Professor of Law, UNSW
Luke McNamara is Professor and Co-Director of the Centre for Crime, Law and Justice, Faculty of Law, UNSW. His primary research fields are criminal law and criminal justice, and human rights law. He is involved in a national study of criminalisation as a public policy mechanism, and is also researching the impact of criminal law, policing and local government laws on the use of public spaces, focusing on the history and operation of laws concerned with offensive language/behaviour, public intoxication, consorting and busking. He recently completed (in collaboration with Professor Kath Gelber, School of Political Science and International Studies, University of Queensland) an ARC Discovery Project funded study of the impact of hate speech laws on public discourse in Australia.
Law and order is no get-out-of-jail card for floundering politicians
Dec 16, 2018 13:07 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law Politics
With confidence in politicians at an all-time low, it would be easy to assume criminal law-making is only ever about law and order bidding and winning elections. For example, when it emerged that Hassan Khalif Shire Ali...
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