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The recent #BondiJunction tragedy raises important questions about #CompulsoryTreatmentOrders . Dr Kay Wilson discusses how we balance public safety with the rights of individuals with mental illness to make decisions about their own wellbeing → unimelb.me/447JjrY
Author of the new book ‘Artificial Justice’ and Melbourne Law School's Professor Tatiana Dancy (Cutts) delves into how using computerised risk scores to make decisions about people can cause them deep and unjustified harm.
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Join us 2 May as we welcome The Hon. Justice Karin Emerton, Supreme Court of Victoria (Australia), to discuss 'Punishment and Responsibility: Assessing Moral Culpability in Sentencing' at the Law School.
She will examine the courts approaches to individualised justice → unimelb.me/3U0lyOa
Australia’s media isn’t accurately reporting all sides of the Murray-Darling Basin debate, says Dr Anna Kosovac.
Research with Melbourne Law School reveals how the lack of balanced reporting might be harming public perceptions of environmental water.
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There are algorithms that make predictions about recidivism on the basis of factors such as poverty, or the criminality of family and friends. Should we use them to send people to prison, or keep them in prison? I wrote for The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand Melbourne Law School theconversation.com/algorithms-tha…
What happens when computer algorithms are used to make important decisions about how to treat people? Tatiana Dancy (Cutts) argues that the risks go beyond inequality, to questions about the value of choice - the chances that we have to shape our own lives.
Congratulations Tatiana!
Prof. Charles Mitchell from UCL Faculty of Laws delves into the complexities of accountability in 'knowing receipt' of trust property. Join us on Wednesday 27 March as he explores the nuances of fiduciary duty breaches and court interpretations.
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Water allocations in the Murray-Darling are a contentious issue.
Experts say a lack of balance in media reporting harms public perception of the process and Indigenous custodians barely get a look in.
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w/ Melbourne Law School Dr Anna Kosovac Dr Erin O'Donnell
The expertise of people with lived experience of mental health conditions should be employed to help turbocharge system-wide reform, says Emeritus Professor Bernadette McSherry Bernadette McSherry.
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Being a humanitarian worker in conflict zones exposes you to the worst and best of humanity, showing us there’s more that unites us than divides us, says University of Melbourne Dr Helen Durham AO, RedR Australia.
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