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How do cooperative rebates and asset specificity impact operating performance of farmer cooperatives? evidence from China
Authors: Zeng Lijun , Wan Junyi
Published: November 2024

Improving farmer cooperatives’ operating performance is essential for their economic sustainability and for promoting sustainable agricultural development. Despite the prominent role of benefit distribution and asset specificity in cooperation organizations, their impact on performance remains controversial, and the relationship between the three is unclear. This study focuses on cooperative benefit distribution in terms of their rebates (first and second rebates) and investigates the relationship between asset specificity, cooperative rebate and operating performance. The results show that both the first and second rebates have a positive impact on operating performance and play substitutive roles in increasing operating performance. Physical asset specificity (PAS) impacts first rebates positively, whereas human asset specificity (HAS) impacts first rebates negatively. PAS has a positive effect on operating performance whereas HAS has no significant influence on operating performance. Furthermore, the first rebate mediates the relationship between PAS and operating performance and suppresses the relationship between HAS and operating performance. These findings provide support for developing relevant policies to improve cooperative performance and sustainability.
Lynchings and Socio-Political and Economic Dynamics
Authors: Ramírez Soruco Alejandra
Published: November 2024

Based on an overview of the different lynching acts in Cochabamba (Bolivia), the article analyzes the relationship existing between these forms of collective punitive actions with three specific dynamics: territorial, economic and sociopolitical. It seeks to show how the configuration of an increasingly fragmented society –in socioeconomic and political terms- is supported by violent citizen interrelations, in which lynching acts are constant. This makes difficult to develop an integrated public management, delaying the possibility of a harmonious citizen’s coexistence.
Stabilization of Sub-Grade Material Using Quarry Dust
Authors: Tertsea Dekpoghol , Ephraim Akpusugh Verse
Published: November 2024

For pavements and other constructions to be stable and long-lasting, subgrade soil stabilization is essential in civil engineering. The application of quarry dust as an economical and environmentally friendly way to improve the qualities of sub-grade materials is the main topic of this study. It has been demonstrated that using quarry dust, which is a byproduct of the crushing process in quarries, as a stabilizing agent increases the strength and load-bearing capacity of soil. It has been noted that adding quarry dust to sub-grade soil improves compaction, lowers plasticity, and raises the California Bearing Ratio (CBR), all of which improve performance and workability under load construction.

In this study, a sub-grade soil were collected for testing test. Compaction, CBR, and Atterberg limits test were among the laboratory studies used to evaluate how quarry dust affected the characteristics of the sub grade soil. The findings suggested quarry dust as a potential stabilizer for road building and other infrastructure projects since they showed a high degree of improvements in strength properties and decreased susceptibility to water. This technique offers a low-cost way to improve soil strength and lessen the environmental impact of conventional stabilizers, in addition making quarry dust waste a sustainable purpose.
Comparison of Method of Stabilization of Laterite Using Sharp Sand and Quarry Dust
Authors: Tertsea Dekpoghol , Ephraim Akpusugh Verse
Published: November 2024

Due to its high plasticity, poor compressive strength, and moisture vulnerability, laterite soil—which is frequently found in tropical areas like Nigeria—is widely available but has limited use as a building material. Therefore, it is crucial to stabilize laterite soil in order to increase its longevity, load-bearing capability, and resilience to environmental factors. The usefulness of two substitute stabilization materials—quarry dust and sharp sand—as reasonably priced, locally available stabilizing agents for laterite is examined and contrasted in this study. While quarry dust, a by-product of crushing stone, is predicted to increase compressive strength and decrease plasticity because of its finer particles and higher filling capacity, sharp sand, with its coarse, angular particles, is thought to improve the soil's compaction characteristics and bulk density. The effects of each stabilizer on laterite properties at different mix proportions were evaluated using a battery of tests, including Compaction, California Bearing Ratio (CBR), and Atterberg limits. The stability and strength of laterite soil are found to be positively impacted, albeit to varying degrees, by both sharp sand and quarry dust. While quarry dust greatly increases compressive strength and decreases plasticity, making it more suitable for load-bearing applications, sharp sand improves compaction and workability, making it appropriate for general fill applications. According to the results, sharp sand provides an affordable option for projects with moderate strength requirements, whereas quarry dust would be better for high-strength requirements. This work contributes to the production of affordable, sustainable building materials in tropical areas by offering insightful information about the relative advantages of employing quarry dust and sharp sand for laterite stabilization.
A Delayed Postoperative Anastomotic Submucosal Abscess
Authors: Hu Xiao-Tong , Wang Dong
Published: November 2024

Delayed anastomotic submucosal abscess is a rare complication of rectal tumor resection. A submucosal tumor-like lesion near the anastomotic site was detected in a 57-year-old woman, and pus and sutures were found through spontaneously formed fistulas. Endoscopic ultrasound confirmed the presence of hyperechoic pus flowing out from the fistulas on compression of the lesion. The patient recovered well without surgery. This case indicates that submucosal abscess should be taken into consideration if suspected submucosal tumor-like lesions are detected after rectal surgery. Endoscopic drainage combined with antibiotic treatment may be an effective strategy for limited postoperative anastomotic abscess.
On remedying the presence of heteroscedasticity in a multiple linear regression modelling
Authors: Uchenna Ohaegbulem Emmanuel , Iheaka Victor Chijindu
Published: November 2024

This study demonstrated the very essence of remedying the presence of heteroscedasticity, where it existed, in regression modelling. Two different hypothetical data, Data A (the Original) and Data B (the Original), were used in this study for the purpose of illustration. The normality, multicollinearity and autocorrelation assumptions were satisfied, but the Breusch-Pagan test and the White test established the existence of heteroscedasticity in the two datasets. The estimated multiple linear regression model for Data A (the Original) was statistically significant with an R-square value of 0.976, an AIC value of 332.5929, and an SBC value of 347.2533; and the one for Data B (the Original) was also statistically significant with an R-square value of 0.553, an AIC value of 69.89669, and an SBC value of 82.15499. The Log-transformation was applied on the variables in Data A (the Original) and Data B (the Original) to give rise to new sets of data, Data A (Now with Heteroscedasticity Remedied) and Data B (Now with Heteroscedasticity Remedied); which equally satisfied the normality, multicollinearity and autocorrelation assumptions, and also satisfied that there were no existence of heteroscedasticity in the two datasets. Now, the estimated multiple linear regression model for Data A (Now with Heteroscedasticity Remedied) was statistically significant with an R-square value of 0.986, an AIC value of -135.021, and an SBC value of -120.361; and the estimated model for Data B (Now with Heteroscedasticity Remedied) was statistically significant with an R-square value of 0.624, an AIC value of -32.0801, and an SBC value of -19.8218. From the points of view of the values of the R-square (0.986>0.976 and 0.624>0.553), AIC (-135.021<332.5929 and -32.0801<69.89669) and SBC (-120.361<347.2533 and -19.8218<82.15499), it was evident that the estimated regression models for Data A (Now with Heteroscedasticity Remedied) and Data B (Now with Heteroscedasticity Remedied) were, respectively, better models when compared to the regression models for Data A (the Original) and Data B (the Original).
Efficient design of a reversible 2-to-4 decoder in quantum-dot cellular automata using Toffoli gates
Authors: Galadima Bahijja Yahaya , Galadanci Garba Shehu Musa , Shehu Nura Muhammad
Published: November 2024

This research presents an optimized design of a 2-to-4 decoder in Quantum-dot Cellular Automata (QCA) using a new formula developed from the Reversible. The proposed QCA decoder architecture employs 112 cells and occupies an area of 0.13μm², achieving a significant reduction in size compared to previous designs. The circuit is designed using a single-layer approach, enhancing its efficiency and minimizing power dissipation. Simulation results using the QCA Designer simulator version 2.0.3 demonstrate the enhanced functionality of the suggested decoder in regard to functionality and also efficiency, making it a promising candidate for future nanoscale integrated circuit applications.
Effect of Trichosanthes cucumerina Methanol Extract on CRP and Fibrinogen Levels in Diabetic Ulcer Rat Models
Authors: Shafriani Nazula Rahma , Astuti Tri Dyah , Amri Shofy Farha Aulia , Permana Riski Aditya , Fridhoriansyah Zuvi , Maharani Intan
Published: November 2024

Diabetic ulcers can be fatal for people with long-term diabetes. This is caused by the spread of diabetic ulcers and inadequate care for the wound, which can induce an infection and even death. This study aims to determine inflammatory markers, specifically fibrinogen and C-Reactive Protein (CRP), as indicators of healing, particularly in a rat model of diabetic ulcers treated with Trichosanthes cucumerina methanol extract. The methods used were making extracts, measuring blood glucose levels, measuring CRP, and measuring fibrinogen levels in 25 male Wistar rats. Based on the results of glucose and fibrinogen examinations in all groups before treatment and after treatment, it showed a decrease in glucose and fibrinogen levels. Meanwhile, the results of CRP examinations, before and after treatment did not show any differences. The results of statistical analysis showed that there was a significant difference of p<0.05 in pre and post glucose, as well as pre and post fibrinogen.The extract that reduced fibrinogen levels the most was group 3 with 500 mg/KgBW. Meanwhile, CRP levels before and after treatment did not show a decrease.
The Effectiveness of Fragrant Pandan Leaves Ethanol Extract in Reducing Cholesterol Levels In High-Fat Diet-Induced Rats
Authors: Sukanty Ni Made Wiasty , Ariani Farida , Yunita Lina
Published: November 2024

