Andrew Henderson

The nature of legal practice is changing rapidly. Law schools' traditional emphasis on exams and essays provides little opportunity for students to build the broad range of skills they will need to meet the new legal workplace's demands. At the same time, the expectations held by universities, admitting authorities and employers that law schools' a...

The nature of legal practice is changing rapidly. Law schools' traditional emphasis on exams and essays provides little opportunity for students to build the broad range of skills they will need in order to meet the new legal workplace's demands. At the same time, the expectations held by universities, admitting authorities, and employers that law...

Postmodern theories of the development of archival collections argue that archives created and administered under executive power often exclude voices and accounts outside the mainstream. These critiques are generally directed towards the absence of life experiences outside the purview of the central activities of the state. However, there is littl...

The Federal Court of Australia performs a fundamentally important role within Australia’s democratic system. It has served as a site for the disputation, negotiation and resolution of issues fundamentally important to Australian society. It does so in the context of a constitutional system affirming the principle of separation of powers and the rul...

The lengthy history of the Massachusetts courts and their establishment as courts of record means that their records of proceedings contain a wealth of information about the development and growth of the colony as part of a nascent United States. Although Massachusetts’ courts are much older than the Federal Court of Australia, they have confronted...

Everybody is continuously connected … with the flood of information jeopardizing meaning. Everybody’s talking at once in a hypnotic, hyper din: the cocktail party from hell. (Dowd 2013)