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AustLII @austlii.edu.au · Aug 25

Last week @austlii.edu.au celebrated its 30th anniversary with a special event bringing together distinguished guests from the judiciary, government, legal profession, academia, and the wider community. www.austlii.edu.au/austlii/even...

AustLII – Australasian Legal Information Institute

Free access to Australian legislation, case law, treaties and legal materials.

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AustLII @austlii.edu.au · Apr 3

The index to the cases is at www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/view...

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AustLII @austlii.edu.au · Apr 3

@austlii.edu.au has completed the digitisation of the High Court Seminal Cases Files. 37 cases, 3155 documents, 72,039 pages. www.austlii.edu.au/austlii/anno...

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AustLII @austlii.edu.au · Apr 3

@austlii.edu.au has completed the digitisation of the High Court Seminal Cases Files. 37 cases, 3155 documents, 72,039 pages. www.austlii.edu.au/austlii/anno...

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AustLII @austlii.edu.au · Mar 31

AustLII will host the 2025 Law Via Internet Conference lvi2025.org & meeting of the Free Access to Law Movement falm.info. Call for Papers: lvi2025.org/callforpapers/ Registration: secure.austlii.edu.au/cgi-egate/re.... We look forward to welcoming you to Sydney.

LVI 2025: Law via the Internet Conference 12-14 November 2025

Empowering a just society through legal information, policy, technology, and practice.

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Graham Greenleaf @grahamgreenleaf.bsky.social · Mar 23

I'm very pleased to be the opening speaker at the 38th Privacy Laws & Business International Conference www.privacylaws.com/events-gatew... to be held at St John's College, Cambridge, UK from 7-9 July 2025. I'm reviewing 'The Global Impact of Data Privacy Laws After 50 years' - should keep me busy!

38th International Conference

The Good, the Bad and the Good Enough<br> <br> 7 - 9 July 2025<br> <br> St John

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Graham Greenleaf @grahamgreenleaf.bsky.social · Mar 23

Last Friday I gave the Occasional Address for the Law Graduation at Macquarie University, on the topic 'How I found my vocation' papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

On 1 Jan 2025 I became an Honorary Professor at Macquarie Law School www.mq.edu.au/faculty-of-a..., after 40 years at UNSW.

<div> Occasional Address to the Macquarie University Graduation Ceremony for the Faculty of Arts </div>

<p><span>I was asked to deliver the Occasional Address to the Macquarie University Graduation Ceremony for the Faculty of Arts (which includes Macquarie Law Sch

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Graham Greenleaf @grahamgreenleaf.bsky.social · Mar 23

AustLII will host the 2025 Law Via Internet Conference lvi2025.org & meeting of the Free Access to Law Movement falm.info

* The Call for Papers is open: lvi2025.org/callforpapers/

* Registration is also open: secure.austlii.edu.au/cgi-egate/re...

We look forward to welcoming you to Sydney.

LVI 2025: Law via the Internet Conference 12-14 November 2025

Empowering a just society through legal information, policy, technology, and practice.

lvi2025.org

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Graham Greenleaf @grahamgreenleaf.bsky.social · Mar 12

The Sultan of Brunei Darussalam, an absolute monarchy, issued on 8 Jan 2025 the Personal Data Protection Order 2025: pdp.aiti.gov.bn/media/tndpdu... Brunei is the 173rd country with a data privacy law. The law is essentially 'private sector only', & borrows many other weaknesses from Singapore.

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AustLII @austlii.edu.au · Mar 14

Merci beaucoup 🙏

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Stéphane Cottin @cottinstef.bsky.social · Mar 13

Diffusion du droit aux antipodes : la fabuleuse histoire de @austlii.edu.au et ses 1000 bases de données.
Mowbray, A. Chung, P & @grahamgreenleaf.bsky.social , Australasian Law in 1,000 Databases: The Evolution of AustLII @ssrn.bsky.social ssrn.com/abstract=477... or dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...

Australasian Law in 1,000 Databases: The Evolution of AustLII

Since 1995, the Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII) has provided national legal research infrastructure that is fundamental to the operation of t

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Tim Stephens @proftimstephens.bsky.social · Feb 3

Professor Johns will be a terrific Dean of the Sydney Law School @sydneyuni.bsky.social. Welcome back @fleurjohns.bsky.social!

#auslaw #internationallaw

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Professor Fleur Johns returns to lead Sydney Law School

Sydney Law School is delighted to welcome Professor Fleur Johns as its new Dean and Head of School. Professor Johns brings extensive experience, a distinguished body of scholarship, and a forward-thin...