Coronary heart disease was the primary cause of death in Asia in 2019. Indonesia is the country with the highest increase in cholesterol levels in Southeast Asia. One of the causes of coronary heart disease is consuming foods high in cholesterol. The commonly given therapy is simvastatin. However, long-term use of simvastatin can cause side effects, so it is necessary to use other alternatives. Pandanus ammaryllifolius also known as fragrant pandan is a plant that is often found in Indonesia and is used in the culinary industry. This study aims to test the effectiveness of fragrant pandan leaves ethanol extract (FPLEE) in reducing cholesterol levels in rats. A total of 30 rats were split into six groups (NC, C+, C-, T1, T2, and T3) and induced on a high-fat diet, except the NC group for 14 days. For the next 14 days, C+ was given a high-fat diet, C- was given simvastatin, T1, T2, and T3 were respectively given FPLEE doses of 8, 16, and 32 mg/200 g BW/day. Next, cholesterol levels were measured. The results of cholesterol levels were tested statistically using One-Way ANOVA and post hoc LSD tests with a = 0.05. There is no substantial difference between NC, C-, and T2. There is a significant difference between T1 and C+ with a higher T1 value. Meanwhile, for T3, there is no significant difference between T3 and NC, C-, and C+. Thus, the most effective dose for reducing cholesterol levels is 16 mg/200 g BW/day.
Preparation of Ni/Bentonite Acid-Activated using Dragon Fruit Peel Extract (Hylocereus polyrhizus) As a Reductor for One Pot Synthesis of Menthol
Authors: Marhayuni Yuni , Widiakongko Priyagung Dhemi
Published: November 2024

Ni/Bentonite is acid-activated has been synthesized using dragon fruit peel extract (Hylocereus polyrhizus) as a reductor through an impregnation method. This research aims to characterize Ni/Bentonite acid-activated using dragon fruit peel extract as a reductor based on FTIR and XRD instruments and to analyze the product obtained in one pot synthesis of menthol from citronellal using Ni/Bentonite acid-activated catalyst. Preparation of Ni/Bentonite acid-activated catalyst was carried out using a wet impregnation method with dragon fruit peel extract as a natural reductor. The successful synthesis of Ni/Bentonite acid-activated was confirmed by FTIR spectrum identification, showing absorptions at wavelengths of 1049.28 cm?¹ and 694.37 cm?¹, indicating Si-O groups in the bentonite, and XRD diffractogram indicating the presence of Ni at diffraction peaks of 2? = 40.5° and 2? = 47.74°. The catalyst was able to convert menthol by 0.77% through one pot synthesis without using H? sources such as potassium formate.
The Impact of IFRS on Annual Report Length
Authors: Marunga Maria , Bradbury Michael
Published: November 2024

The move to the NZ IFRS has been surrounded by complaints of too much information being provided. This is not simply a matter of the cost of providing the information, but the possibility of data overload. Data overload is an important issue as it impacts information search strategies and decision outcomes. This is relevant for assessing whether the NZ IFRS has achieved its goals of reducing the cost of financial analysis. This paper develops a model of information processing capacity and then examines the impact of the move to international financial reporting by New Zealand listed entities on the quantity of data provided in their annual reports. Our analysis shows that the annual report length increased for 92% of our sample firms. The average increase in size was 29% above the prior years’ annual report and arose through notes to the accounts and accounting policies. Even after transitional information (e.g. accounting policies and reconciliations) the increase was 15%.
Strolling the Coastline: Criminology in Everyday Life: Through ‘Landscape’ from Gaol to ‘Badlands’
Authors: Brown D.
Published: November 2024

Part travelogue, part flight of fancy, this paper recounts a coastline stroll from Maroubra Beach to Bondi in Sydney’s eastern suburbs. The author as ‘travel guide’ points out features of potential interest to two visiting criminological colleagues as they ‘pass by’ scenery of great beauty shadowed by acts of spectacular violence. The everyday acts of walking and talking while passing through a ‘landscape’ serve to constitute a criminology of everyday life, illustrating the way in which a consciousness of crime, crime sites, analyses and theories permeates the ways a ‘tourist trail’ might be experienced and seen, myths made and histories forged. The walk starts with the unseen lines of penal force radiating from Long Bay Gaol, before skirting through surfing and its regulation; the ‘brotherhood’ of the BRA Boys; the Hines killing and the politics of self defence; the shark arm case, the Virgin Mary and the Bali bombing memorial at Coogee; zones of the beach and Jock Young’s Vertigo at Bronte and Tamarama; before finishing at the Marks Park ‘badlands’ at Bondi, scene of a series of mostly unsolved and unpunished homophobic killings, giving rise to reflections on ‘ungrievable lives’, memory, mourning and forgetting.
Sex in the Room: An Imaginative Crime Scene Involving Trafficked Women
Authors: Marmo M.
Published: November 2024

In September 2007 in Trafalgar Square, London, a trafficked woman’s bedroom was recreated as part of an exhibition, The Journey, organised by Helen Bamber to raise public awareness on the condition of trafficked women for sexual exploitation. A blood-stained bed moving up and down automatically, a brush and perfumes, a small mirror with ‘help me’ written on it, and a blonde wig were the details of that tiny unglamorous room shown to the public. The function and scope of the exhibition was far from ‘artistic’. The exhibition aimed to raise consciousness that human beings, mainly women, are trafficked into rich destination countries, such as Britain, to be used in the sex industry as sexual objects to be consumed cheaply. If these women are imported in Britain is because there are people willing to consume the product. The ‘room’ of the exhibition becomes the iconic place where the victim is held against her will to perform sexual duties under duress. The room therefore functions as a crime scene: this contained physical space is the prison of an enslaved human being, repeatedly abused physically, sexually and mentally. However, it is questioned how the reconstruction of this crime scene can be perceived by the public. It is argued that the exhibit can evoke different responses. Visitors animate the space with imagined crimes (repeated violent crimes, rapes) in the silent absence of the victim; and they can imagine as much or as little as they want or can, based on their knowledge.
The happy couple : law and literature
Authors: West R.
Published: November 2024

The Happy Couple: Law and Literature, J. Neville Turner and Pamela Williams, eds. Sydney, The Federation Press, 1994.
The Happy Couple: Law and Literature, is a collection of thirty two papers (plus a quiz on Dickens), most of which were delivered at the second annual convention of the Australian Law and Literature Association, held at Monash University in 1991. In their Preface to the collection, the editors note that this is the first Australian collection of work in law and literature, and explain that it is, in their view, a representative sampling ofAustralian work in the field (xv). The book as a whole attests not only to the range of interests and subject matter, but also of disciplinary expertise and style covered by the Australian Law and Literature movement; as the editors suggest in their preface, there is truly something here for everyone (xvi).
Letters of the law : the trial of E. K. Avery for the murder of Sarah M. Cornell
Authors: Barbour J.
Published: November 2024

The district attorney [prosecuting a murder in USA 1900] said that it was difficult to assemble a jury "owing to the notoriety and publicity which has been given to the case and to the fact that it has been widely commented on". Television may have made it almost impossible to find a jury for O. J. Simpson, but before TV there was the cigar store (London Review of Books, 20 April 1995: 4).
The case
In Newport Rhode Island in the summer of 1833, a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Ephraim Kingsbury Avery, was tried for the murder of a mill-worker, Sarah Maria Cornell, in the small settlement of Fall River, near the Rhode Island-Massachusetts border. The case had wide publicity coverage, and set judicial precedents: forty eight jurors were challenged before twelve were empannelled; the trial took over four weeks (7 May to 6 June) instead of the usual two at most; the defense called dozens of witnesses, at one point bunching nine women character witnesses (all unfavourable to Cornell), and at another seven men who provided minute-by-minute alibis for Avery (Kasserman 1986: 169), to make a cumulative 'serial' effect on the jury. It recalled numbers of prosecution witnesses to the stand for aggressive cross-examination, and managed to shake the prosecution's most important eye-witness identification of Avery. Even the charges against Avery were awkwardly framed, perhaps designedly to cover doubts as to whether the cause of death was from being bashed, strangled or hanged, or perhaps to preempt the claim that Cornell had suicided; all of these explanations were favoured in some quarters.
Error of disclosure
Authors: Strobbe N.
Published: November 2024

Was it that there was no law, no land, a land of no one, nothing (terra nullius)? A land, but a land without anyone or anything (a land of nobody's, no one, a land that belonged to the nothing of this other one who by force and contract will have been turned into the subject of this law) or, more precisely, a land with nothing, a land of nothing, a land with a very particular nothing. This land whose non-law, ostensibly, will have become, at once for the future and throughout its indeterminate past (but how could these be separated for a land which was said to have lacked what an officer of the English state could not discover?), a land whose nonsite would be erased in the name of a sovereign law that recognisedjus nullius in the site of law's dominion, demanding in this relation that law enact itself in the very site of its absence (where this nothing would be returned to the identity ofa law that recognised nothing but its law of identity).
Preface: putting the question
Authors: Perrin C.
Published: November 2024

Terra nullius is the principle of aviolence that inheres in every origin. And in its wake there is no law, no text, no culture, free of that violence. The origin is no accident. Terra nullius is not an historical error.
Our conceptual legacy is the unsettled and unsettling history of this violence. It demands critical and creative thinking. Or else, in the name of justice, equality, freedom, identity, community, sovereignty, history and, indeed, of violence itself, we are condemned to repeat this origin again and again.
It's this war
Authors: Finlayson R.
Published: November 2024

it's this war that's raging off on the horizon my heart the war that's singing missiles of love across the wire the war that's wandering into my kitchen into the bath the news of the world the songs of the dead friends the great hope oflaughter as I step up into the light on the red red plain and wonder at the beauty ofspinifex off to the sky
Tomber juste
Authors: Strobbe N.
Published: November 2024

This name no longer names Jean-Francois Lyotard. A name which can no longer speak in our idiom, an absolutely different name, a diffirend. How to remember the unpresentable?
What time belongs to this temporality; this passing that has been, and that goes under to his name (with which we are out of touch, and which left in the historicity of a touch, leaving touch, dis-sensus)?
Contents, Introduction & Contributors, LTC, volume 22
Authors: Condello Angela
Published: November 2024

Since the first informal discussion I had with Marett Leiboff a couple of years ago, this special issue was conceived as an attempt to rephrase the relationship between the system of concepts and questions that mark Derrida’s reflections on grammatology, the archive, and the trace - on the one hand, and the languages through which normativity can be expressed, on the other. I intentionally use the term ‘normativity’, which is broader than ‘law’, to engage with a legal-theoretical reflection on a series of transformations that characterize our time, and especially those transformations produced by the emergence and introduction of digital technologies and the internet. Through the lens of a symbolic language composed by the archive, following Jacques Derrida’s concept of ‘grammatology’ and Maurizio Ferraris’ concept of ‘documentality’, the connections between law and technology show a double bind with both the materiality of the codes on which normativity is inscribed, and with the symbolic dimension that attributes authority to the inscriptions. The contemporary ‘technological turn’ is producing changes at an anthropological, existential and social level, and it also reflects on this double bind (material-symbolic) connecting law and technology; in other words, the current transformation and the ‘total mobilization’ characterizing contemporary life complexify the relationship between law and grammatology, hence the idea to rephrase the relationship between traces, documents, archives and law.
Interstices: new work on legal spaces
Authors: Manderson D.
Published: November 2024

The study of space in law insists on the material world as essentially constitutive of law and in both the analytic and the continental traditions of jurisprudence, law has too often been treated as a series of abstract propositions, a structure of norms in search of applications. Legal spaces explores the diversity of legal norms and the disparateness of legal effects not just in terms of the social elements that constantly work to generate and differentiate it, but the physical elements too, and of course the social and the physical are likewise mutually implicated.
The tangle of colonial modernity: Hong Kong as a distinct linguistic and conceptual space within the global common law
Authors: Hutton Christopher
Published: November 2024

Hong Kong, or more formally, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR), is a common law jurisdiction within the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Hong Kong was officially a British colony from 1843 to 1997, although colonial rule began in practice in 1841. Post-1997 Hong Kong is unusual in that it is a common law jurisdiction within a civil law state, the legal system of which was set up initially on the Soviet model. The People’s Republic of China is a unitary state under one party rule, and no power can be permanently ceded from the centre. Hong Kong is therefore a zone of discretionary exception created under the ‘one country, two systems’ policy, albeit one buttressed by an international agreement, the Sino-British Joint Declaration of 1984, and formalised in the Basic Law. A striking feature of this constitutional arrangement is that it is time-bound. The ‘high degree of autonomy’ promised to Hong Kong expires on June 30, 2047, with the subsequent special status of Hong Kong, if any, yet to be determined.
On St Margaret Street
Authors: Nield Sophie
Published: November 2024

It is not unusual to hear events in public space, be they state-sponsored or resistant, described as ‘pure theatre’, ‘political drama’ or ‘political theatre’. Historically, discussion of political events in public space has often started from the premise that they are ‘theatrical’ because they share attributes with conventional theatre practice – because they use actors, props, scenery, narratives. Certainly, events such as rallies, military parades and demonstrations are ‘theatre-like’ to the extent that they are concerned with concepts and ideas not otherwise materially present, they are organised around the symbolic production of meaning, and they are ‘stage-managed’ in order to be read. Yet it seems to me that the ‘theatrical’ must be expanded as a category both in order to permit a politicised and serious engagement with public events from a theatrical perspective, and also to defend the theatre itself from marginalisation. As soon as the ranks break, the teargas explodes, as soon as damage is done – as soon as anything really happens – it is no longer called ‘pure theatre’ or ‘political drama’.
On Prisons and Theatres: Santo Stefano and San Carlo
Authors: Branco Patricia
Published: November 2024

The interconnection between law and theatre can be seen as having both specular and spectacular functions, in which space acts as a manifestation of power to shape the place or stage where law and theatre come to life and perform their spectacle. To explore this link I will use the example of the eighteenth century prison at Santo Stefano Island in Italy. The curiosity regarding this building arises from the fact that its architectural plan may have been copied from that of the San Carlo Theatre in Naples. Bentham’s Panopticon was published between the date of construction of the theatre and that of the prison. While the two buildings span the publication of the Panopticon, they also mirror each other in the panoptical direction of their gaze. I will explore these mutual influences and inversions.
Law and the Fool
Authors: Rogers Nicole
Published: November 2024

The Fool historically occupied a unique and privileged position. Accustomed and indeed required to deride the ruler and poke fun at the state, he remained immune from any form of punitive retribution. My focus in this article is on the antics of contemporary Fools and the extent to which the state’s response to such antics is circumscribed. I shall analyse the contemporary Fool’s satirical and playful activities as one form within the broad spectrum of performances of resistance to the authority of the state. Playful, satirical and/or carnivalesque performances of the Fool, in which the state is held up for ridicule without any suggestion of violence, are at one end of this spectrum; at the other end are performances of law-making violence such as contemporary acts of terrorism which, if successful, comprise the ‘ungraspable revolutionary instant’ during which a new state is constituted (Derrida 1990: 1001).
In these prisons
Authors: Morris K.
Published: November 2024

in these prisons
there are no guards
in these prisons
there are no bars
no barbed wires
no large stone walls
in these prisons
there are regular beatings
often deaths in custody
in this prison
i get day leave
Dead reckoning
Authors: Ball B.
Published: November 2024

