By Asli Yilmaz Despite ongoing reforms, domestic or family violence remains a scourge across Australia. The number of reported incidents increased by more than 50 percent between March 2012 – March 2016. At least one in four Australian women are… Continue Reading
by Dr Anita Mackay On 3 August 2017 the United Nations Human Rights Committee (“the Committee”) found that Australia’s denial of divorce to a citizen who had entered into a same-sex marriage overseas (in Canada) was discriminatory (C v Australia).… Continue Reading
The 2017 ALHR National Human Rights Conference took place at La Trobe Law School’s city campus on 17 and 18 February 2017, and was a big success! We have summarised the biggest Twitter highlights in an 2017 ALHR National Human… Continue Reading
By Nicole Shackleton Professor Patrick Keyzer, Dr Emma Henderson, Stephanie Falconer, Patrick McGee and I are very excited that our work on the United Nations Communication for Mr M. has come to the public’s attention. The Communication was a team… Continue Reading
In 2015, Associate Professor Fiona Kelly received a grant from the Victorian Law Foundation to create a Legal Toolkit for parents of transgender children seeking hormone treatment (often referred to as stage two treatment). Australia is the only country in… Continue Reading
Professor Catherine Ordway has been recently interviewed on The Midday Report ABC News 24 TV, Mornings with Genevieve Jacobs ABC 666 Radio Canberra, The 2cc Breakfast Show and The World Today with respect to the issues surrounding the International Olympic… Continue Reading
By Rose Clayton In October 2015 I started volunteering in the Law Program of the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre. I avidly followed the plight of refugees in the news but I needed to physically do something about an issues I… Continue Reading
On Thursday 11 August 2016, La Trobe Law School Lecturer Marc Trabsky will be presenting a Flinders University Research Seminar titled ‘Law, Place and the Dead’. The flyer for this event can be accessed, here. Abstract This seminar explores the… Continue Reading
A team of academics from the La Trobe Law School has today lodged a Complaint to the United Nations Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) regarding allegations of violations of Australia’s obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR).… Continue Reading
La Trobe Law School academics and students have recently made a submission to the United Nations Human Rights Committee alleging violations of Australia’s obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). The complaint to the UN was… Continue Reading