The University of New South Wales Law Journal is delighted to announce the launch of Issue 46(4), which has the theme 'Power, Workers and the Law'. Professor Keith Ewing will deliver a keynote address on the thematic topic. Professor Ewing is Professor of Public Law at King's College London, a Senior Fellow at Melbourne Law School, the President of the Institute of Employment Rights (a trade union-funded think tank), the President of the Campaign for Trade Union Freedom, and Vice President of the International Centre of Trade Union Right. He has written extensively on labour law, the law of democracy, and civil liberties.
The thematic component of Issue 46(4) includes six articles about Australian employment and industrial relations law. The articles discuss recent reforms to Australia's collective bargaining and industrial action laws; the creation of a federal law criminalising wage theft; an anti-essentialist and intersectional analysis of the Workplace Gender Equality Act 2012 (Cth); the High Court's new tests for determining a worker's employment status in Personnel Contracting and ZG Operations; non-compete restraints in employment contracts; and how unfair dismissal, enterprise bargaining, and work health and safety legislation should adapt to climate change.
Issue 46(4) also includes four outstanding general articles about parliamentary accountability during the COVID-19 pandemic; how pandemic policing undermines the social determinants of public health; Canadian and Australian courts’ approaches to the integration of customary international law in domestic common law; and voluntary assisted dying legislation in all Australian states.
The launch for Issue 46(4) will take place at 6pm on Wednesday 13 December 2023 at the Sydney offices of King & Wood Mallesons, one of the Journal's premier sponsors.
Please RSVP by 5pm on Wednesday 6 December 2023.
