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20.11.2003

The Kirby Oration – The Human Genome: Lessons for Life, Love and the Law

Professor David Weisbrot, President, Australian Law Reform Commission The 8th AIHLE Annual Conference, Hobart, 20 November 2003 First, thank you very much to the Board of the Australian Institute of Health Law and Ethics (AIHLE) and the organisers of this conference, for the great honour of being invited to deliver the opening address.  It is

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19.10.2000

Reform of the civil justice system and economic growth: Australian experience

Professor David Weisbrot, President, Australian Law Reform Commission, ‘Court Reform and Economic Growth’, Fundación ICO Conference, Madrid, 19 October 2000 [Not for quotation or publication without the permission of the author or the Conference organisers.] Synopsis The Australian Law Reform Commission recently completed its four-year inquiry into the federal civil justice system, culminating in the

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