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Dr Patrick Emerton

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Publications

2007

Australia's Terrorism Offences - A Case Against, in Law and Liberty in the War on Terror, eds Andrew Lynch, Edwina MacDonald, George Williams, The Federation Press, Leichhardt NSW, pp75-86

2006

Moral relativism and political legitimacy: an argument for global social contract. PhD. (2006)

2005

'Democracy without slavery? Two Aristotelian dicta in the contemporary human rights context' Monash University Faculty of Law, Melbourne, 2005

2004

'Paving the way for conviction without evidence: a disturbing trend in Australia's "anti-terrorism" laws' (2004) 4 QUTLJJ 129-166

'ASIO powers: a veil of secrecy' Alternative Law Journal 29 (2004) 46

'Right to organise in jeopardy' Green Left Weekly, Feb 25 (2004) 10

2002

'Political justification and the morality of terrorism' Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (2002)

 'Justification in politics: whose views count?' The War on Terrorism: Democracy under Challenge Conference hosted by Victoria University School of Law, Melbourne (2002)

'Expressivism and Political Justification', Australian Society for Legal Philosophy, Canberra. (2002)

1999

'Verification, Observation and Realism', Australasian Association for Philosophy Conference, Melbourne, 1999

Submissions to Parliamentary Inquiries

Submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on ASIO, ASIS and DSI review of the listing of seven terrorist organisations.

Submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on ASIO, ASIS and DSI review of the listing of Tanzim Qa'idat al-jihad fi Bilad al-Rafidayn (the al-Zarqawi network) as a terrorist organisation.

Submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on ASIO, ASIS and DSI review of Division 3 Part III of the ASIO Act 1979.

Submission to the Senate Legal and Constitutional Committee regarding the inquiry into the provisions of the National Security Legislation Amendment Bill 2005.

Submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on ASIO, ASIS and DSI review of the listing of six terrorist organisations.

Submission to the Senate Legal and Constitutional Committee regarding the inquiry into the provisions of the Anti-Terrorism Bill (No.2) 2004.

Submission to the Senate Legal and Constitutional Committee regarding the inquiry into the provisions of the National Security Information (Criminal Proceedings) Bill 2004 and the National Security Information (Criminal Proceedings) (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2004.

Submission to the Senate Legal and Constitutional Committee regarding the inquiry into the provisions of the Surveillance Devices Bill 2004.

Submission to the Senate Legal and Constitutional Legislation Committee regarding the Anti-terrorism Bill 2004.

 
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