2024
Articles
19 June 2024
Celebrating Legal Excellence: The Justice Peter Hely Scholarship
The Justice Peter Hely Scholarship was established in 2008 by the University of Sydney Law School through contributions from the friends and colleagues of the late Justice Hely. Scholarship recipients reflect on its impact.
18 June 2024
Celebrating exceptional students at 2024 Prize Giving Ceremony
On 31 May 2024 at one of Sydney Law School’s biggest annual events, prize and scholarship donors, staff, and legal professionals came together to celebrate and recognise the outstanding achievements of our law students.
18 June 2024
South Australia's plan to ban political donations raises risks and benefits
Professor Emerita Anne Twomey examines the risks and benefits of South Australia's plan to ban political parties and candidates from receiving political donations and instead be provided with public funding.
18 June 2024
Tight-knit communities can prevent environmental progress
New research indicates that strong community bonds could hinder rather than help environmental initiatives.
18 June 2024
International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement to receive 2024 Sydney Peace Prize
The Sydney Peace Foundation has announced the International Red Cross and the Red Crescent Movement will receive the Sydney Peace Prize in 2024.
07 June 2024
Sexual harassment rife in retail work
The peak bodies representing retailers and workers are calling on the industry to address the scourge of sexual harassment, in light of new research.
05 June 2024
'Junk science' in Australian courts threatens to cause wrongful convictions
The conviction of Robert Farquharson for the murder of his three sons is under intense scrutiny due to doubts about the prosecution's evidence. This case highlights the crisis in handling expert opinion evidence in Australian courts, which often ignore top scientific advice. Professor David Hamer from the Sydney Law School examines the system's susceptibility to "junk science."
04 June 2024
Black drivers in Chicago more likely to be stopped by police than ticketed by a camera
Researchers from the University of Sydney, Cornell University, Rutgers and the University of Illinois, Chicago has found Black drivers in Chicago have a disproportionately higher likelihood of being stopped by police than being ticketed by a traffic camera.
23 May 2024
Age verification for social media: Do kids and parents even want it?
Age verification for social media would impact all of us. Dr Justine Humphry, Dr Catherine Page Jeffery, Dr Jonathon Hutchinson and Dr Olga Boichak from Media and Communications investigate the efficacy and risks of age-checking technologies and whether there are better approaches to mitigating online harms affecting young people.
20 May 2024
The tentacles of retracted science reach deep into social media. A simple button could change that.
On social media, health myths based on debunked science abound. A new tool could be social media's best defence against misinformation.