Born: Established: 1949 Melbourne, Victoria, ;
Gender:
Male
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Most Referenced Works
Personal Awards
- 2014 recipient Sydney Peace Prize
- 2009 recipient Australian Humanist of the Year Award
- 2009 Order of Australia — Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) For service as a human rights advocate, particularly for refugees and asylum seekers, to the arts as a patron and fundraiser, and to the law.
Awards for Works
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Watching Brief : Reflections on Human Rights, Law and Justice
Carlton North
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Scribe
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2007
Z1542205
2007
selected work
essay
'Watching Brief is a collection of essays and meditations on law, justice, human rights, ethics and, ultimately, on what constitutes a decent human society. It is also an impassioned and eloquent appeal for vigilance in an era in which national security trumps democratic principle, where the legal conventions of the new realpolitik owe more to Guantanamo than Geneva, and where respect for law and the principle of respect owed to all human beings are being undermined.
Julian Burnside illuminates many of our current concerns in thoughtful explorations of key historical episodes such as the Guy Fawkes' plot to blow up the British Parliament in 1605 and the Dreyfus case in nineteenth-century France. He also takes us on a fascinating tour of some of the world's most infamous trials, including those of Ned Kelly and Ronald Ryan in Australia, Roger Casement's trial for treason and the notorious Crippen case in Britain, and that of the Scottsboro Boys in the United States.' (From publisher)
- 2008 shortlisted Human Rights Awards — Literature Non-Fiction Award
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