A 147-year-old dispute between church and state spills onto a school playground
May 03, 2017 02:03 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
The United States Supreme Court recently heard oral arguments in a case from Missouri that could have a significant impact on state funding of religious schools. The case involved a church in Missouri, the Trinity...
Why Dodd-Frank – or its repeal – won't save us from the next crippling Wall Street crash
May 03, 2017 01:54 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
Republicans appear poised to roll back Wall Street regulations passed after the 2008 financial crisis. Democrats argue doing so would be a monumental mistake. Its been framed as a typical fight over regulation....
People make terrible eyewitnesses – but it turns out there's an exception
May 02, 2017 19:22 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
People are often poor eyewitnesses. Psychologists have been demonstrating this in experiments for years, but the justice system in the UK has been slow to catch on. There have been improvements, but lawyers and judges...
US Court Smacks Conservative-Run FCC Over War Against Net Neutrality
May 02, 2017 08:38 am UTC| Technology Law
Ever since Ajit Pai was appointed as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, he has been waging a war against the Net Neutrality rules imposed by the previous administrations FCC. Pai wants to gut Net Neutrality...
Is charter school fraud the next Enron?
Apr 30, 2017 14:24 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
In 2001, Texas-based energy giant Enron shocked the world by declaring bankruptcy. Thousands of employees lost their jobs, and investors lost billions. As a scholar who studies the legal and policy issues pertaining to...
GST carve-up to be examined by the Productivity Commission
Apr 30, 2017 14:09 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The government has ordered the Productivity Commission (PC) to review how the GST revenue is sliced up, setting the scene for a new round of hostilities...
Here's when British police are legally allowed to shoot under a new policy on lethal force
Apr 30, 2017 14:05 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
Against a backdrop of increased police militarisation, police chiefs in the UK have announced a more aggressive policy on the use of lethal force. There are now 640 more firearms officers in England and Wales than there...
South Africa’s plan to move away from coal: 8 steps to make it succeed
Germany lowers voting age to 16 for the European elections
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects