George Williams

Datos Biográficos

ID3697465
NOMBREGeorge Williams
NOMBRESGeorge
APELLIDOWilliams
FIRMAWILLIAMS G
AFILIACIONESUNSW Sydney
ORCID0000-0003-3510-366X
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS76
TOTAL DE CITAS99
TOTAL COMO AUTOR75
TOTAL COMO EDITOR1
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1919
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2022
ÍNDICE H6

  • How to Rule Your Own Country

    Harry Hobbs, George WilliamsBOOKHow to Rule Your Own Country2022

  • Delivering on the promises of wellbeing? Traidcraft Exchange's experiment with measuring wellbeing

    Open AccessMark Adams, George WilliamsARTICLEDevelopment in Practice2022Referencias: 9

    Improvements in “wellbeing” are frequently cited as the ultimate objective of “development”. Efforts to operationalise wellbeing quickly turn to discussions of definition, assessment, and measurement. This article describes Traidcraft Exchange’s ten-year work to assess changes in wellbeing resulting from their interventions. We outline the conceptual model Traidcraft adopted, how it was adapted, and how it has delivered on core promises of wellbe…

  • Indigenous justice demands law reform

    Open AccessGeorge WilliamsARTICLEAlternative Law Journal2021

  • The demise of the ‘second largest country in Australia

    Harry Hobbs, George WilliamsARTICLEAustralian Journal of Political…2021Citada por: 1Referencias: 10

    The Principality of Hutt River was founded in 1970. Led by a committed and eccentric family, the Principality was Australia’s most famous micronation. Micronations assert their claims to sovereignty in myriad ways. In this article, we explore what it means to be a micronation by contrasting this phenomenon with Indigenous peoples and communities who also assert a right to sovereignty. As we explain, Indigenous nations are not micronations because…

  • Unequal partners

    Open AccessCathy Rozel Farnworth, Lone Badstue et al.ARTICLEGender Technology and Development2020Citada por: 3Referencias: 5

    New agricultural technologies such as improved maize varieties (IMVs) promise important benefits – increased incomes, lower workloads, and better food security – among others. When such technologies are introduced, they can denaturalize and expose gender norms and power relations because the adoption of such technologies inevitably requires women and men to renegotiate the rules of the game. This article asks: How do women negotiate power relatio…

  • The High Court on Constitutional Law

    Abigail Lynch, Andrew Lynch et al.ARTICLEUniversity of New South Wales Law…2020Citada por: 3

    This article presents data on the High Court’s decision-making in 2019, examining institutional and individual levels of unanimity, concurrence and dissent. It points out distinctive features of those decisions – noting particularly the high frequency of both seven- member benches and the number of cases decided by concurrence over 2019. The latter suggests the possibility of greater judicial individualism re-emerging on the Court despite the cle…

  • The Rule of Law and Automation of Government Decision‐Making

    Open AccessMonika Zalnieriute, Lyria Bennett Moses et al.ARTICLEModern Law Review2019Citada por: 5

    Governments around the world are deploying automation tools in making decisions that affect rights and entitlements. The interests affected are very broad, ranging from time spent in detention to the receipt of social security benefits. This article focusses on the impact on rule of law values of automation using: (1) pre‐programmed rules (for example, expert systems); and (2) predictive inferencing whereby rules are derived from historic data (s…

  • The High Court on Constitutional Law

    Andrew Lynch, George WilliamsARTICLEUniversity of New South Wales Law…2019

    This article presents data on the High Court’s decision-making in 2018, examining institutional and individual levels of unanimity, concurrence and dissent. It does so in the context of the elevation of a new Chief Justice to lead the Court and the appointment of a new member to the bench at the commencement of the year. Recent public statements on the Court’s decision-making practices by the new Chief Justice and others inform discussion of the …

  • The Participation of Indigenous Australians in Legal Education, 2001–18

    Harry Hobbs, George WilliamsARTICLEUniversity of New South Wales Law…2019

    Indigenous Australians face many challenges in accessing and completing a legal education in Australia. Addressing this problem requires a clear empirical picture. However, no comprehensive study exploring the participation of Indigenous Australians in legal education has been conducted for almost two decades. This article rectifies this by presenting the results of a survey on Indigenous Australian students, graduates and staff members within Au…

  • The disqualification of dual citizens from Parliament

    Open AccessHarry Hobbs, Sangeetha Pillai et al.ARTICLEAlternative Law Journal2018

    Since August 2017, the rule in s 44(i) of the Australian Constitution that dual citizens are incapable of being chosen for or sitting in federal Parliament has led to the disqualification or resignation of 15 parliamentarians. This disruption may yet continue, with outstanding questions remaining about several sitting members. In this article, we outline three key problems with s 44(i), as well as a durable solution

  • The High Court on Constitutional Law

    Abigail Lynch, Andrew Lynch et al.ARTICLEUniversity of New South Wales Law…2018

    This article presents data on the High Court’s decision-making in 2017, examining institutional and individual levels of unanimity, concurrence and dissent. It does so in the context of the elevation of a new Chief Justice to lead the Court and the appointment of a new member to the bench at the commencement of the year. Recent public statements on the Court’s decision-making practices by the new Chief Justice and others inform discussion of the …

  • The Proscription of Terrorist Organisations in Australia

    Nicola Mcgarrity, George WilliamsARTICLETerrorism and Political Violence2018Citada por: 2