Four hundred years after Christopher Marlowe's death in a Deptford inn, stabbed through the right eye by one Ingram Frizer, two books continue searching for the reasons behind the murder: Charles Nicholl's The Reckoning and Anthony Burgess's A Dead Man in Deptford. In part, the anniversary itself is occasion to reopen the inquest, particularly for the clockwatcher Burgess. Moreover, some new evidence has emerged in the last few decades which needs to be incorporated in the story. But underlying these motives is the feeling that after four hundred years we are getting closer to understanding the duplicitous, seething cauldron of the Elizabethan world, rather than further away. Marlowe's plays speak to us of Power with shifting irony, in our own 'modem' cynical voice. His brief life, too, is a psychological link between the sixteenth and twentieth- centuries: the original antiauthoritarian James Dean, Marlowe lived fast and died young, a rebel with a cause.
Terra nullius
Authors: Ginibi R. L.
Published: November 2024

Where is our land, that used to be?
Not ravaged by careless hands, cutting down all the trees
that help us to breath.
Eroded soils and polluted rivers - 'Oh! Mother Earth, I cry for you,
I cry for the pain you must feel!'
All our native flora and fauna, almost gone!
even the little forest creatures too!
Playing the system
Authors: Handley R.
Published: November 2024

Alexandra Long worked as a solicitor before concentrating on her career as a writer. I Took My Harp to a Party is a collection of 10 short stories. Only the first story, "The Doctor Daddy" has a legal theme, but it is not of the usual lawyer, client and trial variety. This story is about a clerk obstructing a young solicitor, Timothy Masterton, who is endeavouring to file a series of defamation documents in the Supreme Court Registry in Sydney. The Registry is a typical bureaucracy with inflexible rules and a hierarchy of decision-making.
Photographs and labels: Against a criminology of innocence
Authors: Biber K.
Published: November 2024

In 2000 the American photographer Taryn Simon began photographing people whose criminal convictions had been overturned through the work of the Innocence Project. Founded at Cardozo Law School, the Innocence Project aims to acquit falsely-convicted people by introducing evidence that was unavailable or not admitted during their trial. Mostly, the new evidence is derived from DNA technology which, for reasons of overwhelming scientific acceptance, is regarded as definitive. In 2003 Simon’s series The Innocents was exhibited at PS.1, an established centre of contemporary art in New York, with proceeds from sales going to support the continued work of the Innocence Project. That series has since been published in a book together with testimony from the photographed subjects derived from Simon’s interviews with them (Simon 2003).
William Gregory from The Innocents
Authors: Simon T.
Published: November 2024

Artist: Taryn Simon Artwork: William Gregory Wick’s Parlor, Louisville, Kentucky With fiancée Vicki Kidwell, whom he dated prior to conviction Gregory was a pool champion in prison Served 7 years of a 70-year sentence
Theatre and the law: a dramaturgical analysis of Comcare v PVYW
Authors: Roberts Ryan
Published: November 2024

The law and theatre are uniquely entwined. The traditionalist notion of the law being an entirely intellectual exercise has, in some ways, limited its application. The law consistently uses techniques that explore knowledge through the use of the body, whether we realise it or not.
Within the purview of Gageler J’s dissent in the case Comcare v PVYW, this article sought to explore methods that engage the use of the body to be able to understand, interpret and apply the law. This exploration used a range of dramaturgical techniques to reappraise the case. For example, it examines key legal principles by physically representing them. This included ideas such as precedent and court hierarchy. By doing so, it opened a window to explore the way in which we can understand the law and its relationship to humanness beyond the intellectual. Interestingly, this process produced a number of conclusions. It exposed that the application of dramaturgy to the law can act as a bridge to close the gap between the obscurity of the law and the people that interact with it. As practitioners of the law, sometimes it is easy to forget it’s audience – human beings. It can become so convoluted that it alienates a broad section of its audience but it is through these techniques that we can at least realise this pitfall. This process also challenged the assumptions that are made about the law and, more broadly, it has promoted the importance of legal practitioners to look beyond their own experiences to better understand the holistic effect the law.
On Lives Lived With Law: Land as Healer
Authors: Black C. F.
Published: November 2024

Senior Law Man Bill Neidjie asks us to listen carefully to the land, just as Sir Humphrey is asking us to be mindful of the impact of the Land’s capricious nature, for both have a deep understanding of the powerful impact Nature has on human wellbeing. And perhaps it is worth considering that this is why the colonist is obsessed with time and resources, whilst the Indigenous are concerned with place and space. It all comes back to Nature.
Beyond the Pale: Measures of Mobility in Postcolonial Australia
Authors: Taylor John
Published: November 2024

Australian postcolonial demography, or ‘Indigenous demography’ as it has become colloquially labelled (Taylor 2009a), has emerged as a form of applied demography in support of attempts by the state to quantify and respond to the social and economic needs of Indigenous Australians as a separately identified homogenous group. In this way it forms part of a social justice agenda that gained impetus by the late 1960s by the calibration of Indigenous socioeconomic change relative to non-Indigenous outcomes as a device for policy formation (Rowse and Smith 2010: 100). This is presently articulated as a ‘Closing the Gaps’ strategy, with the aim being to bring about convergence in outcomes by shifting Indigenous indicators closer to those observed for the wider majority population.
a new generation of historians on flight NZ449 (for Aroha) [poem]
Authors: Te Punga Somerville Alice
Published: November 2024

it’s complimentary happy hour on NZ449: little plates of cheese, and wine or beer in plastic cups smiling people who can serve us in english, french or japanese even though there’s a koru on the tail of this plane.
The Duelling Ethic and the Spirit of Libel Law: Matters and Materials of Honour in France
Authors: Candea Matei
Published: November 2024

