If you received the following in a text message, would you freak out? Alert the authorities? ?? ? Or would you simply ¯\_(ツ)_/¯? Legal experts are in multiple minds about it, a study has found. Researchers from Deakin University's law school combed ...
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The new Law Associate Deans Network is moving to adapt the curriculum and teaching to meet modern needs. By Kate Galloway. In the nearly 10 years since Johnstone and Vignaendra (2003) published their report on learning outcomes and curriculum development ...
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Highly qualified and experienced academics enrich legal education, writes Patrick Keyzer. In the April 30 edition of Campus Review, Professor Lee Stuesser, who has recently been appointed Foundation Dean at Lakehead University in Canada, wrote an article in which he ...
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The University of Melbourne law school has launched Victoria’s first judge-in-residence program, with the former chief justice of the Federal Court, Michael Black QC, taking up the first residency. Alongside Black, who is a Melbourne law school alumnus, current and ...
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Wide-scale legislative reform regarding regulation of the not-for-profit sector will have significant implications for higher education entities. Public universities in Australia operate as not-for-profit institutions and are endorsed as charitable institutions, which entitles them to access tax concessions. Many subsidiaries ...
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