From cold cases to criminal trials: the power of forensic linguistics

From solving cold cases to providing evidence in investigations and trials, it cannot be dismissed as a scholarly interest absent of real world application.

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Efficient and accessible pathways to challenge wrongful convictions

Recent high profile decisions have led to a debate on whether Australia needs a Criminal Cases Review Commission.

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The origins and principles of Freedom of the Seas

Approximately two thirds of the world’s oceans are ‘international waters’, but despite not belonging to one entity, the high seas – considered ‘global commons’ -…

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Abuse of election workers: the US poses a warning to Australia

Australia has a significantly less contentious political landscape than the US but democracy depends upon the real and perceived safety and security of elections

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The legal and personal tensions on the US-Mexico border

The first thing you notice when you walk out of the airport in Arizona is the heat. Immediately after the heat comes the politics.

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Are deepfakes the end of reality as we know it?

Seeing is believing until it isn’t.

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Left in the dark: examining Australian adoptions from South Korea

South Korea’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission is now investigating hundreds of adoptee cases and has already confirmed an extensive campaign of deceptive falsification of documents

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The lawyers fighting for West Papua’s independence

This year marks nearly 30 years of East Timorese independence, but despite legal, social and international campaigning and pleas to the UN, West Papuan independence…

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A fairer and safer future for all women?

Scores of human rights lawyers are urging the international community to codify the crime of gender apartheid in the UN’s crimes against humanity treaty

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Playing fair in a post-Olympics world: gender, elite skill, and discrimination

French prosecutors are investigating the online harassment complaint made by Olympic boxing gold medallist Imane Khelif.

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