Contemporary French libel law explicitly proposes to adjudicate matters of “honour”. In so doing, it deploys terms and techniques crafted in the 19th century, at a time when law’s jurisdiction over matters of honour was strongly disputed by an alternative quasi-legal institution: the duelling code. This article returns to that historical moment from a legal materiality perspective to examine the ways in which duelling and libel law borrowed from each other’s materials in order to make honour matter. It argues that the history of libel law cannot be cast as a straightforward instance of the legal 'formalisation' of a mere social code, as traditional modernization narratives might lead us to expect. Rather, it shows the ways in which libel law came to be haunted by the material traces of duelling, and explains why honour remains, to this day, a recalcitrant matter for French law.
Wander into Oblivion Peregrinations and the Epiphanio of Justice
Authors: Ljungstrom A. C.
Published: November 2024

Law is not, it be-comes. Law is not an object but pure be-coming. It is movement. When I act in the world something happens to me. Kairos is Greek for the moment. The true moment. It captures at the same time a centrifugal and centripetal movement. But how does one know in a given moment that it is kairos? Does it only show itself when its all over, when our story is long finished? Is there ever presence in kairos or does every moment point towards an invisible middle, towards a waiting presence, that hides itself? Is kairos about having a feeling for the invisible? Kairos sees law as the infinity of the moment. Within this infinite moment, man is not a master in his own house. Something happens but he doesn't know what it is. He is waiting but he does not know for what. Gorgias makes kairos a central concept in the Rhetoric; it means persuading as an accomplishment of the moment. In his Ethics, Aristotle connects kairos to a poetics of acting -- a sense of what comes, what is made possible; and the ethics of the response to the situation. Kairos is everywhere connected with the opposition between contingency and necessity.
Toward a Self-Reflexive Law? Narrating Torture’s Legality in Human Rights Litigation
Authors: Davidson Natalie R.
Published: November 2024

This essay’s starting point is scholarship describing the state practice of using law as a tool of mass atrocity, and the part played by liberal trials in obscuring this ‘dark side’ of legality. It asks whether law’s complicity with atrocity is only visible when one steps outside the legal arena, or whether there might be opportunities within liberal legal institutions to develop what the essay calls self-reflexive law: rule of law mechanisms that expose the part played by law in violence. To explore this question, the essay offers a close reading of a lawsuit in which the key part played by law in atrocity was made explicit at trial: a class action filed in 1986 under the Alien Tort Statute on behalf of 10,000 Philippine victims of torture and other gross abuses against Ferdinand Marcos. Studying the representations of violence produced by the various participants in the litigation, the essay attempts to elicit some of the legal and political conditions favorable to a self-reflexive law. The essay offers a distinct version of ‘minor jurisprudence,’ recovering ‘minor’ practices within orthodox law itself, namely oral trial proceedings, and attempting to derive insights from the minor in order to contribute to legal design.
Dangerous art and suspicious packages
Authors: Chan J.
Published: November 2024

In December 2002, an art student Clinton Boisvert at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan was arrested for placing around the Union Square subway station 38 black boxes with the word ‘fear’ painted in white letters. According to one report, ‘The bomb squad was called in and the station was shut for five hours ... causing a ripple effect of chaos on the network, as panicked commuters and transit workers feared a terrorist attack’ (Burkeman 2002). The student was charged with reckless endangerment, an offence that carries a penalty of up to one year in jail. He was sentenced to six days of community service (Buckley 2006).
Ethics and Methodology in Legal Theory a (Personal) Research Anti-Manifesto
Authors: Davies M.
Published: November 2024

The attitude of the critical researcher, as opposed to the traditional researcher into 'objective' knowledge, lies in the conviction that the theorist-researcher is no mere observer or discoverer of knowledge, but is herself embedded in the social, historical, political context in which knowledge is formed (Horkheimer 1968). The critical researcher therefore aims to be self-reflective, and attentive to the conventional dimensions of scholarship. Some methodological questions for the critical researcher might be -- what are the norms of 'good' scholarship, where do these derive from in cultural or political terms, on what basis can they be defended, and how should they be challenged or re-formed? Another question of some significance is -- how do ethical and political beliefs influence the substance and methodology of research? This is the issue which I want to focus upon in this brief article, focusing particularly upon methodology.
From Oxymoron to Intersection: An Epidemiology of Legal Research
Authors: Manderson D. , Mohr Richard
Published: November 2024

