National Europe Centre Publications
The National Europe Centre publishes papers by staff, visitors, conference and seminar presenters and Visiting Fellows. These publications are available to the public free of charge. Their aim is to promote a better understanding of Europe and the European Union in Australia.
Archived PAPERS on DEMETRIUS
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National Europe Centre Briefing Paper Series
Conference Paper:
EU Charter of Fundamental Rights Causes a Stir Downunder
Presentation by Professor Simon Bronitt at the Conference
PARLIAMENTS AND BILLS OF RIGHTS:
How can parliaments adapt their forms and practices to the new era of Bills of Rights?
sponsored by Parliamentary Studies Centre (PSC) and the Centre for International and Public Law (CIPL), ANU
held on Friday 24 April 2009, Parliament House, Canberra.
Recent publications by Centre staff and associates:
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Edited by Adam Berryman and Kate Mitchell.
Humanities Research Vol XV. No. 1. 2009:
Diversity, Integration and Citizenship
(ANU E Press, 2009). FREE TO DOWNLOAD!
Humanities Research is an internationally peer-reviewed journal published by the Research School of Humanities at The Australian National University. Launched in 1997, Humanities Research has recently been transformed into an electronic journal published by ANU E Press. |
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Simon Bronitt, "Visions of a Multicultural Criminal Law: an Australian Perspective" in: Multicultural Jurispruence: Comparative Perspectives on the Cultural Defense
Marie-Claire Foblets and Alison Dundes Renteln (eds), (Hart Publishing, Oxford, 2009).
This collection brings together powerful examples of the cultural defence in many countries in Western Europe, North America, and elsewhere. It shows the ubiquity of this defence, contrary to the mistaken impression that it has been invoked principally in the United States. This book makes the case for undertaking studies of the use of the cultural defence in jurisdictions all over the world where this has not been previously documented.Many of the essays concentrate on criminal cases including homicide in the context of honour crimes, provocation based on 'loss of face', or witchcraft killings. Some deal with other areas of law such as asylum jurisprudence, family law, and housing policy. They show in concrete cases how cultural claims have arisen and how legal systems wrestle with these arguments. |
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Edited by Bernadette McSherry, Alan Norrie and Simon Bronitt.
Oñati International Series in Law and Society:
Regulating Deviance: The Redirection of Criminalisation and the Futures of
Criminal Law
(Hart Publishing, Oxford, 2008).
This collection of essays by leading scholars in the fields of criminal law and procedure, criminology, legal history, law and psychology and the sociology of law, focuses on the future directions for the criminal law in the light of current concerns with state security and regulating 'deviant' behaviour.
Click here to preview the introduction by the editors.
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Simon Bronitt, "Balancing Security and Liberty: Critical Perspectives on Terrorism Law Reform" in: Miriam Gani and Penelope Mathew (eds), Fresh Perspectives on the 'War on Terror' (ANU E Press, 2008). FREE TO DOWNLOAD!
This collection seeks both to draw on and to engage critically with the metaphor of war in the context of terrorism. It brings together a group of experts from Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, France and Germany who write about terrorism from a variety of disciplinary perspectives including international law and international relations, public and constitutional law, criminal law and criminology, legal theory, and psychology and law.
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Saskia Hufnagel, PhD Student at the National Europe Centre.
German perspectives on the right to life and
human dignity in the “war on terror”
(2008) 32 Crim LJ 1000.
The purpose of this article is to examine, from a comparative perspective, how security concerns have limited three distinct human rights in Germany
and Australia: the right to a fair trial, the right to life and the right to human
dignity... |
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Lessons from Europe: The 50th Anniversary of
the Treaty of Rome
A comparative law special issue of LegalDate
The evolution of the European Union: A new supranational legal and political order
(2007) 19(3) LegalDate 1.
This is a special issue of a legal studies periodical which is distributed to High Schools in Australia - the materials were prepared by members of the Centre and colleagues at other EU Centres. It contains a series of short articles and class room activities which are designed to inform and stimulate discussion about the role and functions of the European Union, with particular relevance to Australia. |
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