NZ’s first large study of lawyer wellbeing finds widespread work-related distress – as well as some potential solutions to address it.
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Courts and universities should distinguish between students who won’t pay and those who can’t – and help them to pay.
AI is transforming how lawyers work, but legal education is lagging behind.
Long a taboo subject within the profession, judges or magistrates bullying lawyers continues to be a problem in courtrooms, and more needs to be done to stamp it out.
A new survey finds working from home is removing barriers for women, but also blurring the barrier between work and the “safe space” of home.
The barrister strike is about more than pay – with women and ethnic minorities leaving the profession, the entire justice system is at stake.
The present state of legal education in Ghana cannot be discussed without understanding its beginings.
Universities and the professions are changing in response to climate change. When will the advances in knowledge and practice we are already seeing prompt governments to act with the required urgency?
The law has a serious problem with sexual harassment and woefully inadequate measures for dealing with it. Here’s how that could change.
The culture of the legal profession has been built by men for men over centuries. It continues to rely heavily on personal networks that reinforce the status quo.
The New York Times reporters who broke the Weinstein story show how lawyers – whether ones who represented him or his victims – enabled the movie mogul’s wrongdoing.
Most Australians don’t read terms and conditions or other contracts, so lawyers are experimenting with comics, graphics and other ways to make them more understandable.
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Professor in International Commercial Law, The University of Western Australia
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Research Officer, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Newcastle Law School, University of Newcastle
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Professor of Law, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Law, City St George's, University of London
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Executive Director, Australian Centre for Student Equity and Success and Professor of Public Policy, Curtin University
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Associate professor in the School of Law at University of the Witwatersrand, who specialises in the areas of contracts, legal ethics and education. , University of the Witwatersrand
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Associate Professor in Law, Auckland University of Technology
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Research Associate, Faculty of Law and Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences, Auckland University of Technology