Justice with Jon Faine

The polls failed to capture the extent of American voters' dissatisfaction with two years of Republican governance, as Democrats swept to power in both the House and Senate.  Has an extraordinary swing against Donald Trump put an end to fears of another two years of norm-breaking and executive power that is stretching the US Constitution to its limits? Has American democracy survived its brush with authoritarianism?  Constitutional law expert Associate Professor Will Partlett explores what the midterm results reveal about the resilience of US institutions, and how Trump might wield his veto power.  Melbourne Law School and host Jon Faine bring you Justice: a biweekly podcast about the law behind the news.   Justice is a podcast of Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne. We acknowledge the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung peoples as the Traditional Owners of the unceded land on which we record, publish, work, learn and live. 

Stateless people have lived in Australia for decades, yet government agencies continue to lack processes to ensure stateless people are ‘counted’ or recognised. Not only does this suggest a protection gap for stateless people in Australia, but it also presents a serious challenge to robust, transparent and principled public administration.   Katie Robertson is the Associate Director of the Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness and Assistant Director of the Melbourne Law School Clinics at the Melbourne Law School. She is also the Director of the Stateless Legal Clinic, which supports stateless children and adults to obtain Australian citizenship.    Along with her co-authors, Professor Michelle Foster and Amelia Walters, in 2026 Katie published the report 'Understanding Statelessness in Australia'. The report documents the findings and recommendations of the first comprehensive study of statelessness in Australia. Katie joins us in this episode of Justice to discuss the report’s findings. You can read the Understanding Statelessness in Australia report on the Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness website: https://law.unimelb.edu.au/centres/statelessness/engage/reports/understanding-statelessness-in-australia  Melbourne Law School and host Jon Faine bring you Justice: a biweekly podcast about the law behind the news.   Justice is a podcast of Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne. We acknowledge the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung peoples as the Traditional Owners of the unceded land on which we record, publish, work, learn and live. 

Dr Jessica Lake, specialist in media law and feminism, takes a piercing look at the use and misuse of smart glasses - an old problem now finding outlet with a new technology.  Melbourne Law School and host Jon Faine bring you Justice: a weekly podcast about the law behind the news.   Justice is a podcast of Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne. We acknowledge the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung peoples as the Traditional Owners of the unceded land on which we record, publish, work, learn and live. 

Melbourne Law School and host Jon Faine bring you Justice: a weekly podcast about the law behind the news.   Artificial intelligence can be used as surveillance in the workplace, dislikes older workers and their resumes, and can be as biased against women and LGBTQI+ people as any human employer. Professor Alysia Blackham talks us through the new world of work   Read more of Alysia’s writings on this topic here: https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/over-45-and-looking-for-a-job-ai-thinks-you-might-be-too-old https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/when-ai-gets-it-wrong-workers-suffer https://doi.org/10.1093/indlaw/dwag013 https://law.unimelb.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0010/4805047/02-Blackham-62.pdf  Justice is a podcast of Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne. We acknowledge the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung peoples as the Traditional Owners of the unceded land on which we record, publish, work, learn and live. 

Melbourne Law School and host Jon Faine bring you Justice: a weekly podcast about the law behind the news.   A new report by the Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness and UNHCR recommends nine areas for law and policy reform to avoid additional hardship for millions of stateless persons, and to prevent millions more who will risk statelessness if forced to move in the context of climate disasters.  Report co-author and Associate Professor, Radha Govil, explains.  You can find the report in full below: Global recommendations on nationality and statelessness in the context of climate change  You can also watch this recent panel featuring Associate Professor Radha Govil speaking on these issues:Pre-COP31 Summit: Belonging Beyond Rising Seas: Safeguarding Nationality, Preventing StatelessnessJustice is a podcast of Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne. We acknowledge the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung peoples as the Traditional Owners of the unceded land on which we record, publish, work, learn and live.