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Publications

Articles and book chapters

 

  1. EVANS, S and EVANS, C – ‘Australian Parliaments and the Protection of Human Rights’ in Papers on Parliament 2007 (submitted)
  2. EVANS, S and EVANS, C – ‘Parliamentary Deliberation about Religious Vilification Legislation’ in Katherine Gelber and Adrienne Stone (eds), Hate Speech and Freedom of Speech in Australia (forthcoming Federation Press 2007). (submitted)
  3. EVANS, S – ‘The Australian Senate’ in Rudolf Hrbek (ed), International Association of Centres for Federal Studies Conference Papers 2006 (title tbc) (2007 forthcoming) (submitted)
  4. EVANS, S – ‘Constitutional Property Rights in Australia: Reconciling Individual Rights and the Common Good’ in Tom Campbell, Jeffrey Goldsworthy and Adrienne Stone (eds), Protecting Rights Without a Bill of Rights: Institutional Performance and Reform in Australia (Ashgate 2006) 197-222
  5. EVANS, C and EVANS, S – ‘Evaluating The Human Rights Performance Of Legislatures’ (2006) 6(3) Human Rights Law Review 545-569 (OUP, UK)
  6. EVANS, S and EVANS, C – ‘Legal Redress under the Victorian Charter of Rights And Responsibilities’ (2006) 17 Public Law Review 264-281
  7. EVANS, C and EVANS, S – ‘Scrutiny Committees and Parliamentary Conceptions of Human Rights’ [2006] Public Law 785-806
  8. EVANS, S – ‘Improving Human Rights Analysis In The Legislative And Policy Processes’ (2005) [2006] 29 Melbourne University Law Review 665-703
  9. EVANS, S – ‘Should Australian Bills of Rights Protect Property Rights?’ (2006) 31 Alternative Law Journal 19-24

Working papers

Carolyn Evans and Simon Evans, Evaluating the Human Rights Performance of Australian Legislatures: A Research Agenda and Methodology', Legal Studies Research Paper No. 123, July 2005.

Simon Evans, Improving Human Rights Analysis in the Legislative and Policy Processes, Legal Studies Research Paper No. 124, July 2005.

Simon Evans and Carolyn Evans, 'A bill of rights for Victoria?' (opinion piece)

Presentations

Simon Evans, "Interpretation, Reasonable Limits and Remedies", presented at the Law Institute of Victoria Victorian Charter of Human Rights Conference, 18 May 2007 (Law Institute)

Simon Evans, "A Territory Human Rights Act? Reflections on some basic issues: What rights? Whose rights?", presented at the Charles Darwin University Symposium Securing Territorians' Rights: Statehood and a Bill of Rights?, 10 May 2007 (A Territory Human Rights Act?, text, audio)

Carolyn Evans – British Influences on Australian Human Rights Acts (Faculty of Law, Oxford University, 24 April 2007)

Carolyn Evans – States Bills of Rights in Australia - the Seven Deadly Sins of Bills of Rights Opponents (Gilbert+Tobin Centre of Public Law, Constitutional Law Conference, February 2007)

Carolyn Evans – Religious Vilification Laws in Liberal Democraciesn (Castan Centre for Human Rights, Annual Conference, Melbourne, December 2006)

EVANS, CM – Key Legal Changes in the Victorian Charter (roundtable on the Charter, Human Rights Forum, Melbourne 18 August. CM Evans was also a convenor of this conference)

EVANS, CM – Will the Victorian Charter Make a Difference? (Human Rights Forum, lecture at University of Melbourne, 5 September 2006)

Simon Evans, 'Assessing the Deliberative Capacity of Legislatures: A Case-Study of Religious Vilification Legislation', presented at McGill University, Montreal, Canada (Faculty Seminar, 18 October 2006) and Victoria University, British Columbia, Canada (Faculty Seminar, 23 October 2006)

Simon Evans, ‘Parliamentary Deliberation about Religious Hatred Legislation: Report on a Work in Progress’, presented at a Workshop on Free Speech, Hate Speech and Human Rights In Australia, ANU, 8-9 September 2006

Simon Evans, 'The Australian Senate', presented at the Annual Conference of the International Association of Centres for Federal Studies, Institut für Politikwissenschaft, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, 29 June-1 July 2006

Carolyn Evans, The ACT Human Rights Act and Administrative Law Presentation'

Carolyn Evans, ‘Administrative Law and Australian Bills of Rights’, presented at the Australian Institute of Administrative Law Annual Forum 14 June 2006

Carolyn Evans and Simon Evans, ‘The effectiveness of Australian parliaments in the protection of rights’, Legislatures and the Protection of Human Rights Conference, Melbourne Law School, 20-22 July 2006

Simon Evans, 'The Victorian Charter of Rights and Responsibilities and the ACT Human Rights Act: Four Key Differences and their Implications for Victoria' Australian Bills of Rights: The ACT and Beyond Conference, Canberra, 21 June 2006

Simon Evans, 'What difference will the Charter of Rights and Responsibilities make to the Victorian Public Service?' Clayton Utz, 13 June 2006 (slides)

Simon Evans, 'The History of Bills of Rights in Australia', presentation at the Liberty Victoria Symposium, 13 August 2005

Kristen Walker, Carolyn Evans and Simon Evans, 'A Bill of Rights for Victoria? A Public Forum', Wednesday 13 July 2005 at the Melbourne Law School

Submissions

Carolyn Evans and Simon Evans, Submission to the Victorian Human Rights Consultation Committee:  

Simon Evans, Submissions to the Victorian Human Rights Consultation Committee (Property Rights)