Law and Society

People with disabilities are the most marginalised of minorities, according to Rosemary Kayess, who is the Associate Director of the Disability Studies Research Centre. She speaks with Susi Hamilton from UNSW media about her involvement in drafting the UN Convention on The Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

In World War 1  nearly 7000 ‘enemy aliens’ of German origin were interned in camps in New South Wales.  That experience is now the subject of a book co-authored by Arts academic Gerhard Fischer, and an exhibition running at the Museum of Sydney from May 7-September 11.

Senator Kate Lundy, Parliamentary Secretary for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs, addresses the 2011 Refugee Conference at UNSW.

Dr Kath Albury, from UNSW’s Journalism and Media Research Centre, discusses the rise of sexting – the sending of sexually explicit text messages – and the lasting legal repercussions for under-18 year olds.

Associate Professor Michael Legg and Professor Justin O'Brien of UNSW discuss the impacts of possible changes to litigation funding in Australia.

Community gardens are one type of urban agriculture that's growing faster than Jack's beanstalk. But it's not just the chemical-free produce that's good for your health, suggests Associate Professor Susan Thompson, who heads up UNSW's Healthy Built Environments program.

United States Ambassador Jeffrey Bleich gives the Australian Human Rights Centre Annual Public Lecture; his topic: The United States and Australia's Commitment to Human Rights in the Asia-Pacific. The complete lecture can be found here http://www.youtube.com/unsw#p/u/7/Z_mN_SnOEL4 Jeffrey Bleich became the United States Ambassador to Australia in 2009. He previously served as Special Counsel to the President at the White House. From 1995 to 2009, he was a litigation partner in the San Francisco office of Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP, where he was recognised as one of the nation's top lawyers. After clerking for Judge Howard Holtzmann at the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal and acting as Special Rapporteur to the International Court of Arbitration, he assisted the Special Prosecutor for the International Tribunal for the Former-Yugoslavia. Ambassador Bleich received his B.A. from Amherst College, his Masters in Public Policy from Harvard University and his law degree from the University of California, Berkeley. He has taught international human rights at UC Berkeley School of Law, and written and lectured extensively on the international criminal court.

UNSW's Professor Justin O'Brien talks to Lancaster University's Professor Saul Picciotto about his new book, "Regulating Global Corporate Capitalism".

Associate Professor Philip Cam from UNSW's School of History and Philosophy on the proposed banning of Ethics classes in schools.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott has promised to hold a referendum on recognising Aboriginal peoples in the Australian constitution. Professor George Williams from UNSW's Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law provides three things that you may not know about Australia’s Constitution – three facts that make this task pressing and important.