    Australia has a long history of legislation enabling the proscription of organisations which pose a threat to Australian security. Such laws are by no means a post-9/11 phenomenon. However, the proscription of organisations has assumed a particularly significant place in this country’s legislative response to the threat of terrorism since the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington. The focus of this article is upon the provisions of Divisio…

  • The case for a national whole-of-government anti-corruption body

    Open AccessHarry Hobbs, George WilliamsARTICLEAlternative Law Journal2017

    Australia’s anti-corruption system needs reform. The diffusion of responsibilities across multiple agencies risks under-reporting of corrupt conduct, while gaps in the regime mean that the system fails to hold people accountable. As a result, community and public confidence in Australia’s institutions is eroded. The solution is a national whole-of-government anti-corruption body encompassing the public sector with the power to apply a uniform sta…

  • Twenty-First Century Banishment

    Open AccessSangeetha Pillai, George WilliamsARTICLEInternational and Comparative Law…2017Citada por: 7Referencias: 8

    Three common law countries—the UK, Canada and Australia—have significantly expanded citizenship revocation laws as a counterterrorism response. This article provides a detailed examination of these laws, their development and their use. It also explores and critiques the extent to which the laws shift citizenship away from fundamental common law principles, and the means by which such a shift has been justified

  • The High Court on Constitutional Law

    Abigail Lynch, Andrew Lynch et al.ARTICLEUniversity of New South Wales Law…2017

    This article reports the way in which the High Court as an institution and its individual judges decided the matters that came before them in 2016. It is part of an ongoing annual study of High Court decision-making which we began in 2003. In this series we examine both the totality of the Court's decisions and the subset of constitutional matters in each calendar year. These statistical 'snapshots' are intended to complement more traditional ana…

  • A Human Rights Act for Queensland

    Open AccessGeorge Williams, Daniel ReynoldsARTICLEAlternative Law Journal2016Citada por: 1Referencias: 1

    Australia is a latecomer to the idea of having anything akin to a bill of rights. When drafting the national Constitution in the final decade of the 19th century, the framers chose not to include broad-ranging guarantees of human rights. They did so on the ground that protection could be provided by other means, in particular the system of parliamentary democracy. This view has since been challenged, and in the 1970s and early 1980s legislation w…

  • Special Intelligence Operations and Freedom of the Press

    Open AccessKeiran Hardy, George WilliamsARTICLEAlternative Law Journal2016

  • The High Court, the Constitution and human rights

    George WilliamsARTICLEAustralian Journal of Human Rights2015

    The High Court of Australia plays an important role in protecting human rights. It does so despite the fact that Australia lacks a Human Rights Act, Bill of Rights or like instrument. This article provides a survey of how the court is able to protect human rights in the absence of such a law. The focus is upon the possibilities for human rights protection by way of interpretation of the Australian Constitution

  • Same-Sex Marriage and the Australian States

    Open AccessGeorge WilliamsARTICLEAlternative Law Journal2015Referencias: 2

    The debate over whether to recognise samesex marriage has attracted the attention of almost every Australian legislature. In addition to the marriage equality bills introduced into federal Parliament, proposals have been introduced into the Parliaments of Tasmania, NSW, Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia. Of the states, only Queensland has not seen such a bill

  • Protecting Freedom of Speech in Australia

    Open AccessGeorge WilliamsARTICLEAlternative Law Journal2014

    Freedom of speech is readily accepted in Australia as an important human right. It is easy to understand why. Australian democracy depends upon citizens being able to discuss the policies and fitness for office of those vying for political power. Once elected, representatives must also be able to freely deliberate about the making and operation of laws and policies

  • Holy City

    George Williams, W F WittsBOOKHoly City2013

  • Australian Courts and Social Media

    Open AccessAlysia Blackham, George WilliamsARTICLEAlternative Law Journal2013Citada por: 1Referencias: 2

    Social media, like Facebook and Twitter, are now pervasive in many sectors of Australian society. However, Australia’s courts are generally taking a cautious approach to using this technology to enhance and complement their processes. Where courts have used social media, it has generally been in the context of regulating its use by others (for example, by limiting journalists’ live tweeting of court cases or juries’ use of extraneous social media…

  • The Holy City

    Open AccessGeorge Williams, W F WittsBOOKHoly City2012

    Published in 1845, this work supports the traditional location of Calvary against the challenges of contemporary scholarship. Since the opening of Palestine to foreign travellers in the 1830s, there had been tremendous interest in locating places described in biblical narrative. The site of the Holy Sepulchre, established by Constantine in the fourth century, allowed no space for a centre of Protestant worship. Some met this challenge by using cl…

  • Removing Racism from Australia's Constitutional DNA

    Open AccessGeorge WilliamsARTICLEAlternative Law Journal2012Citada por: 1

    The idea of a referendum on recognising Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in the Australian Constitution was put on the national political agenda in the aftermath of the August 2010 federal election. This occurred without any announcement of what form the change would take. In effect, it was a commitment by the minority Gillard government to a referendum at or before the next federal election without a specific proposal for change.Thi…

  • The Australian Constitution and the Aid/Watch Case

    Open AccessGeorge WilliamsARTICLECosmopolitan Civil Societies An…2011

    The Australian Constitution played a significant role in underpinning the result in the Aid/Watch Case. It was invoked by the majority to support their conclusion that a body can be a ‘charitable institution’ despite engaging in political activities. The use of the Constitution in this way came as a surprise. The case extended an existing constitutional principle relating to freedom of political communication from its electoral base into the prot…