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Living Memory And The Long Dead: The Ethics Of Laughing At The Middle Ages, Louise D'Arcens
Living Memory And The Long Dead: The Ethics Of Laughing At The Middle Ages, Louise D'Arcens
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
Is there an ethics particular to laughing at the Middle Ages? What are the stakes of making the medieval past an object of postmedieval humour, and can the long dead of the Middle Ages laugh back at modernity?
A Book-End Approach To Ethics: The Increasing Importance Of Incorporating Ethics Into The First-Year Curriculum, Karina Murray
A Book-End Approach To Ethics: The Increasing Importance Of Incorporating Ethics Into The First-Year Curriculum, Karina Murray
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
Recently, the law degree has become a more generalist degree. Yet the Council of Australian Law Deans advises that almost two-thirds oflaw graduates ultimately seek admission to practice. This means that the majority of students commencing a law degree intend to become a solicitor or barrister. Few first-year students, however, are aware of the processes surrounding admission to the profession. They are unaware that merely completing an LLB degree does not a solicitor make. Prospective law students often do not realise that the degree needs to be supplemented by practical legal training (PLT). Beyond that, having satisfied these two academic …
Global Ethics: Increasing Our Positive Impact, Keith Horton
Global Ethics: Increasing Our Positive Impact, Keith Horton
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
Global ethics is no ordinary subject. It includes some of the most urgent and momentous issues the world faces, such as extreme poverty and climate change. Given this, any adequate review of that subject should, I suggest, ask some questions about the relation between what those working in that subject do and the real-world phenomena that are the object of their study. The main question I focus on in this essay is this: should academics and others working in the field of global ethics take new measures aimed at having more real-world positive impact on the phenomena they study? Should …