The foregoing articles about research in and around law reflect a broad conception of what it is to be a legal scholar. The views and experiences of the authors gathered here are probably no more radical or heterodox than those to be found in any of the earlier editions of this journal or the many others devoted to themes of law, society, culture and contemporary legal theory. Having brought these people together to reflect on what it is that they think and do when researching in law, we have raised 'the legal research question'.1 In these closing remarks we would like to reflect on the practical implications of the epistemologies which emerge from the views of these authors.
'Naming Whiteness': an inquiry into Lindy Chamberlain's Through my eyes and Australian nationalist discourses
Authors: Saywer P.
Published: November 2024

On the day before Australia Day, in 1995, an article by Martin Flanagan (1995) entitled 'A Land Like No Other' appeared in The Age, Melbourne's well respected major daily newspaper, inquiring into Australian 'national identity' and questioning how Australian nationalism addresses issues of racial identity.
Who are we?' Flanagan asks, 'and how is our culture defined?' In his attempt to answer these questions, he identifies the figures who have contributed to Australia's cultural identity. The two female exceptions to his list of male contributors are Cathy Freeman and Lindy Chamberlain.
The same and the other: Beckett's The unnameable, Derrida and Levinas
Authors: Uhlmann A.
Published: November 2024

In an article concerning the Mabo decision of the Australian High Court Paul Patton discusses Deleuze's notion of the problem-field around which structures are formed (Patton, 1995: 90). Events are themselves differences in that, like the present which repeats itself but is always a different present, the events which occur in our world are always different from one another. They are the things which happen in the world, the things which have happened and which are happening now and it is this series of happenings which define who we are. Deleuze further considers that, like an animal adapting to a given environment, events happen around problems and it is the problems which define the shape of a given society.
Punish and critique: towards a feminist analysis of penality
Authors: Aungles A.
Published: November 2024

In Punish and Critique, Adrian Howe makes a major contribution both to the literature on penality and to postmodem penal politics. Howe reviews the range of critical perspectives, Marxist, post structuralist and feminist, that have proliferated in the field of penology over the past twenty five years. This exegesis, however, is a means to an end: the second half of the book reflects Howe's concern to alter the ground of the debate, to effect a paradigm shift that will move the study of punishment to a consideration of the 'gendered characteristics of disciplinary procedures'.
Speech and respect. Richard Abel
Authors: Kenyon A.
Published: November 2024

Australia has seen wide ranging debates about the High Court's implied rights jurisprudence during the 1990s. The Constitution has been found to limit the legal control of political discussion. The doctrine survives, although apparently with less energy, after changes in the Court's composition during 1995 and decisions such as McGinty v Western Australia. Most commentators suggest the Court has stepped back from its previous activism. Two forthcoming decisions may even remove political discussion as an issue of constitutional doctrine, at least in relation to the law of civil defamation. Following the High Court cases, however, political discussion exists as a central concept for Australian jurisprudential, constitutional and media related legal theory about the control of expression.
Editorial Assistant, RadioDoc Review - expression of interest
Authors: McHugh Siobhan
Published: November 2024

The Editorial Assistant will assist editors Dr Aasiya Lodhi and Assoc Prof Abigail Wincott, with administrative and technical issues and co-manage social media promotion of the journal. Graphic design and/or website production skills a bonus.
This is an opportunity for an early career researcher and/or PhD candidate with an interest in podcast studies/audio features to become familiar with scholarship in this field and gain an understanding of contemporary audio works from around the world. RadioDoc Review was founded in 2013 to develop informed critical analysis of crafted audio storytelling works and audio features and to bridge the gap between academic scholarship and industry practice. Apply by 15 May 2023.
Call for Content: Crafted Audio, Narrative Podcasting and the Global South
Authors: Wincott Abigail , Lodhi Aasiya
Published: November 2024

We’re seeking contributions for a special edition of RadioDoc Review on audio documentary, narrative podcasting or crafted audio in the Global South.
For the love of: Book Review of Radiophilia by Carolyn Birdsall
Authors: Vodanovic Lucia
Published: November 2024

Radiophilia, the new book in The Study of Sound Series, discusses radio in the context of recent literature about affects and emotions. Informed by various traditions within media and cultural studies, and guided by the work of Lauren Berlant and Arjun Appudarai, it approaches ‘radiophilia’ -love for, or strong attachment to, radio—as a wide-reaching concept that includes groups practices and social moods and that can be practised in public spaces and communities, beyond interior and domestic set-ups.
The Sound of Fog: remembering the audio artistry of Chris Brookes
Authors: Antle Angela
Published: November 2024

This article remembers the work of Peabody Award winner, Battery Radio founder, and documentarian Chris Brookes who died in April 2023.
On the loss of one of audio documentary's most committed advocates: remembering Leslie Rosin
Authors: Preger Sven
Published: November 2024

At that moment, I think Leslie was not only really happy, but even proud. It is Tuesday evening, 18 May 2021, and we are sitting together on a table in front of the stage in a studio at the German broadcaster, WDR. Not in front of the table, not next to the table, but on the table. Our legs are dangling and we let them dangle. Because we are really exhausted. The whole team is. We have just finished the last live event on stage and we’ve actually made it. Four days of the International Feature Conference in Cologne. Sven Preger remembers colleague, friend, and award-winning documentary maker, Leslie Rosin.