Sydney Peace Prize embraces new life as an independent foundation in 2026
LSJ Online speaks to the Sydney Peace Foundation’s Executive Director about the Sydney Peace Prize and the foundation’s focus for the year ahead.
By Cat Woods - 8 min read
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.
By Cat Woods - 7 min read
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.
By Cat Woods - 9 min read
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’ -…
By Cat Woods - 8 min read
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
By Cat Woods - 7 min read
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.
By Joseph Friedman - 7 min read
Are deepfakes the end of reality as we know it?
Seeing is believing until it isn’t.
By Henry Ea - 17 min read
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
By Cat Woods - 9 min read
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…
By Cat Woods - 8 min read
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
By Cat Woods - 8 min read
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.
By Cat Woods - 8 min read