The cleverest lawsong lyricist on the federal bench, McDonald J, will be ceremonially welcomed in about 25 mins.

NSW Health is warning the public of high-dose MDMA tablets (ecstasy) in circulation in NSW, found to contain a higher dose than is usually expected. The red irregular-shaped tablets have an imprint of the ‘anarchy’ symbol on each side.

ISSUE 47(2): Associate Professor Marco Rizzi, Dr Penny Gleeson (Penny Gleeson) and Professor Jeannie Marie Paterson (JeannieMariePaterson) examine the interaction between therapeutic goods regulation and consumer law in Australia. law.unimelb.edu.au/__data/assets/…

The over-representation of neurodivergent children in Youth Justice Systems and The Youth Court - Anne-Marie Day, Clare Allely, Louise Robinson, Kim Turner, Felicity Gerry KC, Andrew Forrester, 2024 journals.sagepub.com/eprint/UPXRSN4…

RIP Fred Schauer. Like many, I learned a ton from reading him over the years, but here's an early favorite. I read this piece as a 1L, and it changed the way I thought about "formalism," which was most often used thoughtlessly as a derogatory term in my first encounters with it.

Report finds considerable risk that compulsory IM: ‘constitutes an impermissible limitation on the rights to social security, privacy, and equality and non-discrimination’ + (for some) ‘the right to an adequate standard of living, the right to health, and the rights of the child’

“Rather than group homes, which are run more like service facilities than people’s homes, we recommend reforms to establish share houses”. New Grattan Institute report brings together decades of efforts on independent living to the issue of housing & the NDIS. grattan.edu.au/news/shares-ho…

Teaching this at the moment in my master’s unit: Australia preserved its ability to do this through its interpretative declaration of article 18 of the UNCRD on ratification in 2008. It’s well covered in the Disability RC too.