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Our research projects investigate real-world issues in law and society, at a local, national and international scale.
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The Digital Criminal Justice Project: Vulnerability and the Digital Subject

Digital technologies are rapidly transforming the criminal justice system, with audio-visual links and 3rd party video communication platforms replacing physical presence in courtrooms and direct human communication. But are these technologies delivering fair criminal justice?
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Citizenship and Claims of Belonging in Australian Law and History

Analysing what it means, and has meant, legally, to ‘be’ Australian, through exploration of key constitutional cases in which a person’s claim to ‘belong’ was the central issue.
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Indonesia’s Anti-Corruption Courts: Making or Breaking Governance Reform?

How successful are Indonesia's anti-corruption prosecutions? Have constitutional and legislative changes threatened the success of the courts?
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Peer Review of Financial Regulators

Transnational peer review is increasingly used as a tool of global governance. But for what purpose? And with what effect?
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Financial Services Human Rights Benchmark

Our benchmark allows users to easily compare and understand financial services entities (FSEs) from a human rights perspective. We assess their performance across six human rights categories and five areas of impact.
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Do search engines influence you more than you think?

The Australian Search Experience is a citizen science project calling on Australian Internet users to help solve search engine secrets. Why do search engines order and display information the way they do? Help us find out.
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Policing Australian Popular Music

This interdisciplinary project is the first comprehensive study of the relationship between policing and popular music in Australia. It explores how forms of popular music have been criminalised, and the ways musicians and musical communities voice resistance to police and state powers.
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Let's talk about confidentiality

A project investigating the use of non-disclosure agreements (NDA's) in resolving out-of-court workplace sexual harassment complaints by conducting empirical research on the practices of Australian lawyers in these matters.
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Nuclear Warfare and International Law

Nuclear weapons have been a well-known part of the international landscape for nearly 80 years. Much less well-known is the critical infrastructure surrounding nuclear weaponry – the personnel, hardware, and software that make up the framework of a nuclear-weapon State’s nuclear capabilities, known as Nuclear Command, Control, and Communications or NC3.
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Reproductive crimes in international law: Lessons from Cambodia

This project critically examines the international law response to forced pregnancy and other violations of reproductive autonomy in international criminal law.

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