Research Group in the Faculty of Law at the recent Fusion Conference. | |
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Nov | | Opinion: Devika Hovell - "Hicks stays in the US system thanks only to a wilful legal oversight" | |
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| | | ‘As lawyers, you should be concerned that we have not treated and do not treat the indigenous people of this country justly,’ Danny Gilbert, Managing Partner of Gilbert + Tobin, told final year students at the 2004 Law Valedictory Dinner | |
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| | | New Guide for Indigenous Legal Education launched | |
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| | | Women mentors put student lawyers in the picture, Sydney Morning Herald 26 November 2004 | |
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| | | A passionate appointment, Uniken November 2004 | |
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Oct | | The Inaugural UNSW Law Entrance Scholarships | |
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| | | Samantha Newman & Jacqui Houston finalists in UN Association of Australia Media Peace Awards 2004 Special Focus – Indigenous Women by Samantha Newman and Jacqui Houston, Indigenous Law Bulletin, Indigenous Law Centre, UNSW selected as a finalist for the UN Association of Australia Media Peace Awards 2004. | |
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| | | Defamation - are the courts getting it wrong? Groundbreaking research into defamation law and social attitudes has been released by the Communications Law Centre at the University of New South Wales. | |
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| | | Opinion: Prof George Williams - "Federalism needs fixing" | |
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| | | Opinion: Associate Prof Binh Tran-Nam - "Integrated reforms of the tax and welfare systems are the big challenge" | |
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Sep | | Street Practice: law students star in ABC TV series A fly-on-the-wall documentary series which follows a group of UNSW law students through their clinical legal practice at Kingsford Legal Centre premieres this week on ABC Television. | |
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| | | The Great Legal Debate: Ruddock v Roxon Federal Attorney-General Philip Ruddock and Shadow Attorney-General Nicola Roxon met head to head this week in an election debate co-hosted by the UNSW Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law and the Australian Financial Review. | |
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Aug | | Stopping The Clock? The Future Of The Billable Hour: UNSW Law Journal | |
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Jul | | Opinion: Prof George Williams - "Act Bill of Rights a Good Starting Point" Australia has its first bill of rights, the ACT's Human Rights Act, which came into force yesterday. (2 July 2004, Australian Financial Review) | |
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| | | Opinion: Justine Nolan – “Brought to account: the business of honour in the boardroom” | |
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Jun | | Communications Law Centre sparks battle on the airwaves | |
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| | | Opinion: Alumnus Daniel Tynan: “They ‘weren’t told’: whose fault is that?” (Canberra Times 4 June 2004) | |
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| | | Opinion: Roy Baker: “Our right to speak, reasonable or not” (The Newcastle Herald, 1 June 2004)
Roy Baker is Project Director at the Communications Law Centre at the University of New South Wales. | |
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| | | Andrea Durbach joins Law Faculty One of Australia's leading public interest lawyers, Andrea Durbach, has been appointed Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of New South Wales. | |
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| | | Department of Defence collaboration on new military law library The Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII) has launched a new Military and Peacekeeping Law Library in cooperation with the Defence Legal Services. | |
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| | | US expert to teach Business Ethics course | |
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| | | Outstanding law student wins inaugural McKinsey Scholarship Final year law student Katherine Fallah (22) is the inaugural winner of the $15,000 McKinsey Scholarship. | |
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| | | Moot teams reunion | |
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| | | National forum on Australia's first Bill of Rights | |
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| | | Opinion: Prof Derek Wilding - "Still too Easy to Sidestep Radio Standards" The Australian Broadcasting Authority needs more power to enforce the rules, writes Derek Wilding.(30 June 2004, The Sydney Morning Herald) | |
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May | | Opinion: Devika Hovell - "Stronger stance on Iraqi abuse needed" Legal obligation or not, we must do more than express disgust, writes Devika Hovell.
(Sydney Morning Herald, 10 May 2004.) | |
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| | | Opinion: Prof George Williams: "Law on terror erodes freedoms" It seems there is no end to the law on terror.
(The Courier Mail, 30 April 2004) | |
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| | | Profile on Brendan Edgeworth | |
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| | | Opinion: Atax's Neil Warren leads budget debate on tax | |
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| | | All Rhodes Lead to Oxford: Law graduates talk about their current studies at Oxford UNSW has five Rhodes Scholars currently studying at Oxford.
Denise Knight, UNSW Media Officer, recently caught up with two, both law graduates, at their ‘home away from home’. | |
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Apr | | Australian Law Students in Demand Overseas Lawyers Weekly, Issue 183, Friday 19 March 2004 | |
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| | | Opinion: Prof George Williams - "Debate on a Republic Should Involve All of Us from the start" Professor George Williams, Director of the Gilbert+Tobin Centre writes that a referendum will fail again if the people feel they have been left out of the important decisions - Sydney Morning Herald, 13 April 2004 | |
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| | | Opinion: A/P Chris Evans - "Just taxes should be more than just filing" Associate Professor Chris Evans, Director of the Australian Taxation Studies Program (Atax) writes in Australian Financial Review, 13 April 2004 | |
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| | | Opinion: Dr Sandra Egger - “Assault victims let down by lack of conviction” Sex attack laws are crying out for change, writes Dr Sandra Egger, Associate Dean, UNSW Faculty of Law, Daily Telegraph, 9April 2004 | |
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Mar | | Warm Welcome for First Year Students | |
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| | | Law of Cultural Returns Terri Janke (BA LLB’95) has spent a lot of time recently reflecting on her days as a law student. Her experiences at UNSW are drawn upon in her first novel Butterfly Song, to be published next year by Penguin. | |
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| | | Opinion: Prof George Williams on Australia's First Bill of Rights Australian Financial Review, 12 March 2004 | |
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| | | Faculty Prize Night 2004 Justice Ronald Sackville, Judge of the Federal Court and former UNSW Law Dean addressed Atax and Law School prize winners on Wednesday 10 March. | |
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| | | Interview with Alumnus The Hon Justice Annabelle Bennett (LLB ’80) : Science should not be Fiction for Lawyers FORENSIC SCIENCE is increasingly changing the legal system and its outcomes, Justice Annabelle Bennett told the Women Lawyers Association of NSW breakfast at the Menzies Hotel last week. | |
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| | | Alumnus Gretta Rusanow (BA/LLB ’91) writes: Keys to Knowledge Management Technology offers the means to manage the collective knowledge of a modern law firm, but these systems need careful planning. Gretta Rusanow provides some advice. | |
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| | | Address on the Occasion of the Retirement of the Honourable Justice R P Meagher | |
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Feb | | Opinion: Bryan Mercurio on how a nation's health will benefit from US drugs The Australian, 11 February 2004 | |
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| | | Chief Justice Speaks at Constitutional Law Conference The Chief Justice of the High Court, Murray Gleeson, will speak at this week's 2004 Constitutional Law Conference, hosted by UNSW's Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law. | |
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| | | Report Card on NSW Prisons Former Royal Commissioner Justice John Nagle and Professor Tony Vinson are the keynote speakers at a Law Faculty seminar this week marking 25 years since the release of the landmark Nagle report into NSW prisons. | |
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Jan | | Indigenous law program celebrates a decade of success | |
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