The Constitution gives Congress the power of the purse, which makes Congress arguably the most powerful government entity. This article addresses the constitutional function and importance of the Congress' control of the purse and explains how such power affects Congressional appropriations. It...

In vivo conversion is a process, often metabolic in nature, wherein one substance, usually a chemical compound, is altered significantly by physiological pathways in the body into one or more different substances. For example, when a patient ingests a therapeutic drug, that drug is often...

Twenty years on we again Remeber Tim McCoy through three key policy arenas he was involved in: prisons, privacy and the national community legal centre movement. Amanda George (1999 Tim McCoy Prize winner) sends Tim a letter explaining the prisons scene, Andy Haesler reports on the state of...

The Constitution of Tonga, 132 years old in 2007 -- indeed one of the world's oldest extant constitutions -- has recently, for the first time in history, been subjected to significant scrutiny by the people who live under it. The review process has also canvassed the views of the thousands of...

This article considers the role of the concept of freedom of communication within the law of copyright in Australia. It concludes that the judicially articulated implied Constitutional guarantee of freedom of political communication is too narrow to act as a control upon the contours or nature...

This article examines the author's right of integrity of authorship contained in the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth), which is the right of an author to object to a 'derogatory treatment' of his or her work. A treatment of a work is derogatory if it is 'prejudicial to the author's honour or...

This article includes the Report to the Administrative Conference of the United States which commissioned a study by Professor Arnold Rochvarg of the naturalization process as it existed in 1995. Many problems were identified in the naturalization process based on over 200 questionnaires, 120...

It is generally accepted that the rules of evidence governing the admissibility of evidence in a trial are not applicable to administrative proceedings. However, there are numerous inconsistent court opinions on the proper role of hearsay in administrative decisions. This article offers an...

This essay deals with one of the persistent problems in the law of negotiable instruments, namely the practice-originated legal phenomenon of so called quasi-instruments (it focuses on quasi-checks and deals also with quasi-notes.) First, it supplies a formal definition for quasi-instruments. It...