http://hdl.handle.net/10453/296 2013-06-19T20:37:06Z 2013-06-19T20:37:06Z Rudduck Sylvan Williams Mary-Anne Stoianoff Natalie http://hdl.handle.net/10453/19420 2012-10-12T03:37:16Z 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Visualizing the Shape of Quality: An application in the context of Intellectual Property Rudduck Sylvan; Williams Mary-Anne; Stoianoff Natalie Janna Hastings, Oliver Kutz, Mehul Bhatt, Stefano Borgo The aim of this work is to explore how the concept of shape can be applied in the context of Intellectual Property Law (IPL). Despite the global nature of IPL, the system is plagued with considerable uncertainty, especially in the specific instrument of patents. We believe the shape concept can find a balance between the inventive ideas, patent claims and objects in the world. The outcomes of this can then be measured as a time-dependent expectancy that an invention will conform to legal rules when under examination by officials. Specifically, we establish an empirical-based benchmark which can be utilized to test whether shape (via visual figures) is useful in reducing the uncertainty (measured via number of examination actions) which an applicant might face in patenting technological ideas.

2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Van Rijswijk Honni http://hdl.handle.net/10453/14175 2011-02-07T06:29:05Z 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Poetics and Politics of Politics of Past Injuries: Claiming in Reparations Law and in Toni Morrison's novel Beloved Van Rijswijk Honni Deirdre Howard-Wagner Why is there such a discrepancy between legal time and historical time? Or rather, whose historical time is tacitly represented and silently justified in legal representations? Whose interests are served by the law¿s particular fictions and whose injuries are privileged? In exploring these questions I will focus on the 2006 case of In re African- American Slave Descendants, a claim made for reparations for slavery in the U.S. Since the 1980s a number of litigants have filed claims for injuries arising out of slavery and none has succeeded, but these very failures are worth examining for what they reveal about the contemporary inability to reconcile the demands of the past on the present.

2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Li Xiaoguang http://hdl.handle.net/10453/11514 2010-05-28T10:05:17Z 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Understanding the Modern Chinese Contract Law and its implications to trading with China Li Xiaoguang SYLVIA MERCADO KIERKEGAARD

2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Anthony Thalia http://hdl.handle.net/10453/11511 2010-05-28T10:05:16Z 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sentencing Indigenous Resisters as if the Death in Custody Never Occured Anthony Thalia Segrave, Marie This paper addresses the trends in sentencing by higher courts of Indigenous protesters against `white¿ racist violence. It contrasts earlier sentencing decisions affecting resisters on the Yarrabah Reserve in 1981 and towards the 1987 death in custody of Lloyd Boney at Brewarrina (NSW), with later sentencing of protesters after Mulrunji¿s death in custody on Palm Island in 2004. It argues that Indigenous resisters are increasingly characterised by sentencing judges as out-of-control rather than capable of legitimate political engagement. This dovetails a denunciation of the Indigenous community in media moral panics that demands more punitive restraint.

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