Rodrigo Alfredo Parra Salamanca from the University of Girona discusses the flattening use of the term ‘sanction’, and how to move away from the consequences of that classification.
UQ's Professor Kit Barker begins exploring the configuration of rights of action in private law by clarifying this paradigm, identifying exceptions and examining the normative relationship between primary rights and rights of action.
Justices of the UK Supreme Court have given renewed prominence to the role of Equity to 'put right injustice to which the law is otherwise blind'. Professor Ben McFarlane discusses the benefits and dangers of these views.
The seminar will discuss Dr Paul Burgess’s recent book, AI and the Rule of Law: The Necessary Evolution of a Concept. The book is a timely intervention in the emerging debate about the challenges that use of AI presents to the rule of law.
Professor Eric Descheemaeker, University of Melbourne, explores 2 models of the concept of person-at-law, and the implications these have for corporations, animals, and elements of nature.