Editors --- "Mentions" [2000] AltLawJl 52; (2000) 25(3) Alternative Law Journal 144

• MENTIONS
• CONFERENCES
• Call for Papers
• PUBLICATIONS

MENTIONS

CONFERENCES

Call for Papers

Australian and New Zealand Law & Society Conference 2000

Legal Technologies and the Body Politic

Venue: Rydges Hotel, Brisbane

Date: 6-8 December 2000

Papers are invited which address the conference theme or one of the sub­ themes of:

• law, order and punishment

• the politicisation of human rights

• the politics of reconciliation

• law schools, legal education and socio-legal studies

• the role of theory

• globalisation and law

• technologies of the body

• the impact of economic rationalism

• revisions of the social settlement.

Paper proposals should be accompanied by an abstract of approx. I 00 words, and should be received by 18 August 2000.

Post to: Law & Society Conference, Socio-Legal Research Centre, Faculty of Law, Griffith University, Nathan, Qld, 4111, Australia.

Contacts:

tel: [phone] fax [phone].

email: [e-mail]

or [e-mail]

or see the conference website at <www.gu.edu.au/school/law/slrc/slrc.htrnl>.

_{Community Legal Centres}

Annual National Conference

Venue: Alice Springs

Date: 31 July-3 August 2000

Contact: tel [phone] or email [e-mail]

Federation of Ethnic Communities' Council of Australia Conference

Venue: Fremantle

Date: 10-12 November 2000

Contact: tel [phone]

PUBLICATIONS

Two reports from the Catholic Com­ mission for Justice, Development and Peace (Melbourne Archdiocese):

• What Makes a Good Juvenile Justice System?

This report, prepared in conjunction with Catholic Social Services, was a submission to the Victorian Minister for Community Services who was seeking ideas on what would make a good juvenile justice system.

• Hordes or Human Beings

A discussion of some of the problems surrounding Australia's response to asylum seekers and possible solutions to those problems.

Both reports available from:

CCJDP, 383 Albert St, East Melbourne

Vic 3002

PO Box 146, East Melbourne Vic 3002

tel [phone] fax [phone]

Issue 26 Hot Topics

The Legal Information Access Centre at the NSW State Library has released another in the Hot Topics series (burning legal issues in plain language):

Children & Families

The report covers the history of family law and care and protection legislation in Australia; the principle of 'best interests of the child'; family violence and child abuse; legal representation for children in family law proceedings; and gives further reading and contacts.

Contact: LIAC

02 9273 1558 fax [phone]

email: [e-mail]