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Enforcement Cooperation In Combatting Illegal And Unauthorized Fishing: An Assessment Of Contemporary Practice, Stuart Kaye

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

The emergence of the exclusive economic zone (EEZ) in the 1970s placed potentially vast areas under national jurisdiction. From relatively modest territorial seas close to the coast as the only basis of fisheries jurisdiction for States, suddenly the international community embraced a new form of jurisdiction over resources that extended to fisheries up to 200 nautical miles from land. This extension brought over one third of the world’s oceans under national jurisdiction, or more importantly, approximately ninety percent of the world’s wild fish catch.

While the possibility of bringing the resources of these areas under national control was of tremendous …

'Placing' The Other: Final Year Law Students' 'Imagined' Experience Of Rural And Regional Practice Within The Law School Context, Trish Mundy

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

This paper discusses the partial findings from a research study involving a narrative analysis of in-depth interviews with twelve final year law students. The research explored student attitudes to, and perceptions of, legal practice in rural, regional and remote (RRR) communities – that is, their ’imagined experience’. The research findings suggests that, at least in the context of the non-regional law school, the rural/regional is both absent and ‘other’, revealing the ‘urban-centric’ nature of legal education and its failure to adequately expose students to rural and regional practice contexts that can help to positively shape their ‘imagined’ experience. This paper …

R2p Ideas In Brief: Pillar Ii In Practice: Police Capacity-Building In Oceania (Pp. 1-6) (Vol.2, No.4), Charles Hawksley, Nichole Georgeou

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

APCR2P Centre Policy Brief: This Policy Brief assesses police capacity building in Oceania.

Researching With Communities: Towards A Leading Edge Theory And Practice For Community Engagement, Robin Durie, Craig A. Lundy, Katrina Wyatt

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

This project seeks to determine the extent to which complexity theory might offer the most effective means for understanding how communities can be successfully engaged in and with academic research. In the project, we adopted a case study approach, working with participants in a number of projects which had significant community engagement. These projects were all supported by the UK Beacons for Public Engagement, with which we also collaborated in our work. From the outset our research was informed by a Community Advisory Group, comprising community partners and engagement specialists.

The objective of our research was to identify the initial …