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Graham Greenleaf @grahamgreenleaf.bsky.social · Jan 25

For those interested in free access to legal information, AustLII Co-Directors Philip Chung and Andrew Mowbray were today honoured by being appointed as Members of the Order of Australia (AM). The AustLII Media Release concerning the appointments is at:
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AustLII @austlii.edu.au · Jan 25

@austlii.edu.au is delighted to announce that it’s Co-Directors Professor Andrew Mowbray and Professor Philip Chung have been made Members of the Order of Australia in the recent Australia Day awards www.austlii.edu.au/austlii/anno...

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AustLII @austlii.edu.au · Dec 28

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AustLII @austlii.edu.au · Dec 27

What Decisions are published and when is made at the discretion of the Tribunal. Decisions are sent by the Tribunal directly to AustLII, automatically processed and made available (published) usually within an hour or so of being sent.

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AustLII @austlii.edu.au · Dec 26

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AustLII @austlii.edu.au · Dec 26

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Administrative Review Tribunal

Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII), a joint facility of UTS and UNSW Faculties of Law.

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Doc Wolverine @doctorwolverine.bsky.social · Dec 3

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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · Dec 2

NSW community justice centres will be scrapped next year - it’s enshittification in action | Graeme Gibson

The public mediation service where I work has been keeping the peace at no cost to participants for 40 years. But now it’s closing without inquiry or consultation In life, disagreements, arguments and conflicts are inevitable. But there are options for how we respond. Listening, understanding the other person’s point of view, exploring the options and reality testing are at the heart of a successful resolution to conflict. These are stages in mediation before negotiating an agreement, and this is the process followed by the New South Wales Community Justice Centre (CJC) program since it was established more than 40 years ago. Over that time, this free service has consistently seen success rates of around 80%. Continue reading...

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AustLII @austlii.edu.au · Nov 30

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The Weekend Mumbo: Australia has a bunch of exciting new laws!

Forget the AFL rights, television networks should have been scrambling to air the Albanese government’s epic attempt to cram some 76 bills through parliament during one sitting week.Like all sporting ...

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Five Fantastic Lawyers® Legal Directory @ff-lawyers.bsky.social · Nov 29

#ff Black Friday deal of the day thanks to @austlii.edu.au ;-) #followfriday #auslaw #legalaid #legal #law #lawsky #australia ☂️

AustLII @austlii.edu.au · Nov 29

Black Friday Special - Free access to legal resources @austlii.edu.au TODAY ... and every other day 😁

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AustLII @austlii.edu.au · Nov 29

Black Friday Special - Free access to legal resources @austlii.edu.au TODAY ... and every other day 😁

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Imogen Saunders @imogenmarjorie.bsky.social · Nov 27

Someone put @djag2.bsky.social and me in charge of organising ANZSIL this year and it's gonna be fun. Theme and save the date out now - call for papers coming soon. There will be trivia! Hopefully a very special dinner! And of course papers and panels galore - please repost and save the dates.

Douglas Guilfoyle @djag2.bsky.social · Nov 27

Save the date for the world's best-sized international law conference!

The 32nd ANZSIL Annual Conference will be held Wednesday 2 July – Friday 4 July 2025 at the Australian National University.

The Conference Theme is: ‘International Law: Silence, Forgetting and Remembrance’.

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Dear ANZSIL members and friends,

ANZSIL Annual Conference 2025: Save the Date and Conference Theme

It is with great pleasure that the ANZSIL Annual Conference Organising Committee announces the dates, location and theme of the ANZSIL Annual Conference 2025!

The 32nd ANZSIL Annual Conference will be held on Wednesday 2 July – Friday 4 July 2025 at the Australian National University (ANU), Canberra, Australia.

The Conference Theme is: ‘International Law: Silence, Forgetting and Remembrance’.

The Postgraduate Research Student Workshop will be held on Tuesday 1 July 2025.

Save the dates now! The Call for Papers will be issued shortly.

We look forward to seeing you in Canberra in July 2025.

Best wishes,

Imogen Saunders and Douglas Guilfoyle (Co-Chairs of the ANZSIL Conference Organising Committee 2025)

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AustLII @austlii.edu.au · Nov 27

We face the same problem and are constantly blocking unauthorized scraping of our data which violates our usage policies www8.austlii.edu.au/austlii/copy...

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