News Archive

 March 2007

Regulation & Governance aims to serve as the leading platform for the study of regulation and governance from across a variety of policy domains and disciplinary perspectives. As the first issue shows, Regulation & Governance will feature significant work by some of the world's best scholars of political science, law, economics, and other disciplines.

 March 2007

Prof Peter Drahos, Director of RegNet's Centre for Governance of Knowledge and Development has been invited to deliver the 10th Annual Niro Lecture at DePaul University College of Law in Chicago on 15 March 2007. Each year, an influential figure in intellectual property (IP)/information technology (IT) addresses faculty, students, and area attorneys on current IP/IT issues. Previous speakers at this prestigious event include Hon. Frank H. Easterbrook, U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit; Hon. Richard A. Posner (2004), U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit; and Q. Todd Dickinson (2001), former Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patents and Trademarks Office.

 November 2006

 November 2006

In the 20 November issue of the Medical Journal of Australia, RegNet PhD scholars Warwick Neville and Buddhima Lokuge examine a recent High Court decision held that children born with disabilities not caused by medical intervention, but not diagnosed antenatally, could not claim general damages for their pain and suffering, nor special damages for the needs created by their disabilities and their loss of earning capacity.

 November 2006

Peter Grabosky was presented the Sellin-Glueck Award of the American Society of Criminology for International Contributions to Criminology on 3 November in Los Angeles. He is a professor in the Regulatory Institutions Network(RegNet) at the Australian National University.

 October, 2006

Ms Tali Gal – Thesis acceptance – Victims to Partners: Child Victims & Restorative Justice

My thesis combines and examination of children’s rights with a review of psycho-social literature on children’s needs, creating a ‘needs-rights’ model regarding child victims.

 September, 2006

Professor Peter Drahos stepped down as Head of Program on the 25 August 2006 – Dr Valerie Braithwaite became Head of Program on the 28 August 2006

 September, 2006

This publication will be available on the 29 September 2006 and is designed to be a supplementary monograph for introductory criminology students. This publication can be pre ordered through Amazon.com

 June, 2006

John and Freidrich Löselare the first time winners of the Stockholm Prize awarded to them for their achievements in developing theory and evidence on the prevention of repeat offending in crime. The prize is awarded for "outstanding achievements in criminological research or for the application of research results by practitioners for the reduction of crime and the advancement of human rights".

 November, 2005

Professor Hilary Charlesworth was awarded, with Professor Christine Chinkin (London School of Economics), the American Society of International Law (ASIL) Goler T Butcher Medal for 2006. The medal is given in recognition of outstanding contributions to the development or effective realisation of international human rights law. Professors' Charlesworth and Chinkin received the medal for their 2000 publication The Boundaries of International Law: A Feminist Analysis.